The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-03-25
LITERARY NOTES.

Robert Grant has in press a new novel
of contemporary American life entitled
'Unleavened Bread"
1.-The Green Flag is the title OF the forth
coming book of short stories by DR.. Conan
Doyle. The author finished correcting the
proofs just before his departure for South
Africa.
Mr.. Ernest Seton-Thompson, it is said.
is nearly, if not quite. as well paid as Mr..
Kipling himself. and has the advantage
over the author of the jungle stories In
being his own illustrator.
A new English edition of :Lorna DoOne'
is to be made small enough to slip into The
pocket and is to be printed from new large
FACED type. A million copies OF this novel
are repoDted TO have gone into circula-
tion.
In order to avoid confusion with other
novels of the same name the titles OF Miss
Johnston's two stories, Prisoners OF Hope
and ITO Have and TO Hold, have been re-
spectively changed in the London editions
to THE Old Dominion and b Order Of
the Company"
1t is told of Harris Dickson that when
he came to tell of the road TO Versatile in
his spirited story, THE Black VOLTS
Breed he found the descriptions at hand
Inadequate and his memory uncertain. -
he packed his Mississippi grip. sailed Tor
France and walked over the road from
Dieppe TO Versailles.
James Wickersham, author of the forth
coming novel, "Enoch Willoughby," Is pro-
fessor of modern languages In the Rose
Polytechnic Institute, in Terre Haute. His
novel is said by those who have read II 10
be a dramatic presentation of the strange
spiritual life of the Middle West a genera
ton ago, and to nave In unusual and dis
t:nctive literary quality.
Red Rock is rapidly approaching the
hundred thousand mark. Mrs Burnetts
The De Willoughby Claim" is in its forty
NTH thousand, and Mr.. Seton-Thompson's
wild Animals is in its fifty-first thou
sand. DIR Van Dykes new book, Fisher
mans Luck has overtaken and just
passed its predecessor, Little Rivers. be-
ing now in its twenty-second thousand
.Whittier's house at Amesbury is kept in
excellent order by the memorial society or
ganized to preserve it as a shrine inviting
literary pilgrims. The society has leased IL
for a number of years from its owner. the
niece of the poet, the slight admission fee
and the fees of the Amesbury members
serving to pay the running expenses. The
men and women i'm all parts OF the coun-
try. are reserved as a fund intended TO I'M
sure the permanency of the memorial.
This is what John Ffske. historian and
essayist, says in reply to one of those in
q~uisitive persons VINO seek information "a
to the personal habits of authors: Always
sit in a draft when / find one, wear the
thinnest clothes L can find winter and sum-
mer, catch cold once i'm three or four years,
but not severely. and prefer to work i'm a
cold room, 50 to 60 degrees. Work the larg-
er part of each twenty-four hours, and by
day or night indifferently. Scarcely ever
change a word once written. eat when
hungry, rarely taste coffee or wins or
smoke a cigar, but drink two or three
quarts of beer each day and smoke a pipe
all the time when at work. Never expert
enced the feeling of disinclination for
work. and, therefore. never had 10 force
work. If I feel dull when at work, a half
hour at the piano restores normal mental
condition, which is one more argument for
the hygienic and r~ecuDCrative effects OF
music" Professor Fiske's example espe-
cially as 10 the beer. will hardly be held I'd
for emulation in schools for authors.
and yet be manages to produce admirable
literature.