The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-11-27

M. Maurice Maeterlinck is little known as
a writer of songs. but the Critic for the
coming Christmas will be enabled to pub
lish a selection of these songs, together
with translations by Mrs. Mary j. Ser
rano.
The Mcclure Company has just issued
a complete index of the contents of Nc
Clure's Magazine from Volume 1 to 1S-
June. 1893. to April, 1902. This pamphlet
will be found of much service when look
ing up the information often to be found
nowhere but in periodicals.
The calendar Issued by Frank Leslie's
Popular Monthly will please the students
of at least three universities. Pictures of
handsome young women represent Harvard.
Princeton and Pennsylvania. They are
dressed in the colors of their respective
| schools, and beneath each is printed the
college yell.
The Smart Set for December opens with
Winning Him Back" a humorous nov
elette by Anita Vivanti Charities. Among
the short stories is The Builder of the
Lighthouse by Molly Elliot Seawell. a
romantic tale, of which the scene is laid
on the borders of the st. Lawrence. There
is the usual variety of the stories, sketches
and poems that differentiate this sprightly
periodical from other monthlies.
In an interesting article in 1.-The Allan
tic" on literature in the tenements, Eliza
beth McCracken tells many suggestive an
ecdotes. One concerns VANITY Fair" and
it's effect upon a tenement girl. She was
asked which of the people she liked best.
Becky" said the girl; 'she had the most
to her. OF course Amelia was good and
Becky wasn't-but l sorter think Amelia
just happened to be good: she didn't decide
to be. Becky would or been a hundred
times better than Amelia If she'd been
brought up difrent."
Ainslee's for December opens with a very
dramatic story of modern life. entitled.
THE Unequal Yoke" by Meth Boyce.
Molly Elliot Seawell contributes a very
pretty love story entitled. BLACK or Red?'
John Gilmer Speed writes entertainingly,
and with impartiality about The Bachelor
Maid The first short story that Edgar
Saltus has published in a long time ap-
pears in this number under the title, 1.-The
Dear Departed" There is an unusual
variety of clever fiction in the number, and
numerous sketches-in all about thirty-five
contributors
Among the Christmas numbers Leslie's
Will oPP1oAS III Oi ScPNSAah
form. The number of pages is increased; a
story by Egerton Castle. printed in tint, and
one by Seumas on colored pa
per, and a collection of full-page %illustra-
lions by John Cecil Clay, Reginald Birch,
W.. Glackens, Florence Scovel Shinn, John
wolcott Adams, H. NJ. Eaton and Howard
Giles illuminate the magazine. There are
stories by Ralph Connor. Harry Stiilwell
Edurordc Anna Katharine Grpar Eden
Phillpotts, Emerson Hough, author of the
mississippi Bubble" and others.
The opening article in Parsons Maya
zine for December is a clever sketch of the
Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, or in the terse
phrase of an admiring African chieftain,
1.-THE man who gets things DONE OF in
terest also will be found the article on
Uncle Sans Pocketbook," which, by it's
statistics of the cost of maintaining the
various governmental departments and the
comparative expenditures of continental
governments for similar purposes, shows
that despite the American reputation for
reckless extravaganza our country's
finances are most carefully administered
There is a variety Of pleasant fiction.
For a year DR.. s. Weir Mitchell had sent
to him from one of the clipping agencies
all the reports tina could be found in the
American daily papers of heroism in every
day life. DR.. Mitchell has written an ar
ticle for the December Century giving the
results of this search. One Of the sur
prising facts is the many instances of he
roic acts by children. OF fifty-three trust
worthy statements of children under ff-
teen who have tried to save others from
water. fire or other danger, twelve con-
cerned girls who tried to save drowning
persons previously unknown to them. In
three undoubted instances little boys of
four, five and six years OF age respective
ly risked their lives in saving others at
fires.
The Craftsman, a four-year-old magazine,
is a fine specimen of printing and illustra-
ton, and its October and November num-
bers are very readable. 1t was started by
the United Crafts, another "Roycroft'' or
ganization at or near Syracuse, ". Y, as
an exponent of the William Morris ideas,
combining art and labor, and has continued
to appear monthly for the past year. The
purpose OF IL is commercial. evidently, the
United Crafts being the manufacturers of
certain hand-made and simple but artistic
! furniture. which 1t Is one OF the chief fea-