The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-12-17
PubIishers' Notes.

The Macmillans say that 5000 copies of
F. Marion Crawford's new novel. I'm the
Palace of the King" have been sold since
its publication four weeks ago.
Little, Brown & Co. nave just issued
a new edition OF the works of George Eliot,
in twelve volumes. The set contains a
series of photogravure fr~ontispieces by II.
l.. Richardson, and includes a life of
George Eliot by Mathiide Blind.
Coincident with the production of the
dramatization of Janice Meredith" comes
the announcement by Dodd, Mead & Co.
of the publication of a Mary Mannering edi-
ton of the novel. The volume will be very
fully illustrated with Illustrations in color,
and with half-tone reproductions of scenes
from the play as produced by Miss Manner
ing.
Latest issues i'm Cassell & Co.'S National
Library series of classics are S~hakspeare's
Measure for Measure" Bacon's Advance
ment of Learning Plato's "Crito and
Phaedo,' and Johnson's Lives of the
Poets" These little paper-covered 10-cent
publications put the best literature within
the reach of every one, and are of great use
TO students, especially.
Marie Ward Brown, ~biographer and pub
Usher, of Long Branch City, n. j., an
noances that her Life of Dan Rice" the
famous circus clown, has been completed
ard will soon be published. A few weeks
ago a Cincinnati paper mentioned the arrest
of Dan Rice in that city, as a vagrant, and
ii would seem that a complete biography
could hardly be written while the subject
was yet living.
"Old Ironsides' is to be rebuilt and re-
fitted, at an expense of nearly $500, 900. by
the Daughters of 1872, of Massachusetts,.
The historic old vessel is now lying at the
Charlestown navy yard. The efforts-in
which Congress will assist by an appropria-
tIon-to save the conqueror of the Guer-
riere. Java, Levant. and Cyane are coinci-
dental with the publication by Messrs.
HoughtOn, Miffiin q Co. of 'The Consti-
tuition: The Central Figure of the Navy
Under Sail" by Ira N. Hollis, sometime
commander in the United States navy and
now professor of engineering in Harvard
University. The vessel serves as the typ
ical ship of the old wooden navy which is
studied from its beginnings in the Constitu-
ton to its end in the Monitor.
Funk & Wagnalls Company will publish
THE Religion of Democracy by the Rev.
Charles Ferguson. The late John j. Ingalls,,
ex-senator from Kansas. who happened to
possess a privately printed copy of the
book, said: 1T is the voice of one crying
i'm the Wilderness and again. ut moved
me in parts like the utterances of Emerson
and Carlyle" Here is a passage from il:
1T Is not so pad TO be a mdterIdIlSt. III
you keep to the facts you will not get
away from God. The moral laws are not
separate from matter. They are wrought
into the fiber of the material world. You
cannot dig anywhere without striking
hem.' Incidentally, the author attempt
to show how far the so-called democracy
Of to-day has wandered from the idea of
pure democracy.
The Christmas Bookman says: 1.-The
Bowen-MerriH Company. the ~well-known
indianapolis firm, are becoming noted as
publishers of books by new writer's. At
the time that they brought out When
Knighthood Was in Flower" the name of
Charles Major was unheard of: in fact, his
real name did not appear in the first edi-
ton of the book. Early in the summer
which has just passed the same firm pub
| lished The of David Corson.'
which introduced to the public the Rev.
| Charles Frederic Goss. Now two more new
names are to be added to the list-Mr.
Louis How and Mr.. Henry Thew Stephen
son. Mr.. How has written a thrilling ro-
nance entitled The Penitentes of San
Rafael being the tale of a peculiar re-
ligious sect which inhabit the San Luis val
ley. Mr.. Stephenson is the author of
PATRON Van Volkenberg.' a story of old
Manhattan in the year 1899. The book Is
illustrated in color, from paintings in oil,
by Mr.. G. NJ. Relyea."