The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-08
LITERARY NOTES.

Little Anna Mark" is the title of Mr..
Crocketts new serial novel.
Tissot's Life of Our Lord Jesus Christ"
is being issued by an American firm. The
book is printed by Lemercier, in Paris.
AS ten days profit on the Bismarck me-
moirs amounted to half a million marks,
it is pretty certain that the German pub
fishers will get back in Germany alone the
original cost, 100000 marks-of the manu-
script.
Dr. Nansen is soon to publish the book
which will embody the scientific results OF
his trip, "Farthest North" The expense OF
publishing the book will be borne by the
Nansen fund for the advancement of
science.
A new comedy-drama on Julius Caesar is
the latest work of Mr.. George Bernard
Shaw. Cleopatra, as a girl of seventeen, is
fits heroine, and when Caesar first sees her
she is lying curled. up in the arms of the
Sphinx cuddling the sacred cat. She adj
dresses him, we are told, as ''old gentle
man."
DR.. Conan Doyle has not been heard of
recently on this side of the water, but ac-
cording to the London Mail he is devoting
himself to the writing of plays. He has
produced one of his own, which has been
brought out at the Lyceum, but oddly
enough, has turned away from original
work and has applied for permission to
dramatize one of James Payns novels.
"Aylwin'' of Dante Rossettis face: Il sup
pose I must begin with his forehead, then.
1t was almost of the tone of marble. and
contrasted, but not too violently, with the
thin crop of dark hair slightly curling round
the temples, which were partly bald. The
forehead in it's form was so perfect that it
seemed to shed its own beauty over all the
other features; it prevented me from MOTTO
ing, as 1 afterward did, that these other
features, the features below the ewes were
Themselves bRanfifUl-
which looked at me through spectacles, were
Of color between hazel and blue-gray, but
there We're lights shining within them which
were neither gray, nor hazel, nor blue
wonderful lights. And it was to these indie
s3cribable lights, moving and alive in the
deeps of the pupils, that his face owed it's
extraordinary attractivenesS."
Edmund Gorse, writing in the North
American Review of THE Literature of Ac-
tion," says: 1.-THE revival of active ro-
nance may be roughly dated from the pub
LEGATION of Stevensons Treasure Island
book which it was my privilege to watch
through all its stages of creation. Treasure
Island was so completely foreign to the
spirit of the time that it was only a very
third-rate boys newspaper that would con-
sent to publish 1t at all, and it is a curious
circumstance lof which L could give dOcu-
mentary proof that it was found too rO-
mantle a tale of action for the boy sub
scribers to this silly print. If the editor
could have broken off mis- contract the end
of Treasure Island would never have APP
peared 1t was reprinted as a volume, with
the overwhelming vogue which all the world
is aware OF, for new taste was germinat-
ing in the public, and this graceful story of
adventure was exactly the thing to fos-
ter it,"
Those who have followed the Iifework Of
Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Stetson, says a pub
fishers note, unhesitatingly class her with
the foremost of American women. She
was born in Hartford, Conn, great-grand-
daughter of Lyman Beecher and grand
niece of Henry Ward Beecher and Harriet
Beecher Stowe. Her early years. spent I'm
New England, were given to little sys-
tefnatlc schooling, but to much reading and
a free, outdoor life Her real work began
with her removal to California in 1855 Two
years after that the verses entitled '.Sfrni-
lar Cases, appeared in the Nationalist to
be quoted, as the years went by, literally
from one end Of the world To the other. Two
years later she received the gold medal of
me Alameda County Trades and Labor
Union for a brilliant essay on THE Labor
movement. The years that followed. both
before and after her return to the East
were llIled with lectures and addresses. and
marked Dy stories and by verses that strike
deeper note of human sympathy in some
respects than even The Bgeow Papers'
aWoke, though they glow with the same
spirit OF wit and sarcasm.