The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-10

Subterranean Caves" 1.-THE Triumph OF the
| Cossack." Andrew Lang's review of the
| Tennyson memoirs and Andrew Carnegie's
| reply to the question, Does America Hate
| England?"
| Those who are seeking all possible infor
nation viii find in IAN Examination Of Mr..
| Cleveland's Attitude" on the Hawaiian in
| cldent in 1888, pamphlet by j. a. Gillls,
| Boston.
The Christmas number of the Ladies'
Home Journal has a number of special holi-
day contributions. It's readers are told how
| to decorate the church for Christmas, how
to celebrate the day at home, how to make
| Christmas candies, etc. Miss Wilhelm1na
| Seegmiller, special art teacher of the Indian
| apolis public schools, has an Illustrated ar
| tlcle, describing the making of Christmas
| candy boxes.
The Chap Book, which does not approve
| of signed reviews, has, nevertheless, a dis
| tinct system of disposing of this portion of
| its contents. Reviewers are selected as
nearly as possible with their relative knowl-
edge of the subject handled, and as an ex-
ample of this the magazine recently for
warded ex-President Harrison,s new book
entitled This Country of Ours" to EXPIRES
ident Cleveland for review.
The Century Magazine makes a concession
to the holiday season in a special cover and
a social study of Christmas in the Tene-
ments," by Jacob A. Ris. but in other re-
the most interesting contributions is chap
ter of recollections. by Y. e. Scott O'Con-
nor. of 'Tennyson and His Friends at
doc Sifers' is given simultaneously with
the publication of the poem In book form
by the Century Company. The fiction of the
number is not of a high quality.
In the December number of the North
American Review will be found the first of
a series of papers entitled why Homicide
Has Increased in the United States" by
Professor Lombroso, widely known as a
| student of mental diseases and criminology.
| He shows that while homicide Is decreasing
| in other civilized nations, there has been
an increase of 60 per cent. in this country
| during a period that population has in
| creased but 70 per cent. There are other
! the number an excellent one Published at
No. 291 Fifth avenue, New York.
| With the January magazine number of
| the Outlook will begin the series of papers
by Edward Everett Hale on James Russell
Lowell and His Friends" These papers will
constitute the leading feature of the Out
| look for 1898, and will be illustrated by many
| scores of pictures, including not few por-
| traits OF famous American authors never
| before printed. Another feature of great in
| terest in this issue will be an article by
| Charles Dudley Warner on THE Pic
turesque in American Life" This article
will be Illustrated from photographs special
| ly taken for the purpose by Mr. Clifton
! Johnson. The story of the number will be
| by Mr.. William Canton, whose wv ", Her
| Book" was such delightful study of child
/ life, and is in similar vein.
The Christmas number of the Bookman is
unusually interesting. both in its note and
comment on current literature and its spe-
| cial articles. Among the latter are paper
by Edmund Gosse on 1.-THE Abuse of the
| Supernatural in Fiction; list, by Clement
| Shorter of one hundred books for village
| library; a study of Nathaniel Hawthorne,
| by De Wolf Howe, and amusing account.
| by Harry Thurston Peck, of a presentation
| of Uncle Toms Cabin in Liverpool. 1t
1 was a very English performance James
/ Lane Allen appears as a poet In the num-
Der, contributing two sonnetS. Final chap
/ ters of Henry Seton Merriman's S In
| Kedars Tents" are in this issue, Dry,
which has been received with app by
the critics, having already appeared look
| form.
The Forum for December gives it's first
| pages to Rt. Hon. James Bryce, of England,
author of THE American Commonwealth"
| to tell us of THE Policy Of Annexation for
| America" The controller of the currency
| writes of 1.-THE Wolcott Commission and Its
| Results" AS it's positive results are not
discernible to most people Mr.. Ecl1els may
| have made an important discovery. Rail-
way Pooling, from the Peoples Point of
/ View by Mr.. Prouty, of the Interstate
commerce Commission, is a live topic by
/ man who has had opportunity to study the
| subject. Judge Agnew, of Pennsylvania,
L
treaty is unconstitutional. Other papers are
| quite as important, and all are so impor
| tant that those desiring to be we'll informed
| must read the Forum, which is published by
| the Forum Publishing Company, Ill Fifth
avenue, New York.
Miss Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore contributes
| to the December Century an entertaining
! article descriptive of the latest floral fad in
| Japan. According to her account, the
asagao, or what Americans know the
morning glory, has taken the place in the
affections of the Japanese of the chrysan-
| themum, or rather, the cultivation of the
! chrysanthemum was a mere interlude 1--WE
! who grow and know the morning glory"
| she says, "as humble backyard vine on
| String-a vine with leaves like those of the
sweet potato, and puny little pink or purple
| floWerS-are far in floral darkness as the
| Chinese, who know it only as a wild thing
! little trumpets' or the dawn flower that
| Is entangled with briers and brushes for
miles along the top of Pekings walls
| The asagaO was brought to Japan with the
| Buddhist religion, that particular cult of
early rising" There have been several peri
1 DDS of popularity and special cultivation of
| the plant, and lately 1t has come into fash
| ion again, and wonders are done with it.
! The illustrations give an idea of the eccen-
| trio shapes in blossom and leaf which the
| skill of the florist has produced. One OBJ
| stacle in the way of popular attention being
/ given to the flower in this country is that
| it's beauties can only be enjoyed in the early
| in the morning, after the japanese fash
| ion, are not likely to be socially successful.
| PubIashers' Notes.