The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-10-09
With the Publishers.

Messrs. r Y. Crowell & Co. announce
that they have in press for immediate issue
Count Tolstoi's masterpiece of fiction.
Anna karenina," translated from the
Russian by Nathan Haskell Dole, complete
and unabridged.
George w. Cables novel, 1.-The Cavalier"
is offered to the public as a whole, without
having appeared as a serial. 1t gives
glimpse OF the civil war from the point Of
view OF the Southern soldier 1t is pub
hshed by the Scribners.
A new and handsome edition of Charles
Reade's masterpiece, THE Cloister and the
Hearth" with original etchings and hand
illumined frontispieces. is among the gift
book offerings for the holidays announced
by III. NJ. Caldwell Company, New York and
Boston
\ second edition Of Maurice Hewletts
New Canterbury Tales" published by the
Macmillan Company, was called for on the
day of publication. Both Richard Yea
and-Nay' and THE Forest Lovers ran
into several editions within a fortnight Of
their issue.
A second edition is now being printed of
r.. H Russelrs edition de luxe of Anthony
Hopes Dolly Dialogues" the first edition
having been exhausted by the large adj
vance sales 1t is beautifully illustrated by-
Howard Chandler Christy and contains 4
number OF new dialogues, written espe-
cially for this book
1t is interesting 20 note. SAYS a review
that of the years fiction no less than five
novels have plots whose motif is a tenn
porary loss of memory on the part of the
hero heroine. from which disaster the
leading situations in the books are derived.
The most striking of the novels i'm which
use is made of this hitherto unusual plot
is Gilbert Parker's The Right of Way"
which is classed with one accord as one of
the strongest novels of the season. 1t is
published by the Harpers.
Charles FELTON, Pidgin, author of "Blen-
nerhassett." the novel in which he seeks to
prove that Aaron Burr was a much ma
ligned man. announces through his publish
ers, the c. NJ Clark Company (Boston), that
he is preparing to write a life of Burr. also
two romantic successors to 'Blennerhas-
sett, which will be ready in 1902 and 1905
Tor 'BlennerhaSsett is not a defense. but
only the opening argument in the long
postponed case of the American people VS..
Aaron Burr.
Little Brown & Co. announce that the
publication of the thirty volumes of their
new pocket edition of Balzac will be COM
pleted by the first of December. This ed-
ton has been supplied to the trade gener-
ally, and any of the thirty compact vol
umes will be sold separately. Captain
Mahan's new book, Types of Naval Off
GERS" will be one of the most important
volumes which Little. Brown & Co. will
publish this fall. The work treats of the
development of naval warfare during the
eighteenth century
The j. Il. Lippincott Company will soon
have ready the first two volumes of a new
and highly important undertaking. This is
the Temple Bible a series of volumes
uniform with the familiar Temple Shak-
speare. ." The books of the Bible will be
issued in twenty-four volumes-the Old
Testament being in seventeen and the New
Testament in seven-and the text will in
the main be presented in all the grand SIM
plicity Of that sterling English prose which
we have in the Authorized Version" that
is to say, it will be printed consecutively,
and not divided I'D into verses. Each vol
ume will be edited by a scholar who has
made close and special study of the book or
books assigned to him, and each volume
will contain a full, though condensed intro
duction. elucidatory notes and other aids to
the student. The publishers desire TO make
the Temple Bible" a wade mecum for
Scripture students of all shades of belief.
but the special mouthpiece il no one of
them in particular. The volumes will have
rs frontispieces photographers of en-
blematic subjects by the great English
artists or the old masters. A separate vol
ume will be specially written, as an en-
PRODUCTION to the Study of Holy Scripture, y
by the bishop of RipOn.