The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-18
Current Periodicals.

Ainslee's for February presents, as the
novelette,. "a Natural Divorce" by Eliza
beth Duer. other familiar names among
the list of contributors are Cosmo Hamil-
ton, Harold MacGrath, Carolyn Wells,
Dorothy Dix, Theodore Roberts, Emery
Pottle, Alan Dale, Mary Moss, Albert X.
Carman, Arthur Ketchum and Charlotte
Becker.
There will be fourteen color pages i'm
Harper's Magazine for February. The
colored frontispiece, illustrating Robert
W. Chambers's story 1.-The Sphynx," is by
Henry HUT. Among other artists repre-
sented are Albert Sterner, Louis Loeb, +.
Z. fohn, w. I. Smedley. Harry Fem, or
son Lowell, Alice Barber Stephens and
Peter Newell.
The February number of The Smart Set
opens with a novelette,, THE Wanderers"
by Gertrude Lynch. The story deals with
dramatic incidents which follow a man who
has kidnapped his own child. after stormy
quarrel with his wife, who has just divorced
him. There is the usual variety OF short
fiction and miscellany, together with some
very good verse
Doubleday, Page & Co. issue part six of
Tho Poultry Book which is devoted to
special and full information from the best
sources for selecting, rearing, caring for,
and handling all varieties of game fowl.
The entire work will be completed soon in
lHlIly-SlA pdIlSs comprising Out
thousand one hundred pages, with seven
hundred and fifty illustrations being the
only comprehensive chicken book published.
In the current issue of Records of the
Past, the archaeological magazine, pub
lished in Washington, d. c., DR.. /. NJ. Cas-
anowicz writes of Oriental and Classical
Archaeology in the United States National
Museum; there Is an article dealing with
carvings of the paleolithic epoch,
caves at TeyJat and Altemira, a description
or an Etruscan chariot and a paper on
Early Christianity and Archaeology in
Greece"
The Craftsman Syracuse n. Y.,) has in
its January issue the first of promised Sc
ries of plans of ''craftsmen's houses"-that
is, houses in which simplicity, good style
and picturesqueness are united. The design
given may be constructed for an approx
mate cost of $500. but plans that may be
carried out at a cost of 5000 are promised.
Another practical illustrated article is the
first OF series treating OF the construction
of things necessary in every household.
Designs of chairs, settees and tables are
given.
The New York Tribune Almanac is the
first of the statistical ANIMALS to make its
appearance, and its welcome in every office
and at every business mans desk. where
its usefulness has once been proved is as
sured. AS a reference book covering a wide
range OF topics of current interest-politics
education, commerce, religious matters
population, pension legislation, game laws
sports, etc, etc.-it is invaluable and in
dispensable. 1t is compiled with great care
and has established a reputation for relia-
bility. 1t makes a good sized volume but
sells for % cents.
In the International Studio John Lance
for January is an interesting chapter Of
"reminiscences about Whistler by G.. H.
Boughton There are illustrated papers on
Jacques Emile Blanche" portrait painter;
The Furniture of Mr.. George Logan"
Modern Dutch Art" THE Metal Work Of
John +. Carr Lady Art Students Life
in Paris, Louis Banners Colored Chalk
Drawings" and Leaves from the Sketch
Book Of Percy Wadham." There are seven
color. In addition to the articles men
toned there is much current art gossip.
including a chapter of American Studio
Talk" The number is a very attractive
one
In Everybody's Magazine for January,
Emory r. Johnson, of the Isthmian-canal
Commission. tells what the waterway across
Panama will do for the country Congress
man John Sharp Williams tells what DEM
ocracy Now Stands For" Mrs Reginald
DeKoren writes about Western Society
and Its Leaders" her article being illus
trated by numerous portraits; and Theodore
Waters has an illustrated article on The
All-Star Baseball Team" Other contribu-
tions are Our Great Butter Crop" THE
Real Issue in Automobiles" and "A Moth
er's Autobiography An article pictur-
esquely illustrated in pencil drawings is by
Vernon Howe Bailey. mis- subject being Phil
adelphia. There are several good short
stories.