The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-14
LITERARY NOTES.

Miss Braddon has written e new novel,
a historical novel, which she calls I'm High
Places" 1t Is to appear as a serial first.
Mr.. Austin Dobson has prepared for i'm
mediate publication a volume of his coll
lected poems, representing the flower or
hve-and-twenty years work.
1t is said that the price paid to Mark
Twain for his new book is $4,000. and that
Major Pond has recently made him an offer
of $4,000 for series of lectures.
The long-silent author of THE Silence
of Dean Maitland" has written love story
which, under the title of "Ribstone Pip
pins, Is to be brought out By the Harpers-
A Londoner in the literary swim says that
Oscar Wilde has written poem dealing
with prison life in the same metre as "Eu-
gene Aram' and that parts or II are excep-
tionally powerful.
A London bookseller calls attention to the
fact that there is no demand whatever for
the poetical works of Tennyson but that
there is quite brisk call for the works of
Poet Laureate Austin.
The author of 1.-The Christian" has gone
to Paris, on his way to Rome. whittier he
has been ordered for the benefit OF his
health. He has also been medically directed
to abstain from mental work for period
of four months from the present time.
What will probably be the last volume
published under the name of Du Maurier
is in the Harper press. 1t is collection of
pictures and verses dealing with the life
of society. The rhymes are in both French
and English. The book is to be called "A
Legend of Camelot.'
The new oxford dictionary, 1.-The greatest
of existing dictionaries so-called. is now
accessible to scholars up to three-fourths
of the letter e. 1t is thought that in the
year 1908 it will be completed, closing the
period of over forty years during which
students in all parts of Great Britain have
been engaged in accommodating materials.
Mr. Austin Dobson at least finds it profit
able to write poetry. His "Old World
Idylls' is in it's eleventh thousand; AT the
Sign of the Tyre" has gone into it's eighth
thousand, while The Ballad of Beau bro
cade' is in the twelfth thousand, and
proverbs in Porcelain" and The Story of
RoSina" are, respectively, in their seventh
and tenth thousand.
Pierre Lott is a man of too many gifts for
one person. A naval officer by profession,
he IS an author in his leisure moments and
also possesses no slight gifts as an artist.
A new edition of LIE Marriage de Lott will
contain some specimens of his work an
illustrator. The nearest parallel we have
in this country Is f. Hopkinson Smith, civil
engineer, popular magazinist and illustrator.
Professor Wilson, an old schoolmaster of
Joel Chandler Harris, said recently IN speak
ing of that authors school days: Joe was
a peculiar boy. While not at all fond of
study, he seemed to reach by some intuition
what required the most incessant applica-
ton on the part of other boys, and older
than himself. He had no favorite study.
Indeed, he showed little prediction for
books of any sort"
Jacobson is not alone the master of
unique style" writes e. F. L. Robinson in
a Cosmopolis article on the Danish poet.
HE is the finest, most spiritual poet that
the North has produced. No other Scandi-
of poetic insight, in intensity of vision,
and in the originality of temperament
across which he viewed his corner of life.
Scandinavia that does not show traces of
his influence"