The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-09

Y~ea-and-Nay," is a p~oetical bit of fiction.
IL all historical tales were of equally high
grade they would be less OF a WEAKNESS
TO the soul. Admirable Illustrations in color
Colonel Starbottle" story. Among the no.
ticeable reproductions in black and white
are those representing a number of stud
les by Rosa Bonheur. Many of the
sketches and stories have to do with chill
dren, as is in keeping with the holiday
season. Even Mark Twain has a child for
his chief character in his story of the days
of Cromwell; Bret Harte's Colonel Star
bottle" concerns himself with the affairs of
a little girl. Sarah Orne Jewett's Honey
Tree" or. as 1t would be known In the
West, bee tree" was discovered by a boy,
who expected 10 profit greatly by the hid
den treasure. Bishop Potter writes thought
fully of Mother and Child" and E. c.
Martin of ''Other Peoples Children" Sew
eral poems have childhood for their theme.
Among contributions of a different charac-
ter are New Light on Parthenon Sculp-
lures" letters written by Mrs. Judith Page
Rives, making up an article entitled "A
Woman in the Paris Revolution of $780,"
"A Fifteenth Century Revival" In the
World OF the Azores The Story of the
Louis Stevenson" ~"Companoar the Span
ish Poet" Rosa Bonheur-an Apprecia-
tion," and The Phoenix of the Aztecs."
There is unusual variety in the contents
and a remarkable number OF notable contri-
buttons.
Fiction is the leading feature of Scrib-
ner and includes 1.-THE Making of a Pilot"
by Albert White worse, an exciting and
apparently true story, wherein the qualities
necessary TO the makeup of a pilot are adj
mirably exhibited: 9TH Turquoise Cup"
by Arthur Cosslett Smith. an entertaining
tale where the principal characters are
the Lady Nora, a lovely Irish girl, the
Earl of vauxhaIl, an Englishman, and
their good friend, the cardinal, long years
before a lover of Nora's grandmother;
The Last of the Fairy Wands," by Will
liam Henry Bishop; THE Fortunes Of
tinued from the November number. with
the beginning of divers love story; and
The Stranger Within Their Gates" by
Eleanor Stuart. The last is humorous and
is dramatically descriptive of the scenes
which led TO the confusion Of Madame lie
Bau, who aspired to be the autocrat of the
town and, as such. to be the principal in
the entertainment to be rendered by the
townspeople to the noted actor who was
expected within their gates" BENJAMIN
Paul Blood furnish a fine poem, STYLED
''Thyreus," illustrat by Andre Castaigne.
Thyreus was sent by Octavius, after the
sea fight before Actium, to win Cleopatra
from Antony. and recounts in the poem
his adventures Other poems are The
Sea Fog" a sonnet. American Por-
traiture of Children argues the inability of
artists who do not love children, and hence
cannot enter into their feelings properly
traits Of actual children by various ar
lists are reproduced as Illustrations for the
article. When the Snow Falls in the Adj
ing for those who love the .'beantifuI
snow" but gives the cold shivers to those
who prefer TO hear the raindrops fall and
TO see the bare, brown earth. The illus
trations are from photographs, reproduced
in tints. drawn by Jules Guerin. Type. pa
per. Illustrations and makeup are, as
usual, of the best.