The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-12-17

Concerning periodicals..
The Macmillan Company announces that
it has ceased to act as the publisher
of the International Monthly. All COM
munications for that journal should be adj
dressed to the International Monthly, Bur-
lington, VT.
Henry Norman. whose articles on "Rus-
STA of To-day are now appearing in Serb
ner's, has been recently elected TO Parlia-
ment as a Liberal by a large majority.
Mr.. Nornan's articles show. a wide knowl-
edge of public affairs.
If a thief were to steal your purse, and
leave a valuable diamond ring in your
pocket. what would you do with the ring?
This is the situation that confronts the
heroine of "A Comedy of Conscience" a
long story by DIR. Weir Mitchell, which
will be printed complete in the January
Century.
An article of note i'm the january number
of McClure's Magazine will be entitled
Great Achievements in Modern Bridge
Guiding by Mr.. Frank w. Skinner, of
he Engineering Record. Here are sketched
wildly the chief bridges of recent times
and the manner of their building. The text
IS enriched by illustrations from photo
graphs and a page drawing by Mr.. George
Earian.
Together with a mass of other interesting
domestic details appearing in the January
tat1h AeetN AAtet I'll ~
on Mexican candies This will be of in
ierest to women who wan to introduce
novelties at the table during the holiday
| season. A practical article in the same
number deals with winter vegetables, how
to secure variety and how to make the
vegetables ~palatable.
Music, Song and Story is the descriptive
title of a forthcoming new magazine to be
ready early in December with a holiday
issue dated January, 1901. 1t will attempt
to answer every demand for home reading
and entertainment. and in addition to the
ordinary contents of an illustrated literary
magazine will provide sixteen pages of new
shees music with every issue. II is to be
published monthly at 10 cents a copy or 81
a year from "A Fifth avenue, New York.
Grams Magazine for December abounds
with articles of value TO those who de-
sire to keep in close touch with the world
movements of to-day. Among these may
be mentioned 1.-The Crisis in China by
Editor Clare; The Industrial Crisis in Ger
many" by Consul General Mason; The
Solic South" by .Ex-Tennessean;" Con
gressional Reapportiorment,' by Editor
Murray-Aaron. Our Foreign Trade" by
Professor Allen, not to mention the various
topics discussed in Editor Clare's regular
department of THE Worlds Doings."
and I'm Washington Corridors" by
A.. Logan. In addition 10 these .'The
Worlds Greatest Business House." a
sketch of the enormous business Of our
national postal system, "As to Coffee Sub
stitutes' and 1.-THE California Big Trees"
by Prof. Charles e. Aaron, are articles of
practical interest and value.
Mr.. Beckles Wilson describes in the
Christmas number of Cassells Magazine
the Canadian sport of relocating. OF the
speed attained by these queer craft Mr..
Wilson says: 'To those who have never
seen an iceboat dart away and shrink to
a mere speck on the horizon in a few min
utes, the speed, were 1t not we'll vouched
for, would be wholly incredible. A gen.
tleman residing at Poughkeepsie wished
to speak 10 his brother, who had just start
ed by train for New York. He therefore
sprang into his iceboat, soon passed the
train. although Ii was an express, and
was on the platform of the station at New
burg when the train drew up. AT one
point of his journey he had made two miles
in one minute. Nevertheless, in spite of
the various published records, it may con-
fidently be stated that the greatest speed
is never recorded. because it always oc-
ours when no one is expecting it. Over
one hundred miles in al hour is, however,
an authenticated performance"
The chief feature of the holiday number
of the Smart Set is the novelette, that won
the 5000 prize in the magazines recent
story competition. Manuscripts by the
thousand were submitted from all parts
of the world TO this competition, 1T is said,
many of them by famous writer's. The
story winning the first prize. and now
published, is entitled "The Congressman
Wife" and is by John D.. Barry. 1t is a
! realistic and fascinating story of political
and social life i'm New York and Washing
ton. and narrates the career of a brilliant
young member OF Congress and his beauti-
fui wife, who become involved in political
scandals and themselves estranged. Barry
is an experienced writer. having already
published several clever stories. The num-
Der in addition contains an attractive array
OF graceful and witty short stories and
poems by such writers as Julien Gordon
(Mrs. Van Rensselaer, Cruger). Elizabeth
| Duer. Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Barry Pain,
Gwendolen Overton. Henry Gallup Paine
and Paul Laurence Dunbar. There is an
article on The Dickens Christmas by
Stephen Fiske. who was a personal friend
OF the great novelist. that reveals for the
first time the origin OF the holiday tales
that nave brought so much delight at this
| season to youth and age throughout the
world.
The January Parsons being published
on Dec. Is. Is the first magazine 20 appear
bearing the date of 1901. IL opens with q
clever poem by w. J. hampton on "The
Twentieth Century" There follows an In
teresting article by George Griffith. who
holds the record for travelling around the
world In the shortest time, in which he