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The Indianapolis journal., 1885-08-03

General Grants article On "Vicksburg" is to
appesr in the September Century.
Mr.. Stedmans Poetry of America will be
published by Houghton, Mf11in & Co.
Funk & Wagnals, New York, have published a
seventh edition Of Miss Cleveland's collection of
essays and lectures
The Harpers will publish on or before the lst
OF August the public writings and speeches OF
Samuel j. Tilden, edited by Mr.. John Bigelow.
Mr.. Cables reply to the critics of his article,
'"The Freedman's Case in Equity" will appear
IN the Century for September 1t will be entitled
THE Silent South"
A review of the military and civil career of
General Grant has been made by Mr. Frank A.
Burr, of the Philadelphia Times, and will soon
be published as book.
The work of Ibrahim Pasha, one of the sons
of the exKhedive, on the photography of Egypt,
will soon appear in London The author was
aided in its preparation by an Englishman of
letters
Susan Coolidge contributes to the very beauti-
full midsummer Wide Awake long ballad based
on the traditions of the famous Luck of Eden
hall" The ballad has four full-page illustrations
by e. III. Garrett
George Manville Fem has written an old time
story called Sweet Mace which Messrs. Cas-
sell q Co., have nearly ready The scene
Is laid in England two hundred and fifty years
ago, when men and women were pretty much as
they are to-day, though they did not have tele-
phones and Atlantic cables. Sweet Mace" has
been pronounced by those who have read the
MS to be the best book Mr.. Fem has written.
The fftieth anniversary of the Garrison
mob" of October 81, 1885 renders timely the two
papers in the August Century by the sons of
William Lloyd Garrison, descriptive of their
fathers origin and early life. T. w. HigginSon
contributes a short predatory article on the an
ii slavery agitators; and finely engraved por-
trait of Garrison is the frontispiece. Other
portraits and several illustrations accompany the
text
The Indianapolis journal., 1885-08-03
Other Publications.


The Photographic Institute, Cincinnati, has
published in fine form 1.-THE Manual of Phonog-
raphy,' by Benn Pitmar and Jerome B. Howard.
1t is about the best work of the kind extant. The
Bowen Merrill Company.
G. P Putnam's sons have published in paper
covers two more volumes of The Travellers
Series-"Tent Life in Siberia" by George Ker-
man, and "a Lady's Life in the Rocky Mount
aims, by Isabella L. Bird
The North American Review has published
Bartholdi's history and description of the Statue
of Liberty, for the benefit of the pedestal fund;
price, Is cents. 1t is in pamphlet form, but
beautifully illustrated, and we'll worth the price
asked, even though the fund had no interest in
it.
''The Devils Portrait" translated from the
Italian of Anton Guifo Barrili, by Evelyn
Wodehouse, published by VIM. S. Gottsberger
New York is the story of young ARTISTS am
bition love, reverses and tragic fate. Its foreign
qualities and dramatic construction make it in
teresting.
Two books by "The Duchess" are published by
theJ. B. Lippincott Company. They are 20
Tender Dolores" and "A Maiden All Forlorn. "
Ih former has several false notes to say the least
The other volume is made up of short stories
The author is an industrious, and not wholly I'M
successful. imitator of "Ouida."
A mysterious crime is concealed between the
lines in "A Nemesis: Tinted Vapors," by j.
Maclaren Cobban, published by the Appletons
One of the symptoms that somebody's shade
calls for vengeance is that the same dream
troubles several people, leading at last to dark
discovery. 1t is detective tale, and evidently
tries to reapply the key note of success in Called
Back"
Harper Brothers have added to their Franklin
Square Library ''Entangled," a novel by E.
Fairfax Byrme; Lady Lovelace," by G. L..
flrkls, and The Salon of Madame Necker :"
by Vcomte d'Haussonville; and to their Handy
Series an illustrated volume on Fish and Men
in the Maine Islands," by W. H. Bishop and
Uncle Jack and Other Stories," by Walter
Besant.
The Indianapolis journal., 1885-08-03
THE SUNDAY JOURNAL

Is paper of twelve pages, sold for five cents,
the same as the Saturday Journal The
SUNDAY JOURNAL reaches every town and
city in Indiana and the surrounding territory,
The circulation OF the Sunday edition is the
largest and best of any Sunday paper printed
in Indiana, and it has made itself the Peoples
Paper. The SUNDAY JOURNAL is without
competitor in the State in the character and
variety of matter it presents its readers. the
best writer's in the State and country freely
contribute to its columns. In its enlarged
and improved form it is absolutely without
rival or peer.
The Indianapolis journal., 1885-08-03

