The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-01
CURRENT MAGAZINES.

CURRENT MAGAZINES.
Mr.. John C. Ochiltree. the well-known In
diana newspaper man. has a pathetic
Christmas story in the January Harper. 1t
is a story with a moral or, rather, with
lesson fitted to the season.
A story of Pomerania in the sixteenth CEN
fury is coming from the pen of S. K. Crock
EFT. Under the title of 1.-THE Red Axe it
will be published as a serial in 6arper's
Weekly during the &c, coming year An. Anotaer
ISOLATED Hermits' humorous story by Mr..
Frank r. Stockton.
What to Eat, the enterprising housekeep-
er's magazine, is engaged in the laudable
effort to encourage the demand for pure food
and to create public opinion in the matter
that will tend to lessen the production of
adulterated articles.
The White City Art Company (Chicago)
issues another of it's reproductions of Art
Idols of the. Paris Salons''-all studies of
the nude. OF the six pictures one is an An
dromeda by Duran, Diana by Chantron,
and third a Psyche and Cupid by Bou-
guereau.
Women who contemplate engaging in
chicken raising as a money-making business
will do we'll to read Octave Thanets anus
ing account in Harper of the experience of
two women in that industry Then they
will be disposed to undertake something in
volVing fewer risks.
"A une portrait EuInuflQ Clarence Oleu-
man forms the frontispiece of Current Liter
allure for January. Busy people who have
little time for magazine reading may get a
general idea of what the periodicals are do
ing from the selections in this monthly OF
contemporary record.
1t is the plan of the publishers of Serb
ners Magazine to gather together the origi-
Story of the Revolution" into a gallery OF
art, which will be exhibited in various cit
les of the country under the auspices OF va
riouS chapters of the patriotic societies.
Mr. F. c. Yohn, formerly of Indianapolis,
is one of the artists who will illustrate Sen
ator Lodges STORY of the Revolution"
just begun in Scribner. He is associated
with Howard Pyle and E. c. Peixotto. The
work of preparing the drawings has been
under way for many months, and the series
will be historical pictures of much merit.
The next thing which we are to expect
from the pen of Rudyard Kipling is song
of torpedoes and topedo boats. He calls it
1.-THE Destroyers," and has contributed 1t to
McClure's Magazine. A prose story by Mr..
Kipling will also appear in an early number
of the same magazine. 1t is tale OF Eng
lish school life, introducing the same anus
ing characters that appeared in his Slaves
of the Lamp"
Thomas Nelson Page begins in the Janu-
airy Scribner a serial story entitled RED
Rock-A Chronicle of Reconstruction"
Lloyd Osbourne has South sea story,
Reginald De Koven discourses of Some
rem writes about "A French Literary Cir
cle," and Helen Watterson Moody contrib
utes another of her characteristic papers
on 1.-THE Unquiet SeX'-this relating TO
woman and reforms.
The leading serial story of Harper's
Monthly for the year is to be by Henry
Seton Merriman 1t is entitled "Roden's
Corner" and is a story of London and The
Hague. The opening chapter is in the jan
uary number, and promises Wet. Among
the short stories is rather striking one by
Margaret Sutton BriScoe, based on an origi-
nal theme-that of the posing of a young
woman as the mourning fiancee OF a young
man supposed to be dead only to be COM
PEELED to confess, when he Unexpectedly re-
turned, that he had never spoken word
of love to her.
Success which is published at Cooper
Union, New York, announces itself an
"up-to-date journal of inspiration, encour-
agement, progress and self-help." 1t is at
tractively printed and contains variety Of
matter, largely illustrated, from the lives
of successful men, showing young men and
women how to get on in the world in various
lines of occupation. Shall Go into Bust
ness for ,Myself?" Can 1 Afford to Go TO
COllege" Building a Business" 1.-THE Art
of Pleasing" My First Thousand Dollars"
and Ready for the Opportunity are titles
of articles indicating the practical character
of the periodical.
A notable feature of Scribner for the COM
ing year will be Senator Lodges STORY of
the Revolution" the first chapters of which
appear in the January number. The work
is said to have been in preparation for a
long time, and will undoubtedly be a vai-
liable contribution to the history of the pc
riod. Mr.. Lodges fine literary ability,
added to his experience with the workings
of the government, give him qualifications
for the work he, has undertaken which no
other writer on the revolutionary period has
possessed. The. opening installment gives
an account Of the Continental Congress in
TIA and the men who dominated it.
Mrs. Martha Littleheld Phillips contrib
utes to the January Century a chapter of
"Recollections of Washington and his
Friends, as preserved in the family of Gen.
Nathaniel Greene. Mrs. Phillips was the
adopted child. and for many years the con-
slant companion of her grandmother Cornell
ia, next to the youngest daughter of Gen.
Greene. From the lips of her grandmothe
who died during the civil war; the author
times. Cornelia Greene visited the Wash
ingtons at Mount Vernon when she was
with the President and his wife at philade-
phia. Her family was also on intimate
terms with Lafayette, and she knew many
history. The recollections are given as
nearly as possible in her own words.
The Northwestern Miller, trade maya
zine published at Minneapolis, was formerly
accustomed to celebrate the holidays by
issuing a special number containing much
fine illustration and literary contributions
in addition to a vast amount of statistical
information and matter relating to the
wheat and milling interests. The last issue
of the kind was sent out in 1893, since which
| time commercial depression has discouraged
such ventures This season it Signalizes the
return of prosperity by resuming it's old
custom and appearing in especially magniti-
cent FORM Some of the finest typographical
effects are found in the trade publications,
and this is one of the finest specimens Of its
kind. In large quarto size. printed on super
calendered paper and with artistic illustra-
tions, some of them in colors, it's seventy
five pages are well worth examination, adj
vertisennents and all, even by those not in
terested in the milling business. The cover
which shows embossed representation Of
Don Quixote and Sancho Panza on the &C.
casiOn when the former engages in a tilt
with windmill is unique and attractive
The literary contributors are Mary Hallock
Foote Octave Thanet George E. Graves.
Edward Everett Hale, Margaret Holmes
Bates and W. 5. HARDWOOD.
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