The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-12-21
Literary Notes.

Maurice Maeterlinck has just finished two
OF his strange plays, to be called Fury
and Pity" They will be acted in Paris.
II asked my class yesterday to write
brief composition on their favorite author"
said teacher in the New York Times.
Here is what one boy says: 'Henty is my
hrst choice among story writer's like him
very much. One of his stories in particular
pleases me. Ii tells of how the boys gave
their teacher coat of tar and feathers. ="
Some slight anecdotes of Thackeray are
told by his friend. Rev. Whitwell Edwin,
sometime editor of the Quarterly Review.
At one time he told Edwin that he had
begun a story, but had burned what he
wrote. For" he said, II can't jump far
want to jump as far" Thacke-ay familiar
ly called Edwin "Dr. Primrose" and apro-
pos of this, Edwin notes that the novelist
had meant to introduce Goldsmith I'm THE
Virginians," picturing him "as he really
was. little. shabby, mean, shutting Irish
man." but when he tried he found he could
not do it,
prize of $1,000 will be given to the au-
thor of the best book on the coincidence of
science and revelation, the divine origin
and authority of the Christian scriptures.
the existence of God, submitted to Presi-
dent Harlan, of Lake Forest College, Hi
nois, on or before June /, 1905, in manu-
script, with triplicate typewriter copies.
Scientific men. Christian philosophers and
historians of all nations may compete for
the prize. The successful treatise Will be
published In book form. and initiate the
Nathaniel Bross Library" so called from
the son of the founder of the fund QS9O,
William Bross, of Chicago.
A tall. graceful figure. steady smiling
eyes, dark hair touched with gray waving
down each side of an intellectual, attrac-
tive face-and yet there is something aus
tara h0, J,
Ward is thus described by a Londan writer
who aptly adds that she is of 1.-The type
of womanhood which accepts the RESPONSE
bities of life, which sees both the nobility
of motherhood and the nobility of knowl-
edge" Mrs. Ward never permits herself
to be interviewed, but she can scarcely
avoid being written about She has APP
parently excited more popular interest since
the appearance of her new serial, Lady
Roses Daughter" than ever before.
How many short stories are published
in American magazines in one year? The
statistics have been investigated and it is
found that American magazines devote
much more space to this form of fiction
than the English The leading American
illustrated magazines were then examined
as to the number of short stories each had
published in 1902, and the following result
was obtained: Harper's Magazine, 109;
Century Magazine, 81; Scribners Magazine,
As. This makes a total of 21S short stories
alone in the leading illustrated monthles
and, when ii is remembered how many
other periodicals there are, all containing
more or less short stories. the extent of the
popular taste for this form of fiction would
seem TO be unmistakable
The "millionaire's' edition of Dickens.
which was announced some months ago, at
price of $4,000 or $4,000. is outdone by
an edition of Paul De Kock, announced
by Boston publishing house. 1t is TO ap-
pear in fifty volumes issued in various
styles, the most sumptuous of which, to
consist of a single set, is to cost $50 900.
acs, and the rest of us can worry along
with editions costing from $11 $50 to 1915.
And, after all" asks an exchange, who
reads Paul De Kock nowadays? Even the
indecency, which sometimes preserves I'M
deserving books to a shameful old age, has
lost its piquancy, and to most readers he
will be known chiefly because characters
in Thackeray's stories read his book