The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-01
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Under the caves" is the title Of the new
story which Mr.. Bret Harte has just COM
pleted.
Mr.. G.. W. Gable has gone to England,
where he will stay for some time, and Will
give readings during his visit.
The Bowen-Merrill Company Is about to
issue a volume of essays on topics of the
time by Rev. Myron w. Reed. 1t is dedi-
Gated to "all sorts and conditions or men,.
Stephen Crane is living in England now,
and is at work on a new novel which will
be published next autumn. The opening
chapters are said by his friends to contain
by all odds the best work he mas ever
written.
Mr.. George Meredith is reported to have
said that Mr.. Theodore Watts, the poet.
has added 'Dunton" to his surname be-
cause he was afraid that he would be con-
founded by posterity with the good old Dr.
Isaac Watts.
The day before Mr.. Richard Harding
Davis sailed from England, the London
Times engaged him as its correspondent, In
the event Of war between the United States
and Spain. His letters will appear also IN
the New York Herald.
Anna A. Gordon, for many years private
secretary to the late Miss Willard, has
written a volume which is to be Aentitled
The BEAUTIFUL Life of Frances r.. VIII
lard" The work is Endorsed by the Won,
an CHRISTIAN temperance OHIOil o4Q "a
be published under their auspices.
According to a London paper, Miss Marie
Corelli has been so provoked by the refer
ences to herself and her work in Mr.. w. 2.
Ryan's recently published book, Literary
London that she has instructed her So
licitors to open an action for libel IN detauft
of a public apology. and an undefstandlng
tfat no further copies of the alleged libel
shall be put into circulation.
Readers of r.. Hopkinson Smiths new
book, caleb West will be struck by the
manner in which the portrait of the hero,
given as a frontispiece, fits Will the charac-
ter of the man as portrayed by the author.
The way this portrait was obtained Is thus
related in the Critic: I'm his 1ecturing tour
in the West Mr.. Smith stopped at Iowa
City, Ia. where, in a photographer case,
he espied, by mere chance, the picture or
likeness to his mental Caleb that he rushed
in and eagerly asked If he might have 1t
for his illustrator. The photographer, much
gratifed, then showed him another view,
which SO moved Mr.. Smith that he cried,
God must have sent me here 1t was even
more like than the other. The original is an
old farmer, who has lived all his life in the
West, far from the sea that Caleb loves so
we'll"
In a recent interview with Frank r.
Stockton that gentleman says: Pomona
actually existed in real life. She was a
charity girl we took in (she was about four
teen), and she had precisely the taste for
literature and for reading aloud to herself
as the Pomona of the book. She had a name
that L now forget, but 1 know that it was
an assumed one, it was so romantic. We
finally had to send her back to the institu-
ton, she was so dirty. What became of her
we never heard. She always said she would
go upon the stage. OF course Pomona hap
pened' years ago; possibly" and Mr.. Stock
tons face took on an inscrutible expression,
'she may now be one of the great actresses
Of tO-daV under another NAME MI. STOCK
ton ADDS: only Pomona as a young girl
is real, however, Pomona grown up is
purely imaginary. So are the doings OF
Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshfne. They are
two OLD ladies l know that I started off and
imagined a series of adventures for. They
actually do exist"