Fitz John Porter. Howells brings his story,
'The Riso of Silas Lapham." to conclusion.
and Henry James indicates the final outcome of
the ''Bostonians." Other articles are The Meet
Of the American Canoe Association by Henry
Eckford; Typical Dogs" "Panforte di Siena,"
by W. D. Howells; ION Hotel Keeping" by
George lies, and THE Indian Country" by
Henry King
The Atlantic Monthly for August contains
fresh installments of Holiness New Portfolio "
Mrs; Oliphants Country Gentleman" Charles
Dudley Warmers Southern Tour ''On Horse
back" and what is presumably, the final chap
ter of Craddock's Prophet of the Great Smoky
Mountains" The prophet. himself, is disposed
of permanently in this chapter, and, from an
artistic standpoint, nothing more remains to be
said; but the unsatisfactory condition in which
the attractive heroine, 'Dorinda," is left causes
the reader to wish for some more definite infor
m alton IN regard to her fate. Besides these
serials the contents include poems by Edith NJ.
Thomas, Andrew Hedbrook, Kathleen Wright
and Oliver Wendell Holmes; a paper entitled
Should College Educate by E. r. Sill, two
three short stories and the usual literary
and editorial criticisms and miscellany
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Miss Cleveland's Book.

This elegant volume. published by Funk &
w ynals, and for sale by the Bowen Merrill
Company, is a disappointment. Some will find
1t not so good as they expected; some will deem
1t better. 1t is better than we expected, though
it is by means strong or as able as much
that has been written by women. 1t is made I'D
of a collection Of essays, prepared and read in
years past by Miss Cleveland in the discharge of
her duties as school teacher and educator. They
are for the most part historical, and such as
might be prepared by any bright and sensible
school teacher eviucing a familiarity with his
tory such as might be expected in a professional
teacher 1t is apparent that the sentiments set
forth were not written freshly for publication
now. They are not diplomatic, but are as di-
dactic and dogmatic as essays generally are when
read to select audiences Indeed, the writer
confesses that the book is the work of other
years, but that it has not been essentially mod
flied. Interest will center in the paper on 1.-The
Monastery" to which the Catholics take ex-
ceptiou. An idea of its severity may be had
from the way it begins:
Society had two arisiocracies in the middle
ages; the one of the state, the other of the
church. The former took form and front in tn.
institution of chvary; the latter in that OF the
IbohaSLery. Inc nduSuty cul'dleF with lofty
helmet and waving plume, with broldered doub-
let and jeweed gi-dle, with graceful cloak and
FURNISHED armor, mounted upon his plunging
steed, richly trapped with costly harness, at
tended by obsequious squire and servle suite
mere was one lord of society, the bulwark and
! ornament of the state. The humble monk, with
bowed head envelOped in sombre cowl, his scanty
gown dyed and stiffened by reason of his absti
nenee from the sinful luxury of ablution; his
oody glrt with heavy rope. by way of showing
Ihat the oeast was well iii hand his flesh gashed
Wlth sell -lnhlcted wounds and creased with pom
derous chains and iron collars; here
was ahoIher ana superior lord of society, the
DulWark ana ornament of the church"
The Indianapolis journal., 1885-08-03
EATON AS SCHOOLMASTER-GEN
Awful Sarcasm of a Party Organ Which Ia
Not for Civil Service Reform.
New York Graphic.

