The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-22
Among the Publishers.

Among the Publishers.
D. Appleton & Co. announce that they
will publish Ralph Henry Barbour's new
volume. THE Book Of School and College
Sports" in April.
The third volume of Chambers Cyclic
paedia of English Literature" to be pub
lished about March 1. completing the stand
ard work, will largely because of its con-
temporaneOus interest and because of its
articles upon American men of letters, be
the most important of the three volumes
The Putnams announce the publication of
a strong, compelling work of fiction en-
titled, when 1t Was Dark; the Story of
a Great Conspiracy by Guy Thorne
The theme deals largely with the subject
OF the Christian religion and the power of
faith to withstand the most subtle and
searching attacks.
Angus Hamilton's Korea" which the
Scribners will publish in a few days, is
timely. 1t is said to be an absolutely up-to-
date description of Korea and its people
by a London newspaper correspondent
who has just been over the field for the
purpose. For two years Mr.. Hamilton was
the Pail Mall Gazette correspondent in the
far East.
The new edition of the Lewis and Clark
Journals in convenient small limo
form, which A. S. Barnes & Co.
are preparing for immediate issue will
contain a general introduction and an ac-
count of the Louisiana purchase by Prof.
John Bach McMaster and an Identified
ton of the route of the explorers by Ripley
Hitchcock.
Anna Farquhar. author of Her Boston
Experiences" 1.-The Devils Plough" etc,
has a new novel with l. c. Page & Co.
This is a story of modern life. The heroine
is young woman the daughter of a dis
reputable. She marrtes into conservative
Boston family without explaining her ante
cedents The book will bear the title, AN
Evans of Suffolk.
Helen r. Martin has opened what seems
likely to prove new and promising field in
fiction in her "Tillie: A Mennonite Maid -
which the Century Company will publish
in February. Material for this study Of
Pennsylvania Dutch life and character was
gained in Mrs. Martins years of residence
in Lancaster, Pa, where her father was
pastor of the Lutheran Church.
Mcclure. Phillips & Co. will publish with
in the fortnight, in book form. the articles
by Lincoln Steffens which appeared in Nc
Cures Magazine. The title will be "The
Shame of the Cities" The author has
written an introduction in which he sur
veys the subject of municipal corruption
as a whole. The cities treated of are St.
Louis. Minneapolis. Pittsburg, Philadelphia,
Chicago and New York.
IuTlS ana D Oh the GOulITy BOOK, Is
sued by Doubleday, Page & Co., appear
together. Part Z is devoted to game-fowl,
part to Kent, Sussex, Surrey and Dorking
fowls. Both are fully illustrated, many of
the birds being shown in color. This work.
when complete, will cover the subject of
poultry and poultry raising more thoroughly
than it has ever been done before.
William Vaughn Moody, who must be
classed high in the list of Indiana poets.
has for some years been working on a
trilogy of dramatic poems dealing with the
Promethean legend. The first of the three
is 1.-The Fire-Bringer," which is to be pub
lished next month by Houghton. Miffiin &
Co. The second has already been pub
lished under the title of "A Masque of
Judgment" Mr.. Moody expects to COM
plete the third during the next two three
years.
Houghton, Miflin & Co. have just pub
lished the following books: Violet" a ro-
nance by the Baroness Won Hutton: Hen
derson," the story of a vigorous Westerner,
by Rose Z. Young; a study of THE Oil
garchy of Venice" by Mayor Mcclellan, of
New York; revised edition of the two
volumes on New York. by Ellis III. Rob-
erts, in the American Commonwealth
series; and Part XI of "A Hebrew and Eng
lish Lexicon of the Old Testament Based on
Gesenius"
Dodd, Mead & Co. are shortly to bring
out another volume of Maeterlincks mis-
cellaneous essays. Not only as a mystic.
but as an essayist has Maeterlinck gained
an extraordinary hold in this country dur
ing the last few years, and in this new
work we are promised essays similar in
quality to his famous essays on the Deep
er Life THE Inner Beauty silence, "
and The Invisible Goodness" The book
will be uniform with Wisdom and Des-
tiny and THE Treasure of the Humble.
Books on Japan only few years ago
were almost ignored by the British buyers
but since the alliance between the island
empires of Europe and Asia the keenest
interest is manifested in Great Britain over
all books about Japan and the Japanese
During the last week the Reven Company
received cable orders from London for
editions of three of their new books on the
far East-"The Evolution of the japanese .
by Sidney L. Gulick, THE CiiSt of Japan "
by r. b. Peery. and Korean Sketches, "
by James S. Gale.
Frederic Austin Ogg. of the Indiana State
University, has with the Macmillan Com
pany volume on 1.-The Opening of the Mis-
sissippi: \ Struggle for Supremacy in the
American Interior" This is a history of
the discovery and exploration of the Mis-
sissippi, and of the contests for rights i'm
the navigation of it, from the times of the
early Spanish explorers to the final vindi-
cation of American possession by Jack
sons victory at New Orleans. 1t is said to
be very full and thorough Mr. Ogg dis
cusses at length the Spanish discovery OF
the river the beginning of Louisiana, the
purchase of that territory, the early Amer
lean regime in the Louisiana territory and
many other subjects connected with the
history of the Mississippi valley.