The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-01-26
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Some very entertaining fiction appears in
the February Strand. Conan Doyle and w.
w. Jacobs are among the contributors.
Among the story writer's represented in
Leslie's Monthly for February are Henry
Kitchell Webster, the author of Calumet
k" E. II. Sothern, the distinguished &C
tor; Marion Hill and S. r. Crockett.
The American edition of 1.-THE Book of
Book-Plates' will hereafter be issued by
the A. Vessels Company This charming
little quarterly will be edited by Stewart
Dick. No. of Volume is now ready.
One of the best things in Harper's Bazaar
for February is John J. a'Becket's MAN
at Work" It is a graphic picture of the
day of a New York business man who has
formed a habit of work and has many af-
fairs to look after.
Country Life in America is making ex-
tensive preparations for a Gardening
Number" which is expected to be a most
important issue of this large and beautiful
magazine. 1t will be a double number,
covering every branch of plant-growth.
A complete and well-illustrated account
of the crusade of the Doukhobors, who a
few months since were wandering through
the Canadian Northwest in their pathetic
search for a visible God, appears in Les
lies Monthly for February. The article Is
written by a correspondent of the maya
zine who accompanied the pilgrims and
writes Of what he saw.
The woman's Home Companion for Feb
ruary is a patriotic number. ''Lincolns
Neglected Birthplace" 1.-The Birthplace Of
the American Flag" and George Gibbss
picture illustrating the battle between the
Scraps and the Bonhomme Richard. speak
of the quality of the magazine. The fiction
includes 1.-The Flight OF Fenella," short
Tho Naf
American hawks.
The complete novel contained in the Feb
ruary Lippincott is by Alice Duer Miller, en-
titled "a Man of His Word" The motive
in "A Man of His Word" is the moral obli-
gation of a member Of the Four Hundred
to marry a young school teacher because
her mother had saved his life at the ex-
pense of her own. Before her death she
whispered to her debtor. Marry my daugh-
ter" Mrs. Miller herself belongs to one
of the old and exclusive New York families.
The magazine contains eight short stories,
besides several contributions of more
serious character.
Success introduces many subjects of
interest to the home circle. One in
teresting article is that entitled my Rise
from the Slums to Manhood" the true
story of his life by Owen Kildare, the au-
thor, who tells, in an intensely interesting
and touching manner, of his varied expert
orphan when an infant. political Econo-
N.Y. the third in the series. IF You Can't
Go to College" gives much valuable in
formation and advice to those who may
desire to take up, out of college, course Of
study on this subject.
In the midwinter Book-Lover are more
than fifty articles-among them papers on
1.-The Bodleian Library" "reminiscences Of
Famous Literary Men," "A Unique Collec-
ton of German Classics" Among Con-
stantinople Bookshops," "Asiatic Book and
Library Lore" Famous Miniature Lii
Bound i'm Human Skim etc. The illustra-
tions are numerous and illustrative in fact
as well as attractive to the eye. The
frontispiece Is a finely bound book repro
duced in full colors-six printings being re-
quired to produce Ii effectively. This we'll
edited periodical is one to be thoroughly en-
joyed by every lover Of books.
The Eclectic Magazine for February
opens with an interesting review of Poetry
in the Nineteenth Century, reprinted from
the Edinburgh Review. Other articles Of
literary Importance study OF Burns
as an English Poet by Christie Murray.
and an article by Edmund Gosse on Philip
James Bailey-that poet of a single great
poem, who made the one literary achieve
ment of his career in his youth and spent
most of a long life in revising and ampli-
flying II. A paper on owls, by r. Bos-
worth Smith. Is diverting and informing
contribution .ot TO- natural history and
Naturalists Picnic on the Oregon Coast"
is in the same field.
The Journal Of the United States Cav
airy Association. published quarterly by
officers of the army at Fort Leavenworth,
Kan. while a class journal exclusively. is
one full of interest to all persons with
| military tastes. There is presented bio
graphical sketch of Aguinaldo. translated