The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-06-11


say they are not sure. But We have some
evidence from England that bears on the
subject. though It does not <determine Il:
M nos ta Esi sss, says ja thaa sne oo q : piaia eo wSa'e
they would not even try TO sell IT. When 4
was put into colored boards they took II At
This does nnt prove, however, that the peo-
pie Will not buy a good book unless IT be
all bright paint on the outside
The t~entmaking ascribed TO the singing
Omar disturbs the ~eQuanimity OF The
Scotsman. The idea that the Persian as
tronomer royal was a ~tentrnaker, 1t says.
has now got so fairly well started down
too late to stop 1t, but the Oriental phi.olo-
gers have demonstrated that, although
'Khayyam' means a tentmaker. IT was ap-
that it would be as absurd to argue that
Sir Samuel Baker made buns. or that the
late DR.. Gotham Brewer made bitter beer.
really any rag of a flag to carry. as TO say
that Omar did in very decd make tents"
Mr.. 1. Zangwill is not idle He has writ
ten two short Ghetto Tragedies" for
Harper's Magazine, called. respectively,
Transitional" and 'Bethulah," and one for
Lippincott's called "Noah's Ark" all three
Of which will appear this year. His next
pers Magazine. beginning in July. 1900. In
August Mr.. Zangwill will come to the
United States to s~uperintend the produce
which will have a preliminary canter in
Washington, Baltimore and Philadelphia
prior TO its production in New York in
October. Mr.. Zangwill is of opinion that
American managers have keener eyes than
their English compeers.
Mr.. Jesse Lynch Williams, whose volume
of newspaper tales, The Stolen Story"
has received Mr.. Howells's covetable praise.
has been ingeniously accused of arranging
the .recent\shindy at Princeton between the
students and a Wild West show after the
wrote the story of the burning of the King
Of Spain in ef1igy. and then went down TO
his alma mater to make the facts accord
with his imagination. The editor of a very
well known and widely read periodical re-
Gently invited him to tell the story of the
Wild West fight for his paper, with explicit
p pfdaed r re- Srinsigt the ie s spoas. metaods ne fe e saS
Mr.. Williams had nothing to do with the
affair. which was simply a spontaneous
ebullition of youthful spirits
A new game, a kind of literary "conse-
quences." has been invented by a writer in
the Cornhill. He wrote a four-line English
epigram which he passed on to a Latin
scholar, who translated into Latin. The
Latin version was then translated into Eng.
fish verse of the same meter as the original
by a XXI public An
other translation rendered the new English
verse into French, and so on. In this way
the epigram passed through many hands,
each new English version being turned into
a foreign tongue, and each foreign version
being turned again into English verse. The
result makes an amusing and interesting
study. In this case What began as verse
ended as dialogue, or rather ii ended SO
from the German, for once IL had gone into
Persian. no one seems to have taken 1T out
again.
One of the most notable works ever pre-
pared by a press-clipping bureau. says the
Boston Transcript, has been a complete col
lection Of the most effective as well as char
acteristic cartoons of Uncle San" during
the period of our war with Spain. The car
toons have not been clipped in the usua,
way, but have been carefully prepared for
mounting chronologically in separate vol
umes according to the events which they
illustrate. They are all tipped on large
white sheets, by experienced hands, and
carefully indexed according to name. of art
list and paper. This work had to be done
so carefully that the sets have had to be
limited to seven and persons possessing
them have one of the most valuable sets OF
Limited books ever made. The variety OF
the selections makes the work of surpass-
ing interest and value. 1t has been COM
pleted in twelve quartO volumes, handsome.
1y bound in morocco, with name of owner
on each volume. 1t has taken a year to
gather the cartoons and arrange them so
as to make a connected history of the whole
war period.