The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-18

cause II lacks inspiration, passion. that
deep stirring OF the spirit of man which,
with all Its cost. Is the cause OF the highest
reach In imagination. intellect AMI desire"
John Uri Lloyd. author of "ssrIngtown
or the Pike" is a successful wholesale
druggist of Cincinnati and distinctively
business man. Yet "Stringtown on the
Fike" has met with a considerable popu-
larity already-ll.0O 900 copies were sold on
the day OF publication: 1t deals with
slavery days I'm Kentucky and with the
civil war. in which tn, author had per-
sonal experience. His first book bore the
eccentric title of "Etidorpha," which Is
seen to be the name Aphrodite spelled
backward
Mime. Sarah Grand is coming to this
country in January and intends to witch
Americans with oratory. She has p AIRED
two lectures, entitled, respectively, THE
Human Quest and Mere Man." and has
been delivering them with some success In
England. II she mad ventured this visit
just after the publication here of The
Heavenly Twins says the Tribune. she
would have been object of extremely
profitable curiosity. Her later books have
rot aroused any remarkable interest on
this side of the water.
The English critics are unanimous in
praise of Mr. Stephen Philiips's new trag-
edy, "Herod and Marianne" OF the
play as whole the critic OF the London
dramatic imagination, dealing greatly with
great passions, multicolored and exquis-
itely musical. Though 1t is literature
throughout, il is never the literature of
the closet, but always the literature of
the theater, with the rapid action. the
marked contrasts, the fierce beating pas
sion, the broad effects proper TO the thea
ter. In other words, Mr.. Stephen Phillips
is not only poet, and a rare poet, but
that still rarer thing, a dramatic poet"
w. L. Alden says in his London letter:
Mr.. Robert Barr has spent the summer
IN the Highlands working at new novel,
which is now ready for the publisher. He
H. the hardest worker whom / know-that
Is to say when he does work He has
way Of taking sudden vacations OF
month or two at time. in which he gen.
orally goes to the ends of the earth, and
is supposed to ignore the existence OF pen
and ink or typewriters. / rather fancy
that while he is thus idling he is really in
cubating. At any rate, when he returns
from one of his vacations he instantly
goes to work, and works night and day
Tor the next few months, with the result
that one of his bright and readable novels
is ready for the press
Mr.. Barrie was one day at Waterloo
Station in hurry to catch train. He
was Fastening from the bookstall laden
with papers, "a good many sixpenny ones
among Them" he dolefully relates, when,
in rushing round a corner, he fell into
the arms OF ftuuydru hlDilnS, equally III d
tearing hurry. They turned on each other
with scowling faces, then smiled in rec
Ogntion, and asked each other whittier
he went. Then Kipling exclaimed: Lucky
beggar, you've got papers,! seized the
bundle from Barrie, flung him some money
and made off But you did not Stoop to
pick up his dirty half-pence, did your"
queried one of Mr.. Barries hearers,
amusedly. Didn't 1 thought" returned
Barrie; and added ruefully, but he hadn' t
flung me half enough"
The novel of Irish life may be the next
literary fad. A writer in the London Mail
says that Seumas McManus. whose short
Irish dialect stories appeared last year in
so many American periodicals, has been
hard at work during the past year on a
novel which he has just completed. and
which he calls "A Lord Of the OFfels."
The story is laid in grey old Donegal"
and into its fabric have been woven many
strange, poetical customs that originated
i'm pre-Christian times, and still prevail
among the simple. homely folks living
among the Donegal hills. The Mail article
continues: Irish fiction, however is not
TO be left entirely TO the new writer's of
the younger generation Before Mr. Nc
Manus's story has seen the light we shall
have in cur hands a new novel by the vet
eran author. MIR. Justin Mccarthy. Since
Mr. Mccarthy retired from politics lie mas
turned to fiction again. in which he first
won his spurs in the literary field. and he
is at present rewriting and completing a
novel of Irish life and character which he
began in his youth. 1t will be entitled
'Mononia,' and will probably be published
this winter"