New York Graphic.
Let US get at the bottom of the civil service
reform business If it is the mission of Mr.
Dorman b. Eaton and his reform confederates
to usurp the functions of the President and his
Cabinet let 1t be done decently and In order.
There must be. for instance, an Office to which
all other offices must be subordinate The
parties must respect it, to begin with The
nation, the States, the towns, the wards must
look up to 1t and refuse to move until thew have
It's royal permission. Does a. man propose to be a
delegate to somewhere-let him be examined AS
10 his knowledge of the North Pole by Dorman
b. Eaton. 1t Is proposed TO make somebody a
policeman or a town constable-let this great
man Eaton be summoned, and let him present
to the candidate the various mathematical nron-
ositlons of :he lightning statistician. If man
proposes to do something of civil nature as an
oftcer, let his record a veteran of the war be
closely investigated and if so happen we en-
counter an emergency threatening conflict Of
arms, let 1t be established that the applicant is
emlnently able as a civilian and can handle a
qulll-whlch has been remarked is mghtier than
the sword-with professional skill.
But there is a larger duty before the great
American public at this inauspicious moment
We must not only begin at the bottom, but 60 to
the top. 1t is a sad commentary on the shiftess-
ness of the period that the larger Offices have
been filled without the slightest regard for the
competitive examination. Who knows whether
Senator William NJ Evarts can tell after the
most profound thought. without reference to the
books, WHICH is the darkest street in Carrot The
Hon. Warner Miller is very fair judge of wood
pulp, but what does he know Of the situation in
The Indianapolis journal., 1885-08-03
THE FIELD OF LITERATURE.
The Constitutional and Political History OF
the United States.

the United States.
After delay Of some years, the fourth and
fifth volumes of this valuable history have been
published by Messrs. Callahan 81 Co, of Chicago.
Written by Dr. IL Won Hoist, professor in the
University of Freiburg, and translated from the
German by John j. Lalor. the complete set will
be invaluable They make 467 and 490 pages, and
cover the periods from 1850 to 1854 and from
1854 to 1856. The fourth. volume is devoted to
the compromise CT 1850 and the Kansas Nebraska
bill. The latter volume continues the latter
subject and reviews the campaign which led to
Buchanan's election to the presidency. DR.. Won
Hoist is distinguished professor in the Unlver-
gi:y of Freburg. With a desire for a correct
history of the great nation Of the West, and the
causes and results which have led to its great
ness IN 1878 the government Of the Duchv
Of Baden released Professor Won Hoist from MS
duties in the Royal Academy and PAID ms
travelling expenses to the United States In the
furtherance of his object he visited the States
North and South and made visit to the Pacific
States, visited the people, studied all phases of
the questions and the result is an authentic
history written with admirable spirit and fair
ness and covering the great questions at issue
during these years as clearly and concsely
possible. That the writer is in thorough sympa-
thy with the North in the great struggle cannot
be doubted from the foreshadowing in the vol
umes already published. 1t is not easy to
estimate the value of such volumes in the hands
Of German students, written by one of their own
honored scholars, not from hearsay evidence,
but from observation and facts gathered care
fully upon American SOIL and in contact with
American people. The books printed with
clear type on good paper, and handsomely
bound and will be valuable for the library not
as a general history, but as clear and sensible
reviews of the great historical events of the
century and the causes which led up to them.
The Bowen Merrill Company.
The Indianapolis journal., 1885-08-03
THE INDIANA STATE JOURNAL
WEEKLY EDITION.

WEEKLY EDITlON)
Is the best secular paper published in the
State. It is a complete compendium of the
news of the week, with special features of late
and trustworthy market reports and a depart
uent Of industrial and agricultural intelli-
gence carefully prepared by an editor of long
experience. In these respects the WEEKLY
JOURNAL is superior to any merely agricult-
ural paper, for the field it covers is infinitely
more extensive than that which can be oeeu-
pied by any special class publication.
SPECIAL TERMS
Are made to agents and canvassers, and for
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address the publishers,
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ThA Tinfad Xpnna

