The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-19

Mrs. Gertrude Atherton has written new
book which she calls Millions of Bubbles"
Miss Edna Lyalls new novel, Hope the
Hermit" is an English love story of the
period of William and Mary.
1t is rumored that Mr.. Thomas Nelson
Pages new novel is 100000 words in length
and that $4,000 is his price for the serial
right.
1t is said that Mr.. James Lane Aliens
next novel is already promised to some
magazine, and every one is trying to guess
the lucky editor.
A Mr.. Samuel Butler has just published in
London a book designed to show that
young woman wrote the Odyssey" and did
it about the year 1000 b. G.
over a hundred letters written by Lord
Nelson and hitherto unpublished have lately
been discovered, and will be included in the
work on the great admiral upon which Lord
Charles Beresford is engaged.
The Ellen Nussey who was a lifelong and
much loved friend of Charlotte Bronte has
just died in England at the age of eighty
three. 1t has been said that she was the
original of Caroline Helstone of Shirley"
Mr.. Barries sequel to his Sentimental
Tommy is to be called Celebrated Tom
my" The announcement is not fraught
with delight. . Sentimental Tommy says
the New Iork Tribune sentenuously was
bore. The inference is Obvious
M. Francisque Sarcey the eminent French
critic, continues to refuse to bring ont in
book form a collection of his brilliant news
paper essays on the drama. He declares
that they are Journalism, not literature.
If reprint my feuiletons," he says, with
a laugh, Il should lose the right to contra
dict myself.
Louis Becke, the Australian novelist, has
been criticised for using in his 1.-THE Ebbing
Of the Tide title so closely resembling
Stevenson's ''Ebb Tide" 1t is now ex-
planned, however, that the story which gave
the name to Mr.. Becke's book appeared in
the Sydney Bulletin two years before
Stevenson's novel. 1t is not unlikely that
earlier precedents might be found.
AT the recent dinner in London to Sidney
Low, the retiring editor of the st. James
Gazette, Mr.. Kipling made a felicitous
speech, in which he quoted a story of his
own editor in India at time when he him
self was a SUP on the paper making up
columns OF dry miscellany and writing plain
tales from the hills out OF hours for his own
amusement. ANY fool" says this editor
''can write, but 1t takes God-glven genius
to be an editor.
After William Morris published "Sigurd''
he came to the conclusion that the time
for wiring long narratives in verse was
gone by forever. Tennyson showed this
view, for once when a friend in talking of
The ldylls of the King" called the group
an epic, the laureate said 1T is not an
grew to dislike decasyllabic bank verse TO
such an extent that he used to say. with
an angry laugh: Il wish that an act OF
Parliament could be passed prohibiting the
use OF blank verse for the next nifty years.
1t is doubtful if we may look In the future
for many new poems from Mr.. Dobsan's
pen. After five and forty" he says. "a
writer of familiar verse usually feels that
he has said about all he can well say in
that form. and. in my Judgment. unless he
strike out on an altogether new line, he had
far better be silent. No doubt l shah SIN
write pieces occasionally. but certainly the
bulk OF my verse Is DONE Mr. 1ohso,, 4 ~
a government official For fhe' lasf f,s't = =
one yeaLs N. ne Gas spent his days at the
PvaIu ~ 1l que and Tor nearly thirty OF
sn s By $500 niS evenings 10 literary work
- 'sa11t uapAt aItef dinner Is TO read or