The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-24
CURRENT MAGAZINES.

The trouble with Wide Awake is that unless
one mentions its entire contents, some good
thing will be sighted. The June number is ex-
~ceptionally good.
The June combination of the weekly issues of
the Continent makes fine appearance, and is
replete with entertaining matter, presented in
desirable shape.
Outing and the Wheelman is prcttier and
richer in illustration than ever, and is evidently
gaining in popular esteem The June number,
in addition to number of sea and cycling en-
cravings, produces Illustrations of several ex-
hibits in the National Academy.
The American Naturalist has among its con
tents for June the following papers: "The
Theory of Glacial Dam at Cincinnati" ION the
Evidence that the Earths Interior is Solid"
''Vestiges of Glacial Man in Minnesota" and
1.-THE Genesis of Crystalline Rocks
Oliver E. Lyman, in the June Popular Science
Monthly, tackles the telegraph wire and pole
evil, to the end that it is an abomination that
Ger has his second paper on THE Sins of Legisla-
tors, and DR.. Jackson one On Evolution and
Dissolution of the Nervous System"
Macmillans for May contains Matthew Ar
nod's address ON Emerson, delivered at Boston.
In addition to this it contains papers as follows:
'In Great Town Hospital" by Lady VSrney;
Frederick Denison Maurice" by the warden of
"a Chapter on French Geography" etc.
Macmillan g. Co. have in preparation conf
plete library edition, in seven volumes, to be
published monthly $l75 each, of the works
of Lord Tennyson. The first volume containing
a steel portrait after photograph by Rejlander,
will be published about June I. There will also
be limited edition printed on the best hand
made paper which win be sold only in sections
Among the contents of the June Eclectic are:
''The Coming Slavery by Herbert Spencer;
Alexander Dumas, the Elder" by Edmond
About; 'Bourgouef," 'Curiosisies of the Electric
Light 1.-The Origin of the Alphabet" Historic
London" IA New Theory Of Sun spots" by
Professor Richard A. Proctor; 'Prodigality and
Altruism,"' Wordsworth and Byron" by
Algernon Charles Swinburne.
The June Century has for its f>sntispiece an
engraving of Augustus St Gauden's statue of
Robert Richard Randall founder of the Sailors
Snug Harbor. New York Robert Grants seri-
al. IAN Average Man. is concluded, much to
the relief of it, readers who had become tired Of
pursuing it's commonplace incidents. The Illus
trated papers of this number are. "A French
American Seaport American Wild Animals
in Art and Commerce in the Colonies, be-
sides two fullpage illustrations of short stories.
The principal papers in the Botanical Gazette
for May are on the occurrence Of cork between.
theannual layers Of the stem of the larger ca
talpa tspeciosa of d.. Warder) by Prof. c. r.
Barnes of Purdue, and chronological listof the
botanical papers published by the late Prof
George Eneiemann, Of st. Louis, by O. 5.
Sargent. The papers of Dr.. Englemann cover "a
period Of hfty-one years, extending to a rev
weeks before the death of this eminent and
veteran botanist The resolutions Of respect
adopted by the Philadelphia Academy of Science
are also published. Dir Englemann was CO.
lhborer Of Gray for over forty years.