The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-17
PERIODICALS AND PUBLISHERS.
Current Magazines.

Golfers Weekly for July 10 contains,
among other interesting features, an illus
trated article on the crisis in the Trans
vaal.
TIL August Century will be a midsummer
and travel number. In the former charac-
ter its special feature may be said to be a
group Of papers on tornadoes and thunder
storms.
The only contribution by General Merritt
to the literature of the Spanish-American
war Is an article on The Fall of Manila"
which ne contributes to the Youths Com
panion Of July s. The article is especially
which Aguinaldo and his principal colleagues
bore to the Americans following the battle
of Manila bay.
Mr.. Brander Matthews's new story, "a
Confident Tomorrow which has just be-
gun in the current number of Harper's Ba-
Ear, will run in that periodical until the
work purposes to be a character study of
literary tendencies and environments
Whether the author will make the supposed
eccentricities of publishers a feature OF his
story, as is seemingly the fashion, has not
as yet been disclosed.
Appleton's Popular Science Monthly for
August will contain an article by Apple
ton Morgan on the result of the last five
years of legislation against drunkenness.
Two very surprising conclusions may be
oAo"h iiObl thC dulilOl . sldAlSllCC-hI-l II,
that the fewer the places where liquor is
sold the larger the consumption of liquor.
and, second, that the larger the consump-
ton of liquor the less the drunkenness.
P~ubIishers' Notes.
The New York Times of Saturday says:
The sales of David Harum' (the Apple
tons) nave averaged 1000 a day for every
business day so far in July. On a single
day this week the orders reached 1000"
One of the successful novels of Tune was
undoubtedly Beatrice Harraden's 1.-THE
Fowler" The third American edition is ex-
hausted, upwards Of 5000 copies having been
sold. Dodd. Mead & Co. are its publishers.
The new Haworth edition of the works of
the Bronte sisters, edited by Mrs.
Humphrey Ward. is to be brought out in
this country by the Harpers. who will begin
publishing 1T in September in a form similar
TO that of the Biographical" Thackeray.
Mrs. Gaskelrs Life of Charlotte Bronte,'
with annotations by MIR. G. X. Shorter, is
to be included in the set of seven volumes.
The success of when Knighthood was in
Flower" (the Bowen-Merrill Company con-
tinues undated. and 1t now ranks as one of
the best selling books in every important
book center OF the country. An English
edition is being issued by Sands & Co, of
London. The success of the Canadian edi-
ton, recently published, has been such as
to demand three editions in as many weeks.
~ soiuhic u ohotl SlOIltS ny III INdipu
will be published before long by Harper G.
Brothers. The volume is to be entitled "A
Prince of Georgia. and Other Tales" This
firm has almost ready in book form Sena-
tor Lodges War with Spain," which has
been running as a serial in Harper'S MARI
zine. The work will be presented Will
eighty-two full-page illustrations by various
artists.
A new novel by Mrs. A. d. 7. whitney
will be published in the autumn by Hough-
ton, Mifiin & Co. 1t will be entitled
Squire Pegs" and will illustrate the wis
dom of individuals finding the places in
tended for them by nature and of making
proper use OF the discovery. There Is also
promise OF two new books by Miss Jewett,
The Queens Twin. and Other Stories" and
Betty Leicester's English Christmas"
Beside the favorable reception accorded
them. both by the press and by the read
ing public, The Tanning of the Jungle
&C. w. Doyle. THE w~ind-Jammers" Ct.
jenkins Hains), The Daughters of Baby
lon" (Wilson Barrett and Robert Hichens),
Heart and Sword" (John Strange Winter)
and Our Island Empire (Charles Morris),
five OF the latest productions OF the Lippin-
served place in the ..one hundred books for
summer reading" as selected by the Satur-
day Review of the New York Times. The
first four are fiction: the last a concise and
compendious account of "our island empire
Cuba. Hawaii. Porto Rico and the Philip
pines.)
Messrs- G. p. Putnam's Sons set forth al
length their side of the Kipling quarrel and