The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-21
Among the Publishers.

1.-THE Yoke" Miss Miller's novel with the
Exodus for its theme. is said by the Bobbs-
Merrill Company. its publishers, 10 be hav-
ing very large sale
Dodd, Mead * CO. announce for early
publication an essay entitled Going TO the
Father" by Henry Drummond. the author
of Natural Law in the Spiritual World
Palgrave's famous Golden Treasury OF
Songs and Lyrics" is 10 be issued almost
at once in the Macmillan series of Pocket
American and English Classics" at .
cents.
Messrs Herbert S. Stone & CO. announce
new novel called THE Highroad: Being
the Autobiography of an Ambitious Moth
err" Ii is published anonymously and the
author insists that II is entirely fiction.
a new collection of Japanese stories by
Lafcadio Hearn. entitled 'Kwaidan." will
be published by Houghton. Miffiin & Co.
on April >. Reports from American public
libraries show that OF all the books treating
of Japan those by Mr.. Hearn are now IN
much demand.
Laird & Lee have brought out a new
edition of THE Modern Webster Dictiou-
ary,' by Z. IT. Roe. 1t is a handy pocket
size and is intended as a lexicon for use in
graded schools. The book contains eoeoo
words and definitions which are printed in
large. clear type.
Europe on 81 Day. the little booklet
published by the Rolling Stone Club. of
Medina, y. Y, at 3 cents and which tells
with full details how two members OF the
club took seventy-hve-day European trip
on $500 each, is in such demand that a sec
Gnd edition Is In press.
A. s. Barnes & Co.'S complete edition of
the Lewis and Clark journals, containing
an account of the Louisiana purchase, by
Professor John Bach McMaster and an
| itinerary of the explorers route. will be
published early in March in three conven-
lent small Emo volumes.
The series of Worlds Classics published
in London by Grant Richards is to be is
sued in this country by Herbert b. Turner
& Co, of Boston. who have secured tho
exclusive American rights. The series will
include great variety of standard literary
works, sixty-five titles of which have al
ready been announced and fifty-one vol
umes issued.
Professor Henry Bradley's little book on
1.-THE Making of English" which the Mac
milan Company have just brought out. un-
dertakes Ito give some idea OF the causes
by which the more remarkable changes i'm
the language were brought about and to
estimate the. effect which these changes
have had on its fitness instrument
| for the expression of thought"
| New interest in George Borrow and his
work has made itself felt this year. The
sales of 'Lavengro," "Romany Rye" and
| in fact, all the Borrow books, have in
creased. The Life and Letters of George
| Borrow has met with success, and now
| Dodd Mead q Co. have published a new
| edition of 'Isopel Berners." sometimes
| called Borrow's masterpiece
| Brentanos have just ready book OF. in
terest to automobilists. 1t is An Auto
mobile Record" book with printed head
| ings, in which may be entered the different
| runs made, their length. rate OF speed, con-
| dition of roads, names OF the party and 9TH
er items of interest. IL il intended TO be
very comprehensive and a valuable refer
| ence work. IL is made in a size suitable for
| the pocket.
Electricity and Science" is the title un-
| der which will appear book by Professor
j. ]. Thompson. of Cambridge University.
England. the recognized highest English
| authority on the subject of physics. He
| will discuss in its pages the bearing of the
recent advances I'm electrical science made
| by the discovery and study of Cathode and
| Roentgen rays and radioactive substances
/ on our views Of the constitution of matter.
| The book will be published by Charles
| Scribner's Sons.