The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-01-15
NOTES.


Critics of General Grant have charged
him with a disregard OF the lives of his
he sacrificed his troops needless
ly and caused unnecessary slaughter of the
enemy's forces. In opposition to this is
Gen. Horace Porter's testimony in his rem
iniscences in the Century. Porter says:
His (Grants) extreme fondness for TAX
ing prisoners was manifested in every bat
tie he fought. When word was brought TO
him of a success on any part of the line
his first and most eager question was al.
ways: Have any prisoners been takenE
The love for capturing prisoners amounted
to a passion with him. 1t did not seem to
arise from the fact that they added SO
no doubt chiefly due to his tenderness of
heart, which prompted HIM to feel That II
was always more humane to reduce the
slaughter. His desire in this respect was
amply gratitied. for during the war it fell
to his lot to capture a larger number of
prisoners than any general OF modern
times"
Mr.. Du Maurier neatly and effectively
prods a certain class of modern degenerates
in the current installment of The Mar
tian." After speaking of the amusing pre-
tensions Of the illiterate newly-rich he
adds: But, dear me-, there are other things
to be vulgar about in this world besides
money and uncertain aspirates. II to be
pompous and pretentious and insincere is
to be vulgar, / really think the vulgar of
our time are not these old plutocrats-not
even their grandsons-not even their grand
sons who hunt, and shoot. and yacht AMI
wager with the best-but those solemn
little prigs who have ion well at school
or college. and become radicals or agnos-
ties before they've even had TO time to find
out what men and women are made OF
or what SEX they belong to themselves Gf
any, and loathe all fun and sport and ath-
leIlcS. ana rave ah0nt nlpfuraS and hooks
and music they don't understand, and
would pretend to despise If they did-things
that We're not even meant to be under
stood. 1t doesn't take three generations TO
make a prig-worSe luck!"
Not long since a newspaper interview
or lecture report represented Marion Craw-
ford, the novelist. as holding the opinion
that easy divorce is the greatest evil of
modern times. In his story in the Century,
"A Rose OF Yesterday" his chief charac-
ter is a woman who has every cause for
securing a divorce from her husband. AL
though she no longer loves him she is OPP
posed TO such a course and forgives him
after Wnat seems to have been the heaping
or every possible insult and injury upon
her. After she has extended this forgive
ness she learns of actions committed long
before which still further estrange her. and
she regrets her too-ready concessions. bur
even at this stage does not n
legal separation. 1t is evident that the
NNa1 ~ NtSl ltl III IIt
possible way, and, in the light of his ex-
pressed views on the subject, il is probable
that he means to make her stand firm
AGAINST the strongest temptation to seek
freedom from her bonds.
The Chap Book has enlarged and now
takes its place without distinction of size
among the host of magazines striving for
public favor. 1t will retain it's character
lstie literary features. however, and when
some of them are modified sufficiently.
seems likely to evolve into the high-class
literary periodical that Chicago has long
needed. One of these notifications should
be that OF making its criticisms OF con-
temporary writer's and their work less i'll
humored. Structures made in good temper
are likely to produce quite as good an eff
feet upon the authors aimed at. and are
much more agreeable to the nonpartisan
and unofending reader. The magazine will
be issued semi-monthly. as heretofore, and
will be sold for 10 cents a copy.
If the truth were known 1t is probable
that not a few widows and daughters of
poor or penurious men can sympathize
with the feelings of the two women in Miss
Wilkins's story in Harper's, who took the
81, 500 insurance money coming to them
after the death of the husband and father
and went TO New York to have lone good
time" They had never had much that
they wanted in their lives. and i'm six days
spent all their money i'm the purchase of
silk gowns and finery that never would
be of much use to them in their New Eng
land village home. They went back TO
their bleak little farm-all the property
they had left. feeling guilty of extrava-
gance. but after all not sorry for what
they had done-for they had had the good
time.
No one has spoken more enthusiastically
of Rudyard Kipling's verse than Charles
Eliot Norton. in the Atlantic Monthly. He
considers him a worthy member of the
school of poets who have made the Vic
torian era great. England he SAYS. lis
still the nursing mother of poets. Though
Tennyson and his compeers be dead, her
genius, with its eternal youth. is still find
a novel poetic spirit as genuine as any
that has nodded English verse"
The various Methodist Christian Advo-
Gates. the official organs of the Methodist
Episcopal Church. nave changed their
form with the beginning of the year, the
pages being smaller, with a division into
two columns. but with the number in
creased so that the amount OF reauing
matter is not lessened. The appearance of
the papers is much improved.
Among the subjects selected from foreign
periodical literature in the current Eclectic
are: Lessons from the American Elec-
ten" Some characteristics of Shak.
speare." 1.-The World Beneath the Ocean"
Seaside Life in America" Modern Ideals
of Education" "Omar Khayyam" and
The Commons at Work
The first installment of a pretty story of
a little Quaker girl. written 10y Mrs. Carrie
january number of Godey's Magazine.