When +. Anstey gave to the public 'Vice
Versa, he formed friends. That was not very
ambitious book, but it took and was literary
success. So was his "The Giants Robe" and so
to greater degree have be en- his sketches,
'"The Black Poodle" and the like. ''The Tinted
Venus, paper, D. Appleton e Co., New York;
The Bowen Merrill Company, Indianapolis is a
farccal romance a travesty on Prosper Merimees
charming story. To lay violent hands On the
heather deities and to place them in the world
of to-day is an old literary situation and never
worked out more delightfully."- than by Heme. 1t
does seem queer to mix up Aphrodite. the Off
spring of the sea foam, she who loved Anchises,
Adonis, Cinyras, with London hairdresser, and
to read conversations initiative of the classic
periods Of the Greek goddesses mixed up with
the senseless chatter of a cockney, who carefully
eludes his aspirations. Leander Tweedle the.
inventor of a lot Of nostrums, who believes that
his road to fortune is sure by means of certain
inve ntions which may shape ladies' noses or
their insteps, loves Matilda, shop girl. One
night he is led off to Rosherwick Gardens, his
friend James and James's iance and her sister
being the tempters Leander has in his pocket
an old ring which is for his own betrothed,
Matilda 1t was too large and a ieweler has
made it smaller. Ada who has fiirted with
Leander, finds out he has the ring, insists on
seeing it, and banters him to it's size. Lean
der to show her how small is his Matilda's
hand, slips it on the finger of statue with small
hands and feet, which statue decorates the
green of Rosherwick Gardens When Leander
tries to take off the ring he finds it is impossible
Aphrodite, the vengeful is awakened from her
long slumber. She resumes her living
form and follows Leander home Some
times she is statue, at other times a
living, breathing woman. Mr.. Anstey produces
an endless amount of amusing situations and
mixes np the statue with robbery, Sir Peter
Purbecke having been despoiled of this precise
Venus. There is good deal of fun in the author
OF "Vice Versa" not of the boisterous kind, but
of that precise quality which induces a quiet
smile. The trouble about THE Tinted Venus
so called Tinted, for in order to disguise her
Leander makes eyebrows to her and tries his
coral paste on her lips-is its length. Through
three or four chapters the illusion is possible
but although Mr.. Ansteys staying powers are
good, the joke, continued over fifteen chapters
wearies after while. Great Zeus himself tires
OF this modern Astarte. for when she calls on
too prudent Leander, who does not appreciate
Venus but really likes Matilda, the father of the
gods won't thunder q cents worth
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DIED.

KNEIP-Mrs. Elizabeth Kneip widow of John
Knep, on Saturday. August J. at 8 a. M, aged fifty
six years.
Funeral services today Monday at p. M. a. the
German Evangelical Church, corner East and New
York streets. All friends invited to attend
The Indianapolis journal., 1885-08-03
1HEMDlANAP0LIS JOURNAL
NEW ANNOUNCEMENT.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL is rec.
ognized everywhere as the leading newspaper
of Indiana. No proper expense is spared to
maintain this undisputed excellence and to
increase the value and interest of the paper
THE JOURNAL was never so we'll equipped
to serve the public. Our arrangements for
the collection of the news Of the day are more
complete than ever, and we have added some
special features which must enhance the pop
nlarity of the paper.
THE JOURNAL is the only paper in Indi-
ana that prints regularly the full reports of
the Western Associated Press, which are now
more comprehensive than ever, covering the
whole world These dispatches are supple
mented by the work of special correspondents
at all the principal cities and towns of the
special resident representative at Washington
City, who looks after the news of the national
capital with vigilance, paying particular at
tention to that which most nearly concerns
THE JOURNALS constituency. The full
est and most reliable intelligence from Wash
ington will be presented in our news columns,
free from party bias, impartially, and without
restraint
Editorially THE JOURNAL is Repnb-
lican paper, believing in the principles and
general policy of the Republican party but it
recognizes that the day of blind party organ
ship has passed. and it proposes to be perfectly
free to criticise and condemn, but in spirit
and with a purpose for good, having proper
regard for personal rights and regulations.
The citizen, whatever his political faith, oaD
be assured of seeing in the columns Of TIL
JOURNAL the fullest and fairest presentation
of the news, and in it's editorial columns such
comment and structures as will command hia
respect if they do not meet his approval. 1t
may also be said that THE EJOURNALis is pub
Ished as a FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 1t rec
ognizes that the women and the children are
to be instructed and entertained. They will
prepared for them, while the paper will be SO
conducted as to prove a welcome visitor in the
household. The news will be presented in
such shape as to minimize the evil, and it's
editorial and local columns will be kept free
from moral taint.
The Railroad News of THE JOURNAL is
admittedly the freshest. fullest and most accu-
rate printed by any newspaper in the country.
The Indianapolis journal., 1885-08-03
Appieton's Annual Cyelonaa;a

The annual volume, for 1884 of the indis
pensaole adjunct to every well equipped library
Appleton's Cyclopedia, is now issued by the pub
fishers, ID. Appleton & Co, New York. The
0rss feature that attracts attention is the beau
The Indianapolis journal., 1885-08-03
SPECIAL FEATURES.

