The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-09
CURRENT MAGAZINES.


children in learning the French language
after the Gouin system for learning q lam
guage in SIX months, as described in o
former mum ber of the magazine. The prog
ress made by Dir. stead's youngest son. .
boy Of eight years. IN three months. IL de-
scribed BY French professor. who has al
ways taught by the old method, to be
wonderful. Incredible This teacher con-
fesses that his own pupils, after years of
hard. tedious work. cannot do what Jack
Stead can do after three months of inter
esting play. A leading feature of this num-
Der is biographical and eulogistic sketch
by Mr. Stead, OF the Uncrowned Queen OF
american democracy" Miss Frances Il.
willard. The writer is an enthusiastic
admirer of Miss Willard as reiormer and
as woman. and expresses his sentiments
In warm, not to say gushing. forms. tie
says: Frances l.. Willard. even IL she had
been maker of sepulchres. would have
been personality we'll worth studying.
As human she Is. In many respects,
unique. AS . woman she occupies q place
by herself apart. A beautiful character il
beautiful. although its beauty bushes IN.
seen. and no one who has had the honor of
Miss Wizards friendship would deem
1t otherwise than privilege TO
have the opportunity of introdnc-
ing, her to the widest possible
portance of Miss Willard consists In the
position which she holds to the two great
movements which, born at tho close OF
this century. are destined to mold she next
French revolution have TRANSPORTED the
century which is now drawing to Its close.
Tho emancipation OF man and the triumph
OF free thought, which were proclaimed by
the French revolution, were not more dis
tinctive of the eighteenth century than
the emancipation of woman and the aspira-
tion after humanizsd and Catholic
Christianity are characteristic of our own
century. OF both these movements Miss
Willard IL at this moment the most con-
spicuous representative"
Popular Science Monthly opens with q
sprightly and interesting chapter OF de-
scription by Sara Jeanette Duncan. of
"Eurasia," this being the name applied to
a peculiar race of half breeds in India.
The writer says: 'Eurasia has no bound
aries. 1t lies, varying social fact. all over
India. thick In the great cities, thiokest In
Calcutta, where the conditions of climate
and breadwinning are most suitable
Whenever Europeans have come and gone
these people have sprung up In weedy tes-
timony of them-tbese people who do not
20. who have received somewhat In the
feeble Inheritance OF their blood that
makes 1t possible for them to live and die
In India" In Calcutta there are 10000 OF
these people. They are feeble, ply sically.
I'll ough frequently abnormally fat, aud they
usually inherit the straight, black hair,
soft. dark eyes, fat cheek bones and full
curved lips of their Indisn forbears. with
compilations varying in shade from oat-
meal to mahogany. They afiliate with
neither the Europeans nor the natives. but
the entire conscious inclination of Eura-
sian life 10 toward the European and away
from native standards Their speech Ia
English. soft. rapid, nervous English, so
quick that the words seem to click against
ono another as they come; bnt they never
run together; on the contrary, they are ex-
traordinarily distinct. They form So
cial and political element s0mew hat Diff
chit to manage and are a constant roblem
to the government
1.-The Natural and Scientific Method In
Education" is the title of paper by Wes-
ley Mills, professor of physiology in MeGill
delivered as an address under the auspices
OF tho Royal Society of Canada. Among
other topics discussed are The Problems
of Comparative Psychology" The
Ariihmet,cal Prodigy i ,S' Reasoning AMI.
mails" Color in FlowerIng Plants
Modern Nervousness and Its Cures" and
Are Business Profits Too Largei"
In the National Magazine of American
History is a sketch of Henry Lawson
Wyatt, the first confederate soldier killed
in battle, and whose portrait has been
placed az n memorial in the State Library
of North Carolina. Major Theodore Win
throp. of the Union army, fell III the same
battle, that of Big Bethel, on the Yorktown
road. on the 10th of June. 1861. and in
leading the opposition to the same charge.
With the exception of Captain Ellsworth,
ha fra aGi of auy m or
to give bis life 70 the federal cnuse. Speak
ing OF Winthrop editerIally the magazine
says: winthrop WAS buried at New Haven
with military honors, and tho remem brsnce
@. the impressive burial scene is still vivid
in the writer's mind. who wac, at that
time. student ut Yale. The college men
marched behind the dead hero's body. q
sorrowing and yet admiring sscsrt. TO his
grave in the cemetery at Tutors Lane.
The story of Winthrop's life was beautl-
fully pictured in single sentence by
George William Curtis. soon after the bat
tie of Bethel. Theodore Vinthrops life
he wrote, like a fire long smoldsring. sud
denly blazed UP into clear. bright flame
and vanished" His writings by which his
name became known, including the novels,
| John Brent and Cecil Dreeme" were not
published until after his death. Other
papers in this number are The Earl of
Bellomonr and the Suppre sion of Piracy"
Franklin and Wcdderbarp." what Was
the Real Discovery of Ansrica." Colonial
PRINTING In tue seventeenth Century"
"Banneker's Appeal 10 Jefferson" Ma
tional Kansas Committee" "Deyelepment
OF the West" and Now York Bankers"
Aside from the political articles in the
North American Review there are several
papers of value and interest The Scan
dinavian in the United States" by Prof.
Boy gives the facts to show how i'm
portant an element the Scan dinavian is in
this country. Erastus Wyman, who is one
of those persons who assume that the for
eign trade. amounting TO 3 per cent of our
products. 10 all the trade there IN the
United States. sees dire calamity will come
il cholera affects foreign commerce. Pres
ident Andrews. of Brown Uniycrsity. has
an attack OF malthussia, and answers his
question. "Ara There Too Many of Us!v
moro than half in the Affirmative. want
ed. u New Party" by I. V. Powderly. is an
assault upon the old parties. Col. X. G..
Ingersoll has article on Ernest Renan."
which bears tho stamp of the aGtnor. his
remarks relating far more TO lngersoil tn an
10 Renan. No. Lest Fourteenth street,
New York.
The first pages of the Forum for Novem-
Der are devoted to a series of articles. en-
titled "Our Failure in Municipal Govern
ment" the first of which rs by RI Hon.
Joseph Chamberlain. II. P. while Charles