The Indianapolis journal., 1895-11-07

MAUAZlN Els OF THE MONTH.
Harpers Weekly of Nov 9 has a full
page picture of the battle ship Indiana.
William the Conqueror' is the name of
Rudyard Kipling's new story, to be pub
lished in the Ladies' Home Journal
The character OF the "wit and humor"
departments of the various Harper period
icals gives weight to the charge that the con-
lowest bidder
The Black Cat is the name given to the
latest venture in cheap periodicals. 1t is
devoted entirely to fiction and is issued by
the Short Story Publishing Company (Bos-
toni, Is we'll printed and attractive in ap-
pearance, contains half dozen original
Ii is published monthly.
The Horseiess Age (New York; is the title
OF monthly journal devoted TO the inter-
ests of the motor vehicle industry In
view of the recent disastrous failure of
Mr.. kohlsaats motor carriage exhibit in
chicago, and of the fact that horses are
still with US in considerable numbers the
publication seems a trifle premature, but
perhaps We shall grow UP to it.
Among the artists who are represented
in the Monthly illustrator for November,
either by reproductions of well-known pic
lures or by original drawings, are C. w.
Alters, G. L. Ball. George Du Maurjer
Matt Morgan, jr., and George II. Smillie'
The announcement is made that the De-
cember number will be 1.-The most magnif
cent Christmas magazine ever issued in
America"
Something new in fiction is Julian Ralph
story in Harper. of Chinese life. Plumblos-
som Beebe's adventures have an interest in
themselves, and at the same time serve to
illuminate vividly certain phases of life in
that far of land which missionary records
and consuls reports fail to touch upon.
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other clever short story in this number.
The incidental account Of the tricks of the
Western politician who is working for state
hood Is not the least interesting feature of
the tale
The Philistine, an irreverent little periodi-
cal, notes the fact that Rev. George H.
Hepworth now signs his name to the SER
mon editorials in the. New York Sunday
Herald. and comments on the fact in this
light and airy way: Unquestionably this
will add new and livelier interest to the
whom he is fighting. 1t is now Hepworth
against Satan with fair field and no favor.
We have no hesitancy in saying that so
VIII be no Valkyre business. Moreover,
there is no desire to shirk responsibility.
What he has to say he will say fearlessly
over his own signature, and If those against
whom these ecclesiastical thunderbots are
launched do not like them they know what
they can do. Wot teil!
Mr.. W. ID. Howells makes very enter
tanning chapter out OF his recollections of
literary Boston thirty years ago. Some OF
the men and women he writes of have gone
out of life but all still live in the literature
of the country Readers have formed opin-
ions of them and their work, but it is inter-
esting to have this side light thrown upon
them. Mr.. Howells points out that New
whose work is proportioned to the merit
of the poetry, the philosophy and the
romance which have been born in that
purely imaginative fiction and novels pictur-
ing life as it is. which leaves Hawthorne's
tales among the former. New England. he
concludes, yet lacks her novelist because it
was her instinct and her conscience to be
true to an ideal of life rather than to life
itself.
Mrs Linn Linton, in the National Review,
quotes the saying that Britons are never
slaves, and then proceeds TO show how
helpless they lie under the tyrannies of
private life-that of servants, tradesmen,
husbands over wives, and vice versa par
ents over children, children over parents.
Under the latter head she says: In too
many instances the young people are glad
to escape from home simply because within
those four walls. which should be the dear
est place on earth to them, they are stihed
so that they cannot breathe freely-denied
and coerced so that they cannot live or
move mo in liberty But the young. she de-
fere with your lifelong habits, and inch by
inch occupy the whole territory, till you
have not so much as a rood of freedom left
you. They oppress you with their linresist-
ing manipulation, and finally roll you fiat;
and the last days Of an old person are Oft
times days of secret grief and pain for the
very assiduity of the young. who, under the
guise OF kindly care. exercise tyranny
that is practically torture This article
and other choice gleanings from British
oIi oIc in, bo T,l.
Lafcadio Hearn writes in the Atlantic
Monthly of the political and social condi-
tions in Japan after the war with China.
and the return of the native soldiers:
These soldiers looked so much like STU
dents whom 1 had taught thousands. in
deed, were fresh from SCHOOL, that L could
not help feel it was cruel to send such
youths to battle. The boyish faces were so
frank so cheerful. so seemingly innocent of
the greater sorrows of life." Later when
they came back, II could scarcely believe
these were the same men had seen going
to the war: only the numbers on the shout
der-straps assured me- of the fact. sun
burnt and grim the faces were: MANY had
heavy boards. The dark-blue winter uni
forms were frayed and torn, the shoes worn
into shapelessness; but the strong. swineinn
stride was the stride of the hardened SOL
der, lads no longer, but toughened men.
able TO race any troops In the world: men
who had slaughtered and stormed; men
who had also suffered many things which
never will be written. The features showed
neither joy nor pride; the quick-searching
eyes hardly glanced at the welcoming flags
the decorations. the arch with its globe
shadowing hawk of battle-perhaps because
those eyes had seen too often the things
which make men serious. (Only one man
smiled as he passed: and / thought of a
smile seen on the face of a zoIaye whe, I
was boy, watching the return of a regi-
ment from Africa-a mocking smile that
stabbedo" 1t is the story of the American
soldier over again-doubtless the story of ali
soldiers. They are aged by stress OF war,
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