The Indianapolis journal., 1904-06-06
Among the Publishers.

The Macmillan Company announces for
early publication a paper-bound edition OF
Mr.. Jacob Riis's biography of "Theodo-e
Roosevelt the Citizen"
Dr. Harry Thurston Peck, author OF
What Is Good English" etc. has written
a new juvenile story somewhat in the man
ner of his Adventures of Mabel" Dodd.
Mead & Co. will publish the book at the
END of the summer with tue title 'Hilda's
Wishes"
1t is less than year since Myra Kelly
had her first story published in McClures
Magazine. Her rapid rise to prominence
and general recognition has been a remark
able tribute 10 the merit of her work Now
she is gathering her stories OF New Yorks
for publication this fall. IL viii be pub
lished by Mcclure. Phillipsi& Co.
John Lane. New York. follows the exam
pie of the Macmillans in the publication OF
cheap editions of popular fiction. and be-
gins the issuing of series of novels for
summer reading called "I'he Canvasback
Library" The volumes, which will sell
for 20 cents each, viii include stories by
John ID. Barry. Gertrude Atherton. Henry
Harland. Herman Sudermann, Elinor Glyu
and others.
There may be-" says Mr.. w. u. Howells
in Harper's Monthly, incidents of greater
psychological allurement or OF more strik-
ing dramatic picturesqueness than that OF
a New York politician of the strict Tam
many tradition coming forward at the mo-
ment of his partys triumph with a scholar
ly treatise on The Oligarchy OF Venice in
his hand, but we cannot think of any that
match il or surpass it,. The author in
question is George b. Mcclellan, mayor OF
New York.
Beverley of Graustark' is the title OF
the sequel TO ''Graustark." by George Barr
n
in the fall by Dodd, Mead * Co.
1.-The House in the Woods by Arthur
Henry, just published by A. S. Barnes &
Co, is the story of real house built on the
borderland between civilization and the
wilderness, and, like IAN Island Cabin"
is said to be the vivid narrative of discov-
cries out of doors.
Grover Cleveland has arranged with the
Century Company TO bring out a volume
early in the fall. Mr.. Cleveland has also
promised TO write during the summer some
papers on fishing and duck shooting. He
has recently published two papers. one on
the strike riots in Chicago and another on
the government bond issues. These. to-
gether with his essays on The lndepend-
ence of the Executive and the Nene-
zuelan boundary case, with an additional
chapter on Hawaii. will form the contents
of another book that has been suggested to
the author.
/
sales of 1.-THE Lightning Conductor" which
they are just printing for the seventeenth
time, have surpassed their most sanguine
expectations. 1t has proved so excellent
a romance OF travel that the publishers
are credbly informed that numerous book
| readers are making automobile tours with
| IL as a sort of guide book over the Riviera
route so tcllingly sketched in IL. The pub
| fishers have contracted with the authors,
Mr. and Mrs. G. n. Williamson. for their
| next automobile romance. which they ex-
pect to publish early In 1905.
After a period of three years a new long
novel by the author of 'Sir Richard Cal
mady' is announced for publication. ''Sir
Richard Calmady" had the rare distinction
/ of meeting with an excellent sale the first
/ that of the first. The author, Mrs. st.
/ Ieger Harrison C'Lucas Malet), the
| daughter of Charles Kingsley. possesses In
tellectual and literary ability which places
| her among the foremost women noyeiists
| of the day The new novel. to be published
| in the autumn by Dodd, Mead * Co. is to
! be called THE Paradise OF Dominic
Better than ''the books of yester year.
which start out with great sales and then
drop 10 nothing. are the books for which
there is a continuous demand. year after
| year-like Kipling's Jungle Books. for in
| stance--of which the first one has been
| printed twenty times and the second jun
| gle Book twelve times, and the demand Is
| constant John Luther Longs Madame
Butterfly" now seven years old. has been
| reprinted twice in the present year. and IL
| IS said that Mrs. Ruth McEnery Stuart's .
| Sonny" issued in 1897. was printed TOR the
| fourteenth time in February. 1904 and that
| 1t has a yearly sale OF ar least four thou
sand copies.