The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-06-15

London publisher of whom 1 have had con-
siderable to say heretofore, has announced
that he will publish it in the fall. It's title
is Nova Solyma, the Ideal City of Zion; or
Jerusalem Regained." The Rev. Walter
Begley, Cambridge graduate and a cler-
gyman of the Anglican Church. claims to
have discovered the name of this romance
in looking over a German booksellers cat
alogue The book had a London imprint
and appeared in 164S-the year before the
execution of Charles LATTER having lain
for twenty years in the authors desk. Mr.
Begley promises to furnish conclusive proof
of Millions authorship. He says the pas
sages dealing with love and jealousy could
have been written by no one but Milton,
whose peculiar matrimonial experiences are
well known. The book is declared to be
full of Millions ideas. and its heroine seems
TO be that early love of his whom he first
saw one May morning and named Queen
of May" and whose memory he ever after
cherished, despite his three marriages. 1t
may be that this the young woman
of great wit and beauty to whom the poet
paid his addresses when Mary Powell his
first wife, had left him and gone TO the
home of her father, and he was contem-
plating divorce; a step prevented by the re-
turn of his own Mary and her fearful en-
treaties to be returned to his home and
heart. Mary died early and so did the sec
ond wife, to whose memory the poet dedi-
Gated one of his first sonnets, where she
came to him in vision.
Vested in white, pure as her mind"
Milton's heart seems to have been very
elastic, and he had enough love experiences
| to float three-decker. The book is repre-
| scented being full of adventures on sea
/ and land. 1t is peopled with brigands, rob-
bers and pirates. and there is an account of
fight with pirates CORY as anything
| Stevenson ever wrote. 1t is we'll known
| that Milton wrote with equal facility in
Latin and English. This is the reason his
story of romance and adventure has been
lost to the reading world for a quarter of a
millennial. Being composed in Latin, it
was sealed book TO most of the readers of
| fiction.
What fools those Kentucky Goebelites
are!
Men will do many strange things-lawful
and unlawful-in politics, but it seems to
me the Frankfort crowd is entitled to the
bun which at present l regard as mostly
! dough. There isn't the slightest doubt in
my mind that the animus of the smallpox
! quarantine recently declared is TO be found
in the incubation of Goebelite virus which
the States governing body received a
couple of years ago rather than in any real
belief that the disease exists to a dangerous
extent in Indiana. But I don't know any
thing about that; ii is only my belief What
/ do know is that recently they permitted
| if they did not incte. three men to come to
| Indiana to look over the ground with the
end in view. if they should deem it feasible
TO kidnap Taylor and Finley One of the
trio was a choice specimen who had served
term in the Kentucky penitentiary for
burglary. and the others, if not prison birds
| were at least Jail birds of desperate record
They came here with two horses. bought a
wagon and engaged in the peaceful occupa-
ton of huckstering. The neighborhoods OF
| Mr.. Taylor's residence and Mr. Finley's
| rooms were the chief scenes OF their opera
tons. and when not there they haunted the
| vicinage of the homes of other Kentuckians
! known 10 be friendly TO Taylor and Finley
one OF them made visit to Mr.. Taylor
| law Office. another spent some time around
a factory In which Mr.. Taylor is interested
J and the third even made trip 10 a near