The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-03-05


Of Yale. the one on Motley. and Professor
George r. Carpenter. OF Columbia. the
Whittier volume
A new edition Of Appletons' Presidents
OF the United States" edited by General
James Grant Wilson. and revised 20 date.
has just come from the press, bearing A
completed life Of Mckinley. BY Joseph p
Smith. and sketch OF the most interest
ing figure in American politics to-day.
President Roosevelt. This book has been
the standard authority for many years. and
justly 50.
a first piece Of fiction from the pen Of
Josiah Flynt the expert student OF Hobo
land will be published by the Century
Company in March under the title OF The
Little Brother The author purpose IN
writing this book is 10 let the public see
where a number OF stray boys land. He
says that great many OF the so-called
kidnapped" youngsters are IN reality
simply runaways with romantic tempera-
ments.
Many Of the names most familiar to novel
readers will appear on the spring list OF
Dodd, Mead & Co. There will be a new
novel by Marie Corelli. on the subject OF
the hour. said 10 be similar 10 that dealt
with in The Master Christian. John
OF the Resurrection Mrs Alexander The
Yellow Fiend; while Jerome Jerome
breaks silence. rather longer than usual,
with Paul Kelver."
Little. Brown 4 Co. will publish in March
a new edition OF ''Washburn on Real Prop
erty" and a Treatise on Guaranty Insur-
ance" by Thomas Gold Frost. OF New
York. This house will publish this spring
a book by new and promising Western
author which. il is predicted. is destined TO
attract considerable attention. Frances
! Charles. n Californian. has written tale
/ OF the Southwest entitled I'm the Country
/ God Forgot" The hate of a rich old farmer
i All hi only - he Of
the story
Forbes & Co. (Boston). who have hereto
fore refused TO be drawn into the field OF
fiction. have it is said. been unable 10 re-
/ ject one Of the novels recently offered tkem.
/ so unusual are its merits. The story. which
\ is entitled Buell. Hampton, is written by
\ Willis George Emerson, and viii be pub
\ liShed about April /. Bishop Charles II.
! Fowler. who read the manuscript says:
THE story is written with a charm or
! diction that captivates from the beginning.
/ while its intense spirit and thrilling de-
scriptions lend a dramatic force that is
/ irresistible"
The Scribners announce a valuable popu-
lar book on astronomical topics by Harold
Jacoby. adjunct professor of astronomy
1 in Columbia University. 10 be entitled
I practical Talks by Astronomer" II
| will be well illustrated. Such titles as
| Navigation at Sea" The New Planet OF
/ 1885, How 10 Make a sun DIAL Time
Standards of the World" ''saturn's Rings
| .'The HeIiometer." Mounting Telescopes
and THE Suns Destruction" indicate the
popular. the authors treatment must
necessarily emphasize the practical. char
acter of the book.
Mr.. Allen French. the author Of THE
Colonials." new novel of the beginnings
of the revolution. just issued by Double
/ day. Page & Co, is a man who has given
/ himself wholly TO literary pursuits. lie
/ has set out 10 write fiction as a life work.
I He Is a well-trained and widely read stu
! dent. who takes the greatest care in Sc
/ curing accuracy of background, and in the
use Of material. He holds the creed that
! not only the careful use of his material is
! essential, but that no permanent literary
| success can be won without the greatest
possible excellence OF style. Mr.. French IS
/ a resident of Concord. Mass: he is a grad
! uate both of the Massachusetts Institute
! of Technology and of Harvard College.
lie Roy Armstrong. newspaperman and
/ author of numerous short stories, has
written his first novel. II is called THE
! Outlaws" and will soon be published by
| the Appletons. The story centers around
| the building OF the old Wabash canal, and
/ the American pluck. courage and resistless
energy that went into the development OF
/ the Western country Mr.. Armstrong is a
| native of Indiana. and was born in 1854.
/ His early education that afforded by
/ the middle West before the war and when
completed was supplemented by an ap-
1 premiership TO the printers trade. When
| seventeen years DID, he began his journals
tic career in Chicago and has grouped
/ out his daily quota of copy" steadily
| ever since.
Harper & Brothers have had so many in
quiries regarding the titles of the twelve
books published last year in their "Ameri-
can Novel Series that they reprint the
list, which is as follows: PASSOVER Court
! house, by Henry Burnham Boone and
Kenneth Brown; THE Sentimentalists." by
Arthur Stanwood Pier; Martin Brook" by
Morgan Bates; "A Victim Of Circum-
stances" by Geraldine Anthony: Days
Like These" by r. w. Townsend: Yves
terfelt." by viii n. Harden: THE Man
ager of the b. & A." by Vaughan Kester.
1.-The Supreme Surrender" by a. Maurice
Low; THE Strength of the Hills" by Flor
ence Wilkinson: Let Not Man Put Asun-
der" by Basil King: when Love Is
batable Land" by Arthur Cotton.