The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-27

Babyland, with its pink-tinted cover and
dainty illustrations, is an ideal magazine for the
wee, little people. Published by d. Lothrop 0s
CO.. Boston.
The Art Interchange of July IL furnishes, as
its colored supplement an excellent study of
dogwood blossoms from design by Mathilde
Brown. VIM. Whitlock & Co., publishers, New
York
Magazines received: The Quiver; Cassel s.
Co., New York. The Cosmopolitan; Schlicht s.
Field, Rochester N Y. Macmian's Magazine;
Macmillan q Co., New York. Popular Science
Monthly; d. Appleton & Co.. New York.
The Art Amateur, for August, continues ito
papers on sketching from nature, amateur pho4
Biography, and its water color lessons, all Of
which are of interest and value to students
The supplement designs and sketches ia charcoal
are excellent as usual. Montague Marks, pub.
Usher, % Union square, New York
The Ladies' Home Journal, of Philadelphia, is
well-printed illustrated paper which, as the
name indicates, is intended to supply the de-
mand of the feminine world for domestic inf
formation and literature pertaining to their own
wants and the development of the home Har-
riet Prescott Spofford, Marian Harland. Rose
Terry Cooke, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Josiah
Aliens Wife" and other leading writer's are
among the contributors.
a varied collection of poems, sketches and
stories, largely fanciful, but partly historical
and valuable. 1.-THE Rocky Mountain Hermit"
gives glimpses of life in the region named and
is accompanied with illustrations of the savage
animals that infest that country. The biograph.
ical sketch of George Washington, illustrated,
is continued The continued stories sustain
their interest, and the number, as q whole ia
an excellent one.
he Am hor nf AT al
tains supplement, illustrating the Colonial and
Indian exhibition, now open in the city Of Lon
don, in which the chief attractions of that collec
ton of art and the products of the colonies OF
Great Britain are set forth. The frontispiece 10
steel-plate engraving of E. j. Poynter's paint
ing, Faithful Unto Death" being the repre-
sentation of the Roman soldier who died at his
post when the city of Herculaneum was ovet-
whelmed in ashes from the volcano that de-
stroyed that city and Pompeii. Some graphic
sketches of Niagara. the work Of Harry Fem,
are presented, showing the most striking feat.
ures of that wonderful cataract.
The three serial stories by William Henry
Bishop, Henry James and Charles Egbert Grad
dock, respectively. drag their somewhat weary
length along in the Atlantic Monthly. The "Tws
Browns a short story by Miss Jewett, fails
somewhat in the development of its intended
moral, bat is readable sketch. The intense
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES duu cBoISfl VI TIC WFlt0rS luk
this magazine impresses itself more strongly
than usual through their contributions to this
number, perhaps, and leaves the reader, who
attempts to take it in at one sitting in an ex.
hausted condition similar to that which follows
the experience commonly known as being talked
to DEATH The cautious reader, warned by ex
perience, will take this issue, and particularly
the Contributors Club" in broken doses.
The August or midsummer number of Wide
Awake comes to its many friends in beautiful
cover in salmon and gold on light green. Nor
are its contents in anywise disappointment to
him who contempates the cover. Margaret j.
Preston has long poem in it on incident in
the life of Sir Walter Raleigh, which has been
beautifully illustrated with seven full page illus
trations by George Foster Barnes. The sketch
of Peter Patrick o Rourke, by Sallie p. Mclean,
is full of interest to the readers it was designed
for. "In the Canyon of the Tennessee" and
"Some Indian Children" are full of interest to
all who will read them. The continued stories
are all we'll sustained, and unhagging in their
interest The August number of this delightful
juvenile magazine will not be disapo intment to
it's MANY patrons