The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-14

| 1t is a full repository of history, manners,
costumes, landscape, domestic and public
life, and religious forms, and does for this
side of the Orient in practical way what
Kipling's pen has done in an artistic way.
There are promised ten exquisite photo
graVures or living types, two maps and one
hundred charming illustrations besides.
The cover design follows fragment of
oriental tapestry, and completes an ele-
CANT and useful work.
Messrs Flood & Vincent, Meadvilie, Pa,
publishers of the textbooks of the Chau-
tauqua Literary and Scientific Circle, an
nounce for early publication the following
volumes, which will constitute the course
of reading for the German-Roman year.
lS97-9S: Imperial Germany" by Sidney
Whitman; The Social Spirit in America, ="
Dy Prof {. r. Henderson, of the Univer-
slty OF Chicago; Roman Life in Pliny'S
Time, by Maurice Pellison "A Short His
tory of Medieval Europe" by Prof. Oliver
J.; thatcher. OF the University of Chicago;
Roman and Medieval Art" by William H.
Goodyear, of the Brooklyn Institute.
Harper & Brothers are to publish on June
is the new volume of "A History of Our
Own Times which Justin Mccarthy has
brought down from 1880 to the diamond
jubilee, making the third volume in the
complete work; Georgia Scenes" which
won great popularity when first brought
out in 1910, and on its republication in Har
per Franklin Square Library Susan s
Escort, and Others short stories by Ed
A
in Wood-Turning," by Prof. M. j. Golden,
of Purdue University; Hell fer Sartain,
and Other Stories. by John Fox, jr.; Bob
ton; 'Johnsonian Miscellanies, edited by
George Birkbeck Hill and Mr. Peters,, a
novel, by Ricardo Stephens.
THE Private Life of the Queen" is the
title of new book by a member of the
royal household, which will be published
Immediately by D. Appleton & Co. The
special interest in the personality of Queen
Victoria caused by the celebration to take
place shortly imparts a peculiar value to
this book which is the most comprehensive
account of the Queens daily life, habits
ana immediate surroundings that has been
published. 1t pictures the Queens person
tanning way, and the account which is
given will rank as probably the closest
study of the Queens private life.
Henry Altemus, of Philadelphia, will in
augurate July l a new departure in book
publishing that will revolutionize the old
time features of the trade. He purposes is
suing, under the title of "Altemus's Ameri-
can Series,' a line of books by American
authors at the unprecedentedIy low retail
price of 30 cents each These books will
be IN every way equal to books regularly
put forth at prices ranging from 81 10 $150
q a cop. copy. The initial volume will be John
Habberton's latest and best book, 'Trif and
TriXy: A Story of Dreadfully Delightful
Little Girl and Her Adoring but Tormented
Parents, Relations and Friends This is
said to be the best book Habberton has
written.
Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. have re-
Gently published, in their weli-known River
side Literature series, the following books,
which will sustain the high standard set
by previous numbers of the SERIES The
books are: No. Ill Tennyson's Princess"
edited by w. L. Rolfe, Lift. D., with CO.
pious notes and numerous Illustrations;
double number; paper, 80 cents. No. III.
NirgirS ''Aeneid, Books L, II, Ill trans
lated by Christopher Pearse Cranch, with
an introduction and notes. paper 10 cents.
No. 113. Poems from the Writings of
Ralph Waldo Emerson" edited, with an
Introduction and notes, by George II.
Browne, of the Browne and Nichols School.
Cambridge; paper, Is cents.
The third edition of James Lane Aliens
new novel Ohe Macmillan Company,
THE Choir Invisible" is now in
press, although the first was one of ex-
ceptional size, and the second even was
double the number of volumes technically
considered edition. There are those who
claim that Mr.. Aliens work is ''caviare to
the general" but this would seem to show
that one need not be a poet or an artist
to appreciate the poetry and beauty which
so strongly characterize all Mr.. Aliens
work. The MacmillanS announce for early
publication edition of Sponsors "Faerie
Queene" edited with introduction and CLOS
lished in six volumes, each containing one
hook of the