The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-12
MAGAZINE NOTES.

Prof. W. Il. Harris, United States Com
missioner of Education, describes in Har-
per the recent progress in the public schools
in manner at once brief and comprehen-
siye. Foreigners reading this may gain a
clear idea of the workings of our pubic
school system as ii now exists.
In Scribner President Andrews, of Brown
University, begins a review of the last
quarter century in the United States, and
In the current issue touches in an interest
ing way upon the Greeley campaign An
drew Lang has Prince Charles Stuart as
the subject of historical sketch, and Rob
merits of public and private schools, enun-
ciating no especially original views, how,
story y Robert H bav Keen called He'd
ter omitted representing, 1t does, in an
inartistic way, an abnormal and unpleasant
situation.
now transformed into the Monthly Illus
traitor, and it's more frequent visits are
likely to be equally welcome. Its illustra-
tions, pleasing in themselves. afford an
idea of what is being done in the world of
art, and the literary contributions are from
kindred topics. Harry c. Jones. the editor
and publisher, is evidently proceeding upon
pubiic which does not care for or compre-
bend technicalities, but does wish for all
the illumination it can have in regard to
what painters and sculptors are accomplish
ing.
Scribners Magazine devotes a good deal
Of space to the peculiar variety of art con-
sidered appropriate to Easter. Three of
these drawings, by as many well-known
illustrators represent Easter scenes in New
York. Paris and Jerusalem; fourth, by
the Queen and her ladies creeping to the
cross on Good Friday. An Easter hymn or
several fullp page aa Suggestive Of
the japanese, representing haloed hgureS
suspended helplessly in midair, muslin Clad
and unclad men and maidenS plucking very
notwithstanding blossoms growing in gar
dens the like of which can exist only in the
truly artistic imagination.
The thought with which w. d. Howells
closes his story in Scribner's Magazine is
rather pretty and also cheerful than
those to which he seems inclined of late.
Speaking of the peaceful later years to
which a weak and offending brother had
come after an early life that had brought
shame to himself and others, he adds: so
far now human vision perceive, the
trouble he made, the evil he did, is really
at an end. Love, which can alone arrest
the consequences of wrong, had ended 1t,
and in certain luminous moments 1t seemed
to US that we had glimpsed, in our witness
of this experience, an infinite compassion
encOmpaSsing our whole being like a sea,
where every trouble of sins and
rows must cease at last like circle in the
water.
Certain names appear so regularly on the
llSl Ol COnlTiDulOfS W lcddiiiS LidSd1iliCS
that their owners may properly enough
be regarded as staff writer's. Indeed, it IS
reported that such is really the case, and
this causes the curious to wonder whether
their remuneration comes in the shape of a
fixed salary or is varied according to the
cupied Julian Ralph is one Of these
writers and Richard Harding Davis is
an1ther few issues OF one aice
the April number Ralph has has clever clever
We Pass and also a "write-up'' of the
national capital Hackneyed as the latter
subject is, he makes it newly interesting.
Josiah Flynt, who has made study of
vagabonds. tells in Harpers Magazine some
curious things about the social life among
the people who have been turned out of
respectable society. They. too, it appears,
have clubs, and they are made UP of three
distinct classes-the kids young boys),
the Natives and the "Old Bucks" The
organizations of boys mostly composed
of lads not necessarily bad, but inclined
to wanton mischief and who are either
homeless OF. with but few restraints IN
their home life Every city has such clubs,
he says. They are a natural consequence
Of sum life, and to better them 1t is frst
necessary to better the slums themselves;
SUNDAY school lessons" he declares, will
not accomplish this; reaiing rooms VIII
not r sna ii noEsSmg hat know Of viii
accomplish it except person ii contact with
some man or boy who Is willing to I'VE
among them and show them, as he alone
can. q better life. There are many young
men in the world who have rema nrSi lie
ability / believe, for just such work, II
thev would only go into it. By this do
n nnty necessarily mean joining some organize
ton or settlement mean that the wouia-
he helper shall live his own Individual lie
among these people, lean to understand
their whms and passions and f friend % IF
he ia esnecially adapted to dealing with
boys he has only to take take up his he w nd
nianty r. do But whatever he does. he
must not let them think that he is among
them as a reformer.