The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-26
LITERARY NOTES.

A book Of stories for children by the late
Professor Drummond, with illustrations by
Louis Vain, is in preparation.
Edward Bellamy, the famous author of
Looking Backward is on his way to his
ranch, outside of Longmont Col, where
ne hopes to regain his health.
The Forest and Stream Publishing Com
pany, New York, announce in book form
Fred ,Mathers delightful series of angling
sketches entitled Men / Have Fished
With" which have been running in the
Forest and Stream.
Mr. Henry B. Fuller who has recently
returned to Chicago after long stay in
Italy, has written a story entitled 1.-THE
Greatest of These" which will appear in
the November Atlantic. In this story there
is an indication that Mr.. Fuller is return
ing to the early manner of his ''Chevalier
of PenSieri-Vani."
Max Nordau the author of "Degenera-
ton" lives in Paris The name Nordau was
originally used by him as . newspaper
pseudonym. With the consent of his father,
Herr Sudfeld, he legally assumed it, trans
formlng' himself from Southfield into North
meadow He is a good deal of a hermit
socially in Paris
When w. d. Howells was in q printing
office he was filled with the dream Of writ
ing great poem, and he was in the habit
of scribblng verses on the proofs and
galleyS of the printing office. When he
came to New York as a journalist he pub
lished small collection of poems written
i'll conjunction with a friend who had been
fellow-compositOr in the printing office
James Whitcomb Riley has written a Sc
rial poem entitled 1.-The Rubaiyat of Doc
Sifers," which will appear in the November
and December Century. Mr.. Riley has in
his characteristic vein described a quaint
and lovable HooSer village doctor, giving
anecdotes and descriptions of the doctors
ways and dOing's from the point of view of
an old fellow-townsman. Mr.. c. NJ. Kelyea,
the artist, has been sent to Indiana to draw
from life the Illustrations for the poem.
Mrs. Amelia Barr, who was born in Ian
cashire sixty-six years ago, is the widow
of a Glasgow merchant, and is familiar
with Scottish life and manners, as all know
who have read her very fresh and vigorous
stories, Jan Vedder's Wife, "A Daughter
of Fife "A Border Shepherdess, and
others of her thirty novels. For the past
thirty years she has lived mainly in the
United States, and her present home is on
Cornwall Heights. overlooking the Hudson
river.
Of the fourteen writers of articles i'm the
body of the first number of the Atlantic
Monthly forty years ago, but three are liv-
ing to-day, and it is worth noticing that the
subjects which they wrote as compare
lively young men are precisely the subjects
on which they might be writing to-day
Mr. j. L. Trowbri0ge contributed a piece
of fiction, Mr.. Parke Goodwin an article on
The Financial FURRY" and Mr.. Charles
Eliot Norton, now president of the Arts
and Crafts Society of Boston, described
the Manchester exhibition.
Admirers of Marie Corelli," says the
Bookman, will look forward to the pub
LEGATION of the Marie Corelli Birthday
Book which is being handsomely made.
This book will contain the first portrait of
Miss Corelli which has appeared. The pub
fishers have found her most reluctant to
CTh n a TiY1Cr
trait of herself to appear anywhere. Miss
CorelM recognized, however, that for a
birthday book a portrait was almost neceS-
sary. The book will be illustrated by twelve
full-page drawings of Miss Corelli's hero
ines.
1t is said that the title of Mr. LIE Cal
Iiennes forthcoming book, IF 1 Were God"
was suggested by these lines from one of
DIR. George Macdonald's novels:
Here lie l, Martin Elginbrodde;
Haze mercy o my SOUL Lord God
AS l wad do, where l Lord God
And Ye were Martin Elginbrodde.'
1 have the honor, says a writer in the
Critic, Ito count DR.. Macdonald among my
frlends: ana can imagine now 1t must Of
fend his reverent nature to have his lines
so msused. We have our faults in Amer
lea, and we have brought forth some
strange people, but there have been no
Richard lie Gallennes among them-unless
Mr.. Stephen Crane be one"
The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (the
author of "Alice in Wonderland" who has
striven to hide his Individuality under the
pseudonym of Lewis CarrolD, has spent the
greater part of his life in college. He was
elected a student of Christ Church, Oxford,
England in 1854, and from 1855 to 1881 he
was mathematical tutor. His special SUBJ
ject is mathematics, and he has contributed
a number of books to it's literature. When
in the first flush of her success Alice was
in every hand, and her 'Wonderland'' ad-
ventures were the delight of grown-up peo-
pie as we'll as of children, the Queen sent
message to the author, begging him to send
her his next book, and was much as
founded to receive soon afterWard a copy
of AN Elementary Treatise on Determin-
ants by c. L. Dodgson, for in those days
he had managed to preserve his incognito,
and the Queen, like the rest of the world,
believed him to be mere humoriSt.