The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-02-19
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From the Bowen-Merrill Co., Indianapolis.)
A good story and well told, though a
highly improbable one, is Christina Chard,'
by Mrs. Campbell-Praed. The author has
achieved some popularity by former stories,
and this one will probably add to her repu-
tation. The story is named for the heroine,
Christina Chard, an Australian girl, who,
ruined at sixteen by a selfish brute and de-
serted by him, devotes her life TO avenging
herself on the male sex. Possessed of a
warm and naturally kind heart, she schools
herself to become a heartless woman. Be
ing rich. she plunges in the swim of Lon
don society and has society at her feet.
She finally falls truly in love with a fine,
manly. fellow, and about the same time
runs across the man who betrayed her, and
learns that all these yearS she has been
legally his wife. Christina spurnS him, goes
on the stage and becomes a great singer.
This sketch barely hints at the plot, which,
though improbable, Is interesting. The
characters are sharply drawn and the story
is decidedly a readable one. Cloth, 81. New
York:'D. Appleton & Co.
Thirty years ago not a college or univer-
sity in the United States employed a single
professor exclusively in historical teaching;
now there are a number of such institutions
that require the united labor of several men
TO do the work. This shows a growing con-
viction Of the Importance of this branch of
study and a great Improvement in the
methods of pursuing it. History nowadays
IS not learned as a mass of dry facts, but
rather as a story of the progress of civili-
Zation and the evolution of national char
aeter, Inc s9p}ect Is apIy IreaIed,i ,How
lar Reference TO the History of the United
States" BY Prof. B.. A. Hinsdale, of the Uni
versity of Michigan. The work is designed
for the instruction of teachers of history.
who will derive essential assistance from it
as TO what constitutes real history and the
most effective manner of teaching il. The
work is published by D.. Appleton & Co.,
in the international Education series. Cloth,
sl.50.D
Volume 6 of Digest of Insurance Cases"
by John "A. Finch, is on the line of previous
volumes of the same work. This volume en-
braces the decisions of appellate courts of
this and foreign English-speaking countries
on disputed points in fire, life, marine, &C
cident and assessment insurance, and af-
fecting fraternal benefit orders, rendered
during the year ending Oct. 81, 1893. Mr..
Finch has for many years made a speciality
OF insurance law, and is particularly we'll
qualified to edit a work of this kind. It's
plan is excellent, and the work of compila-
ton Is done in a thorough and satisfactory
manner. AS a digest of the latest decisions
on all branches of insurance law it is very
complete. and ii will be found valuable not
Oitiy - the legal pfOlcSSlOH. Dut 10 oil WHO
are directly interested in the insurance bus
mess. The value of the work is enhanced
by an excellent alphabetical index and ia
bic of cases decided. Published by the Bow
en-Merrill Company, indianapolis.
1.-THE Union Pacific Railway: a. Study in
Railway Politics, History and Economics"
by Prof. John +. Davis, is published by
S. C. Griggs & Co., Chicago. The work
gives the complete history of the Union
Pacific railway. beginning with its incep-
ton in 1S32-shows how localism and sec
tionalism defeated congressional action
from 1861 to 1864, when the charter acts
were signed by Lincoln-the building of the
road; compleeted In 1SS9rthe history Of the
ury Department-the proceedings in the
United States courts under the Thurman
act-and a discussion of the various plans
proposed for the settlement of the ques-
ton. Maps showing the various routes pro-
posed and their terminals and official sta
tistics accompany the work. Cloth, 81.
1.-THE Dogs and the Fleas'' is not an at
tractiye title for a book. and the book which
bears it is not an attractive one. Life is
too short to read so dreary a book in
course, but as far as can be gathered from
random dips into its pages it is intended
as a satire on modern society in general,
and American society in particular, the
warning classes being represented as dogs
and fieas. The style OF the work is ale
g~orical, and it is all in one key. It's tone
is thoroughly pessimistic. Everything is
wrong or rotten-government society, bus
mess, the church, everything. There is no
true patriotism or true religion. The book
is marked by an undertone of communism
favored with anarchism- There are 26
pages of this dreary stuff. Published by
the author, Douglas McCalburn, OF Chicago.
The Putnams have issued the third group
of the Ariel Shakespeare. Some of the dis
tinctive features of this edition are that
each play is in a separate volume: the vol,
ume is a convenient size TO hold in one
hand or put in the pocket; the print is
clear and plain; the text is complete and
unabridged: the illustrations are numerous
and good. Each volume is bound in nexi.
BILE leather with gilt top and untrimmec
edges. The poets entire works will be-
published in five groups o. seven volumes
each, the third group. just issued, contain
ing Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, Othel
10, Hamlet, Julius Caesar. king Lear
Romeo and Juliet. subscriptions are takef
for the entire set, and the volumes are SOLD
separately at 80 cents each.
A new novel by Albert Ross. entitled
Young Miss Giddy.' gives the author ar
opportunity TO take his reading friendi
through Florida New Orleans at Mard
Gras time, Texas and Mexico. 1t also ena
bles him to answer a woman writer, who
in a Boston newspaper, recently expressed
the belief that young girls inclined 10 mis-
behave would DO so in spite of chaperonage
/. is evident that Nh. Ross thinks the eX
pertinent OF permitting girls to have then
own way a very dangerous one. The story
is interesting, dramatic and full of real life
Paper, so cents. New York: O.. w. Dllling-
ham.
Lovers Of short stories will find some
pretty good ones and others that are not
so good in Can Such Things Be-" By
Ambrose Bierce- The author has some OF
the best gifts of a story teller and uses