The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-05-13
SOME MAY MAGAZINES.

Three serials begin in the May Century.
but one of them being fiction. Mrs. Mary
Hallock Foote'S novel, THE Chosen Val
ley" The others are Columbus and His
Times" by Emilio Castelar, and Nv Worlds
Fair Papers," the first installment of the
latter, by Henry Van Brunt, felating to the
architecture of the fair buildings. James
Lane Allen has q pleasIngly illustrated
article on 'Homesteads of the Blue Grass"
Frederick w. Pangborn writes about
Coast and Inland Yachting" Hamlin
Garland's serial 'OP Pap's Flaxen" reaches
q conclusion and leaves tho reader wonder
ing why 80 long time was taken to tell so
slight a story about four SO undressing
people. Art and artists are given consider
able space. George Z. A. Healy writes
of Couture and his work and w.
and Herbert Adams. .Luini" Is the sub
iect In the Italian Old Masters series Ed
mund Z. Stedman considers The Nature
aud Elements of Poetry" Short stories
are by Thomas Nelson Page and W0lcott
Balestier. The latter writer describes an
other phase of development in the same
town of Topaz to which he introduces his
readers IN The Naulehka.n the serial col
Iaborated with Kipling The installment
OF that story leaves Tarvin and his Kate In o
very critical and dangerous situation. with
prospect that both Will leave India as
soon as possible. If they can get away
alive. TIE issue - remarkable for the
number and character of it's poctical con-
tributiOns. the quality being decidedly
above the average. The writers of the
verses are George L. Woodbury., Louise
Chandler Mou.tOn. Edith NJ. Thomas,
Maurice Thompson. t. Il. Aldrich. Richard
Melville. William Prescott Foster. Frank
Dempster Sherman, 4. w. Higginson and
James Herbert Morse.
The first number of the Cosmopolitan,
under Mr. Howellss management, is filled
with contributions from the professional
magazine writers. with whom the public
has long been familiar. and with no new
names 10 break the monotony. Evidently
Mr.. Howells is not fond of ex periments or
OF using the products of unknown literary
mills. The number opens with poem
emitted The Nobler Lover" by James
Russell Lowell. published for the first
time. A portrait of Lowell forms the
frOntispiece OF the magazine. Hjalmar
Hjorth Boy essen has an illustrated article.
entitled Two Visits TO the Lapps." Under
Wilcox offers some "reminiscences OF
his acquaintance with Spanish maidens.
Henry James contributes bIograph-
ieal sketch of Woioost Baiest,er:
man with a remarkable combination of
qualities. Thomas Wentworth hIgginson
writes an essay on school, College and
Library" s. L. Langley. secretary of the
Smithsonian institution. discusses the
posi- bilties of Mechanical Flight"
Theodore Roosevelt talks about The
Merit System In Government Appoint
ments.' 'Simian Speech and Simian
Thought" is the subject of a paper by
Richard l.. Garner. Editorial topics are
Politics of the Russian Famine" Ger
tain American Essayists" and Where
Shall Folly 20 To ScnoolT these subjects
being treated, respectively. by Murat Hal.
stead. Brander Matthews and Edward
Everett Hale. Short stories are by Ger
trndo Smith, Hamln Garland. Sarah
orne Jewett and Frank X. stockton.
Poems are by John Hay, W. W. Campbell.
Edgar Fawcett Lila Cabot Perry and
Edmund Clarence Stedman. Howellss
own contribution 10 an amusing farce en-
titled Evening Dress"
Anne Thackeray Ritchie's "reminiscences
of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
make one of the most interesting contribu-
tions to Harper's Magazine for May. a
great deal has been written abont these
two poets. but Mrs. RItchie supplies n per-
sonal element that IL lacking In most other