The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-25
With the Publishers.

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Mcclure. Phillips & Co. have just pub
lished 1.-THE Railroad" a collection of short
stories selected from McClure's Magazine.
This volume is the second in the series of
stories from McClure's.'
The popularity of Robert Louis Steven
sons christmas Sermon which the Serb
ners issued last fall was so great that they
are publishing another exquisite essay by
the same author for the Easter season. it
Is the "Aes TripleX," and it appears an
similar form to the Christmas Sermon"
Messrs. Herbert S. Stone & Co. will bring
out this spring an edition in one volume
of THE Love of an U~ncrOwned Queen by
w. H. Wilkins. NJ. A. 1t tells the story OF
Sophie Dorothea, the consort OF George L,
and Count K0nigsmark-a story as passion
ate and romantic as that Of Mary Stuart
and Rizzio.
Funk e. Wagnalls have issued their pros
pectus Of 1.-The Jewish Encyclopedia a
colossal and unique work. no such ency-
clopedia ever having been made before.
Over three hundred of the most eminent
Jewish and non-Jewish scholars of the
world are engaged on this work. The
United States, the British empire. Russia,
Germany, France. Austria, etc, are repre-
scented on the editorial staff. The actual
cash outlay involved in the making OF this
encyclopedia will reach nearly $4,000.
Doubleday, Page & Co. follow up their
Mushroom Book" with another of their
nature series, of which they have already
printed 5000. This is to be '"The Insect
Book" by DR.. L. .. Howard. DIR. Howard
has been chief of the division of ento-
mology since 1894. and it was he who pre-
pared the definitions In entomology for both
the Century and Standard dictionaries.
This work, also the others I'm the series,
will be characterized by the large photo
graphic color plates OF the insects as they
appear In life.
Owen Johnson, whose novel. Arrows of
month by the Macmillan Company. is the
grandson OF Judge Nimrod johnson. who
was at one time a law partner of Governor
Morton, the war Governor of Indiana His
Is an old Indiana family, a member of
which Henry u. Johnson, represented In
father is Robert Underwood johnson, editor
of the Century. This is MIR. Owen john
sons first appearance as a writer. he was
chairman of the Yale Literary Magazine
and was IN the class of 1900.
Henry Tinrod. the Southern poet. who
died in 1867, and who achieved the dis
tinction of being the South's most repre-
sentative ante-bellum singer. once deliv-
cred a lecture on THE Theory of Poetry
before a Southern literary club which has
never yet been published. The Independent
has obtained permission TO reprint this re-
markable essay, whose publication will be
very timely now in view of the fact that
on May / a bust of the poet will be un-
yelled and publicly dedicated In the city
of Charleston. S. G. The essay will begin
in the issue of the Independent of March
18th.
The fiction announced by Messrs. Hough-
ton, Mifhin & Co. for the spring has a wide
range of interest. Boston appears in a
humorous story of the servant-girl prob
lem. THE Successors of Mary the First"
by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps; Chicago in a
1olstoian novel by Will Payne called The
Story OF Eva" and Paris in Eugenia
Brooks Frothingham's THE Turn of the
Road" Kate Douglas Virgins 'Penelope's
Irish Experiences surveys Ireland; Colon
ial Virginia appears In Burton T.. Steven
sons romantic Soldier of Virginia" and
Europe In Clara Louise Burnham's Miss
Pritchard's Wedding Trip Alice Brown
paints a part OF New Hampshire In Kings
End and for the sea there is Dog
Watches at Sea-" by Stanton King.
Many capital letters were contributed TO
the sanitary fair which was held in Phila-
delphia in civil war days. says Mrs. E. D..
Gillespie in her entertaining contribution.
"a Book OF Remembrances." published by
]. b. Lippincott Company. 1.-The first 1
shall copy was one written to Phillips
Brooks. 1t ran thus:
SO broad. so unsullied. so rapid. so clear.
So full and so steady throughout the whole
year,
BY coldness not hardened. by sunshine not
dried.
Flowing on deep and strong with a calm
rushing tide.
II Brooks be all this. 1 have not the least
notion
What occasion the world could have had
for an ocean
One hears a good deal about the posi-
bilities OF making a trip abroad on a small
amount OF money. but a suspicious vague
ness usually belongs TO such statements.
1t has remained for E. II. Kellar. OF Car
%rollton. Mo, TO go into the subject in a
practical way and tell just how it may be
done In a neatly printed booklet entitled
six Months Abroad on Three Hundred
Dollars he gives an account OF a tour
taken by "A man and his wife. and goes into
all particulars OF expense and methods OF
management. Three hundred dollars was
the cost 10 each one. OF course. They
crossed by steerage. and the daily bin OF
fare on shipboard Is given. 10 Is not every
one who longs 90 make a European tour
who would be willing to go under such limi-
fations. but IL Is a matter OF some interest
10 know how Inexpensive travel can be
made II what other people think is not
allowed TO stand IN the way.
Messrs. Funk and Wagnalls are issuing
a twentieth century edition or their stand
ard Dictionary. and the London News. after
speaking OF the comparatively small and
inexpensive Johnson's Dictionary of a cen
.ury ago. says of this: Its expense in prep
iration exceeded 10000. making il the
~costllest literary production ever accom-
piisheds DIR. Isaac X. Funk. as the editor
in-chief. has had for more than ten years
The assistance OF such an editorial corps
as has never before been gathered together.
For years 30 experts In the English Ian
guage. representing every department OF
human knowledge. were engaged IN the
compilation OF the Standard Dictionary.
Five hundred readers were employed in
searching for new words and fresh illus
uative quotations; and hundreds Of clever
artists, amanuensss. and other skilled as