The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-11-17
Among the PublI.hers.

Among the Publishers.
The Territorial Growth Of the United
States" which was commented upon az
some length In yesterdays Journal. Is pub
lished by Silver. Burdett &, Co. New York
The Houghton-Mifiin Company is bring
ing out a new edition of that old-time tale.
The Lamplighter.' by Maria S. Cummins.
rms story enjoyed an enormous popularity
in its day.
r. H. Russell. New York. has just
brought out an artistic edition OF Mr. Sun
and Mrs. Moon a volume Of delightful
poems of childhood by Mr.. lie Gallienne.
The book has been favcrably compared
with Robert Louis Stevenson's "A Childs
Garden Of Verse;
r. H Russell. New York. is bringing out
in a tasteful edition Mr.. A. w. Pinero's
successful drama of Iris. the latest work
OF the most eminent of English play
wrights. Mr.. Pinero's plays are not less
readable than they are effective in dra-
matte representation.
There is said to be a steady and strong
demand for Mr.. Wilson'S excellent novel,
THE Spenders." published by the Lothrop
Publishing Company. of Boston. 1t was
among the six best selling novels in half a
dozen leading cities for the month OF Sep
TENDER. and the October and November
sales are still larger.
The character and career of Denis
Kearney, the a~nti-Chinese sand-lot agf-
tator. nav inspired Mrs; Fremont Older.
the wife of a well-known San Francisco
ciai conditions in Califoraia a quarter Of
a century ago. II is called "The Socialist
and the Prince" and will se published some
time during the winter Ivy Funk & Wag-
nails Company.
Miss Carolyn Wells. it IS said. has eight
books on the market THIS fail. Three OF
| fhapo y y,b1fchaA hr ID II DuCoo1I ~
by the Century Company one b. McClurg.
another by the Altemus Company, OF Phil
adelphia,, and still another by Drexel Bid
GIx;de OF F the same of SiS; Is MISS c, weif EY tns
the Carolyn Wells of stageland? asks q
book reviewer.
William Henry Carson. the author OF
Hester Blair" has just arrived in New
York on the Saxonia from his trip abroad
and has turned over TO bis publishers. the
G. M Clark Company; the manuscript for
nounced for some time is in preparation.
The author went to Italy to secure local
color for his story. the scenes Of which.
for the most part, are located In the pic
turesque valley OF the Arlo.
Few foreign plays, il Is said. have en-
joyed the distinction of icing "Englished"
with so much point and perfection as be-
long to Mrs. Wharton's translation of Su-
dermann's 'Ths Joy of Living" Her YER
sion makes of q dramatic masterpiece a
literary one as we'll. conserving the color
ment OF a German theme in spite OF It's
universally OF interest and appeal. The
translation is published bf the Scribners.
The Macmillan Company, who are Ed
ward Fitz Gerald's publishers In America.
are bringing out the works of Edward
Fitz Gerald. edited by W. Adds Wright. II
will be a handsome ediuhn in several vol
umes, containing all Fftz .Serald's published
works. including the several series of let
tiers which have been rearranged I'm chron-
illogical order for this edition. The vol
umes will be published monthly from De-
f ss@0 ter ESQ tn sets sdi sDs W wIR be be t a5eie pEop e I
authorized edition OF Fit Gerald.
Harper & Brothers published on Nov.
IA "A Dotted Coronet," a new book by
the author of "The MarGyrdom OF an En-
press" 1t is photographed. and tells OF
the titled authors excit. lg experiences in
Egypt when Cairo was seething with in
trigue and adventure after the rebellion OF
Arab Pasha. Not the seast entertaining
part of this story is tie account of the
authors financial misfortune which is fol-
lowed by her exodus with her husband to
America, where. after a brilliant life i'm
courts, she adapts herself with grace and
good humor to poverty sod obscurity.
The relationship of the Philippine friars
to the United States government is a mat
ter which especially interests students OF
political as well as of church history.
What is probably the first authoritative
contribution to permanent literature on
this subject appears in. a comprehensive
note added to the second edition of Alfred
Wesley Wishart's Monks and Monster
les" just issued by Albert Brandt, Trenton,
n. J., to satisfy a Widespread demand
for a less costly g edition. OF TINS work yo IL
additional, and may be had of all bookshelf
ers.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson's Life OF
Longfellow, which has Just been added to
the American Men os Letters series
Houghton, Mifiin & Coz. will be particu-
larly welcome to all lovers of American
literature. Both biograRher and poet are
figures of Importance ir our literary his
tory; both approached literature with much
Of the patriotic impulse. both were MEM
bers of that fine company of old Cambridge
authors. Much new material has been
drawn from the manuscript correspondence
of the first Mrs. LonGfellow. from the
manuscript volumes called sHaryard Col
lege Papers" and from a series OF ex-
tracts from the poets earlier writings not
hitherto brought together.
New editions figure largely in Little.
Brown G. Co.'s fall list. A limited edition
of The Diary and Letters of Frances
Burney, Madame D'Arb,ay." edited by
Sarah Chauncey Woolsey; the Oxford edi-
ton of Plutarch's Lives (the translation
called Dryden's) in five volumes; the first
collected edition of the writings of Samuel
Lover, with introduction, by James JEFF
frey Roche, in six volumes; the Barring
ton edition of Charles Lever, in thirty
two volumes; Prayers, Ancient and Mod
ern." arranged and selected for daily read
ing. by Mary w. Tileston, author of Daily
Strength a new edition. of How to Live.
by DR.. Edward Everett Hale: a popular
Illustrated edition of '"The Three Musket-
GERS" by Alexandra Dumas; new editions
Of TT Intellectual Life" and "Etchings
and Etchers." by Philip Gilbert Hamerton,
and a new edition OF Helen Hunt Jackson
delightful California travel sketches en-
titled "Glimpses of California and the Mis-
sions," ali appear in new dress from this
Boston publishing house.
A Genuine r. r. v.