The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-09-17

MesSrs. harper a. BrotnerS nave just
ready Miss Braddons new novel, 1.-THE
Infidel." The title is derived from the
character OF the heroine. who is an unbe-
lever.
Americans" is the title of Charles Dana
Gibson's forthcoming book Of drawings
which will be published by r. H. Russell
in October, uniform in size with its four
predecessors. The book will contain over
ninety of Mr.. Gibsons latest sketches and
cartoons, and, as its title indicates, is full
of national character.
Another record in book-selling has now
to be entered. This time it is Marie Corellis
1.-The Master Christian" of which 10000
copies were sold in England and America
book-selling. Dodd, Mead & Co.
have finally announced publication in
America. This house will soon issue John
Ur Lloyd's "Stringtown on the Pike
which mas been running as serial in the
Bookman.
Messrs. Charles Scribners Sons publish
tomorrow Governor Roosevelt's "Oliver
Cromwell" with original illustrations by
American and English artists, portraits
facsimiles and documents; an illustrated
edition Of the ever-delightfuI Treasure
Island and five books for boys "The Jack
of All Trades" and 1.-The Outdoor Handy
Book" by Daniel G.. Beard; Brethren of
by Kirk Munroe, and Mr.. Henty's three
new volumes, with Butler I'm Natal" I'm
the Irish Brigade and "Out with Carl
baldi."
Messrs. Little & Browns fall fiction list
furnishes one new American novel, written
by an American, and one only-"Truth
Dexter by Mr.. Sidney Mccall, a tale with
an Alabama heroine, who comes north to
conquer Boston. "Sigurd Eckdaps Bride"
by Richard Voss, in Mrs. Mary ]. Safford's
translation, takes its hero into the frigid
zone. 1.-The Judgment of Peter and Paul
on olympus, by Henryk SienkiewicZ, is
hardly to be called fiction, and in order to
make up the tale of the promised three
novels one must fall back on the beautiful
holiday edition of Mrs. Jackson's 'Ra-
mona" which is to appear in two volumes
Quite unusual book, and a very at
tractive one, has just been issued by the
Lathrop Publishing Company-Miss Helen
Nj. Winslows Concerning Cats-My Own
and Some Others II is full of illustra-
tons. the frontispiece being a picture re-
produced in half-tone of Julia Marlowe and
her Angora kittens. There are also photo
graphs of Miss Mary Z. Wilkins's cats and
of Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox and her cat
Banjo, and of a good many other cats
which are celebrated for their own beauty
and breeding and not on account of their
possessors. One of the portraits is of 1.-The
Mutilator," the New York Suns Office cat
of notorious memory.
Among the innumerable new issues of old
favorites that find place i'm public esteem
the series entitled Riverside Aldine
Classics to be published by Houghton,
Miffiin & Co, promises TO take honorable
rank on account of the excellence of the
type, page and paper used. The first vol
umes of the series are Longfellow' $
"Evangeline.' Whittiers Snow Bound
and other photographic poems; Holmes =
THE One Hoss Shay The Chambered
Nautilus" and other poems, grave and
gay; Lowelrs 1.-THE Vision of Sir Launfal''
"A Fable for Critics and "Commemora-
ton Ode" and Hawthorne's Legends of
the Province House and Twice Told
Tales.
The Macmillan Company will add this
fall to its series of National Studies in
American Life and Letters volumes on
THE Clergy in American Life and Letters, -
by Rev. Daniel Delaney Addison and The
Hoosiers," by Meredith Nicholson This
house announces also work on William
Shakespeare; Poet, Dramatist and Man.
by Mr.. Hamilton w. Mabie who has en-
deavored to tell the story of Shakespeare $
life in the same spirit in which the biog-
raphies of contemporaries are written,
and an introduction TO the plays. "Shak-
speare: Artist and Man." by Prof. l.. A
Sherman, of the University of Nebraska.
Other purely literary books announced by
this house will be 1.-The Beginning OF
Poetry" by Francis b. Gummere and
More Letters of Edward Fitzgerald. -
edited by W. Adds Wright