The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-07-16
Among the Publishers.

Brentano's. New York, issue an artistic
booklet. price IS cents. containing Kipling's
"Absent-minded Beggar.'
r.. II. Russell G. GO. are to publish a
Millet calendar for next year, with twelve
artistic reproductions of Millet's paintings.
Anna Katharine Green's new detective
story is entitled "The Circular Study" 1t
will be published by Mcclure, Phillips
& Co.
Charles Major, author of "Knighthood In
Flower" has finished his new novel con-
corning Nell Gwynne. 1t Will be published
by the Bowen-Merrill Company.
What a Reporter Must Be- is the title
of a little pamphlet published by Ralph
Hitchcock. so Sibley street, Cleveland. o.,
and intended to help newspaper writer's TO
success in their work. The hints are prac-
teal and the result of experience and OBJ
servation
NJ. F.. Mansfield. d New York publisher,
sends out a quaint brown-covered booklet
labeled "Stevensoniana," being a reprint
OF various literary and pictorial miscellany
associated with Robert Louis Stevenson.
An odd portrait of the author will particu-
larly please his admirers.
Macmillan & Co. announce that 10000
copies Of James Lane Aliens Reign of
Law were sold within three days of pub
l~ication. This house expects much from
| a HONti tnlllitu ~ fElenu OF Caesar,
written by William S. Davis, an under
graduate at Harvard. He has Just won a
scholarship at Harvard given for brilliant
work in archaeology.
Stephen Crane considered his "Whilom-
Vile Stories which have been appearing
in Harper's Magazine, examples of his
best work. They will come to an end with
the August number of the periodical. and
will be published in book form early in
that month by Messrs. Harper & Broth
ers. These publishers have Just issued a
new edition of 1.-The Red Badge of Cour-
age"
A work to be known as The Mayfower
and Her Log" is in preparation at Hough-
ton. Mifiiin & Co.'S. The author is DR.. Azel
Ames, who has collected and analysed the
| several documents pertaining to the exodus
of the pilgrims with a view to the recon-
struction of the history of that event. In
nine chapters the author studies the his
tory of the S~peedwell, the model, rig and
| Quitting of the Mayfower: her charter,
officers, crew, passenger lists, quarters,
| provisions, lading, ETC., and constructs a
log of her first voyage TO America. In an
appendix the author reprints, entire, a few
| of the most important cur relating
TO the subject. The volume will be a large
octave of about three hundred pages,
| printed in seventeenth century style.
Som misunderstanding, says the New
York Tribune, has been caused by the an
nouncement Of the sale of the property of
| Harper & Bros. According to a statement
recently sent out from the publishing house
the sale is merely a legal step, taken for
the purpose of releasing the business from
the receiver and completing the new organ
ization. Colonel Harvey, as the receivers
agent, will sell the property TO himself,
and will continue in control of the BUSH
ness as president of the company. 1t is
| claimed that during the last few months
the business has greatly increased. and
contracts have been made for the publica-
ton of books by many prominent authors,
some of whom are new to the Harper list.
including Winston Churchill, Rudyard Kip
ling, Hall Game, Henry James, Israel
Zangwill and Booth Harrington.