The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-23
LITERARY NOTES.

Mrs. Kate Miner RABBI an Indianapolis
writer, contributes a story to LesliSs Week
| ly entitled "A Municipal Experiment"
! Miss Agnes Repplier, who sailed for
| Europe in March. has arrived In Spain with
| her party and will spend June in a careful
| tour of that interesting country.
| Lippincott's Magazine is to have a new
cover, or, rather, a cover which will be a
modification of the old one That old one
| has been so long familiar that the change
| will interest many magazine reader
| Mr.. dian Hawthorne hath indeed a facie
| tyPe<Titer. He was interviewed in London
or his way to India and told his inter-
prize story took me three weeks to write"
| Dashing off words at that rate, the Boston
| Transcript thinks, is curious business for
| q fictionist of his name
| John Boyle OReilly's memory is honored
! by the Papyrus Club of Boston, one Of
| whose founders he was, by the gift to the
| public library of 81 000 whose income is to
| be used to buy books for what shall be
| known as the John Boyle O'Reilly library.
| Each book is to be designated by book
| plate engraved with his name and the clubs
| title. and a copy of O'Donoghues bust OF
| the poet.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton expects to
bring out the second and concluding part
of 1.-THE Woman's Bible" in June. Mrs.
| Stanton who is eighty-one continues the
task alone, her former assistants having
lost sympathy with the commentary by
women on the parts of the Bible referring
to women. Mrs Stanton will subsequently
publish her "Reminiscences.
The first instalment of a new illustrated
history of the French revolution, by the
Danish scholar, Bering-L iisberg, is an
nounced in the Copenhagen papers. While
this work will probably not pretend to con-
trations, many of them reproductions Of
contemporary paintings. will give It an in
terest beyond the rather narrow limits of
the Danish reading public.
They say that Alfred Austin is a great
lion in London society. He is a pet OF
| fashion if not the muses., and proud of adu-
lation He is very candid about it. Some
| one ventured to doubt whether a. woman
| ever fell in love with man she had never
| seen. Even If he We're poet 1t is not
| possible" said the doubter But the lau-
| reate brushed his criticism aside with
| Possible! Why it has often happened to
! every poet"
| They say the shyest woman in America
| is Mrs Elaine Goodale Eastman, the poet,
| who long worked for the Indians in the
| West, and then interested the gossips very
| much by marrying one of them--a Harvard
| graduate however. Her intimate friends it
| is who declare her shy; to the stranger it
| simply seems that she is as distant and UNI
| laxative as the statute of Liberty in the
! bay. She is statuesque in more ways than
| one, for her features are classic in cut
|
| one Of her intimates declares 1t Is because
| It Ioosens her tongue and puts her at eage
/ to encounter greater tacitufnity than her
| own Her very beautiful five-year-old
| daughter by the way, shows nothing Of
| the fnexpressiveness to which she is en-
| titled by her fathers race and her mother s
| idiosyncracy but is very bright and con-
| slant chatterboX.
Leslie's Weekly says Prof. John Uri
! Lloyd, of Cincinnati o., has secured un-
! sought fame through the publication OF
| ''Etidorpha," a work he wrote merely to
| circulate among friends. But, given to the
public, it went through seven editions In a
year Mr.. Lloyd is a very busy man, and
| it was a pleasant surprise to his most in
| innate friends when they learned he had
! written this wonderful story in the frag-
| nents of time which he caught during his
! scientific researches. He is on the sunny
! side of nifty, yet ne has completed enough
| work for a man many years older. He is
| interested in one CT the largest chemical
| laboratories in the West, and is president
| of the American Pharmaceutical Associa-
| ton He has held the chair of chemistry
| in the Eclectic Medical Institute for the
| past twenty years and during much OF this
| time has been the professor OF pharmacy
| in the Cincinnati College of Pharmacy. lie
| is also student in occultism.