The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-01-19
Among the Puhlishera.


Harper & Brothers are bringing out a
new edition of their players edition of
'Ben-Hur," which has forty-eight pictures
the dramatic version Of this endlessly popu-
lar novel.
Some Letters by Robert Louis Steven
son; with an Introduction by Horace Town
send" is the title OF volume issued by
ingalls, Kimball, New York The letters
were originally addressed TO Mr.. Trevor
Haddon, now prosperous English artist.
d. Appleton G. Co. are about to publish
a cheap edition of 1.-The Girl at the Half
way House." by the author of 1.-THE Mis-
sissippi Bubble:' also an edition de luxe
of ''rhe Autobiography Of Joseph LIE
Conte' in addition to the edition already
announced
Toy Dogs and How to Breed Them" by
Muriel Handley Spicer, is being issued by
the Macmillan Company. The author
writes her subject around the life of a
Chiffon Bruxellois. She tells how we can
get Our doggy" experience without losing
any of our pets.
Small. Maynard G. Co. report constant
ly increasing and heavy demand for that
sprightly book, Letters from a Self-made
Merchant to His Son." by George H. Lari-
| mer. An English edition is about to be
| Issued, and application has been made for
rights Of translation.
The G. w. Dillingham; Company has
issued ''The Room with the Little Door,"
| by Roland B. Molineux. a first edition of
$4,000 and announce for issue in February
His Friend the Enemy" by William Wal
| lace Cook, and new detective story by
Fergus Hume, "A Coin of Edward VII"
The first novel on the January list of the
Lothrop Publishing Company. of Boston.
is Mr.. George Cary Egglestons romance,
1.-THE Master of warlock." 1t deals with
| Southern life and is also full of vivid war
scenes and characters: the earlier years of
the civil struggle being depicted from the
Southern point of view, but without the
least unpleasant bias.
Messrs. Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. have
in press, for immediate publication, Down
the Orinoco," by Senior Perez Triana The
author describes leisurely journey from
the Andine plateau of Bogota, in the Re-
| public of Colombia. to the upper water
| shed of the Orinoco river, and from thence
| on by canoe from one river to another.
| striking the Orinoco above it's rapids, and
| down the river to the Atlantic.
The latter part of this month the Scrib-
ners will publish new book by Robert
| Flint entitled "Agnosticism,' which COM
| plements and makes more explicit his still
widely-read and much-discussed "Theism."
DIR. Flint is corresponding member of the
| Institute of France and professor of divin-
| ity in the University of Edinburg. He is
author of "Ant-Theistic Theories" 1.-The
! Philosophy of History in Europe" THE
ISM, etc.
| Prof. William Edward Simonds, the
author of "a Students History of English
Literature" recently published by Hough-
ton, Miffiin & Co.. is a graduate of Brown
| University and doctor of philosophy from
Strassburg. He has had long and sue
ceSSful experience in practical teaching
| served Ifob
| School. later at Cornell University and now
has the chair of English literature at Knox
| College, Galesburg, Ill.
Mr. A E. w. Mason, author OF 1.-THE
| Four Feathers" was a collaboration with
Andrew Lang in "Parson Kelly In Sid
ney Lees opinion as expressed in the Lon
don Academy recently. The Four Fea;h-
| books of the past year. Mr.. Mason has
ten novels TO his credit. The last four,
THE Philanderers." THE Courtship of
Morrice Buckler." Miranda of the Bal
cony' and THE Four Feathers" have
been published by the Macmillan Company.
Houghton. Mfiin G. Co. will bring out in
the early spring His Daughter First" by
Arthur Sherburne Hardy: 1.-The Manner
ings," by Alice Browne; "a Daughter of
the Pit" by Margaret Doyle jackson; THE
Legatee." by Alice Prescott Smith; My
Own Story" by j. T. Trowbridge: Evil
| liam Ellery CnanHlnS, Dy JOnn w. Cnad-
| wick; american Diplomacy in the Orient
| by John w. Foster. THE Land of Little
| RAIN by Mary Austin; THE Log OF a
Cowboy by Andy Adams: 'Cap'n
| Simeons Store" by George s. WATSON, and
''Zut and Other Parisians." by Guy Wet
| more Carryl.
George Moores new book will be pub
lshed By the Lippincotts early in February.
Mr. Moore is ranked as the most con-
spicuous of serious workers in the field of
fiction in Great Britain to-day. The title
of the new volume will be THE Untitled
| Field and IL contains the most natural
as well as some OF the most intense and
remarkable of its authors work. While
Sister Teresa" was fiercely attacked for
wn VIA, s1 ,nrtt;as there was no Sissent,ne
voice from the chorus Of praise for Its