The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-03-20
Publishers Notes.

In April Miss Mary f. Wilkinss latest
story, The Jamesons in the Country"
which is now running serially in the Ladies'
Home Journal. will he published in book
fOrm by the Doubleday * Mcclure Com
pany. Of New York.
William r. Jenkins. New York announces
for publication in September "The Amer
ican Cicerone." a guide to the Paris expo
siton of 1900. 1t will be compiled under the
direction of Vicomte De Keratry and ii is
proposed 10 arrange the text. so that a per-
son. no matter where he starts. may at once
be guided. without the assistance of anyone
through all the marvels of the exposition,
and he will at the same time be made ia
mlliar with the hotels, restaurants, public
walks. theaters. stores, monuments and all
places of interest.
Cassel & Co., and West Eighteenth
street New York. are about TO reissue their
National Library. A number of new VOL
umes will be added to the series and the
best of the older volumes will be reprinted
from entirely new plates. A new design
has been made for the wrappers and in
their new dress these handy classics so
well printed and on a good quality of pa
others anxious for the best books i'm their
library. but whose purses are limited. The
tanned
book which is expected to interest more
than one class of readers is mo. John
Street" by Richard Whiteing, announced
for publication this month by the Century
company The author is a London journal
ist VINO mas made special study of social
the West End and the East His story is
told IN the nrst person, anu pretends to en-
body the experiences of a rich baronet who
two and earn the IS shillings a week that
sTillGe Tor o., his support He gives vivid
on the life Of the rich.
s.'rhe Market PIace Earor5 r--oao-:o,.
last novel, now running in the Philadelphia
Saturday Evening Post, is to be published
in May, with striking pictorial cover, de-
signed by +. Berkeley Smith. and. also. in
a plain cloth cover stamped with the title
and authors name only. The price will be
the same for either binding. The publishers
the +. A. Stokes Company, announce that
they viii carefully gather statistics regard
ing the taste or the public in the matter of
book covers, so far this novel venture
will enable them TO do so. The Stokes Com
pany VIII also bring out new edition of
James L. Fords clever Literary Shop
with much new matter added by the author
Solomon's declaration that there is moth
ing new under the sun is exemplified in
the translation OF the Book of Ezekiel, the
latest volume in Prof. Paul Haupt' S
''PoIychrome'' Bible which Dodd Mead &
Co. are bringing out 1t appears that the
ancient Assyrians had method Of inflat-
Ing skins. which custom was the forerun-
per of the pneumatic tire of to-day The
Book OF Ezekiel also gives detailed instruc-
tons for the preservation OF the meat set
aside for sacrificial purposes. a pertinent
suggestion. IL would seem. in view OF the
present army scandals. The Polychrome
Bible Is unique in that il combines a whole
some reverence for the sacred writings with
q thoroughly modern spirit OF research.
THE Teachers Professional Library is
the title of a series OF books announced by
the Macmillan Company under the general
editorship of Prof. Nicholas Murray Butler
OF Columbia University The contributors
70 this series will be leading teachers and
students OF education I'm Europe as well as
In the United States. Each volume will aD-
ply the results of the latest scholarship and
the widest experience To some phase of edu-
cational thought or activity. The three
volumes already published are: THE De-
velopment OF the Child" by Nathan Open
heimer. NJ. d.. OF New York: The Study
OF Children and Their School Training" by
Francis Warner NJ. D.. OF London. Eng
land Handbook OF Nature Study" by o.
Lange. instructor in the High School 81;
Paul. MINI.
Houghton. Miffiin x Co. will publish In the
spring an exceedingly large number of
books. Among the fiction IS a volume of
short stories BY Mrs Catherwood DR..
Hale's James Russell Lowell and His
Friends" Is on the list. and Letters OF