The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-29
LITERARY NOTES.

1--WE hear" says an English literary pa
per, that Miss Marie Corelli's new book
will probably be called The Sins of Christi
that 10000 is the price asked for it,
When George w. Cable made a speech be-
fore a London literary club recently some
of his hearers were surprised to find that
he was white and did not talk in negro dia-
lect
The biography of Robert Louis Stevenson,
upon which Mr.. Sidney Colvin, his literary
executor, is engaged, will be issued in three
volumes next year. One volume will be de-
voted to the Life of the distinguished
novelist while the other two will contain
his letters
w. l.. Alden's letter in Literature says:
"Mr. Kipling is just about due in England,
having sailed some weeks ago from the Cape
with his family. His next book of stories
will, it is said, not be published until au-
tumn. 1t will contain several stories hith-
erto unpublished, and will, l imagine show
that his powers have grown since his last
volume of stories. Kipllng is far and away
the most popular writer of the day. but lie
does not make the mistake of periiing his
popularity to meet the demands of the mar
ket."
Discoursing of printed "Recollections" in
the English Illustrated Magazine, Clement
Shorters says: 1T is said of one distin-
guished living writer, who holds delightful
afternoon gatherings from Sunday to
Sunday, that when his guests have left
the house. he retires to his room and writes
copiously in his diary of all the good things
that have been said in his presence. 1t is al
most sufficient to reconcile one to an I'M
timely DEATH If only that one may escape
the publication of the inevitable volume of
stale stories which is certain to follow some
twenty years hence.
OF the late Edward Bellamys book,
Looking Backward" the Boston Tran
the $50 book, but it was not great while
before the 5O-cent paper book was made by
the thousands to meet the popular demand.
The royalty that publishers pay to authors
on paper books is naturally less than on
more expensive volumes, but at the lowest
rate of estimate we can safely guess that
on that years work. Equality is less pop
ular. The child of imagination took his task
dactic.''
The Bookman says, regarding Stephen
Crane: Notwithstanding his well-nigh fatal
expedition as a war correspondent to Cuba
on a previous occasion, he is ready for the
fray once more. Mr.. Crane, by the way, does
not live in London, nor is he engaged on a
novel of London life, as was stated by
contemporary the other day. He lives in a
little Surrey town, about twenty miles out
of London, and, although he has been hard
at work on two novels, neither of them
deals with the great English metropolis. Mr..
Crane was very respondent about his work
for time, but recently he has regained
confidence in himself, and is seriously en-
deavoring to fulfill his remarkable promise"
Henry James. writing of Miss Wilkins's
stories. says: "One cannot know the people
of such places without recognizing her types
in them, and one cannot know New England
without owning the fidelity of her stories to
New England character, though, as ] have
already suggested quite another sort of
Stories could be written which should as
faithfully represent other phases of New
England village life. To the alien inquirer
however / should be by no means confident
that their truth would evince itself. for the
reason that human nature is seldom on
show anywhere. l am perfectly certain of
the truth of Tolstoi and Tourguenief to
Russian life. yet ! should not be surprised