The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-08
MAGAZINE NOTES.

| 'St Ives is concluded in the current
number of the Pail Mall Magazine.
In full-page illustration, Relyea, the
artist, has caught the spirit of the verses
| admirably.
The November Home Magazine is a
special Thanksgiving number. This maya
zine is published by the Commercial Travel
| ers' Association.
| George Gisssing has a story in the Eng
! lish Illustrated Magazine of a man who
| contracted the e-reading-room habit. 1t
| is a clever study of mental dry rot.
| Mr. A. j. Halford contributes regularly
chapter of matters diplomatic" to the In
| ternational Magazine of Chicago This
magazine offers translations from French,
| German, Italian and other foreign period
| icals.
The Carnegie Institute of Pittsburg,
sends out very attractive illustrated cata-
logue of the pictures displayed at its Sec
ond annual exhibition, which opens this
week and continues till January Mr. r. c.
Steele is the only Indianapolis artist repre-
scented.
The leading illustrations in the current
number of Arts in America, which is the
national organ of the Central Art Associa-
ton, are from the St. Louis exposition
Considerable, attention is given, also, to
prominent china painters and their work.
The magazine is published in Chicago.
What to Eat deals with the aesthetics of
the home we'll as with the cuisine. The
current number describes two pretty dining
rooms, makes suggestions as to proper
serving and offers a rhymed tribute to the
chatting dish girl. In the culinary depart
ment are instructions in the art of making
tea and coffee.
Meehan's Monthly, published at German
town, Pa, is doing good work in bringing
to popular attention the merits and beauties
Of American wild flowers. The little maya
zine gives attention to general gardening
department devoted native
fora, and each number contains a fine color
plate representing one of these plants
Curina Mariana, or American dittany is
shown in the November issue
Readers who are familiar with Grant AL
len only through his very unpleasant chill
top" novels and other not very satisfactory
tales will hardly recognize him in his ma
ture studies. In series of outdoor papers
shows himself close an observer OF ma
ture as John Burroughs or the late William
Hamilton Gibson The current chapter is
devoted to woodland tragedies caused by
the shrike or butcher bird.
A girl in red cape driving a flock of
turkeys is the autumn picture shown on the
cover of McClure's Magazine for November
The number opens with chapter of Mark
Twain's diary of voyage from India to
South Africa which will form mar,
of his forthcoming book. The writer seems
to have lost nothing of his quaint humor
and the new book, if maintained throughout
larity his ''Innocents Abroad"
Art Education is the title of an attractive
monthly issued by the j. C. Walter Com
pany, rs Fifth avenue, New York. It's pur-
pose is to further the progress of art in
struction and manual training in schools,
ard a number of it's contributors are en-
gagged in practical work in manual train
ing schools. 1t is handsomely printed and
illustrated. Among other articles in the
current number Is paper on elementary
sloyd (whittling in the schoolroom) for
fourth-grade pupils.
Russia as 1t Is ''How the Scepter of
the Sea Passed to England" "Europe's
New Invalid 1.-THE Sepoy Revolt at Del
hi Golf, It's Present and It's Future
THE Distances of the Stars" Color in
Photography Socialism in France" and
THE Germans and Their Kaiser are sub
jects of some of the. papers from English
periodicals contained in the November
Eclectic. 1t is the cream of the English
magazines that is contained in the Eclectic,
the best of judgment being used in making
the selections.
James Whitcomb Riley's lines to Mister
Hop-Toad,' in November st. Nicholas, pro-
TESS to give the greeting of an old farmer
to the little batrachian when he first dis
covers him in the spring The old man ex-
claims:
"Howdy, Mister Hop-Toad! Glad to see
Bin month o Sundays sence L seen you
hereabOut.
Kind O. bin a-layin' in from the frost and
snow?
Good to see you out agin, it's bin so long
ago."
Mr.. Andrew Lang's notes on new books
in the current Cosmopolis are devoted main
ly to one book, namely, Hall Gaines
Christian" Among other things he SAYS:
Zone of the characters, on Page 30, quotes
the phrase. applied to sermon. a regular
rousing rampage for souls The Chris
tan is 81 rampage for souls, a tract not a
novel; and. oh, what a long tract it is! /
would not hurt the feelings of the editor of
the War Cry or of the London Journal
periodical lent to me by one of the maids i'm
my childhood But If these editors had
combined to write novel. blending the art
less pety of the one with that love of ad-
venture and intimate knowledge of society
which used TO mark the other. the result
might have resembled The Christian -
The New England Magazine for Novem-
Der opens with a carefully prepared history
of the famous frigate Constitution. whose
centennial anniversary was celebrated in
Boston few days ago. Supplementing this
is a sketch of Essex Hopkins. first admiral
of the American navy. Among other con-