The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-17
CURRENT PERIODICALS.

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The latest of the Old South Leaflets (No.
| I'D is Cotton Mather's Lives of Bradford
and Winthrop from the Magnalia Christi
| Old South Work, Old South meeting house,
| Boston, Mass.
| The Philosopher, a monthly journal of
| literature comes from Wausan, Wis. 1t is
printed in the black Morris type, now con-
sidered artistic, and contains a variety of
poems and sketches but no discoverable
philosophy TO justify the title. Among the
contributors is William Allen White, the
Kansas writer who INDUCES in bit of only
moderately successful dialect verse Ella
W Peattie, whose work is always forceful,
offers the first installment of a story called
| ''Witchs Gold"
The September number of Arts for Amer
lea opens with an article by dorado Taft
on George Gray Barnard, the young Amer
lean sculptor. Several Illustrations of his
remarkable work are given. This magazine,
which is published in Chicago, is the ma
tlonal organ of the Central Art Association
ana is or very practical character. Among
other features are study courses in various
nelds OF art. Louis II. and Emily c. Glib
son will conduct an architectural course,
| the introduction to which appears in this
issue.
The collection of national hymns edited
| by Mrs. j. V. Cooke and issued by Nash &
| Nash, of Upton, Ind, as a souvenir edition
| for the delegates al the recent Sons of Vet
Grams encampment, is useful and valu-
| able compilation. Everybody is familiar
! with the music to which these hymns are
| set but comparatively few can repeat, Off
| hand, more than few lines or any one of
them, and, curiously enough, the words of
several are not readily found, not being
! contained in ordinary collections of verse,
! perhaps because of the mistaken SUPPOSE
ton that popular familiarity with them
| renders 1t unnecessary. Confederate songs
and several foreign national hymns are in
| Guided in the collection. A brief history OF
each poem is also given.
The International Studio gives but few
of its pages to the consideration of Ameri-
can art. but in the September issue this
brief supplement contains passage worth
reading by art students. The writer says
One is indeed surprised that every sum
mer host of art students journey to Eu-
rope, at no small pecuniary Inconvenience
in order to study the paintings in the con-
| tinental museums: yet these students are
| totally unfamiliar with the treasures of our
| New York galleries. years study OF the
| latter would be none too long prepara-
| ton for the proper understanding or the
former 1t needs just as much study to ap-
| preciate museum collection as 1t does 70
| paint a picture. While most tnslgnlncant
| as compared with the museums or LONDON
and Paris, the Metropolitan and Lem *
| offer good facilities tor an Introductory
study of the worlds art in general an9
| the more advanced study OF the history OF
| American art in particular win a Hait-
dozen or more examples of Stuart, kensest,
! Inness, and two or more OF Peaie' Go0PP!iey,
! Sully Durand, Church, Bierstadt, Elliott
| and fifty or so others, we nave good Sc
| ries OF milestones marking the track OF
! American painting for a century and d
| half A review of the progress of Ameri-
| can art from Copley down is given py Tue
| same writer.
| Max Mullers recollections of royalties
that he has known are continued in the cur
rent number of CosmoDolis and form an
entertaining chapter They relate mainly
| to the German rulers, under five OF Whom
he has lived and with three of whom ne
had pleasant personal relations. He says:
Il did not know much of the personal work
| of Frederick William III, but, beginning
with Frederick William " to the present
| Emperor, 1 have had occasional glmpses
of their private life enough to show that
none of these men looked upon his place in
life a sinecure. In no case was their
throne an easy chair. Their bed was IN
very truth "a bed of iron, not bed OF
roses. These sovereigns have been at work
day and night they have shared not only
| in the triumphs, but in the priyauons ana
| sutferingS of their army. l shall never for-
get when | was at Ems, in 1871, passing the
house where the old Emperor resided, and
| there in the first story behind green cur
| tain, one could clearly see him standing al
his desk, with a lamp by his. side, reading
and signing dispatches, While everybody
| else enjoyed the cool air of the evening
nay, long after most people had gone to
| bed. The Emperor Frederick before he was
| Emperor, was unhappy about one thing
| only-that he had not work enough to do
| and if there is a sovereign indefatigable in
| the service of his country it is surely the
| present King of Prussia, the German EN-
| peror. / must say no more, for | have
| made it a rule in these recollections not to
| say anything about living persons, least of
| all royalties. Besides, through all my life
| l have tried to follow the rule that Ruskin
! lays down for himself: In every person
| who comes near you look for what is good
and strong honor that, rejoice in it, and,
| as you can, try to initiate it. p"