The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-12-15
Among the Publishers.

Messrs. Crowell & Co. have just pub
lished the fifty-fifth thousand of Ralph
Waldo Trine's I'm Tune with the Infinite"
Two notable books which will be pub
lished by D. Appleton & Co. early in the
new year are THE Autobiography of Jo-
seph lie Condo" and "A Virginia Girl in the
Civil War; edited by Myrta Lockett
Avary.
G.. p Putnam's Sons publish this week
DR.. Minot j. Savages book, ''Spiritism or
Telepathy?" under it's changed title, "Can
Telepathy Explain" and "Twenty-six His
toric Ships of the United States and Con-
federate Navy"
Bliss Perry, the editor of the Atlantic
Monthly, who last spring delivered the ad-
dress on Founders day at the University
of California. has just published through
Houghton. Miff1in & Co. book entitled "A
study OF Prose Fiction"
The holiday catalogue of Messrs. Little,
Brown & Co., the Boston publishers, is
printed on coated paper in two colors. and
is illustrated with nearly fifty half
tone cuts and line drawings. 1t will be
sent to book lovers on application.
Perhaps women especially need authentic
information as to their legal rights and
liabilities. In her book, THE Woman's
Manual of Law Miss Mary A. Greene. Of
the Boston bar, has aimed to meet this
demand Questions from women of all
ages and conditions have been the authors
guide in the selection of material The
book is issued by Silver, Burdett & Co.
A revised edition of Shakspeares play,
Macbeth" as presented in the variorum
edition. will shortly be issued by j. B.
Lippincott Company. the publishers of
that edition. The new volume will be the
frst 10 appear under the editorship of
Horace Howard Furness, jr., the son of
Horace Howard Furness, LIZ D., the dis
tlnguiShed Shakspearian scholar, whose
monumental work the Variorum edition is.
Contrary to the general impression that
there is little demand for biography now
adays Is the announcement that four days
after the publication of Bishop Lawrence's
Life of Roger Wolcott'' fourth edition
was ordered: Moreover, Colonel Higgin-
sons 'Longfeilow' and Professor Wood
perry s hawthorne" went into their third
edition shortly after publication. These
books are published by Houghton, Miffiin
& Co.
The G. w. Dillingham; Company an
nounces Roland B. Molineaux's THE Room
with the Little Door," Four years of ex-
perience in the dungeons of the Tombs and
the lighthouse of Sing Sing prison is the
story which the author gives to the world
as result OF his arrest conviction and
subsequent acQuittal on the charge of muir
dering by poison Mrs. Katherine j. Adams.
The sketches and stories are said to be
told with surprising grace and cleverness
The Bowen-Merrill Company has pre-
pared handsome new editions of some of it's
conspicuously successful fiction. In this
series. when Knighthood Was in Flower"
The Redemption of David Corson,"
alice of Old Vincennes," 'Lazarre." ..The
Strollers,' 1.-The Mississippi Bubble and
Hearts Courageous" have been bound in
limp leather covers and have been printed
on fine quality OF thin paper. The illus
trations in these books are noteworthy
being the work of such well-known artists
as +. &. Yohn, Andre Castaigne A b.
Wenzell, Everett Shinn, Henry HUT Har-
rison Fisher and Howard Chandler Christy
Ostermoor & Co., 116 Elizabeth street.
New York, have in press, to be issued
about the first of the year, what promises
to be unique and entertaining book. The
work will be called THE Witchery of
Sleep" and besides running the gamut of
the sentiment on the subject. its import
and character, il will contain much prac-
teal information regarding Sleep its mys-
terry and phenomena. 1t also treats at
length of sleeplessness, its cause and effect
In ADDITION TO these features. the work will
contain careful selection of the best
poetry, together with many interesting.
sleep facts and fancies. The book will be
illustrated.
The Frederick j. Quinby Company, Bos-
ton, Mass. announces that two volumes
of each OF the ten sets comprising its
Bibliomaniac edition of the works of
Charles Paul De Kock are ready for de-
livery. and that two additional volumes of
each set will be out of the bindery by New
Years. II is claimed for this edition that
IL represents the greatest achievement to
date in the history of American bookmak-
ing. The books are printed on genuine
parchment, illustrated with drawings and
paintings done directly on parchment. IL
Illuminated In gold and bronze bound in
French levant. hand-tooled in gold, and
deliberately inlaid. II is the first complete
translation and publication of the works of