The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-01-12

Prof ]. B. McMaster's new book which
includes a review of the Monroe doctrine.
the third-term history. and other themes
of special interest, is TO have as its general
title with the Fathers.
The edition of the Gospels in French. for
which NJ. Tissot has painted five hundred
illustrations, is to be one OF only thous-
and copies. 1t is TO be in two large volumes
and each copy will cost $500.
Three characteristic letters by James
Russell Lowell. never before published, will
be printed in the February Century. The
letters describe the habits and songs OF the
birds at Elmwood, the Cambridge home OF
Lowell.
Mr.. G. H. Putnam said at the meeting OF
the Massachusetts, Library Club the
other day that only about 10 per cent. OF
what is written for publication is used. the
amount OF lost effort
The Critic was born Jan. Is. 1881 Its
fifteenth birthday will be celebrated next
week Jan. 49,. by the publication of an an
niversary number. containing a bird s-eye
review of the literary movement as II has
manifested itself in America during the past
fifteen years.
Robert Kitchens, the clever author of The
Green Carnation." THE Imaginative Man."
and of a good many short stories OF rather
unequal merit, is collaborating with Victor
Widner in four-act play. Mr.. Hichens is
graduated from school OF journalism.
George Macdonald announced short time
since that he intended 10 lay aside the pen
forever; and that "Lilith' would represent
his last work. Since his return to his homo
at Bordighera, however, and his COMPARE
tive restoration to health, he has COM
menced q story. 1t is hard TO break
old ties all at once.
The centenary of the birth of Thomas
Carlyle was celebrated on December 4. A
meeting was held at Chelsea. England,
where the Carlyle house in Cheyne row.
which was bought with money subscribed
in England and America, was formerly
handed over to the trustees, and a loan coll
lection of portraits, pictures, MSS, and 9TH
er memorials associated with the Carlyies
was opened. An account OF this interesting
house, fully illustrated, has just beer pub
lished. -,
Only publisher or editor can know how
immense is the amount of hopeless trash
that is written and sent forth in this cQun-
try every year, says a writer in the New
York Tribune. The unhappy reader Of MS.
grows so accustomed 10 the stupid the
dull, the shallow and illiterate that ne Is
disposed to welcome with undue effusion
q moderately clever bit of work. Why do
so many ignorant incapables try to write
for publication? Is Il the influence of the
democrtic idea which makes a man feel
that he is not only good as his neighbor.
but can write as well as the next fellow?
Those who have not known just where
the new poet laureate Of England has stood
the hill of fame may. says the outlook.
gain such information from the opening
lines of his last poem:
.sComrade, to whom stretched a comrades
hand
Ere fame found hers to greet you. and
whom still
Right bravely singing up the sacred Hill
I watch from where its cloudess peaks ex-
pand.'
The lines were addressed to Mr. William
Watson.
Publishers may boast of selling large ed-
tons now and then, but few of them can
equal the figures submitted by a Chicago
house which publishes religious works,
This firm has disposed OF 100000 copies OF
Dwight l.. Moody's Way to Cod" and over
a million and quarter OF all the books they
have published for Mr.. Moody. Three edi-
tions of the Rev. Charles II. Spurgeons
Soul Winner" were exhausted before pub
LEGATION, and 1900 copies OF hymn book
are apparently a small matter. So that we
may call this a skeptical age II we Will, but
religion still has lingering mold upon hui
mainly.
Mr.. Harold Frederic says: Mrs. OIL
plants vehement and ougspoken attack In
the January issue of Blackwood on Mr..
Hardy's latest novel, Mr.. Grant Aliens lat
ter-day books. and the whole school Of i'm
itators, whom she describes as the Anti
Marriage League, is distinctively the lit
erary event Of the season. She is the Oldest
of the British novelists, with perhaps a
larger record OF honorable. painstaking.
good work behind her than any other writer
in our language, and she has never been
given to scoldng CT to saying unpleasant
things. This frankly scathing onslaught,
therefore, comes with peculiar force, and
everybody is talking about Il"