The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-10-22
NOTES.

Quiller-Couch says no one in America pro-
nounces his name in the right way, which
is "Killer-kocch."
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert j. Burdette have in
augurated a literary salon at their home,
'~Sunnycrest," at Pasadena, Cal.
The short story writer, Mr.. w. c. Nor
row, of San Francisco, has opened a school
in that city for practical instruction In the
art OF writing. 2sFf
Mr.. Booth Tarkington's Gentleman from
Indiana" as issued in book form. contains
thirty thousand words more than the maya
zine version, the original story having been
cut down to meet the e~xigencleS OF serial
publication. The book has reached Indian
apoliS and is in lively demand among the
authors friends. - 5eIs
age counts nothing says Literary Life.
MARK Twain was an unknown quantity at
forty. George Eliot achieved fame after her
fortieth year. DR.. s. Weir Mitchell found
success after he was fifty. AS Mr.. John X.
+ Ba y ma 9ai Of f fsistH1gve 'M NAN y ts to to % SDme'ihhis s
name indelibly on the scroll of fame?
The first number of the new Harper-Mc-
Clure Illustrated Review. under the editor
ship of DR.. John H. Finley. is promised for
Nov. 1. 1t is to deal largely with the indus
trial applications of advanced ,escientiflc
knowledge, will address itself particularly
er, and will make a speciality OF iliustra-
ltions. ssG
Mr.. Richard Harding Davis is at length
bound in leather-six volumes, gilt, top,
small 1smo. ITO young women" says a
New York critic, 'this simply means that
their favorite author will pow be recognized
as, what they have for a long time efIusive-
ly believed him TO be, a elassic-To others
the six small books in olive colored leather
will suggest an appropriate grit TO these
same young women
t. n 1ot+ar xrr;tf1, ~, Ctax,areop 70 TJonry
James, which will apepar in the November
Scrfbner, he says: 'Kipling is by far the
most promising young man who has ap-
peared since-ahem-I appeared: He amazes
me by his precocity and various endow-
ment. But he alarms me by his copious-
ness and haste. He should shield MS nre
with both hands M draw up all his
strength and sweetness in one ball.
Preferring to live in a small Western
city and teach its people the sublimity of
Christian living. the Rev. Charles NJ. Shell
don, author of I'm His Steps," has declined
an offer of $1,000 a year to go to New
York city and write for the New York
Journal. This proffer of a salary such as
has been given TO few ministers in the
entire history of the world could not tempt
DR.. Sheldon from the work ne has under,
such outlying districts as he Is able TO vislr
in his ministering rounds. 7
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett has pub
lished nothing for two years, but for some
time she has been at work on what she
hopes will prove to be a great novel Of
American life as seen at the national CAPT.
tai The work is row complete It's caiieo
I'm Connection with the De Willoughby
Claim 1t will be published early. in No
yember. The scenes of the story, whicn are
laid In the South. in New England, and
principally in Washington, center around
the great claim" which is being fought out
in Congress.
In his new life of Lincoln. Norman Hap
good is said to have gone on the assump-
ton that ii is better to paint a great man
as he Is. Some one makes this comment:
There IS frequently a tendency to put halos
on good men, and hoofs arf a tail on bad
men, which Is fatal to real knowledge. This
rent political criticism, which gives many
people the idea. that Garfield. for instance,
was a mere catalogue of the virtues, and
on the other hand that Platt and Croker
daily commit the most heinous crimes. Mr..
Hapgood's other work has shown a tendency
to treat history with more discrimination
than this. and IL the new life OF Lincoln
gives an uncoIored view of the President and
the events Of his time. 1t will fill a need"
Joel Benton tells in Literature why 1t Is
that an author, usually a person of lin
tied income, cannot make presentation
copies of his book to all his friends. He
says: 1T Is a dreadful secret for one to
be so free with. but it must come out. Even
the book the author himself writes he has
TO buy. just as he must buy Carlyle's, or
Ruskin's, or Holiness. or anybody's. The
very few copies he gets allotted him by
cou~rtesy-say they are a dozen-he must
give to a very few of his lifelong friends
and to near relatives, II he has any copies
left after he has reciproceted with the