The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-01-13

MISS margaret POtter, author or I'm
canonized," daughter of Millionaire Orrin
w. Potter, of Chicago. is engaged to Walter
Kirk, son of the wealthy soap manufac-
turer.
Mr.. w. d. Howells is frankly pleased with
Irving Bachelors "Eben Holden" 81
have read it, he says. with great joy In
its truth and freshness. 1t is as pure as
water and as good as bread"
Newspapers are asking various English
authors whether or not they wrote tha
literary sensation of the hour, AN English
woman's Love Letters" In response to
such a query George Bernard Shaw replies:
Have written love letters to several
women. To which do you refer?'
Mr.. Ernest Seton-Thompson's first book,
Wild Animals 1 Have Known" is nearing
the 10000 mark. At the end of the summer
1t mad not quite reached half that number,
so that nearly $1,000 copies were sold by
the publishers since the beginning of the
autumn season and during the holidays.
Henrik Ibsen has been living for half a
year in great seclusion at Sandefjord, Nor
way, preparing the material for a new
work. Asked if he intended to remain in
Norway, he said, Yes, in all probability.
My correspondence is so extensive that this
alone would make it inconvenient TO change
my address,"
In a recent interview Mrs. Florence Finch
Kelly, who wrote with Hoops of Steel
is reported to have said that at least two
of the three tall Texans who dash with
such vigor through the pages of her latest
story, were drawn from life; and, she add
ed. they are just as handy with a rifle
In fact as they are in fiction"
Louis How, the young man who wrote
that entertaining story, THE P~enitents," is
a grandson of the late Captain Eads, the
IA ponr,c onoinaor Ar IJo-s ca
Louis. and when there he and the author
of Richard Carvel'' are seen much TO-
gether. 1T is said they are congenial in
everything except their literary lkings.
When Rudyard Kipling receives SIS, 600
for the serial rights alone, to one story
which is the price he got for Kim and
when Paul Leicester Ford makes nearly
Sl5O,eO from one romance-which he has
done with Janice Meredith" it is about
time. says an exchange, to relegate the Joke
about the ragged, hungry writer to some
museum of antiquity.
The lasl poem in Mr.. Stedman's "Ameri-
can Anthology" is The Parting of the
Ways by ]. B. Glider. who. with his
sister, edits the Critic, and does much lit
|erary work besides. After Mr.. Stedman
had prepare the collection. he read Mr..
elders verse in a weekly paper which he
picked up in a barber shop, and was so
pleased with it that he added 1t to his
work.
Mr.. Stephen Phillips's "Herod'' is not
much to the taste of the critic of the Sat-
urday Review. what Herod' lacks he
says, sis sincerity, and without sincerity
there can be no art, though art has not
yet begun when sincerity has finished lay
ing the foundation. = His mannerisms
arc growing upon Mr.. Phillips; his lines
become more monotonous, his images more
self-conscious the mechanism of his pro-
cesses more obvious"
A New York reviewer of Mr.. William
Dudley Foulke's novel, Maya" is espe-
cially pleased with the descriptive chap
tiers, and says of the chapter of legends
which Maya relates to her lover that lit
IS eautiful in the extreme, and were the
rest of the romance commonplace this alone
would raise it to a high standard of de-
scriptive writing The reviewer adds.
Mr. Foulke has written ntelligently en-
tertainingly and POLITICALLY, and his narra-
tive will unquestionaby delight the cul-
tivated reader"
Mr.. George Cary Eggleston is quite enthu-
siastic in his commendation of that curious
novel. "Stringtown on the Pike" Writing
Of it in the Criterion. he says the book is
a poem, an epic, a blood-stirring vitality
TO be read and pondered. Its kwa
nesses," he goes on to say. ARE no more
tedious than Homer's catalogue of the
ships. Its difficult and rather badly man.
aged dialect is redeemed by the marrow
of meaning that there Is in the dialect
passages. It's heroes are more than one.
and its truthfulness to human nature, to
which the action is laid. is almost marvel-
OuS.'