The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-25
Current Magazines

The supplementary sheets of the Art Amateur
are features that other art magazines might well
initiate, and are themselves worth the subscrip-
ton price of this popular authority and guide IN
art
The American Naturalist for March contains
papers on: "The Grab Parasite, Saceulina,"
Grave Mounds in North Carolina and East Ten
nessee,' Anatomy ana Physiology of the Fam
lily Nepidal," and The Creodonta"
The Cincinnati Week. one of the best if not
the best illustrated hebdomadal publications in
the West suspended publication with its last is
sue after an existence of just six months. The
Queen City would have done well to sustain 1t
more literally.
Anna Maynard Butler gives an illustrated
sketch of Berlin of to-day in the March Lippin-
colt. 'The Brown Lady" is good short story.
and "a Winter Campaign in the Black Hills is
an engaging sketch of a winters life and adven-
lures among the Indians of the Black Hills re-
gion.
''The Value of a Line paper on the advan-
tages of free hard rough sketches with pen and
ink as illustrating ideas that would require much
space to make plain by use of words only, is
feature of the current Continent 1t is properly
illustrated to elucidate the idea and will be read
with interest.
The numbers of the Living Age for Feb. 16
and % contain the literary life of Anthony
Trollope, "The Copts of Ell Islam," 1.-THE In
spiration of Death in Folklore" DAILY Life
in Medieval Monastery" winter Life at
Spitzbergen" 1.-THE Four Silver Pennies,
Beauty and the Beast" ETC.
Two articles in the March number of the Pop
ular Science Monthly, 1.-THE Remedies of Ma
ture" and Fashion and Deformity in Feet, ="
have practical interest to everybody, and will
attract attention wherever read. A paper by
Prof W. H. Larrabee on Green Suns and Red
Sunsets" is of special interest now.
Outing and the Wheelman not only continues
to live, but richly deserves to live 1t presents
monthly very palatable and nutritious spread
for lovers of the wheel and all out door sports.
The illustrations are fine as the finest, and the
subject-matter good The March number con-
tains interesting illustrated article amateur
entomology.
The Eclectic for March publishes entire the
speculative story 'Old Lady Mary" a narrative
of the dsembodied souls experience in Purga
tory or Paradise, and its subsequent visit to
earth. Another selection of Ivan Tourguenef's
'Senilia' is given from Macmillan's Professor
Proctor's Earthquake Weather is republished
from Comhill. An excellent number.
The Bay State Monthly John N. McClintock
G. Co., 81 Milk street, Boston, contains fund
of interesting literature of especial interest to
citizens of Massachusetts and to the public at
large. Among the articles of the March number
1.-THE Old Stores and Postoffice of Groton, y
'Lovewell's War" The First Baptist Church
in Massachusetts, THE First Schoolmaster of
Boston" etc.
The February Keynote. No l of the second
volume, contains portrait of Richard Wagner.
1t presents fair record of music and the drama.
but allows its Fort Wayne correspondent to close
his notes with the statement that Buffalo Bill
is our next attraction" No reputable publication
should do free advertising for entertainments of
that character The patrons of the Jesse James
style of stage business do not read.
Macmillans for the current month contains a
paper by John Morley on THE Expansion of
England" Among the other articles are: "The
Winter Exhibitions" referring to the annual
displays of pictures made at Burlington House
and New Bond street, London; the second paper
on "The Literature of Introspection' and "a
Serbian Poet" a biographical sketch of Branko
Radichevich, the Slav verse writer of the former