The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-03
NOTES.

William Morris is about to publish a
new prose romance of his own called
Child Christopher"
Walter Besant says there were 1915 new
novels, not including children's story books.
published last year. {
The new Windsor Magazine is such a sue
cess that the first edition of one hundred
thousand copies were sold out Immediately.
Paris will shortly witness the publication
of three sets of m-emoirs-those of Theirs.
those of Marshal MacMahon, and those
of Marshal Canrobert.
Walter Besant, the novelist. has been
engaged for tw~enty-six years in writing
a history of London. The work is now
said to be ready for the publishers.
Prince Bismarck's correspondence, both
political and nonpolitical, is going to be
published. continental papers say: by "a 2
Ritter Won Poschinger.
David Christie Murray, at present 'in
our midst" prides himself Upon being
able to write a three-volume novel in five
weeks. He announces. by the way, tnat he
will be in this country for i've years
What is the best book on social science
that you can recommend?' This question,
says the Outlook, was recently asked of a
well-informed scholar. His answer was so
striking that it is worth reporting. 1t was
no recent work. 1t was Aristotleis "Poii-
tics"
- AOHt tAS
mer, has discontinued his ~well-known publi-
cation, L'Astronomie, which he has so
successfully carried on for the last thirteen
years. He proposes to devote himseif ex-
clusively to his long contemplated History
of Astronomy"
DR.. Charles B. Spahr, associate editor of
the Outlook, is engaged in the preparation
of a book for "Crowelrs Library of Eco
nomics and Politics." entitled THE Dis
tribution of American Wealth. which will
deal statistically and critally with some
of the most vital and disputed. questions
of the day.
The Macmillians are about to bring out
a series of reprints under the general
title of illustrated Standard Novels
books that have taken an established place
have an Introduction by a well-known
critic, and will contain about forty full
page and other illustrations.
Judge oliver Wendell Holmes has given
to the Berkshire Athenaeum of Pittsfield
a thousand volumes from the library of
his father, the collection consisting largely
of bound magazines, including a complete
file of the Atlantic Monthly In his letter
Judge Holmes says: i did not like to
sell my fathers books and it is very pleas
ant to me to send them to a place which
my father loved and which 1 love ALSO"
The Rev. S. r. Crockett has left the
pulpit, believing that he cannot do clerical
work and literary work at the same time,
and that IL ne gives up the latter ne Will
be hiding s.some of the intrusted ta.ents
in the ground" He has undertaken, the
New York Tribune thinks, a dangerous
experiment, for the tickle public may be-
come tired very easily of the kind of writ
ing which he offers. Where, then, would
the impetuous Crockett be?
Mrs. Humphrey Ward writes to the
Critic that for more than ten years now
she has been plagued witt a form of
writer's cramp, which makes the writing
of every day, whether literary work or
correspondence, a burden. 1T does not get
worse, but it is always there, and l seem
to be always fencing with my letters so
as to get off with as few az possible. On
the other hand / have never broken myself
in to dictation, as / ought to have done,
and except for business letters, cannot get
over a perfectly childish dislike to 1t"
One hears so much about the honor Of
letters in England, says a New York
writer, yet it sometimes seems as though
the pen were not half as respected in Lon
don when it is following a flight of fancy
as when doing wonders with figures in
the CITY. A true story of a young English
barrister attests this. He has just pub
lished two clever books. one filled with
poems, the other devoted to really novel
work in the field of fiction. He has had
to publish these anonymously. Why? Be-
cause he knows well from the traditions
of London that, until he has attained
celebrity to be known as an author would
s.hurt his prospects at the bar" Nothing
succeeds like success in England as every
yvhara else