The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-06-24

Mr.. Thomas Hardy's Tess of the Dur
bervilles'' is about to be issued in a six
penny edition in England.
when 1 nave nothing to do / work" said
Prof. Max Mueller in the course of a recent
interview, and this is characteristic of the
literary man. Few absorbed writers know
how to play.
In his new novel Mr.. Winston Churchill
will deal with certain phases of the civil
war. It will probably make its first appear
ance In serial form. He has lately been at
Princeton gathering material for his work
in the university library. His "Ricnard
Carvel" has been translated into German.
1t will soon be brought out by a Berlin pub
Usher.
The earnings of American and English
novelists and playwrights have been often
discussed of late; those of contemporary
continental European writer's have received
much less notice. M. Rostand enjoys at
present a daily income Of $500 from "LAig-
lon'' and "Cyrano;'' Gustave Freitag's nov
el, die Ahnen," has Melted him thus far
SOS. 600; Fritz Reuter- earned more than
S5o0, 900 with his tales of Low German life,
and Herman Sudermann's books and plays
have already brought him $4,000.
There are certain books, says the New
York Tribune reviewer, which have ex-
traordinary popularity and yet rarely come
under the eye of the sophisticated reader.
I'm His Steps, which has sold by the hum
dreds of thousands in this country and in
England, is an amp Now We are in
formed that a little volume called What
is Worth While" by Anna r. Brown Lind
say, after passing through several editions
is about to be translated into German. The
scope of the work is indicated by the title.
Prof. Max Mueller in a recent interview
said: II lost very little time on novels be-
fore my illness. Now 1 delight in them.
Not that I read them extensively myself.
They are read to me. The old novels are
very good. 1 am never tired of Sir Walter
Scott, but modern fiction is mostly very
poor stuff. The writer's of the novels of to-
day can't possibly work at them" The
professor said that so far as his own lit
erary work was concerned he shouoi prob
ably go on with his recollections, but would
abstain from any great effort.
An English reviewer Of Mrs. Steel's new
book, Voices in the Night" says the
writer takes her readers still further into
the Hindu mind. and adds: "Of Indian sto-
ries there are plenty, and to spare, but no
one, save Mr.. Kipling, takes us far beneath
the surface, and Mrs. Steel probes even
deeper than he. The present very interest
ing book, in addition to its natives and
Englishmen, has a curious g~o-between in
the person of an Anglicized Hindu law stu
dent, whose standards Of life have been
fixed entirely by his reading; a credible
and very cleverly drawn character"
The London Mail says: "The late Mr..
Stephen Crane left the material for, per-
haps, as many as five books. Already ar
ranged for are a collection of war sketches
and stories, a long novel, and a collection
of short stories entitled The Monstre and
Other Stories There are also the studies
of child life which have been running
through Harper's Magazine under. the title
'Whilomville Stories," which will, we pre-
sumo, be issued soon, and there will still
remain certain other fragments, probably
well worth collecting" The Mail adds: 1T
is a curious circumstance, which students
of heredity can play with as they will, that
Mr.. Crane came from a line of theological
tractarians, one of his hobbies being the
collection of their pamphlets and books"