The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-02-12

The 10 Story Book" (Chicago) contains
in each issue nine short stories by living
contributors and one masterpiece from an
earlier period. The opening tale in the
February issue is by Cyrus Townsend
Brady, the closing one by Washington
Irving.
In the Home Magazine for February is
an interesting paper the industrial
awakening of the South. A description of
the curios in the shops of any large city's
Chinatown" makes up another contribu-
ton. presidents and Presidential Sue
cession" is the theme of a third. va
riety of fiction, a review of the theater
for the month matters OF special interest
to women and a department for children
make up the number.
Joel Chandler Harris's serial. Gabriel
Tolliver," is to be important feature of
the Era (Philadelphia) this year, the Feb
ruary number containing three chapters.
The article which will probably attract
most attention in this number is that by
Thomson Jay Hudson on 1.-The Rise. Prog
ress and Decline OF Modern Spiritism"
Themes of other papers are; Prehistoric
Ruins of Southern Colorado" Jay Cook,
Federal Financer," "Hawthorne's Lone
illness" and Literary Landmarks of Lon
DON"
Your true collector, whatever may be
for every other collector. Therefore it is,
presumably, that the editor of the Literary
Collector has given space in his periodical
to an article by G.. Wharton James on 1.-The
Collecting of Indian Baskets" Mr.. James
offers a variety of interesting information.
Among the features dealing with the in
terest of the book lover are 'Bookbinding
for Bbliophiles, "Meditations of an Auto
graph Collector" Some Early Hudson
River Imprints' and 1.-The Years Highest
Book Prices"
The publishers of the Army and Navy
Register Washington, d. c., issued with
that publication on Feb. 1 an illustrated
supplement that adds materially to the
value of the paper. 1t is their intention to
continue this feature on the first Saturday
of each month. The Illustrations of army
and navy subjects will prove valuable and
are exceptionally interesting now that both
branches of the service are stationed in
foreign parts, doing duty where the sur
roundings are peculiar and making history
under novel circumstances. The pictures
in this issue of a troop of American caval-
ry under the great Chinese wall and again
in the Avenue of Statues, where huge
stone elephants guard the TANKS of the
troop, are unique and worth preservation.
The naval pictures, too, are out of the or
binary.
That the experiences of the aspiring au-
thor are a perennial source of interest to
considerab BILE class of readers-all other
piring authors, to wits evidently the opin-
ion of the editors of literary periodicals,
judging by the space they are willing to
give them. In the current number of the
Bookman a young woman who confesses
herself to be a would-be writer presents
a chapter of her experience with editors.
In the course of it she says: Il have found
I hn of obi MOI ff ar1la Fl hat
of magazine editors, unfailing, their pa
thence wonderful and their tact amazing.
Only once have i ever met with anything
but the utmost courtesy from an editor,
and that, / am sorry 10 say, was from
woman She had just been elevated TO
the editorial chair of a prominent womans
magazine and evidently did not know the
traditions of the office. | need not tell here
how she endeavored to make me feel the
great gulf fixed between her position and
mine the editors and the unknown writ
ers. But she is the only editor I have
ever met whose manner even remotely sug
gested the Office boys" Now, what editor
can this be?