The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-29
Publishers' Notes.

Ernest Howard Crosbys plain Talk in
Psalm and Parable" which is published by
Small. Maynard & Co., is being translated
into Russian. Tolstoi says of it: There is
nothing more new and interesting than the
most common subjects looked at from a
Christian point of view; and that is what
you are doing I'm your book and doing with
talent and sincerity"
In accord with the expressed desire of
Mr. Moody his biography is now being pre-
pared by his son. William r. Moody. and
will be published by subscription from the
press of Fleming II. Revell Company. Nat
urally this will be the only work having
the approval of the family or being in any
sense authorized or authentic, though sew
eral other lives of the late evangelist
have been announced. These will be issued
over the protests of the family and friends.
ITO Have and to Hold" the lively novel
of the Jamestown settlement, by Mary
Johnston, whose Prisoners of Hope" won
such unstinted praise from the critics and
such wide attention from the reading pub
lie. will be published in the middle of Feb
ruary by Houghton. Miff1in & Co. The story
has appeared serially in the Atlantic
Monthly, and it is said that nothing since
THE Autocrat of the Breakfast Table has
had so marked an effect on the circulation
OF that magazine
The Putnams announce the early issue of
of the Nations" series: Bismarck and the
New German Empire; How 1t Arose and
What 1t Displaced" by ]. w. Headlam,
der the Great" by Prof. Benjamin Ide
Wheeler, president of the University of
California. .Charlemagne Charles the
Great; the Hero of Two Nations" by H.
w. Carless Davis. NJ. A, Fellow of ALL
Souls College, oxford. "Oliver Cromwell"
by Charles Firth, M. A, Balliol College,
oxford.
In Frederic Bancroft's Life of William
Henry Seward" which will be published by
the Harpers some time during the coming
month, is promised a biography of more
than ordinary interest. The author has
had access to much private correspondence.
and all official sources of information and
his familiarity with official life in Washing
ton, together with his accurate scholarship,
have especially fitted him for the task
of the period between 1S24-1S69 the book is
said to contain most vivid pictures of
President Lincoln, Sumner Douglas. Chase,
Webster, Clay and many of the Confeder-
ate leaders.
Mr.. Stanley waterloo's new book, 1.-THE
Seekers" announced by H. s. Stone & Co.,
has been delayed because of the care which
he has expended upon its revision. 1t deals
with the Christian Science question. The
inveStiga ton OF the material for ii occupied
a great deal of time and was done with the
thoroughness which always characterizes
Mr.. Waterloo's endeavors. He was not con-
tent with superficial knowledge of the
Christian Science movement and the faith
healers whose sophistries have grown out
of 1t. He preferred to go to the root of
the matter and discover the motives which
actuate these healers and the methods
which they employ to gain their ends. The
result of this care is a real contribution to
the history of thought at the end of the
century, but Ii Is also a stirring romance.
A few sentences in one of Lord Rose
bery's speeches had much to do with max
ing one book recently published. He said:
IF you wish to read history of the inter-
nal economy of the Transvaal l would
simply suggest to you that you should pro-
cure book called The Transvaal from
Within by Mr.. Kirkpatrick, who was a
0eniZen of the Transvaal and much inter-
ested in its progress-a book which seems
to me TO bear on every page and in every
sentence the mark of truth, and which
gives you wholesale and in detail an ex-
traordinary. and. / think 1 may say, an ap-
pallfng record OF the way in which the gov
eminent OF the Transvaal was carried on,
and the subsection to which il reduced your
fellow-countrymen there" Nearly 10000
copies OF this book had been sold in Eng
land and America up to JAM /, when the
American publishers, Frederick A. Stokes
& Co., had issued four editions in rapid
succession.