The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-06
LITERARY NOTES.

Mr. John 7. Morse, jr., who wrote four
volumes in the series called American
Statesmen is preparing memoir of DR..
Homes.
Mr.. Crockett's new story, ''The Men of
the Moss-Hags," which is now running
a serial in an English paper. is soon to be
issued in this country.
The Spectator in a review of "Odes and
Other POEMS" by William Watson, says:
MIR. Watson has taken his place on a
level with Matthew Arnold and Tennyson,
if not with Wordsworth.
Lucas Malet," Charles Kingsley's young
est daughter. Mrs. Harrison, the author of
several well-known books, has sailed for
India on a six months tour in company
with her sister. Miss Rose Kingsley.
The author of 'Ideala" and THE Heav-
emily Twins is seriously ll-so ill that her
doctors say that nSthing but complete rest
and change will do her good. She has been
ordered to give up all work and to travel:
and it is possible that she may turn in this
direction.
The novelist B. l.. Farjeon is of all the
Dickens school, the one who follows most
closely the masters path He was once a
journalist in New Zealand, but an encourage
ing letter from CHARLES Dickens induced
him to return to England, where he has
produced twenty novels.
A German critic calls attention to the
curious fact that of the thirty or more
novels and romances written by Rudolph
Lindau only five have their scene Ioca I ed
on German SOIL The fourth and fifth vol
umes of his works contain chiefly stories of
foreigners living in the open ports of Japan.
Millions L'Allegro, ii Penseroso, and
Other Poems make up No. " of the River
side Literature Series which will be pub
lished by Houghton, Miffiin & Co. in the
middle of January. This book is made more
of the poems of Milton required for admis-
sion to the leading colleges of the country
Mr. Edward Eggleston, in reading the first
chapter of story at an Uncut Leaves, y
recently held at Sherry's New York. re-
marked that it might fairly be called a fin
de steele novel, as the century would prob
ably end before he had finished it. and
might also be regarded as posthumous
work, as he would probably die before it
was published.
Alphonse Daudet is thinking of visiting
England next summer. He has never seen
the country, and fears that the six hours
voyage from Guernsey to Southampton may
be a severe trial to him. He doesn't speak
English, but can read and understand it,
| Since he has been ill he has spent whole
| afternoons in listening to a friend trans
, lating popular English and American authors
| of the day.
| Mr.. Andrew Lang received from r. L.
| Stevenson, a week before the novelist's
| death, letter in which the latter showed
| for the first time certain anxiety about
| himself. He said that he was haunted by
| a QTGdQ VI Pal dltS Vi d lAlSCiiiAS HlGHkdi
/ malady, of living on, no longer himself,
| like Swift. The most unhappy fate for a
| man of genius. 1t is good to know that
! Stevenson escaped.
Frank Dempster Sherman. who for one
| reason and another Is included among the
prominent authors in New York. is a
| professor of mathematics in Columbia Col
/ lege- What he makes out of literature
would probably not much more than keep
| him in cigars, Erander Matthews is pro-
/ lessor in English literature IN the same
institution. Matthews is rich. having m
| herited fortune from his father. and his
position is merely a means OF occupying