Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 141, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1904 — A Great State for Literary Fellers. [ARTICLE]

A Great State for Literary Fellers.

In discussing Indiana authors the Indianapolis Star remarks: ‘•James Whitcomb Riley, Gen Lew Wallace, Maurice Thompson Baoth Tarkington, Charles Major, Meredith Nicholson, Edward Eggleston, William A. English and many others have written and prose that have in struoted and intertwined the country. When literary worth is best recognized at the true value, Indiana stands among the first. So completely true is this, that publishers have but recently scoured the state in search of manuscript prepared by those both known and unknown to fame. The Indiana author is papular. It has come to be the thought in the East that if you hail from Indiana you must be literary. This pleasant condition, of course, is •due to the able men already menoitned.”