The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-12-15

kate Carnegie" the first novel or Ian
MacLaren, author of The Bonnie Brier
Bush" will begin in the Outlook of this
week. +
Excepting Bjornson and Ibsen, Norway's
foremost dramatist is Gunnar Heiberg, and
it has been said that, save Hauptmann and
Maeterlinck, there is no other conterpor-
airy writer for the stage who so audacious-
ly chooses his own course.
Mr.. Benjamin S. Parker, author of The
Cabin in the Clearing" and one Of Indi-
ana's ~best-known writer's, is about to is
sue another little volume of verse. The
edition is limited to five hundred, and half
of it has been ordered in advance Of publi-
cation.
Maarten Martens, the Dutch novelist,
declares tina 1.-The modern novel is to a
large extent the principle of poetic enjoy
ment adjusted to the wide, new class o.
readers who are not equal to poetry In its
narrow sense. 1t is the great educator for
veal or Woe"
Amos Hadley, of Concord. n. H., is the
owner of the complete works OF Xenophon,
with a Latin translation in parallel col
umns, printed in Paris, in 1915. He says
1t was bought for him by a friend some
years ago at an auction in Paris. and that.
SO far as he knows, it is the only copy in
America.
The Rev. John Watson clan MacLaren")
expressed in a recent lecture the fear that
Scott was being raised to the elevation Of
a classic. That. he said. was the same
thing as taking a man out of the House OF
Commons, where he was an active figure,
and placing him in the stately seclusion
of the House OF Lords.
Mrs. Campbell Praed. who has just
brought out a new book called Mrs.
Tregaskis," is an Australian. the daughter
of a high official of Queensland. She mar
ried a nephew Of Praed. the poet of So
ciety. She knows bush life thoroughly. and
is a persistent student OF character and
an interchangeable writer.
The late DR.. Jowett once said to Mrs.
Humphrey Ward: I'VE shall come in the
future to teach almost entirely by biog-
raphy. We shall begin with the life that
Christ and WE shall more and more put
before our children the great Example, Of
persons lives so that they shall have from
the beginning heroes and friends in their
thoughts"
Mr.. Owen Wister did not begin his work.
ing life as a writer of fiction. He was as
a Harvard student specially devoted to
music and accomplished a great Zeal In
| the study as his graduation record shows.
He even undertook a musical career, and
made some preparation for IT during a
| idea-fortunately for the readers Of his
clever Western sketches.
Mr.. ]. NJ. Barrie is more conscious of
his limitations than are some of his fell
low-workers of the period. At the repeated
solicitation of his journalist friends he
consented some time ago to write the life
Of the late Alexander Russell, of the
quished the task when he perceived that
Biographical writing lay altogether outside
his particular sphere of work.
A large number OF unpublished letters
from literary and musical celebrities was
found recently among the papers left by
Mr.. George Thompson. an Edinburgh
lawyer. The letters are being published in
batch contains letters from Jean Armour,
the wife Of Robert Burns, and from the
poets brother. Letters from Dickens
Scott, Byron, Tom Moore, Beethoven,
Haydn. and Weber are TO follow.
Paris is much interested by the appear
ance Of a new Cherbuliez novel, "Apres
| Fortune Fate" owing to the fact that
when Madame Chebuliez died last year
the author locked up the completed manu-
script in which she had been exceptionally
interested, and declared that he could never
endure to sec it printed. Like Rossetti.
however. time and the publisher have con-
| quered his grief. The work is spoken of as
quite the most remarkable product OF his
pen.
The author OF "a Prisoner Of Zenda."
Anthony Hope Hawkin (Anthony Hope),
is still a very young man. He was born
in Hackney in 1863. His first book was
"a Man OF Money published In 1889 at
his own expense. 1t was not q financial
success. but II. il interesting to note that
it's recent publication has made ample
ond book. Father STAFFORD" published in
1850, WAS also q financial failure 'Mr.
w1ss's .u wsasT;I i Dusl's sss so II lSss; y wss
Hero Then Came the "Prisonsr Of Zen