The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-02
LITERARY NOTES.

Maxwell Grey who became popular
writer by 1.-The Silence Of Dean Maitland, =
has written new love story, laid In DevonI,
countryside. called ''Ribstone Plpplns,
which will be hroaSht out early in 1888
Mr.. Henry Provide will publish, shortly,
in this country, volume to be entitled
THE Bible References of John Ruskin' Sc
lected by permission of the author, and ar
ranged in alphabetical order by Mary ana
Ellen Gibbs
The next book from the pen of Robert
Barr is to be entitled "Mediaeval Tales, ="
and is announced for publication in Febru-
airy. The book must be published serially in
various parts of the world before IL can De
issued in book form.
Early this year the Kelmscott Press, es-
tabished by William Morris, will be closed.
Some books will be turned out before then,
among others an account by William Nor
ris of the foundation OF the Press, ana
collection of early German wood cuts
Shortly before he was sent to the mad
house where he died, Maupassant sent for
the manager of Paris theater and said TO
him: II am the author of $50 short stories.
On each could be founded play that would
run a year There is, therefore, no need OF
Jour looking for new plays for some time.
The statement that Nine. Sarah Grand S
latest work, THE Beth Book" is partly
photographed is fatty contradicted. 1t
WAS DdS6u on IlOlulHS LIOiG llielll AtCA
remark that I'm the story itself there will
be a good deal of my early experience
amongst the peasantry in Ireland" All she
has done, it is said, is 10 use familiar scenes
as a setting or background to her fiction
Prof Harry Thuxton Peck, teacher in CO.
lumbia College, associate editor of the
Bookman, essayist and critic, has lately
added to his various offices and occupations
that of literary editor of the New York
Commercial Advertiser His friends think
this readiness to assume new duties proves
anew his great capacity Tor work ana MS
versatility. 1t probably accounts, also, for
some of the inaccuracies and marks of hasty
editing in the Bookman
Lorna Doone," that masterpiece of mar
rative and romance, was offered by it's au-
thor to eighteen publishers before it was
printed doubtfully, by an unkno IN firm.
Then it did not sell, until the marriage of
the Marquis of Lorne and the Princess
Louise took place, whereat some one loyal
and hairbrained, thought that the new novel
must in some way treat of the happy couple.
Every one rushed to the booksellers, and in
this way the grand story was discovered.
The book reviewer of the New York Ev-
ening Post says of Miss E1valeen STEMS
work: 1T is not often that a volume of cur
rent poetry detains the eye as does One
Way to the Woods The authors avowed
first venture into print, the tiny book is al
most exclusively devoted to nature poetry;
so sympathetic an understanding and so re-
strained and fine a poetic rendering, that
one gets sense of positive refreshment
from it.
work, "Soutien de Famille," was begun in
"LIllustration' Conversing about it a few
days before his death with Mr.. Robert Sher-
ard, he observed: Not a soul knows of it's
existence" The public is, in fact, so abb
sorbed in the Dreyfus affair that neither a
new book by Daudet nor Zola'S Paris
could be expected to provoke any serious in
tereSt. It may be added that M. Leon Dau-
Diet has at once started upon biography Of
his father.
The publishers are sometimes able to
gauge the effects of reviews upon the sale
of their books in a somewhat humorous
way. Not very long ago Mr.. Edward Clodd' S
Primer of Evolution" was published by
Messrs. Jongmans in England and the APP
pletons in New York. and was reviewed in
q contemporary under the title of From
Gas to Genius Orders poured in very rap
idly from all quarters, most of them asking
for a book entitled From Gas to Genius
In some cases embarrassment. was caused
by booksellers collector emphatlcally de-
clining to accept a book bearing so differ
ent a title as "A Primer of Evolution"
The twenty poems Of Bacchylides in the
papyrus that was lost for 400 years, but
which is now safely lodged in the British
Museum, are soon to be edited by Mr. Fred
eric G. Kenyon, who has just edited the let
tiers of a more modern poet Mrs. f. B.
Browning. This volume will later be fol-
lowed by an autotype facsimile of the whole
manuscript, and both publications are being
printed at the Oxford University Press The
verse shows upward of a hundred words
not TO be found in any lexicon, and throws
fresh light on many legends. Little is known
of Bacchylides, who fourshed in the first
half of the fifth century b. c.. and was
rival of Pindar