The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-09-11
Publishers Notes.

Mansneld & vessels, New York, announce
little gift book on Westminster ABBEY, by
Dean Farrar. The same volume will contain
Dean Stanleys account Of the poets corner.
"A new volume Of Southern stories by
Harry Stillwell Edwards. author of the
popular Two Runaways" is announced for
early publication by the Century Company
Street * Smith. New York, who have
heretofore published paper novels and cheap
literature exclusively, have taken up the
puoiicat.on OF high-class cloth books by the
best authors. Among their announcements
Is Tolstofs Awakening"
Animal Jokes is a collection of comic
drawings by Mrs. Mary Baker Baker to be
published this fall by r. II. Russell New
familiar with this artists clever pictures
signed with the symmetrical, angular
The g. w. Dillingham; Company will be
the American publishers of the long ex-
pected Memoirs of Victor Hugo" which
promise to form one of the most important
works OF the coming season These
memoirs, which will be translated by Mr..
John W; Harding. begin with the year 1925
when Hugo witnessed the coronation OF
Charles x at Rheims.
l.. c. Page & Co, Boston. have issued a
fall catalogue showing a very attractive
list OF books. They will include several IL
brary sets of works which have been hither-
TO d1ficult to obtain, such the memoirs
The catalogue also shows a revival of the
illustrated holiday gift book.
THE Moral Order Of the World" which
has been delayed over a year owing to the
illness OF the late Rev. DIR. Alexander Bal
his death and will be published by Messrs
Charles Scribner's Sons i'm October Dr.
Bruce was easily. the leading New Testa-
ment scholar of the Scotch school, and his
death Will be widely lamented
Music lovers will welcome a new book
treating of the great operas and the most
notable opera singers. which is to be pub
lished by Funk & Wagnalls Company about
the middle of October. The volume is en-
Is Mabel Wagnalls. Descriptive sketches
are given of the plot and the music of
msn nobenprip oWers Esr ,m Car
nots, The FLYING Dutchman." Hamlet. -
Lakme, "Pagliacci and "Orpheus and
Eurydice."
Messrs. Hardy. Pratt & Co., of Boston
and New York, will publish at once a new
volume i'm their series of Balzacs works en-
titled. The Personal Opinions of Honore
de Balzac. Ii is intended to present Bal
zacs personal opinions on his own works
including The Coincide Humaine," His,
torical and Political Events" Literature
and Art, etc. 1t forms course of study
which will give clear understanding of his
works and OF how they lead up in the end
to the philosophical series and its crown.
Little, Brown & Co. announce editions of
Dumas. Bulwer-Lytton and Hugo i'm mod
erate-priced sets known as the Romancists.
Library. They also announce long list of
new books which will include Art Life of
William Morris Hunt" by Helen NJ Knowl-
ton, one of Hunts pupils: I'm Ghostlv
Japan" by Lafcadio Hearn; Kate Field.
Record and "A Study of Elizabeth Rar,
rett Browning" both by Lillian Whiting
author of The World Beautiful .aThe
Puritan as a Colonist and a Reformer." by
r.. H. Bytngton, author of THE Puritan i'm
England and New England" volume of
han. -
Messrs. Small, Maynard & Co.'S prelim-
mary announcements for the autumn in
ciude some twenty-five volumes. In the
Beacon biographies they will issue Mrs
James L. Fields's Life of Hawthorne, q
Life OF Thomas Paine" by Ellery Sede-
wick; of John Brown" by Joseph Edesr
Cnamberlin; or Aaron Burr" by Henry
Cnilds Merwfn, and of Frederick Doug
lass, by Charles w. Chestnut the voIumes
10 appear at intervals during the next three
months. Other books will be '"rhe Terri
torial Acquisitions OF the United States ;,
an historical review, by Edward w Bick-
nell: Little Beasts OF Field and Wood .
oy William Everett Cram, a description of
some or the commoner small animals of the
northeastern States, with twenty-four fuIl-
page Illustrations by the author and ..The
ruture or the American Negro" by Booker
washington, which may be expected
ABOUT the middle q November