The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-12-03
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| Good Housekeeping contains most attractive
bill of fare" The best writers on domestic
topics are regular contributors to this magazine,
makinglt without superiors In its special field
| bound volume of Harper's Young People ID
mine of wealth for juvenile readers. and is
preferred by many in this form rather than in
| weekly instalments. For convenience of
| handling it would be better were the fifty-two
numbers bound in two volumes.
Cassell's Magazine is an English monthly filed
with class of literature not very high in quail
ity but entirely harmless. A perusal of it and a
contrast of its attractions with those offered by
American periodicals, leads the reader to wonder
country profitable.
The three most important articles In the cur
rent Quarterly Journal of Economics, published
Political Economy" by Charles F. Dunbar;
Private Monopolies and Public Rights by Ar
thur T. Hadley, and ''Silyer Before Congress in
1885," by s. Dana Horton.
The red covers Of the two volumes Of the St
Nicholas magazine for 1886, in uniform style
with their predecessors, will be welcome sight
to all youthful readers who have ever enjoyed
the treasures of literature and art that any one
OF the series contains. A more acceptable holt
than one or both of these volumes.
The Sanitarian (113 Fulton street, New York;
is a monthly devoted entirely to the science of
sanitation, and treats of the subject in all its
relations to modern life That it is a theme of
growing interest to the public is indicated by
the fact that the magazine has lately been en-
lRrged to ninety-six pages to satisfy the demand
for practical discussions of various topics con-
nected with the science
The tenth volume of the Century Magazine,
including the monthly issues from May to Octo-
Der, 1886, is at hand, in the familiar gilt binding
of the series The war articles which have ap-
peared in this periodical during the past year,
and which will probably continue for some time
to come, will render the volumes containing
them particularly valuable
The feature lately adopted by the publishers
of Lippincott of adding complete novelette, to
each issue of the magazine proves a very at
tractive one. The story accompanying the De-
cember number is by Mrs. Burnett, and is a very
pleasing one. Lippincott occupies place of its
own in the literary world, and constantly grows
In popularity as improvements are added.
The continuous chapters Of the most absorb
ing romance will not be followed from month to
month with more intense interest than Hay and
Nicolay's serial history of Abraham Lincoln, the
second lnstallment of which appears in the De-
cember Century. In arranging for the publica-
ton of this work the magazine has secured an
attraction to hold the attention Of the read
ing public as nothing else could do.
An illustrated biographical sketch of Henry
Clay, by lifelong friend, together with an arti-
Gle descriptive of Ashland, forms one Of the in
teresting features of this number of the Century
Mr. Howells gives the concluding chapters of
the Apprenticeship of Lemuel Barker fact
which must bring much relief to the Rev. Mr.
Sewell, if to else. The war "reminiscences
are in relation to the second day at Gettysburg
Harpers Magazine for December opens with
Gen. Lew Wallace's paper on 1.-THE Boyhood of
Christ" part of which has been printed in the
Journal. The paper is handsomely illustrated
The frontlspiece is when Christmas Comes"
The Legend of st. Ductedes" is nicely illustrat-
ed poem, and there are articles, illustrated and
otherwise, by Sarah Orne Jewett, William Dean
Howells. Richard Henry Stoddard, B. L. Far
ieon and others. It is number of rare excel
lence.
Roberts Brothers, Boston, issue pretty lllu-
minated calendar, with appropriate literary Sc
lections for each day from French authors in the
original text Price, 81. The same house also
sends out a unique and attractive double calen-
dar, the excerpts from ancient and modern au-
thors, which are given upon the cards, being
ranged with view to the suggestion of timely
thoughts for morning and evening. This calen-
dar can be used together or singly. Price per
SET 81.
The December st. Nicholas is a beautiful
Christmas number. 1t opens with a fronts
piece. ''In Christmas Long Ago" and has the
opening chapters of new story by Frances
Hodgson Burnett entitled "The Story of Prince
Fairyfoot." Theodore N. Davis has very in
terestng article on "How Great Battle PIANO.
rama Is Made" showing the progress of the
painting of Gettysburg and other great pictures
j. T. TrowbriGge. Frank r. Stockton and others
are contributors to the number.
The New England Magazine, an illustrated
monthly published in Boston, hardly realizes
the expectations naturally aroused by its name
and location, since it is not particularly attract
tive in it's typographical features and numbers
none of the noted literary names of the intel
lectual center on its list of contributors. It is
not, however, without much merit. and proba-
bly, fills a want in it's locality which the more
ambitious and exclusive periodicals do not sup
ply.
In the December number of Outing, Captain
Kemeys gives some capital incidents of the hunt
ers varying fortune among grizzlies" wolves
and Indians. The ''College Boy" takes us ram
bling among the precincts of the Jesuit mission
at Shanghai. The intrepid Stevens is now
wheeling through lonely and desolate wilds and
again hobnobbing with Persian potentates His
varied pictures of Eastern life and manners and
his unostentatious recital of the dangers and
difficulties of the arduous journey, are very
pleasant reading.
The second number of the Boston magazine,
American Art, bears out the promise of the first
issue, and is, certainly 80 far as mechanical ef-
fects go, an artistic production. The contents
are somewhat "scrappy" and give the impress
sion of a lack of unity OF purpose on the part of
the publishers, but this defect will doubtless be
overcome after little time and experience A
dainty engraving of birds and tlnt-plate draw
ing entitled "a Glimpse of Scheidam," accom-
pany this issue as supplements. American Art
Magazine Company, Boston.
A biographical sketch of the German artist,
Won Haanen, with illustrations of several of his
most important works, is the opening paper in
the Magazine Of Art for December. The fronts
piece is an etching from Won Haanen's painting,
1.-THE Venetian Bead-stringers." and is fine