The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-15
LITERARY NOTES.

An article on American poets is coming
| from the pen of the English critic, William
| Archer.
Mark Twain. 1t is said. is going to make
| plays, not from his own books, but from the
| German.
The Alcott heirs, it is reported, received
$4,000 in royalties from Roberts Brothers
| last year.
Mr.. Andrew Laing is writing novel in
collaboration with Mr.. A. E. w. Mason,
author of 1.-THE Courtship of Maurice
Buckler."
w. Romano Patterson is the real name
of the benjamin Swift who has just pub
lished new novel called 1.-THE Destroyer"
He is the son of a Glasgow physician.
The late James Payn was for some
time literary adviser in England to Baron
Tauchnitz, of Leipzig, position which gave
him great influence over the contnental
fortunes of his fellow-authors.
According to the London Literary World
certain literary ladies in France are foster
ing a project to found a French Academy
for themselves on the line of the famous
masculine institution, one of the most en-
thusiastic being. the celebrated "Gyp.
Jules Verne, at seventy, is living on a diet
of eggs and herbs at Amiens, France. in
robust health and spirits. He has written
seventy-six books aid is still at it. He
tells friend that the hardest work he ever
had to do was to read up the stories of
for he himself has Travelled very little.
The Revue de Paris prints letter writ
ten by Balzac, in which he describes visit
to George Sand at her country chateau. II
found the camarade," he says, lin her
dressing gown, smoking a cigar, wearing
red trousers and nd yellow slippers; She had
that George Sand went to bed at a. M,
and rose at midday and smoked to excess.
She dressed her daughter as boy.
To- {yafo ~ vi Crax
ford said that he was now writing work
on italian history, which would contain the
most interesting stories and legends of that
sountry from the earliest times to the pres
ent. He was also writing romance which
would appear in the Century Magazine. be-
| ginning on Nov. /. 1t would deal with the
| times of the second crusade and particular
ly with st. Bernard, for whom Mr.. Craw-
ford has great admiration; The scene will
be laid in England, Italy and Palestine.
Hermann Sudermann, whose John the
Baptist has passed through twenty-five
| editions since Jan. Is, is understood to have
two new dramas on the stocks. In the one.
| ''The Three Heron's Feathers" he follows
his contemporary, Gerhardt Hauptmann, to
| other is a social play, which will be called
| stone Under Stones" C"Stein Inter
steinen..l Herr Hauptmann himself is said
which the chief part is designed for Frau
Agnes Sorma, the Ellen Terry of Berlin.
Bonnie View, the home of Miss Marietta
Holley ('Josiah Aliens WifeO, near the
village of Adams, in Jefferson county, New
York State. IS an ideal resting place for
many Of the worlds workers who have the
advantage OF its owners friendship Among
these none have appreciated the quiet and
beauty of the place and the generous hospi-
ttahty which abounds there and for which
MISS Hoiley is famous more than Miss Clara
Barton and Miss Frances Willard both Of
whom have been numbered among her most
CHERISHED friends. Miss Holley is writing a
book now which will be entitled Josiah AL
lens Wife's Opinions of Chidren's Rights"
Professor Max Muller lately had a charm
Ing little essay called Among My Books
in Literature, wherein he made a whimsical
complaint which will come home to many
book-lover: What a delightful time it
was when one possessed a few books only,
yThich one coy could honestly call my books,
knew and loved. and never forgot. And
now! There are rows of books in my Ii
Drary which are perfect strangers to me.
Most of them, are in no sense of the word
my books: They live in my house, and If
this goes on for a few years longer, they
will soon live there alone. / shall be driven
out of house and home by them.
OF Morris Rosenfeld, 1.-The tailor poet" the
Book Buyer says that he has labored in the
sweatshop for years. He was born thirty
six years ago in a small town in Poland,
where his father and grandfather had been
fishermen. His teaching was like that of
most boys OF his class-much of the Bible,
more of the Talmud, but of modern science
and languages nothing. Following the GUS
tom of his people. he married at eighteen,
and soon afterward went to Holland to learn
diamond cutting. Thence he drifted to Eng
land and worked at his trade; failing, he
found escape from starvation in the sweat
shop. Twelve years ago he came to New
York and could find no better work here
His health failed and he was forced to leave
the sweatshop and try to earn small sums
by giving readings from his poems at en-
tertainments given by his countrymen in
the Ghetto. His reputation spread and for
some time past he has been asked to read
before clubs and literary societies both here
and in Boston.