The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-11-27
AMONG THE PUBLISHERS.

Houghton, Mifiin & Co. report that seven
editions of THE Right Princess" Mrs.
Burnham's latest story, have gone In six
weeks. Orders for over two thousand copies
came in two days last week.
The character of Lady chichester. in Eli
nor GYMS new book, THE Reflections of
Ambrosine,'' just issued by the Harpers, is
said to be drawn from that of a celebrated
woman of title, who is known as one OF the
most beautiful women in London.
Molly Elliot Seawell, whose historical
novel, "Francezka,' has just been published
by the Bowen-Merrill Company, won a
prize of $500 some years ago with her
Juvenile story, Little Jarvis" and the 5000
offered by a New York paper for THE
Sprightly Romance of Marsac."
Amusing interpretations are sometimes
given to titles of books. Within a week d.
Appleton G. Co. nave received orders for
Donovan Pshaw!' C'Donovan Pasha'),
by Sir Gilbert Parker, and Tales About
Temperance ("Tales About Tempera-
ments'), by John Oliver Hobbies.
At their book shop in New York, Dou-
bleday, Page & Co. last year held a series
of exhibitions, including an unusually no.
table one of FITZGERALD first editions and
manuscripts. This rear they have begun
a second series of exhibitions, the first be-
ing of the original drawings which Rudyard
Kipling has made to illustrate his The
Just So Stories"
A writer i'm a Philadelphia paper has dis
covered what he considers to be a striking
resemblance between George B. McCutch-
cons "Graustark" and John r. Carvings
1.-The Shadow Of the Gar" but he consid-
ers that the latter story is by far the bet
ter. Mr.. Carvings publishers, Little, Brown
& Co., however, assert that there can be no
question of plagiarism, as Mr.. CARING does
not live in this country and has probably
neither seen nor heard Of Mr.. McCutch-
cons story.
The ]. B. Lippincott Company has just
published 1.-THE True History Of the Ameri-
can Revolution" by Sydney George Fish
err, who has been studying the letters
and manuscripts dealing with personal
phases of the war for independence. The
book is said to bring out many facts in
a new light. Mr.. Fishers endeavor is to
show that there were many agencies in
volved in 1776, the Importance of which has
been overlooked. The volume is Illustrated
with many reproductions from old prints.
1.-The Pit" by the late Frank Norris, now
running in the Saturday Evening Post, had
been finished before he left New York. and
he was about to begin 1.-THE Wolf The
two novels. together with 1.-The Octopus"
were to form an Epic Of the Wheat-the
growth in California. it's sale in Chicago.
and the story of its consumption in Europe.
TT Pit" shortly to be published by
Doubleday, Page & Co., is a story of the
love of a Chicago girl and how it became
entangled with a corner in wheat.
Charles Scribner's Sons issued this week
Unknown Mexico being "a record Of
five years exploration among the tribes
of the western Sierra Madre; In the TERRA
Caliente of Topic and Jalisco and among
the Tarrascos of Michoacan," by Carl Lum-
holtz, NJ. A: New York Sketches" by
Jesse Lynch Williams, illustrated by Jules
Guerin, Everett Shinn, W. R.. Leigh and
others; a new and deliberately illustrated
edition of E. H. and E.. w. Blashfield's
Italian Cities" with forty-eight full-page
Illustrations in tint, in two Volumes.
G. F. Putnam's Sons publish this week
The Lost Art Of Reading" by Gerald
| Stanley Lee, volume three OF the series on
Social England From the Accession of
| Henry VIII to the Death Of Elizabeth
The Youth of La Grande Mademoiselle'
Q627-52), by Arvede Barine, authorized
! English versions by L. G. Meyer; 1.-THE
Writings of James Madison" edited by
Gaillard Hunt, volume three. work to be
complete in eight or nine volume uni
form with THE Writings of Jefferson
etc.; Ethics, Civil and Political" by David
A. Gorton.
The Macmillan Company has just pub
lished Memories of a Hundred Years." by
DR.. Edward Everett Hale, in two volumes,
profusely illustrates; English Pleasure
Gardens" by Rose Standish Nichols. with
many Illustrations; volume four in "a Man
ual of Medicine" edited by w. H. Allchin,
M. D., entitled Diseases Of the Respira-
tory and Circulatory Systems;'' "a Discus
sion of Composition. Especially as Applied
to Architecture" by Prof. John ". Van
Pelt, in charge of the College of Architec-
ture, Cornell University; Nineteenth Cen
fury Art" by d. s. MacColl. illustrated
with many full-page plates Of pictures
from the art loan collection of the Glas-
gov international Exhibition, 1901.