The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-09-04
MAGAZINES OF THE MONTH.

The recent display of restlessness by
Canadians under the inactive policy of the
English government in the Behring sea
matter, and the bold hints at setting up q
separate government give peculiar time
illness to an article on La Nouvelle France
by Eben Greenough Scott. in the September
Atlantic. In it he shows how the French
Canadian party is steadily gaining Canada
to itself and reconquering it from the nom.
inal English rulers. LA Nouvelle France"
he says, has had its ups and downs, and
has now reached the point where humility
Is discarded for aggression. The step from
the ante-chamber to the closet has been
taken, and the servant has become greater
than the master; in fact, he bnllies him.
The new squire has put on new garments
BETTING his change of condition, and
shows the usual effects of elevation. He
talks of us Canadians and of our institu-
on his premises but his own people, threat
ems his neighbors. and has grand plans for
velle France is the great political
fact ct his existence. Old France may have
changed, but new France, never. 1t may
have been beaten to the ground by bered-
ltary enemies, but has he not seen it rise,
stronger than ever, endued with new life.
mastering the master-and this before the
babe, born in the moment of humiliation,
was halfway through his teensi Though
he has lately called back to Ontario that
the spectre of annexation has no terrors for
him, he has never taken kindly to the prof.
ect. Our prOdigiOus receptivity and power
of assimilation have aroused q dread that
expresses itself in his determination never
to be absorbed like Louisiana. He has
therefore given himself to every effort that
would keep his children from crossing our
border, and has set in motion what it
pleases him to style the project of repatria-
tiOn."
Harper for September affords an artistic
treat in Theodore Child's article on Amer
lean artists at the Paris Exhibition of 1889.
with its nineteen illustrations, engraved
from paintings there displayed. While but
an incomplete idea of the pictures can be
gained from these repIOductions in black
and white, still the artists thought is dis
tinct in each and the method of treatment
indicated. The important place now taken
by American painters in foreign exhibit
tiOns and the respect with which their
work is treated by critics, and the honors
awarded them, show an advance in art
very gratifying to native pride. Another
contradictory Theodore Child on Holy
Moscow throws an interesting side light
on certain phases of Russian life treated of
by KEENAN, in his Siberian papers, and may
we'll be read in connection with that series.
James Lane Allen Offers another of his
charming studies of Kentucky life, this time
taking that popular institution, the coun-
ty fair, as his text. Miss Woolson's serial,
Jupiter Lights" reaches a conclusion
satisfactory to the reader As love story,
pure and simple, without effort to convey
moral lesson and with no great purpose
involved in its telling, Jupiter Lights
may be considered success. Other arti-
cles in the issue are 1.-THE Religious Move
ment in France by NJ. Edmond de Pres
sense, Senator; THE Oldest and Smallest
Sect in the World" meaning the Samari-
tans, by Rev. John +. Hunt, ard London
Mock Parliaments,o by John Lille. Two
very readable short stories make up an in
teresting number.
An appreciative study and biographical
sketch of Alexander Dumas. by Andrew
Lang, is feature of Scribner for Septem-
Der. A portrait of Dumas accompanies the
article. "Nepegon River Fishing by A.
r. Marlborough, recounts the charms Of
piscatorial sport along Canadian stream.
'sThe Place of the Fitting School in Amer
lean Education is the subject of a
thoughtful paper by Prof. George Trumbull
Ladd, of Yale College. He discusses the
| faults of the preparatory schools and their
relation to the colleges, and suggests I'M
provements in the way of simplifying the
| course of study, and also of making il more
progressive and less spasmodic. The paper
| is one that should attract the attention OF
| educators. w. Hamilton Gibson has one OF
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