The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-16

A short history of the United States, spe-
cially prepared for English readers, by Mr..
Justin H. Mccarthy, is coming out in Lon
don.
Worlds" is said to have been translated
into ali European languages, and also into
Hindoostani and Persian.
Art" says Tolstoi. is simply a condi-
ton of life. 1t is any form of expression
that one human being employs to commune
cate emotion to fellow-mortal."
Mr.. James Lane Allen is now at work en-
q longer novel than any other he has yet
written. 1t will not be completed until the
end of winter.
The Scribners have imported Octave
Uzanne's Fashion in Paris with one hun
dred hand-coored plates. to mark the
1857.
Mr.. Thomas Hardy. it is somewhat diff
cult to remember. began his literary career
IS. poet. He is collecting a small
volume of fugitive verse. which the Harpers
will soon publish.
Mr.. Rider Haggard mas written a novel
dealing with vaccination. 1t is intended to
show the folly of the anti-vaccina tionist .
and to convince the public that every chic
ought to be vaccnated in spite of the pref
udlces of it's parents.
Miss Jane Barlow, the author of the clev-
crest Irish tales of the day, is the daughter
lin. She lives quietly at home, and has paid
only brief and casual visits TO the west of
Ireland, the scene of most of her stories of
peasant life.
The Queen of Italy has long been an in
dustrious diarist, and during her recent
villegiatura she has been revising some of
her old papers with view to their proba-
Die publication. Her Majesty, who is an
eager reader of English fiction, is said to
nave made many records of her impressions
and preferences.
Mr.. Howells is writing a long novel
which is promised to the editor of Harper's
Magazine AS to details, Mr.. HoweIls is
reticent, so that only the bare announce
ment can be made. The story will not be
ready for some time. He is said to be con-
templating trip to London. where he will
be the guest of Henry James.
1t is said that the Century Company. dis
satisfied with the inadequate results of
process work, intends to return to wood
engraving, as far as practicable in the flu
ture, ana that to this end they hope to sur
round themselves again with artistic en-
gravers and encourage the younger men to
train themselves up to a mastery of the
art as in the old days.
Following the Equator is not nearly all
that Mark Twain does in his book of the
title. He branches off from the tropics to
the poles in all sorts of humorous yarns
of every cline and people But there are
more laughs to the square inch in that
book, says the Boston Transcript, than in
the serious things told in the book is that
formerly all that people in India knew of
the United States was the name of George
Washington Now they know also the
name of Chicago. the holy city," where
the Congress of Religion was held in 1898.
The London correspondent of the New
York Times says: Perhaps the most inter-
esting information that comes to me is con-
tanned in a letter from George W. Cable
He writes that since his return from Eng
daily with a novel that he expects to call
The Cavalier 1t is a story of the war,
and will, Mr.. Gable says, draw more largely
upon my experiences and observations as q
soldier in the Confederate army than any
previous work of mine has done Most of
the characters are New Orleans creoles,
just north of New Orleans, between that
city and Jackson and Vicksburg.'