The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-14
Among the Publishers.

Among
d. Appleton & Co. will have ready for
publication about April 1 a new novel by
John Oliver Hobbies (Mrs. Craigie) entitled
THE Vineyard"
The Century Company will publish March
Is MY Airships." by santos-Dumont. The
book will be illustrated with seventy-five
photographs and diagrams
Messrs. ]. +. Taylor & Co. New York,
have Issued a beautiful illustrated edition
Of the old morality play, "Everyman." A
most artistic cover shows Miss Matthison
in the title role of Everyman.
Mr.. J. Wesley Johnston, author Of a num-
Der Of books. has written a new novel en-
titled THE Mystery of Miriam" which will
be published i'm a few days by Herbert B.
Turner * Co, of Boston. The story is said
to be absorbing. dealing with the lives or
financial magnates of the present day.
a. c. McClurg & Co. published on
March II a book of essays and lectures by
the late Thomas J. Hudson, entitled The
Evolution of the Soul The volume is along
Psychic Phenomena and Law of Mental
Medicine" and will round out the hundred
thousandth of his published works.
An edition Of 1.-The Virginian" with
number of stage pictures will appear early
next month. Mr.. Wister's novel will also,
by the way, inaugurate the Macmillan Sc
rieS of novels in paper covers, which prom
ises To be one of the largest publishing en-
terprises of the year. This series which
will include Richard Carvel'' and other
well-known books, will be sold for % cents
each.
On March 3, four weeks after the publ
cation of Angus Hamilton's Korea" in it's
original 81 form, the Scribners put on the
market a dollar and a half edition. This
procedure a
demand out of all precedent for that kind
of a book. The 81 Korea had sold COM
pletely out a few days after its appear
ance. and from every side arose the call
for the book in cheaper form. The interest
in the war caused a desire for information
about this little-knOwn country.
Houghton. Mihlin & Co. will publish this
week the following books: Memoirs of
Henry Willard" the eminent German-Amer-
lean journalist and fnancier, who died in
1900; 1.-The Horse-Leech's Daughters" by
Margaret ID. Jackson, novel of the ex-
travagant life in the American metropolis;
a revised and very much enlarged edition
of the History of Maryland by William
Hand Browne; DR.. Rolfes 'Satchel Guide, -
final volumes in the Riverside edition of
Bret Hartes complete works.
Mr. Alden says in London Letter: Among
recent American novels which are having a
good sale here should be mentioned Mrs.
Anna Katherine Green's 'Filagree Ball L
read it the other day, and certainly it is a
very ingenious story of its kind Personal
ly, L do not care for detective stories, even
when they are written by Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle, but Mrs. Green is exceed
ingly clever in concOcting a plot and in
cOncealing the denOuement until the end. "
The Filigree Bali was published by the
Bobbs Merrill Company, of indianapolis.
Mcclure, Phillips & Co. announce long
list of novels for spring publication. Among
their more serious books they announce a
new volume by Charles Wagner; Trusts
of To-day" by Gilbert Holland Montague;
The Shame of the Cities" by Lincoln
Stcffens; Human Work., by Charlotte
Perkins Gilman; Making Home" by r..
p Powell; Russian Literature" by Prince
of Letters series, Charles Dudley Warn
err" by Mrs. James 7. Fields. William
Butler Yeats and the Irish Literary Re
vival'' by Horatio Sheafe Krans
Harper & Bros. have in preparation the
seventeen edition of Charles H. Haswelr S
world-famous "Mechan. cs' and Engineers
copies of this standard book have now been
sold. Mr.. Haswell. now in his ninety-siXth
year. is still in active life in New York. and
makes occasional calls upon his publishers
at Franklin square. He carries himself
erect. is always as carefully dressed as any
young man in town, and usually wears a
carnation or other flower in his buttOnhOle.
Mr.. Haswells receipt for longevity is to
take plenty of exercise, drink no ice water,
use no condiments on food and be very
moderate in the use of alcohol. Mr. Has
we'll is the man who gave up smoking at the
age of ninety-one as matter OF princi-
pie" He says it was a hard struggle TO
do it