The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-10-27

less OernOrallzlnS, tnere Is nOtnlng III tHc
conditions described calling for much out
lay of sympathy sentiment. Booker T.
Washington is a contributor TO the num-
Der, his paper dealing with the dignity or
manual labor.
A new story from the pen of Mrs. Edith
Wharton is one of the things in the line OF
fiction promised by Messrs. Charles Scrib-
ner's Sons for their magazine during the
coming year. 1t is to be a novelette, about
the length of her story. 'HThe Touchstone,
ana Is entitled Sanctuary. To the 1ortn-
coming number OF Scribners Mrs Wharton
contributes 1.-THE Lady's Maids Bell,
short story. with an effect of mystery
Harper & Brothers announce for imme-
date publication one of their most i'm
portant books of the season, Goldsmith's
poem THE Deserted Village" with thirty
one illustrations by Edwin A. Abbey. K. A.
The illustrations, which have appeared ex-
cusively in Harper's Magazine during the
current year, represent Mr.. Abbeys art
at its best, and afford fine example OF
the work of the foremost American artist
of our time
MY observation has been. that most of
the bad men of the border were blue-eyed.
says E. C. Little in Everybody's Maya
zine. "A man with soft blue eye will
always be selected by a bully as a victim
in preference TO these swapping black,
brown or cold gray eyes. On the average
men possess about the same amount OF
courage, and when the blue-eyed man has
been imposed sufficiently he resents 1t;
one combat precipitates another, till he
gets reputation UP to which he feels ne
must live There is your fighting man..
The History of the American People.
to the preparation of which DR.. Woodrow
Wilson, president of Princeton University.
has devoted the best years of his life, will
be published by Harper & Brothers on Oct
% in five volumes. The publishers state
h0f SING r1or nr IL
sons history marks an epoch In American
literature, since 1t is the only actually COM
plete narrative history of the United States
In existence to-day. The work is brought
down to the accession of President Roose-
welt.
In the current number of Lippincott's
Magazine is a story entitled Doctor
Marshs Fortunate Call" whose author is
Josiah Aliens Wife. Miss Marietta Holley.
better known by her pen name, was born
in Jefferson county, New York. where she
still lives and where five generations OF
her family have resided She was educated
largely at home. and her entertaining books
are examples of common sense combined
| with spontaneous humor. She is fond of
music and painting, and in her comfortable
| and coy home is generally very busy
1.-The White World recently issued by
Lewis. Scribner & Co., of New York, has a
| special interest 1t contains the personal
narratives of twenty-five living polar ex-
| plcrers, each Of whom tells his most thrill
| Ing or interesting experience in the far
north Among the contributors to the book
| Frederick A. Cook, Maj. David l.. Brainard.
Amos Bonsall, the only survivor of the
Kane expedition. and seventeen others who
have done battle with the arctic cold. The
| stories abound in adventure-clean, thrill
| ing and truthful adventure.
| Mr.. Howells's Easy Chair" discourse In
the November number Of Harpers Maya
zine has for its theme George Eliot and
| her work, the occasion for the essay being
the recent publication of Leslie Stephens
life of this novelist. Commenting on the
sense of something grotesque In the
| spectacle of one of the greatest moralists
| who ever lived living in defiance of the
conventional morality of her civilization
he expresses this rather striking thought
"One cannot help thinking how interesting
George Eliot would have made SUCH situa.
would have marked all it's implications.
Mr. Howells grows philosophical in dis
cussing this peculiar conflict of mora
| standard and conduct.
Pearsons Magazine for November, open.
with cleverly written paper by Edward
N. Vallandigham on THE People Versu!
Politicians" giving the true story of tn,
futile opposition by his own party to Cleve
lands third nomination and his final tri
umph over his opponents at the memorabl,
Syracuse convention of 1892. Among thu
special articles is one on Mountain Pho
tography, an interesting account of tn,
difficulties and dangers which beset tn,
photographer who attempts to portra,
with his camera the ascent of Alpine peaks
GA Tattoo Artist tells of the experiment.
one who has succeeded in using no les
than seven colors in his work, and VIII
numbers among his patrons many mem
bers of royalty and of the British aristoc
racy. New York is the subject of tn
current paper in the Stories Of the States
series. There is the usual variety of fic
ton.
The November Harper contains som
good fiction-several short stories and al
installment of Mrs. Wards Lady Rose
Daughter" Among the more serious pa
pers is one by Carl Snyder on The New
est Conceptions of Life" meaning the the
DRY that physical existence is based on
system of fermentation. In conclusion h
says: LAS the discovery of the constructiv
ferments gave at last clew to a complet
account of the whole life process, so t
those who have closely and refectively fol
lowed the development of biochemistry tn
discovery of reversibility in fermentatio
may in time disclose the reversibility @
! the life process; the more concrete phrase
the arrest of death. the prevention of oil
; a paper by the late John Fiske on "Eve
luton and the Present Age" Harry d
Windt describes the journey through 81
IBERIA to Boring strait. John r. Spear
offers "A Sane View of Anthony Wayne,
Walter Hough writes of Ancient People
of the Petrified Forest of Arizona" A
Herbertson of THE Distribution of Rair
fall" and Guy Wetmore Carroll of me-
England Fisher Folk" One of the mos
valuable contributions is F. G. Kenyon
account of How the Bible Came Down I
U.s. giving as it does in brief and CON
prehensive form what ordinarily occupie
much space in many volumes. The articl
is illustrated from rare manuscripts an
prints.