Angelina Teal’s “John Thorne’s Folks” (1884), and “Muriel Howe” (1892); Margaret Holmes’s “Chamber Over the Gate” (1886); Martha Livingstone Moody’s “Alan Thorne” (1889); Harriet Newell Lodge’s “A Bit of Finesse” (1894); many excellent short stories by Helen Rockwood Edson, literary essays by Harriet Noble and Kate Milner Rabb, and Ida Husted Harper’s “Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony,” emphasize the part that women have played in the State’s literary achievement. The Rev. Charles R. Henderson, of Lafayette, a member of the faculty of Chicago University, has been a prolific writer on sociological subjects. John Augustine Wilstach, also of Lafayette, has busied himself with philological studies. He translated Virgil (1884) and Dante (1888), and coincidently with the publication of these versions issued critical reviews of the literature touching his subjects. The text of Lucian was edited for school use (1882) by Charles Richard Williams, who became an Indianapolis journalist; and Demarchus C. Brown translated selections of Lucian into English (1896). George Ade, who discovered fresh subjects for materialistic fiction in Chicago, was born in Indiana and educated at Purdue, as was also his illustrator, John T. McCutcheon. Mr. Ade has a touch all his own, and his character studies are thoroughly original. He and Hector Fuller, another Hoosier writer of short fiction, show how the journalist may successfully turn his hand to book-making. William P. Fishback, one of the founders of the Indianapolis Literary Club, has published (1895) his “Recollections of Lord Coleridge,” with whom he enjoyed a delightful acquaintance; and another member of the club, Augustus Lynch Mason, wrote “Romance and Tragedy of Pioneer Life” (1883). Benjamin Harrison’s public services cannot obscure the fact of his authorship of “This Country of Ours” (1899), a capital account of the functions of the several departments of the Federal government. That form of humorous writing which has become a feature of American journalism, and which is, moreover, a sharply critical commentary on contemporaneous American life, not to be rejected lightly, is also produced in great volume in Indiana. This goes to the public anonymously, but Emma Carleton, R. D. Stevenson (“Wickwire”), and Wood Levette Wilson are among those whose dialogues, paragraphs, and jingles constantly appear in many publications. S. W. Gillilan, who wrote “Finnigan to Flannigan,” the verses in Irish dialect which have become a kind of American railway classic, is an Indianian. CHAPTER VIII AN INDIANA CHOIR I. _Early Writers_