The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-10
LITERARY NOTES.

John Strange Winter is Mrs. Stannard
and Rachel Penn is Mrs. Willard, wife of
the actor
Mr. Henry James has written two con-
nected stories which will be published as a
volume in the early summer.
The Bookseller says: 1T is reported that
the Alcott heirs received about $4,000 in
royalties from Roberts Brothers last year.
Little, Brown IL Company have sold up
wards of 100000 copies of Quo Vadis;" such
BOOKS are as gCod as a klondike claim.
II Is reported that Mr.. Charles e. Lauriat
IS about to retire from the firm of Estes &
Lauriat."
1t is said that there are at least twenty
two copies (and probably more) of the first
folio ShakspeareS in this country One of
the two copies owned in Australia is pre-
served in a handsome carved case made
from an oak tree which grew in the forest
or Arden. There are many copies in Eng
land, but not many that are absolutely per-
feet. An expert says that ne believes very
lew perfect copies are in existence.
A correspondent of Literature who is Iiv-
ing in Germany mentions as existing in that
country curious and widespread belief
that the Germans were the first to discover
Shakespeare and to introduce him to the
notice OF his compatriots. AT first" saws
this writer Il treated the assertion as a
Jest, but | find it is firmly believed by edu-
Gated Germans, and l am told that it is
actually taught in the literature classes in
some of their schools
1t is a curious thing that Ibsen likes to go
to balls, although he is almost a recluse i'm
other ways. He, as is we'll known, spends
part of every day in a hotel cafe and
whenever the occasion offers he attends
parently, to be in the crowd but not of il
In more or less confidential talk lately
presence W. aii bsJa UNCONSCIOUS trid OF my
own life and think have been right
The English admiral, Malcolm, while in
command at ST. Helena during the Napo-
leonic episode, kept a diary. This diary is
now providing material for a book which
will be in a measure a defense of the EN-
peror, showing that in his exile he was
treated with unnecessary severity by his
conquerOrs. The editor is the admiral :
son, Colonel Malcolm. 1t is said that the
sonal details, for the admiral Saw a great
deal of the exile's daily life, and often
played chess with him.
A few years ago Mr.. Henry James used
to say that the two most interesting men
in London were Du Maurier and James
Payn. There was a marked resemblance
between the careers of Mr.. Pawn and
Anthony TroHope. says the New York
correspondent eff the Literary World They
Were both prolific and systematic workers
Mr.. Payn went TO his office every morninsr
at 10 O'Clock, left it at and passed the resi-
OF the day in recreation. And yet he wrote
more than hundred novels and a yast
number of articles. Unlike many authors
he never lost his love for his profession
and practiced it most cheerfuily tin the LAST
few months of his life, when illness In
capacitated him.
George c. Gorham, ex-secretary of the
United States Senate, has completed his
biography of Edwin NJ. Stanton. on which
he has been engaged for some years TIC
great secretary's only son. Lewis II. STAN
ton, is practicirlg law In New Orleans o.
or the daughters IS married 10 AN army Off
Ger and stationed somewhere i'm The W..
The other daughter is married ana ii,,,,3 So ~
an Eastern State. The family nlace-S ~ ~
MI stanton correspondence and private
papers and other biographical material II
Mr. Gorhams hands, ana. he has 49,. ! -
access 70 the aFchlyeS or the War Dena ~
ment and the records Of tho Rehslsc,,S ~ NJ x