The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-05
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The modern world knows so little about
the home life of the ancients that any adj
dtion to the stock of information on the
subject is acceptable. A real addition of
this kind is 1.-The Home Life of the Ancient
Creeks translated from the German of
Prof. III. Blumner by Alice Zimmern. The
material of the book is drawn from literary,
artistic and geographic sources, all of which
throw much incidental light on the social
life Of the ancients. The work deals with
the classic period, from the sixth to the
third century before Christ. The Greek
statues mostly represent gods and heroes.
and are chiefly useful as an authority for
the light which they throw upon costumes.
The small terra Gotta figures on the other
hand, often represent with vigorous truth
subjects from real life. But the vase paint
ings are the most prolific source of mate
rial for the social historian Most of attain
able information relating TO Greek life re-
ferS to ancient Athens, and ii is to be re-
membered that sparta, Corlnth, ThebeS
and the colonies of Miletus, Syracuse and
Cyrene had their own separate and peculiar
development. Inscriptions found in Attica
and all over Greece shed the most light on
political conditions, and legal and religious
antiquities and supply also many details of
private life. From these different sources
the author has drawn his account of the
footwear, garb and hair dressing of the
ancient Greeks; his pictures of the Athenian
home and of the conditions which surround
ed the Athenian from his birth TO his burial;
his description of educational methods, mar
riages, wedding ceremonies, the position of
women and their household and other occu-
pations, the meals and social entertain
ments, amuSementS and public festivals.
Other chapters describe agriculture, trade
handicraft and slavery practiced among
the Greeks. The illustrations are numerous
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Seventeenth Street.
Few persons have been more msunder-
stood and misjudged by posterity than
Thomas Paine. The common impression of
him is that he was q blatant atheist and
coarse reviler of everything good. The
truth is, his views did not differ materially
from those held by many liberal thinkers
Of the present day, and they were never
extensively expressed. He was a lover of
truth, and liberty, and justice, and a friend
of mankind. He welded powerful pen,
was a master of style, and his political
writings were always on the side of liberty
and right. No person did more by his writ
tngS to promote, develop and establish the
principles which inspired the Declaration of
Independence and which made the revolu-
ton possible than Thomas Paine. 1.-The
Writings of Thomas Paine, Collected and
Edited by NJ. ID. Conway" gives, In the
his writings so far as they have been
identified. Some were first printed in mag
azines, some in the newspapers of the day,
and some in pamphlet form. They treat of
social and literary as we'll as political top
les and show Paine to have been a philo-
sophical thinker we'll a true patriot
and an exceptionally good writer. Volume
/ Of the work embraces his writings during
the period from IVA to 1779 and will be fol-
lowed by another volume. The editing is
very intelligibly done, and Mr.. Conway's
historical notes are helpful. Cloth, $3.50.
New York: CT. Z. Putnams Sons.
"Shlps that pass in the night, and speak
each other in passing,
Only signal shown and distant voice
in the darkness;
So, on the ocean of life, we pass and speak
one another,
Only look and voice. then darkness
again, and a silence"
This is the motto on the title page of
"Ships That Pass in the Night a novel
by Beatrice Harden. 1t is as different
from the conventional story of the day as
can well be imagined. The interest of the
story centers wholly about the lives of
two people, both of whom tired of life
when they first meet This meeting takes
place at a health resort in Poland, where
the hero who goes under the title of 1.-THE
Disagreeable Man." Unexpectedly encoun-
tiers his fate in a girl as hopeless and for
lorn as he is cross-grained and sour. The
hero is represented as having passed
through four stages of moral evolution A
great deal of caring and grleving, phase
one; still more caring and grieVing, phase
two less caring and grieving, phase three;
no further feeling whatsoever, phase four.
This ''DiSagreeable Man, VINO has only
refrained from suicide for his mother S
sake falls deeply in love with a girl who
had never attracted any other man. and
becomes her good angel. They become all
I'm all to each other but the story ends with
death instead of marriage. 1t is a SOM
Der story, full strong lights and shad-
ows and decid lily original New York:
! @. Z. Putnam's Sons.
THE Political Economy of Natural Law, .
| by Henry Wood, is a book for thoughtful
| readers. a few years ago the author lis
sued volume entitled, Natural Law il
the Business World" which attracted con
! siderable attention. The present work i:
/ not revised edition of that one. but Is
! substantially q new book OF double size
The titles of a few of the twenty-fOur chap
/ ters will give some idea of its contents
! Among them are. THE Law OF Co-opeTa
ton The Law of Competition, Combina
! tons OF Capital, Combinations of Labor
! Profit Sharing Socialism, Economic Legis
/ latiOn, Can Capital and Labor be Harmon
lied, The Distribution of Wealth. The Cen
( tralization of Business, Booms and Panics
Money and Coinage, Tariffs and Protection
( Industrial EducatlonP etc. Political econo.
my is INTERPRETED from the standpoint OF
evolution and natural law. The idealism
/ and optimism of this book strongly dis
tinguish IL from many OF the pessimistiC
treatises Of the present time. Cloth, 81. %
Boston. Lee d Shepard.
I'm Direst Peril" is the title of a move
! by David Christie Murray. which carries the
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