The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-08-20
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Mr.. Frank Norris. the author of that
clever novel, "McTeague.' is about to pub
lish a love story which he calls Blk" The
first book is in its fourth edition
Edgar Fawcett Is now in Europe engaged
in experimenting the setting of his book,
1.-The New King Arthur" to music prepara-
tory to bringing 1t out as a comic opera.
Robert Louis Stevenson. spent the winter
of 1883 at Saranac lake, in the Adirondacks
His life there will be described in his letters
which appear in the September Scribners.
Winston Spencer Churchill. the son of
Lady Randolph Churchill, is to follow up
his successful book "With the Mainland
on the recovery OF the Soudan.
1t is said that Mr.. Kipiing's latest book.
From Sea to Sea- is already in its thirty
fifth thousand in this country. His latest
book of stories, The Days Work" is in its
observation-disclosures thousand.
A tribute to Browning's acquaintance with
art is found In a letter of Rossettfs to
Alingham, of date 1856. In it he wrote that he
found Browning's knowledge Of early Italian
art beyond that of anyone he ever met, and
encyciopaedically beyond that Of Ruskin
himself"
Mr.. Thomas Hardy is the only English
novelist of high rank whose work has not
appeared in his own country in a sixpenny
eQlIlOn. Sucn an eQlIlOn OIL MS less, uOW-
ever, is to be brought out soon. An adapta-
ton of the story is to be produced in a Lon
don theater next spring.
The extent of Robert Louis Stevenson's
popularity as a novelist may be partially
gathered from the following table Of sales:
Treasure Island" 1883, 5000; Kidnapped"
1886. 10000; The Black Arrow 1883, 0,0Oo;
1.-The Wrecker," 1892. 1000; "Island Nights
Entertainments" 1892, 1900. During. the
past few months certain of these books have
circulated anew at 8 pence
lola is reported as saying: 81 shall never
write a novel or a drama on the Dreyfus
affair. If 1 take any notes in addition to
those / have already taken / shall leave
them as a legacy to history. with instruc-
tons TO those who are my executors TO let
them be handled by writer's fifty years
can be realized, untouched by the impuri-
ties of malice and political passion"
Zola's book, just published, giving an &C
count of his recent exile in London, is
pronounced to be thin by the critics there
"a chronicle of very small beer. One Of the
curious incidents related is Zola's inference
that English women drop "a great many
hairpinS wherever they walk. 1t seems IN
his daily walks he was in the habit OF
counting the hairpins ne saw lying on the
road, ana ne arrived at tne TohS,uS nrod Ina
about four dozen hairpins.
Mr.. Bliss Perry, the new editor Of the
Atlantic Monthly has. since his graduation
from Williams College in 1881, been in the
department of English. first at Williams
and afterward at Princeton University.
where he was lately appointed to the
Holmes professorship of English literature.
Mr.. Perry is the author of a number OF
essays and short stories, and Of two novels,
one of which, The B%roughton House." has
never enjoyed the wide popularity to which
- IL A. D~-a n 1nnxrac
the Atlantic at the solicitation of the Har-
per-McClure alliance, will undertake some
ever. edit Harper's Magazine. Henry Mills
Alden continuing in that position.