The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-24
LITERARY NOTES.

Mr. Andrew Lang has written a novel, a
romance which he calls A. Monk of Fife
1t is to be brought out as serial
The best sentence in Ibsen's new play is
this: Labor and trouble one can always
get through alone, but it takes two to be
glad
Mr. Meredith's Amazing Marriage" now
running in Scribner, is, it is said, to be
somewhat curtailed before its appearance
in book form.
Amelie Rives Chanler has discovered a
hero whose '.heart gave hot leap along
his breast to his throat leaving a fiery
track behind of sparks
An exhibition of book bindings, which it
is expected will be held under the auspices
of the Caxton Club, is to open at the Art
Institute, Chicago, about Feb. 26.
Private letters from Mr.. and Mrs. T. B.
Aldrch, who are on their way to England
from Japan, say that during their visit to
Canton they were stoned in the street.
Mrs. Moulton ascribes her hardness in
preparing her volume of travels to her enor-
nous correspondence. She says, that she
writes on average q hundred friendly
notes and letters in the week.
One of Robert Louis Stevenson's great
heroes was the Duke of Wellington. He
used to say that the best thing ever said
of Wellington was this: HE did his duty
naturally as horse eats oats.
Miss Louise Imogen Quincy finds but little
impulse to literary production in the routine
of postoffice work. She has written almost
nothing of late except a lyric and a sonnet
on Robert Louis Stevenson, conceived In
her emotion at his death.
George KEENAN,, of Siberian fame, has
long had writer's cramp SO badly that he
has had 10 use a lead pencil instead of
pen. He grasps his pencil in peculiar
fashion and writes with good deal or
labor, but the result is sufficiently clear.
Judge Holmes has already received a
large number of letters for the forthcom-
ing life of Oliver Wendell Holmes, and they
are said to be as interesting as one would
expect from the pen OF the Autocrat. A
good many of them repeat the substance
of his wel-known essays.
Maarten Martens has attained consider
able vogue in Germany. where Aim has
brought out very handsome "Gottesnarr,'
with an etching of the author by a Ger
man professor. Mr.. Maartenss other books
are to follow, and the first has been very
well received by the critics.
'.Oliver Optic sailed for Bermuda and
Jamaica on Feb Is, and later on he will
extend his tour to Europe in order to work
up fresh material for new books He is
one Of the most indefatigable of boys
of newcomers, book sellers tell us that his
stories are as popular as ever.
Another Seeley story describes Dean STAN
ley as issuing large number of invita-
lions to his friends ito meet the author of
'Ecce Homo'' Each guest it is said,
greeted his fellows with inquiring gaze,
wondering which of them all could be the
author. but the party broke up las igno-
rant on the subject as when they met"
In Prof. Max Nordan's book, "Degener-
acy," the author ascribes the mental I'M
rest and thirst for novelty observed at this
end of the century to the overstimulated
nerves of two generations. These strained
nerves, he believes have produced phase
Maeterlinck's hectic gaspings, in the French
decadent literature and in the WEAKNESS
of IbSen.