The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-12-15

bers the words and music Of the famous
Christmas song, "Cantique pour Noel A
portrait OF Adolph Adam, the composer, Is
given. The many busy people who find 1t
impossible to read much current literature
and yet wish to keep In touch with the do
ings of the literary world find in this care
fully edited review of Literature, Art and
Life" a treasure which they would not will
ingly dispense with 1t affords them a
glimpse of this wide field and is itself good
literature.
The Cosmopolitan Magazine opens with
an essay by Edgar Saltus on The Mys-
terry of Beauty" 1t is accompanied by nu-
merous Illustrations. Charles A. Towne de-
tails some of the plans for the Paris worlds
fair. In Great Engineering Projects"
Walter G.. Hamm discusses the building Of
the Siberian Railroad and the possibilities
OF other transcontinental roads. as through
Africa and Central and South America. An
essay on "The Woman Question" by Olive
Schreiner is a ~forceful argument against
making civilized woman a mere dependent
on man and a collaborating animal. That
| IT will result in the degeneration of the
race she shows by numerous examples of
the past. Olga Nethersole contributes an
interesting account of her struggles to sue
coed. Although she has succeeded, she has
found the struggle so hard that she advises
other girls not 10 make the attempt. A
prize article written by Flora u. Briggs has
for its theme 1.-The Child Brought Up at
I1OIHt. f1eUTy TiUSe1y ENduS WHITES VI
Madame Blavatsky. whom he believes not
to have possessed any occult powers be-
yond a possible ability to hypnotic certain
susceptible subjects. Stories in the num-
Der are by A. Conan Doyle, Frank X.
Stockton and Maarten Martens. The pub
fishers offer a series of prizes to the stu
dents of a number of specified universities
for the best papers on Modern Education:
Does it Educate in the Broadest and Most
Liberal Sense of the Term?" A number Of
state universities are included in the list,
but not that of Indiana. NOtre Dame Is
named, however.
Finer specimens of color printing will
hardly be found in any of the holiday pub
locations than in the Christmas number Of
Truth. The cover itself is a color study
and a triumph of the printers art. Several
of the full-page pictures are reproductions
from paintings by ~well-known artists.
There are also many black and white il
lustrations. The number is nearly twice the
usual size. and contains a variety of
poems, sketches, stories, ETC., by such con-
tributors as Julian Ralph. Tudor jerks.
Charles F. Lummis, Gustav Kobbe, Paul
Laurence Dunbar and Madison Cawein.
An interesting paper by Ethel d. Puffer
treats of the American Christmas card
and the influence it had as an art educa-
tor. Twas a small candle when lighted"
says the author, but we are still illumi-
mated by it's beams. To-day, when every
schoolchild knows his co~lor-standard, and
makes astonishingly pretty little color
studies, We older ones may remember the
dreary plodding, with pencil and crayon,
through the endless sets OF geometrical
designs inflicted upon US and rejoice that
the first interest in color-teaching was a
part of this movement. A small thing in
aesthetical as well as ethical life, If done
well and persistently, and with ideal mo-
tives has results that are not small; and
the American Christmas card, though it's
greatest days have passed, is still a monu-
ment to the power for artistic education of
the best kind of 'commercialism in art. "
This article is illustrated by some rich bits
of color Accompanying each number of
this issue of Truth is a handsome calendar
in three panels.