The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-17

George Augusta Sala'S library of cook
books was recently sold at auction in Lon
don. Sala was a fastidious. scholarly and
original epicure. at a time when the imagi-
nation of the average Briton did not go far
beyond a roast joint, and he had collected
1S5 cookery books, some of them old and
rare. Yet the collection brought only S75.
The London publishers of the book an
nounce the five hundred thousandth of
Mrs. Henry Woods East Lynne" Few
books have had sc, great and so constant a
sale as Mrs. Woods best-known novel, anu
the dramatized versions-for there are at
least four-are said to be still among the
most popular plays in British provincial
melodrama theaters.
Says the London Globe: when literary
doings are few and quiet. it is interesting
to turn to the American literary papers
and observe their jejune abundance of gos-
sip. In America you have only to write
one novel, or at the most two. to be pho
tographed and Photographed. Pleasant
young faces above unknown names rise
up month after month in unfailing crops"
"a striking illustration of the popularity
achieved in these days by some modern
novelists," says a writer in the Pail Mall
Gazette. of London, lis found in the fact
that of nine works published in England
and America by the Macmillan Company,
the enormous total of 1,027, 900 copies have
been sold. Richard Carvel accounts for
365. 900 copies, The Choir Invisible PIG. OO0:
The Increasing Purpose $1,000; In the
1900; The Forest Lovers 10000; The
Pride of Jennico.' 1900; Young April a.
COO and Richard ~Yea-and-Nay,' 5000.
Mr. Heinemann. the London publisher, in
his Dollar Library is issuing a series of
American novels hitherto unknown in
England at the novel price of A shillings.
He says there is "a school of young Amer
lean writer's gifted with a sense of form,
pathos, and humor whom We can no longer
afford to ignore in England" While il is
paper. about all schools of WRITER'S Mr..
Heinemann is making an interesting and
books will be by E. Hough. d. d. Wells,
A. c. Lamb. Nelson Lloyd and Hamlin
Garland.
Walter c. Pepys. descendant Of the cele-
brated author of the Diary writes thus
to the London Queen concerning the pro-
nunciation of the family name, which is
given in Beeton's Dictionary as Pepsi
II beg TO state, for the information of
your correspondent. hat Beeton is here in
correct. l have published a genealogy of
the family. and for that purpose examined
quite two hundred wills and documents
dating back TO 1870. / found the name there
i'm spelt in no fewer than seventeen differ
ent ways, but only in one instance as
Pops Mr.. Henry Wheatley. whose edition
of the Diary is accepted as the most ac-
curate. is of opinion that the name was
originally pronounced Peeps or sPapes.'
The representatives of the diarist. the fam
lily of Pepys Cockerell.' still pronounce the
word Peeps the three ranches OF the
family. who are now existent. pronounce
it .Pep-ys,' and have done so for quite $50
years"
Mr.. Morley Roberts. who In THE CO.
lossus' wrote a story round the personality
of Mr.. Cecil Rhodes. is busy on another, the
central figure of which will be. Il Is said.
a recognizable likeness of Mr.. Joseph
Chamberlain Commenting on this Z Lon-
don writer says: Common a. Il The prac-