The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-25

More than $l.250e00 has been paid in royal
ties for Moody's hymns.
Hall Gaines forthcoming novel will be
called 1.-THE Drunkard."
In the Forbidden Land is the excellent
title which MI. Savage Lander proposes to
give to his book on Thibet
1t is reported that Mr. Anthony Hope has
just finished novel which is devoted to a
study of Disraeli.
Ruskin's sixty-four books bring him in
$4,000 a year. Swinburne who writes very
little, makes $1,000 a year by his poems.
Crispis "reminiscences, now complete. fill
eleven large volumes in manuscript. 1t is
said that they will be published first in Eng
land.
Rev. S. Barring Gould, the English writer
is credited with the authorship of more
books in the British Museum catalogue
than any other living writer.
Thomas Hardy is said to have adopted
the following form of reply, typewriter.
to all requests for autographs: ''Sir Mr.
Hardy will be pleased to sign any of his
books you may forward for the purpose
One of the novels included in the Apple
tons fall list, David Harum," was written
by the late E. N. Westcott, who died of
consumption before being able to correct
the proof sheets. Yet it is said that the
note of the book is a dry humor, and that
IT betrays no trace Of the circumstances
uIlueT winch IL was produced.
The English translation Of DIR. Max Nor
dau's new novel. 1.-The Drones Must Die"
is nearly ready for publication. The delay
in bringing out the story, which was an
nounced some time ago, was due to the I'M
expected length it took on in the hands of
It's writer. 1t is said that he knows both
English and French. but always writes in
his native German.
No more graphic picture of country life
In middle Georgia sixty years ago can be
found than is presented in the Dukes
borough Tales of Col. r. M Johnston
This distinguished author, who within the
last few days has been reported as very ill.,
was born nearly .seventy-seven years ago
near the village of POwelton, which he has
made famous as the locale of almost every
one of his stories. He has had rather
varied career He studied, and for time
pracuced, law. But he abandoned this for
the schoolroom, for which calling he dis
played such an aptitude that he was in
Yited to chair in the State University. He
finally decided to devote himself to litera-
ture.
In an article in the latest issue of Litera-
ture Mr.. w. D. Howeils treats of the writ
ers of the South and places George w.
Cable and Joel Chandler Harris first in
rank. II have a feeling" he says, ''that Mr..
Harris not fully recognized as a student of
white character dow life. to be sure) in the
celebrity which his Uncle Remus stories
AdNC WOH lUI LlIIl, anu L feel IndI the truly
exquisite work of Mr. Cable mas fallen into
unmerited neglect. One could say that his
shorter Creole stories had fairly had their
day, and it was certainly very bright day,
but do not like to think of such a thor
oughly excellent performance as The
GrandlssimeS' being laid aside even for
time. We are not so rich in novels of the
nrst class that we can afford to let it drop
out of our critical consciousness, and 1 hope
It IS destined to a more constant remem-
brance hereafter"
Mr.. w. L. Alden has this in his weekly
literary letter to the New York Times:
why people should ever write under an
assumed name is mystery. If man or a
woman does good work. why should he be
ashamed to put his name to it? And what
man or woman ever wrote anything be-
lieving that it was other than good? There
is Mrs. Cralgie, who wrote several capital
novels under the name of John Oliver
HobbeS Why on earth did she not put her
own name on the title page? Now that she
writes under her own name, there are thou
her with John Oliver Hobbies, and she il
thus compelled to make a second reputation
for herself instead of being contented with
one. Similarly Mr.. Robert Barr who is now
widely known as an exceedingly clever and
successful novelist, began with writing I'M
der the name of Luke Sharp. To this day
he has quantities of admirers, who know
him only as Luke Sharp, and who would
never think or reading a book by Robert
Barr. But there seems to be a secret charm
FOR some men in writing under an assumed
name, though 1t would be extremely difficult
Tor them to give any rational and SatiSfac-
tory explanation of their practice"