The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-05-23

Kate Douglas Wiggin, whose "'Rebecca
of Sunnybrook Farm is selling rapidly.
has written a new book in collaboration,
with three British friends. Houghton, Milf
hin d Co. Will probably publish ii in Sep
TENDER.
Robert w. Chambers's new novel. In
Search of the Unknown" will be published
by the Harpers this week.
Henry Holt & Co. have in press 'sThe
Web of Indian Life by Miss Margaret E
Noble, a Celt who has for long time lived
in the Hindu quarter of Calcutta She de-
scribes her observations in her book
Doubleday, Page & Co. will bring out,
probably Sept s. ''old Gorgon Graham"
being more letters from the "self-made
merchant to his son, by George Horace
Lorlmer- This second volume is addressed
TO the son actually engaged in business.
Mr.. Winston ChurchilPs new novel, ."The
Crossing" will be published by the Macmil-
Ian Company this week in first edition of
$4,000 copies. Nearly all the action takes
place out OF doors among the pioneers in
the great wilderness from which were
carved the States of Kentucky and Ten
nesSee.
The Macmillan Company will hereafter
issue the books published within a year or
two by the Outlook Company. They include
MIR. Jacob A. Riis's biography of Theodore
Roosevelt the Citizen, 1.-THE New american
Navy" by Hon. John ID. Long, ''the For
est, by Mr.. Stewart Edward White. and
others.
Stewart Edward White and Samuel Hop
kins Adams, it is said, are collaborating
upon a novel of mystery. 1t is to be a sea
tale, and the plot involves a mysterious
ship that is found on the high seas with all
sails set and nobody aboard 1t is said to
be founded upon a fact II will bear the
title, The Mystery" and will be published
by Mcclure, Phillips & Co.
An illustrated edition of Maurice Maeter-
linck's "Our Friend, the Dog" is announced
by Dodd, Mead & Co, for holiday publica-
ton This Is to be issued in a most sumptu-
Gus FORM with sympathetic illustrations by
Paul j., Meylan and decorations by Charles
b. Falls. This little sketch marks, in the
opinion OF many, the highest level. of Mae
terlincks literary achievement.
In the opinion of authorities on the sub
Ject Or. Henry {. Rowland's nely novel.
ITO Windward," just published by A s.
Barnes * Co, contains the most complete
and accurate pictures of hospital. life in
New York which have been published The
author writes from an intimate knowledge
of this subject a we'll as of the. sea life
which is also sketched In his nove;.
The Harpers announce Michael Dav,tt.s
interesting new book. The Fall of Feudai-
ism in Ireland" 1t is an authoritative his
tory of the great Irish movement of the
past quarter century and OF the signal re-
forms won from the British Parliament oy
irish agitation There are sketches of all
the prominent Irish leaders OF the present
generation. and fund OF racy Alecdofes
indigenous TO the soil of Ireland u
Judge Simeon e. Baldwin's new Iork. "A
Treatise on American Railroad IaH." TO be
brought out at once by Little. Brown & Co.
is the outcome of a long experience in rail-
road cases. The author has also taught the
subject in the Yale Law School for twenty
years. Judge Baldwin is the author OF
Modern Political Institutions and other
volumes, and compiler of ''Baldwin's Con-
i've Cases on Railroad Law"