The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-03

and other French-Canadan dialect poems.
is native of Dublin. Ireland, and has been
in Canada since he was three years OF age.
he mas always been an ardent sportsman,
This sport has carried him into the back
woods and among the lakes and streams
where salmon and trout abound, and where
he learned the legends and the tongues of
almost the oldest white people on the con-
tinent.
Maurus Jokai, the prolific Hungarian nov
elist and poet. author of more than 300 vol
umes, which have been translated into al
most every spoken language, is now at
work upon an epic in the form of a drama
The subject is taken from the earliest Mag
var history from the time of the legendary
Arpad 1t is to be called ''Levente," and
Joka1 says he has hopes 1t will take a
place in Magyar literature somewhat SINH
lar to that filled by the 'Nibelungenlied in
German literature The force of audacity
could no further go. The "Nibelungenlied'
represents q whole age.
A welcome surprise comes in the an
nouncement of the publication of another
work by Mr.. Ruskin. In 1871 he lectured on
landscape at Oxford. but the lectures were
then withheld from publication owing to the
dlInculty and expense of reproducing the
wished 10 explain his text 1t is possible
70 reproduce them now, however owing to
the improvements made in photogravure
and Typography. The pictures referred to
IN the text are in the university galleries
in the Ruskin Drawing School at oxford.
and in Mr.. Ruskins private collection.
In his newly-published novel, THE Pomp
of the Laviettes," Mr. Gilbert Parker re-
turns once again to Canada, his favorite
happy hunting ground of romance. Mr..
Parker is still very young man, having
been born in Canada thirty-four wears ago.
His father was a military officer, but he
was himself educated for the church He
became lecturer in English literature at
Toronto, and then went TO Australia to edit
a Sydney newspaper. He has travelled a
good deal among the South Sea islands, and
extensively in northern Canada He now
makes his permanent home in London, al
though at the present moment he is taking
a holiday in Germany
Amelia f. Barr recently said: Il have
two objects before me in writing a novel
first, not to write a word l would desire
to blot when lay down my pen forever-in
this world; second, to make faithful pic
ture of the place and life and times which
form the background of my story. Now,
as religion is the strongest local coloring,
L accept Tor my hero and heroine whatever
creed obtains in their place and position.
My Yorkshire tales are Methodist in creed.
In the lake district they are Quaker or
Eplscopallan in creed. In Scotland they are
Presbyterian, except on the west coast of
Argyle, where the people have always been
Roman Catholic, and in laying The Beads
of Tasmer' there / made a Roman Catholic
priest and Roman Catholic noblemans
family the chief and best characters. L
count creed subordinate to character
The London Mail has this to say about
an American novelist: Mrs Burnett's Port
land-place house will soon again know the
genial vitality of her presence, and that of
the friends who usually surround her.
Among the many sets into which literary
London is divided that in which Mrs. Bur
nett moves is one of the two or three that
are conspicuously the best In her hand
some rooms all sorts and conditions of dis
tinguiShed people are to be encountered.
And the generous-hearted author of Little
Lord Faunteroy'' is genuinely happy in
welcoming and entertaining them feeling
only pleasure and-even in this envious age
no slightest trace of envy at the success
of these who have succeeded while her help
and encoura cement are always modestly
offered to those who are still on the lower
rungs of the social and literary ladder.