The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-22
CURRENT MAGAZINES.

Among the papers in the June Atlantic is
one or Carlyle and Emerson" by Mont
gomery Schuyler, and a poem by John
G. Whittier on How the Women went from
Dover"
The most tastefully illustrated article in
the June Magazine of Art is "Out of Doors
in Surrey" the subjects being sketched by
Allan Barrand. A fine engraving of Franz
Defreggei's ''Andreas Hofer at Innsbruck"
The American Naturalist for June pre-
sents an interesting illustrated study on
\ "Developmental Significance of Human
Physiognomy," showing the popularity of
different races, various animals in embryo
and at maturity.
Mays Macmillans has a continuation of
Mrs. ELEPHANTS THE WARDS Son." The
other articles are "Unwritten History" by
Professor Huxley; "A Naturalist's Para
disc" The Scotch Universities Bill" and
John Richard Green.'
The Botanical Gazette for June, edited by
John NJ. Coulter of Wabash College, con-
tains biographical sketch of Jacob Bigelow,
by l. III. Bailey, and Notes on Fresh-water
Alge," by W. S. Farlow, and the usual gen
eral and editorial notes of interest to bot
anists
Among the leading papers in the June
Popular Science Monthly are Medical
Quacks and Quackeries, by DR.. Shepherd;
Our Marriage and Divorce Laws" by Cor
don a Stewart; Evolution" by H. H.
Boye, sen, and Darwin and Copernicus" by
E. Du Bois-Reywood.
The current Lippincott opens with an IL
Illustrated article on the "Vagaries of Western
Architecture" Among the other articles
are; The London Season" Poor Jack: His
Sorrows and His JOYS" "a Roman Pen
sion, "a Night with Remenyi," 1.-The Amer
lean Sculptor Ezekiel etc.
The North American for June opens with
an interesting paper on American Manu-
featuring Interests" by Joseph Nimmo, jr.
Among the other articles are: "The Abuse
of Citizenship" by Edward Self; Herbert
Spencer's Facts and differences" by Professor
Isaac L. Rice; "a Few Words About Public
Singing" Christine Nilsson; Incidental
Taxation"
The bound volume of the Century Maya
zine contains the numbers from November,
1882, to April, 1888. The readers of the
monthly can scarcely imagine what a hand
some volume these half dozen numbers make.
One fairly revels in the choice illustrations
that cover its pages, and the text is a contin-
ual invitation to be interested there More
good reading for the money cannot be found
anywhere.
The American Exchange in Europe now
publishes a monthly magazine called
Travel" for the benefit of American tour
lists in Europe. 1t is is issued from No. 1872
Broadway, New York, and contains many
valuable facts. Besides maps showing routes
of travel, it has itemized bills of expense for
each. The cover is very handsome, the work
of the American Bank Note Company, New
York. Price, 10 cents per number
Electra is the name of new candidate for
public favor in the shape of a neat magazine,
published by Isabella M. Leyburn, Louis
vile, Ky. 1t is intended to fill the hiatus
between the strictly juvenile magazine and
those for adults, and it is intended to I'LL il
with literature suitable for and adapted to
the older-young folks. The Electra makes
good impression, and it is to be hoped that
its editors, Annie E. Williams and Isabella
NJ. Leyburn will achieve success in the COM
mendable venture.
Harper's for June opens with an illustrated
sketch on Lambeth Palace, or 'Ye Arch
bishops Inne.'" A description of the Off
cial residence of the archbishops of Canter-
bury for upward of 700 years. 1t is replete
with interest, while the fine illustrations en-
nance its attractiveness. Thomas Wentworth
Higeinson has an illustrated article on THE
Hundred Years War" referring 70 the cam
paigns between the American colonists and
the Indians from 1862 to 1868. 1t serves as a
suitable prelude to the history of the Ameri-
can republic.
The June Eclectic is particularly good.
The eighteen articles that make the number
have been selected with discriminating care,
and all are excellent. can Unsolved His
torical Riddle by James Anthony Froude,
taken from Spanish history Immediately
after the destruction of the armada,
recalls a perplexing conundrum that
will never be solved. From Blackwood's
is taken an able article on the genius of
Shakespeare and George Eliot with specula-
tons as TO what kind of literature the great
dramatist would have graced had he lived in
the Victorian instead of the Elizabethan age.