The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-16
LITERARY NOTES.

Anthony Hopes Rupert OF Hentzau," the
sequel of THE Prisoner of Zenda," will be
issued in book form in April.
A novel dealing with our civil war is on
the point of publication in London. Its au-
thor is Mr.. Arthur Patterson.
Princess Beatrice of Great Britain has
published a little book of religious refec-
ton entitled Consolation in Suffering:
Fruits of the Reading of a Mourner.
The success which attended the recent
volume of poems by Paul Lawrence Dun
bar has encouraged the colored poet to
write novel on life in Ohio, which he has
named 1.-THE Uncalled."
Richard Harding Davis will call his new
story 1.-The Kings Jackal," and the scene
is laid in Tangier c. d. Gibson, who is
now in Africa on multifarious errandS
will illustrate it, The. story is said to be
"even more dramatic" than Soldiers OF
Fortune"
i In pleasant paper dealing with literary
style an English critic argues justly enough
that gift for style is born in man, and
cannot be taught, and that, though it can
hardly be improved by pain and labor, II
may be destroyed thereby. THE only way
to get a good STYLE this writer adds, is
to think clearly
Rider Haggard, whose later works have
not been in any sense remarkable, is again
preparing to test his fortunes with his pen.
He has been at work on a novel called
Swallow which deals with the history
OF the Beers, and he is writing just now
another novel OF life in Holland in the peri
cd of William of Orange.
Mr.. Stedman is to prepare an anthology
of American verse on the same lines as
his victorian Anthology" He is the fore
most student of modern poetry in the Eng
lish-reading world, and this will round out
his labors in most desirable manner, fur
nshing companion TO his book on Amerl-
can poetry such 'as the Victorian Anthol-
ogy'' is to his victorian Poets.
Three English duchesses and marchion-
ess are writing for Mr.. Astor's Pail Mall
Magazine. These are the Duchess of
Cleveland the Duchess of Leeds, the
Duchess of Newcastle, and the Marchioness
of Tweeddale. Only the Duchess OF Leeds
has been using imagination-her contribu-
ton is story entitled Pan: The other
fair DANES are engaged in describing ia
nous family seats.
''They say" that the new "Gibson girl"
drawn by Mr.. Charles Dana Gibson for the
cover design of the February number of
the Ladies' Home Journal, is picture Of
the artists own little daughter now one
year old. IF true, says the Literary
World. we are sorry for the little dan n
fRicity. W
Twenty-three English women novelists Of
the day. have been duly classified and
tabulated by Mrs. Sarah Tooley in a recent
Christmas publication. Their place (consid-
erately, not their date) of birth is given,
their state of married or single or divorced
first novel set down, etc. only eight out
of the twenty-three have escaped the IN.
huence of American. colonial or continental
life" Several achieved great success at
the first stroke;" others are still striking
away without success. Most or them hao
the usual difficulties with publishers.
Alphonse Daudet once described his own
way of working as 'irregularity itself.
Sometimes he would work for eighteen
hours day. At other times he would pass
months without touching a PEN He wrote
slowly, with many revisions, for ne was
never satisfied with his work. He could
dictate his plays, but ms novels ne was
obliged TO write with his own hana. ne
practically wrote each manuscript over
three times. When the working fit was on
him he allowed nothing to interrupt him,
meals He had his food brought to him, ate
hurriedly and set to work before digestion
began. 1t is no wonder that invalldlsm
was followed in his case by untimely DEATH
Mr. Richard Henry Stoddard has this
pleasant comment to make in the New York
Mail and Express upon Miss Evaleen
STEMS "One Way to the Woods:" ''Her
songs, which seem to gush from her as
freely as from the bird-kind that she loves
so sincerely are characterized by an in
stinctive sense of melody, by freshness and
purity of diction, and the gift of reproduce
ing the innate pictureSquenesS of natural
objects which reveals the enamored stu
dents of nature She paints what she sees,
not what other poets who indulge in deScrip-
tions of nature have seen before her, and we
feel that we may trust the accuracy of her
vision There is nothing booksh in this
(here he quotes the lines entitled Per-
sistent), in which we seem to feel the
occasional gentle simplicity of most I'M
translated songs.