The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-08-30
THE FIELD OF LITERATURE.
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bibiophilist to indulge his wishes for good Things
in the line of mental food. Ham
mertons delightful essays are here
put in form that will engage
the eye of him who loves to see his favorite in
pretty dress becoming to its excellence. All of
the essays here presented are of character to
entertain the general reader, while at the same
time the moral or lesson of each is So subtly
taught as to put itself in possession of the reader
before he is aware of it. The style is pleasing
and simple, accommodated to all readers. In his
essay on "Women and Marriage, he says
aMen choose their wives because they are
pretty, or because they are rich, OF because they
are we'll connected, but rarely for the permanent
interest of their society Yet who that had
ever been condemned to the dreadful en1barrass-
ments of a tete-a-tete with an uncompan ionable
person could reflect without apprehension on
lifetime of such tete-a- tetesl
ssWhen intellectual men suffer from this mis-
cry they have themselves to blame. What IS
the use Of having any mental superiority II, IN
o matter so enormously important as the choice
Of a companion for life, it fails to give us
warning when the choice is absurdly unsuitable!
When men complain, as they do, not untre-
quently, that their wives have no ideas, the
question inevitably suggests itself why the SUI
periority Of the masculine intellect did not, IN
these cases. permit it to discover the defect in
time. If we are so clever as TO be bored by or
binary women, why can not our cleverness ind
out the feminine cleverness which would re-
spond to it,
What I am going 10 say now is. in its very
nature incapable Of proof. and yet the longer
live the more the truth Of it is borne in upon
me- feel convinced that for every grade of
the masculine intellect there exists CORE
spo nding grade of the feminine intellect, so that
q precisely suitable intellectual marriage is al
ways possible for everyone. But since the
higher intelleets are rare, and rare in proper
ton to their elevation, it follows that the diff
Guilty of finding the true mate increases with
the mental strength and culture of the man. If
the mental princes, as Blake called himself, are
10 marry the mental princesses, they will not
always discover them quite so easily as kings
sons find kings daughters
THE COMPLETE ANGLER. OR CoNFENfPLATIvE MANS
RECREATION Izaak Walton aud Charles Cotton.
Edited by John Major, from the fourth London
edition. Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., No. ID Astor
Place, New York. Price e.
A beautiful reprint of the best London edition
(1844I with the seventyfo quaint engravings
on steel or wood and fac smile of the original
title (1653) which is SO unique one is tempted to
cut it out and frame it. TO read Walton is
better than the fishing itself although the book
is too fine for the ordinary pot or game fisher.
Had the book been called ''The Divine Art of
Contentment or 1.-THE True Christian Philos-
opher to quote Majer its contents would
have justified either title. But to say anything
Of Izaak Walton is carrying Goals to Newcastle.
For two hundred years meek Waltons heavenly
memory has been with the English people and
the swil1ing captiyes of his imperishable
ne.r Walton knew the value Of riches,
Of good conscience, of religion,
Whilenet written for preachers, it is book they
might often read with benefit indeed. it is too
good for many of them. From the title page
verse, siSimon Peter said 1 go a-fshing and
they said we also will go with thee, to his bene-
diction, .sAnd let the blessing of ST. Peters
Master be with and upon all that are lovers of
virtue, and dare trust in His providence, and be
quiet and go a-angling,n Walton impresses his
reader with the sincerity, modesty and virtue of
his whole course. Washington Irving made the
right use of Walton when, instead of fishing, he
gave it up and ''passed the day under tho trees,
reading old Izask, satisfied that it was his fas-
einating vein of honest simplicity and rural feel
ing that had bewitched me- and not the passion
Cor angling
MePHERsoN's HASDBooK or PoLITIcs FOR 1884
BY Hon Edward Jefferson, LII. D., late Clerk
of the House of Representatives United States
James j. Chapman Washington, D. G.; Bowen,
Stewart q Co., Indianapolis Pr1ce $S
This work has come to be accepted as authority
on all eminent political information, the material
being collected with the utmost fidelity and the
truth adhered to in all cases, partisan bias hav-
ing no part in colorng the data col
,ected. It is, therefore, Of Invaluable
nd to anybody wishing to use political facts in
any way. The present volume contains all the
important national legislation Of the past two
years, the decisions of the Supreme Court, text
Of Important bills passed, together with notes on
the same, including the ciSil-service act, the
tariff of 1885, the American merchant marine
act, and the supplemental act touching Chinese
immigration. OF these, the first two were en-
acted by the Forty-seventh Congress and the
last two by the Forty eighth. The entire record
Of the proceedings on each is contained in this
volume; also the action upon the unsettled and
pending questions of the electoral count, the
presidential succession, the national bank cir
culation, trade dollar, interstate commerce,
national aid to common schools, supplemental
antipolygamy legislation, unearned land grants,
the enlargement Of the navy, and the principles
on which our pension system to soldiers and
sailors is TO be reconstructed There are also a
number of the more important Supreme Court
decisions.
roEMs. By Dinah Maria Mulock Craik Miss Nj
lock-. Thomas Y. crowell 81 CO., New York. Price,
A beautiful volume, bound in tho same elegant
style with the volume, "Red Letter Poems > by
he same house. and elsewhere noticed The
pane care has been taken in the mounting Of
bhese verses and the book makes a fns compan,
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