The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-04
LITERARY NOTES.

w. II. Mallock's new weekly paper, the
British Critic. will appear early in October.
The Macmillan Company announces a
new edition of John Bartlett's
Concordance to the Works of Shak-
speare," at $50. The price of the first edi-
ton was $1i. In addition they offer to send
the work to any one RENTING s. before the
day of publication tOct, 80
Professor Morris, who occupies the chair
of modern languages in the University OF
Melbourne, has announced his intention OF
publishing a Dictionary of Australasian
English or, in other words, n collection
of the new words added TO the English
language by the Australians.
DIR. S. Weir Mitchell has for many
n onths been gathering material for his ro-
nance, Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker
which is to be the leading serial of the
Century during the coming year. The
novel is a story of the Revolutionary war
and of Philadelphia society during the Pc
Rod from 1853 to 1872.
A new edition of the works of Thomas
Carlyle, to be called the Centenary edition.,
is announced by Charles Scribner's Sons,
in connection with Chapman & Hall. Of
London. There win be included in this edi-
ton a volume of essays and minor writings
never before published in a collected form,
and some new portraits. 1t will be beauti-
fully printed and very cheap. The first VOL
ume Will appear in october.
The Boston Evening Transcript saws of
f. J. Stimson's q. S. of Dale's) new novel,
king Eoanett," that "its underlying idea
was discussed some years ago by the au-
thor and the lamented Boyle O'ReiIly, and
its carrying out was to be the joint work
of the two, but O'Reilly died before the
plan could be executed. The field it covers
that of our earliest colonial history-has
hardly been touched until now except by
the professional historian, and vet so rich
is it in possibilities that one wonders why
it should not have been traversed and re-
traversed years ago by the native novel;
list"
The terms on which Mr.. Kippling disposed
of Captains Courageous are more liberal
than has hitherto been reported, consider
able as $4,000 is for a short novel. But
this, it seems, includes only the serial
rights, and on the book itself he will also
have q handsome royalty, SIS, 900 being paid
printed he has $2T,000 in hand. Yet what
is this beside Nordica's $500 for three
concerts at Worcester? asks the Springfield
Republican,. Novels cannot be turned out
indefinitely like roulades. and even the
hlgh-priced authors are not over-priced-
If they write good stuff.
McClurg q Co., of Chicago. offer two
books, entitled Audiences and National
EpicS," for the use of cultured and intelli-
gent persons who have but little time for
the study of literature and art. The former
is the book wanted by those audiences
who listen to the message supposed to be-
conveyed by Il statue, a picture, a poem or
any other work of art, but who lack the
skill to interpret that message. National
EpicS' is a we'll executed condensation of
the worlds great epic poems, with which
every man OF culture should be acquainted.
but which only a few have time to read
from beginning to end. OF each epic the
book gives a descriptive sketch, an outline
or the story, some selections, a bibliographv
and in the case of the foreign epics a LIST
of standard translatfons.