The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-31
Publishers, Notes.

l. c. Page & Co. announce the immediate
publication of new edition or Ihe
Blessed DamozeP' for the holidays.
The Scribners have just published the sec
ond volume of Walter A Wyckoff's THE
Workers." dealing with the West in 1912.
Among the announcements of the Fred
erick A. Stokes Company New York, are
"A Short History of the War with Spain"
by Marion Wilcox: Heroes of Our War
with SPAIN boys book, by Clinton Ross:
Ashes of Empire nophi 9 by Robert w. CHAM anu
bers.
Mr.. Cy Warmans "The Story of the Rail-
road the new volume in the Story of the
West Series. Mr.. Max Pemberton's new ro-
nance, The Phantom Army" and Miss
Fowler'S novel. Concerning Isabel Carna-
by, which has been so successful in Eng
land, will be published before the end of
the month by d. Appleton & Co.
OF value to all interested in the drama and
its literature will be Sir Henry Irving,.s es-
nounced for immediate publication by Rich
ard G.. Badger & Co. The essay was orig
inally delivered as lecture before the stu
dents of Cambridge University (England,
and is very attractively set forth with
photogravure portrait of the great actor.
One of the first pieces of literary work
done by Col. Theodore Roosevelt since the
war, in which he distinguished himself, will
be a very characteristic introduction to
"Pepys's Ghost - This book, under its rather
win Emerson, jr., who, it will be remem-
bered, was the hero of a most exciting trip
across Porto Rico last June. The book will
be published by Badger & Co.
Harper & Brothers have secured the
American rights for the English translation
of BismarckS memoirs and Smith, Elder &
Co. the English rights. The work is to be
printed in two octave volumes containing
rhirty-three chapters. its German title is
"Gedanken und Erinnerungen," and it is
being brought out under the editorship of
Prof. Horst Kohl. The expectation is that
it will appear next month and be published
the same day in Germany, England and the
United States. Report has it that the Eng
lish and American publishing houses paid
$4,000 each for their rights.
One of the most attractive holiday books
Fl the yehr viii be b9 OF Mr.
Vawter one of the few artists who is able
to enter into the spirit of the poets work
and interpret it accurately. The book will
be issued by the Bowen-Merrill Company.
which has also a number of other works of
Importance among it's fall announcements,
among them the Life of Oliver p. Norton
by William Dudley Foulke; the Biography
of Susan B. Anthony" by Ida Fl. Harper,
and volume of Temple Talks" by Rev.
Myron w. Reed.
Lamson, Wolfe & Co., Boston an
nounce for immediate publication trans
lation in blank verse of Edmond Rostand's
"CyranO de Bergerac" the play which is
creating so much interest both in America
and abroad at the present time. This verse
is by Howard Thayer Kingsbury, and has
been accepted and is being played by Rich
ard Mansfield, which is a guaranty of its
superiority. This house also announces for
immediate publication a history of the
Santiago campaign by Maj. Gen. Joseph
Wheeler. This book will be of especial
value and Importance and will be widely
read
The recent absorption of the publishing
house of Roberts Brothers by Little. Brown
& Co., Boston, brought out short sketch
Of the history of the latter veteran house
which is interesting. and peculiarly Boston
csc. Little, Brown & Co. is the straight and
legitimate descendant of book house es-
tablished in Boston $50 years ago. and they
occupy the same house to-day which they
have occupied for sixty-five years. Can any
other American city show anything like
that? In New York, if the house had held
together for sixty-fve years, its business
would have travelled up town four or five
miles. And in all these nearly seven decades
Little, Brown & Co have endeavored to
maintain loyalty to the very highest stand
ard of their business in every respect.
Among the books TO be issued by the house
this fall are .'Sielanka, and Other Stories"
by Henryk Sienkiewicz; .Exotics and Ret
rospectives." by Lafcadio Hearn; a new edi-
ton of Francis Parkman's works, and
Memoirs of Alphonse Daudet," by Leon
Daudet.