By special arrangement with the authors,
the INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL began with
the present year the publication of series of
original stories from the pens of the most
noted writer's in the country, such as w. d.
Howells, J. T. Trowbridge, E. p. Roe, T. B.
Aldrich, Frank r. Stockton, Mrs. Helen
jackson, Sarah Orne Jewett and others Of
equal celebrity. This series is now being
printed in the Saturday edition.
The JOURNAL OF MONDAY of each
week prints special report of the sermon of
Rev. DIR. Talmage, of the Brooklyn Taberna-
Gle, preached the previous day-which sermon
is not published in other papers of the State
until the following Sunday. This is only one
feature showing the excellence of the Jour
nails arrangements for the prompt publication
of news.
In the SUNDAY JOURNAL are printed a
series Of original stories written by the most
celebrated authors of the world We receive
these stories direct from England, by a special
arrangement with the writer's. We have al
ready published stories by "Ouida," William
Black, Mrs. Oliphant and Joseph Hatton.
The one now being printed is a novelette, by
Miss NJ E. Braddon, entitled "CUT BY THE
COUNTY,
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A perfect remedy for the striped bug which
does so much damage to cucumber. squash and
melon vines is said to De sulphur which is
used by mixing one part sulphur with six parts
of sifted coal ashes, and dusting the mixture on
the vines
The Indianapolis journal., 1885-08-03
New Books.

THE JOURNALS OF GENERAL GORDON AT KHAR
ToUM. Introduction and notes by A. Egmont
Hake. With portrait and illustrations. Houghton,
Miffn & Co., Boston; The Bowen Merrill Company
Indianapolis. Price 81
The world wide interest centered in this erratic
but unquestonably able and earnest man, is
here satisfied AS far as it can be with its author
mute in death and unable to tell the story of his
dreadful taking Off. These journals, which are
undoubtedly trustworthy, reveal the singular
nature of this wonderful character. His
peevishness, so strangely blended with Christian
conservation and resignation, appears in almost
every page His incoherent philosophy his
fortitude, and his fits of fear of what afterwards
transpired in the fall of Khartoum, are all mani
tested in these memoranda. The book will
doubtless meet with large sales.
THE ADVENTURES OF HARRY MARL1NE By Ad.
miral Porter. d. Appleton & Co., New York. The
Bowen Merrill Company, indianapolis. Paper, 81.
Admiral Porter's second novel, ''The Adven-
lures of Harry Marine; or, Notes from an
American Midshipmans Lucky Bag" is pub
hshed In large octave in paper covers, having
run its course as a serial in the United States
Magazine" the Admiral says it was written
thirty years ago amusement for his boys
After disappearing for twenty years the manu-
script is recovered and the story is offered to
the public
THE STORY OF MARY. By an American, G. W.
Carleton & Co., New York The Bowen Merrill Com
pany, indianapolis.
Southern story, after the style of "Uncle
Toms Cabin" though treating of the colored
people since the war.
STUDENTS SONGS. Published by Moses King,
cambridge, Mass Paper, so cents.
Contains all the standard college songs with
music. Beautifully printed.
AULNAY TOWER. By Blanche Willis Howard. Tick
nor & Co.. Boston. Yohn Brothers, indianapolis
Price, $3.50,
ANCIENT RELIGIONS. By George Rawlinson, NJ
A. John B. Alden New York.
The Indianapolis journal., 1885-08-03
Suggestion to the Temperance People.

Atlanta tOnsLltQtlOn.
Temperance people are such stickiers for forms
and methods that they lose sight of the main
object. They make mistake in allowing cranks
and worn out hacks to come to the front In
every great movement the camp followers
should be kept where they belong-in the rear
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FINANCIAL.

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Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-10-26

"A correspondent writes; sAs it is not
every ybody who has The good fortune 20
have sunblinds affixed TO every window
in his house, it may be worth while at
this season to note that 4 very effectual
andrvery cheap projections from the
suns rays is within the reach of most
people. It consists simply in lowering
Slightly the upper sliyisionlof the win
dow frame. and turning tho ordinary
linen blind outside instead of inside
the window Thus tiic window panes
are notonly siiaslcd. but space through
which there is necessarily dranght is
between them and the linen. The eff
feet in cooling 4 rom when the blaze
Is strong is quickly perceptiblc; for,
As Is well known. tile oppressive warmth
from an unshadud window Is due chief
lv to the accumulated heat in the glass.
While the bright sun is on the blind
there will be. plenty OF light in the
room. Should wind shake the blind
inconvenienfly it can be kept still By
drawing the cord and tassel into the
room and securing i By shutting down
the lower division Of the window sash.
= London Aes0s.