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

There is a report that Mr. Kipling is re-
ceiving something over $4,000 on the sales
of The Days Work"
A third large edition of Marion Craw-
ford's Ave Roma Immortalis" is just about
to be issued. The first edition was sold out
before the day of publication and the sec
ond within three weeks of issue.
Beatrice Harraden, author of "Ships that
Pass in the Night" has completed a new
novel; Her original intention for title was
a line of William Watson, II, too, have
come through wintry terrors." Messrs.
Blackwood will publish it.
Sir Edwin Arnold has written a story
called 1.-THE Queens Justice" 1t is founded
on the fact of the supposed murder of an
Indian girl which occurred sixteen years ago
in Bengal, and is said to be an excellent
picture of Indian village life.
Mr.. Gladstone it is said did not exactly
declare that Shakespeare was the greatest
man who ever lived. What he said was this:
Il am inclined to think that his reputation
will increase, and that in another century
he may be universally acknowledged TO be
the greatest man who ever lived"
According. to the New York Tribune
brother novelist, commenting upon an
amusing parody of Mr. Henry James, said:
But there is one thing which was wrong
in it; there was a split infnitive. Now, Mr..
Henry James would never do that"
Answered the author of the parody: II
suppose not. At the same time the part Of
the sentence containing the split in6nitive
was copied word for word from In the
Cage
In Mr.. Wells's new story, 1.-The Sleeper
Awakened" he describes the London of two
hundred years hence, city in which all the
inhabitants live in tenement houses and are
supplied from q common kitchen. The cleo
trio light is never switched off and the air
is full of flying machines. The novel will
nTlnTp6 serial and q n
pear in book form for a year to come. The
author has recovered his health and is
building himself house by the sea at Sand
gate.
Sidney Lee in his recently published BIZ
ography of Shakespeare declares that the
poets name can be spelled 4,O0O different
ways The name of John Shakespeare. the
poets father, IS entered sixty-six times in
the council books a Stratford and is spelled
therein sixteen different ways. The burden
of authority, however, rests on the way the
name is spelled in this journal, says the
New York Times, Shakespeare" and that
form has been sanctioned by both legal and
literary custom.
NJ lola has spent his exile since July not
in Switzerland or the other places to which
he has been accredited, but in England. 1t
is an experience which ought to lead to the
liveliest kind of q book. and the great
French realist has one already in contem-
platicn 1t is averred, moreover, that while
M. lola arrived in England six months ago
wholly ignorant of the language, he now has
a practical command of it, reads the papers
easily and is studying English law. The ac-
curing of a foreign language in six months
is not unprecedented but it is very rare
And lola has not heretofore been noted as
a linguist.
Dr. Weir Mitchell has sailed for the Med
iterranean on trip that viii include the
ascent of the Nile and a visit to the Holy
Land. Or. Mitehel1's career affords Curl
Gus parallel to that Of his father, a Phil
adelphia physician of high standing who
turned his pen lightly from the composition
Of medical essays and addresses to the pro-
dJetion Of poetry ana verse But. while the
fa.Ner died at sixty. the son achieved his
greatest success at sixty-eight his story of
the American Revolution having seen the
light only two years ago in the Century
Magazine
Here is an item for the encouragement of
the army of writers whose manuscripts are
rejected: Mrl Blackmore offered the manu-