The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-12-11
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A new edition of the Personal
Memoirs of u. 8. Grant" is published by
the Century Company. The great success
which attended the first edition. published
about ten years ago. was not due wholly
TO the general interest in the personality
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combined TO render it the one classic in our
war literature. This edition presents sew
eral new portraits of the great commander.
and carefully draws maps of all the lead
ing battlefields and campaigns. 1t Is re-
vised by Col. Fred d. Grant, his work be-
ing mainly in the way of marginal annota-
tons. made with view to experimenting
the personal narrative by references not
only to some of the books with which the
author refreshed his memory before en-
tering upon and during his autobiography
ical labor, but also to works giving fuller
details of incidents that were necessarily
briefly treated by General Grant. Short
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work Is enhanced by copious index. 1t
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A new edition of ..Keats's Poetical
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In Keats's own lifetime were few who
appreciated his genius at its full worth,
but the majority of readers and of critics
could see nothing in his poetry but food
for sport Now every variant of his copisd
10 ~; late
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spellings which were CHARACTERISTIC of the
an exact reprint of the latest Forman edi-
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keats's pen. The notes are also repro
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America. There is a biographical sketch
of Keats and a frontispiece portrait: The
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The theosophicai cult seems to be spread
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branches of the society had been estab-
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Something quite out OF the ordinary in
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Rose Porter, compiler of bright little
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Two new stories by Captain King.
Trooper Ross and Signal Butte" are pub
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of this popular writer's stories they deal
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From Cathcart, Cleland & Coz
1.-THE Right to Love-" by Dr. NJ Nordau.
author of Degeneration" is drama
which has been favorably received on the
German stage and in it's book form praised
by some critics and censured by others.
1t deals with human sentiments and situa-
tons fearlessly and in a spirit of realism.
An English translation of the work by
by the author, is published by F. Tenny-
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1.-THE Land of Promise" by Paul Bourget.
Is very French novel-French In concep-
ton, treatment. plot. incidents, characters
and atmosphere. The land of promise re-
ferred to in the title seems TO be the land
or the time when men will recognize their
obligation TO their illegitmate children. The