The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-01-26

Nautch girl IS said to be the central
figure of the play which Mr.. Rudyard Kip
ling Is engaged in writing.
Pierre Lott is writing a romance called
''Ramondcho." about smugglers on the
Pasque frontiers. 1t will be ready next
summer.
Rodney Stone is the title of DIR. Conan
Doyle's new story. The scene is laid in the
england OF the Regency-the period from
1872 to 1920.
More copies of "Triby" were sold in 1885
than in 1894, the year OF its publication.
The Marian viii not begin in Harper's
until late in the year. Mr. Du Maurier has
not delivered the manuscript Yet.
That Lowell should ever have seemed to
the American critic or the American public
a poet of national importance is, perhaps.
the severest criticism on itself that the
American nation has ever made, SAYS the
London Athaeneum.
Talking of novelists, one OF the most emf
nent of that guild now living has an ex-
traordinary idiosyncrasy. He cannot write
unless he works at round table, covered
with rich. dark green cloth. upon which
two fat candles, standing in tan silver can
dlesticks. burn.
The authorship of The Personal Recof-
lections of Joan of Arc" now running in
Harper's Magazine is announced in Volume
vi of the National Cyclopedia of American
Biography, which in a sketch OF Samuel l..
Clemens Mark Twain enumerates the
"Recollections" in the list Of his works.
Il have received the books you sent"
wrote an unnstructed lady to her book
seller. according to the Boston Transcript,
lone of them is not bound properly. Two
of the edges (sde and bottom) left
rough and uncut, while the other edge OF
the leaves 0op) is cut and gilded Shall
take IL half price or returny'
Mary E. Tuttiet, otherwise Maxwell Grey.
~ hot rIraf 10 "a H.
lence of Dean Maitland" lives in the Isle
of Wight. and is hopeless invalid. ever con-
fined TO her sofa. She is slight and young
er-looking than her years would seem to
show; and she has beautifully soft ana
musical voice.
Mr.. w. T. Stead has embarked upon a new
venture. which he has christened Penny
Popular Novels" His idea is to print we'll
known novels in editions Of 100000 copies.
first publication is the She OF II. Rider
Haggard, and he says that the actual cost
of each volume is something less than
three-fifths of a penny.
Charles Dana Gibson showed his art in
stinct almost in his babyhood. When he
was eight years of age he amused himself
by cutting silhouttes from paper with scis-
sors. These were so spirited that they as
tonished his friends and even attracted the
attention of art critics In the fepruary
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of Mr. Gibson's boyish work, and there are
reproductions of many of his remarkable
paper figures A writer in another periodi-
cal asserts that Mr. Gioson Is not iHpros-
ing in his art.
We stated not very long ago. says a liter
airy critic, that NJ. Alexandra Dumas had
taken to the composition of aphorisms. Now
that he has passed away We may again
quote a few specimens: II find comfort at
times in the observation that, although lin
its are set to genius. there Is no limit TO
stupidity" Never argue; you VIII never
the harder YOU hammer at them the deeper
Won drive them in" How does IL happen
that nearly all little children are so pru-
dent and nearly all great men are so stu.
MIDI / can only attribute IL TO education
.I.a Rochefoucald says that we have all or
us strength enough TO bear the misfortune
of others He ought to have added mat
fen of us have strength enough TO bear the
good fortune of others