The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-08


further. Articles on Painting Flowers and
Still Life and Landscape Painting are full
OF valuable working suggestions. giving
color schemes, palettes, etc. Practical hints
Tor beginners, hints to young illustrators,
and another installment of Miss Hallowell S
excellent talks on Elementary Drawing
together with the usual clear and workable
treatments of the color and other supple
Inents, represent the more strictly educa-
tional section of this Issue.
Even the periodicals indicate the life
which is uppermost in the public mind
the money issue in the campaign. What
Free Coinage Means is the general sub
Ject of the first four papers in the Forum
the first by General Harrison, and the last,
Free Coinage and Farmers" by Secretary
Stahl, Of the Farmers National Congress
The Greed of the Sultan; Its Future,
arouses interest from the general feeling
that the Sultan cumbers the ground
Tanks of Issue in the United States" by
Prof; Sumner, is supplement to his re-
Gently published History OF Banking in
the, United States international Law
and Arbitration derives Importance from
the fact that the author is the Lord Chief
Justice of England. 1t is an excellent num-
Der.
The weakness of expert testimony in
courts is discussed by John Trowbridge
in the Atlantic Monthly under the head of
The Imperiled Dignity of Science and
Law" The most practical remedy for the
existing evils in this line would, he sug-
gests, consist in making it customary for
a Judge to call to his assistance any pro-
lessor of science Of high attainment who
IS not engaged by either of the parties in
dispute. If the judge appealed to the State
to provide him with scientific advice, and
II men eminent in science Were selected by
the State to aid the judge in his endeavor
TO arrive at the truth on scientific points,
both the bench and the professional chairs
would gain in dignity, and the pursuit of
truth would again be considered of the
chief characteristics of a scientific life
A well-written paper in the Atlantic
Monthly by an anonymous writer has for
it's theme, THE Political Menace of the
Disconnected" He points that our govern
ment has lost something of its earlier elias
ITCHY, and that though it is powerful
and effective than any form of government
dreamed of by fathers, its very
strength involves an increased complexity
of machinery which hinders the direct
methods of dealing with dangerous ques-
lions. Mrs Catherwoods Spirit of an IL
linois Town" reaches tragic conclusion.
Henry James's The Old Things also
comes to an end. Miss Jewetts pleasant
history of The Country of the Pointed
FRS seems also to have ended since no
installment of it appears in this issue. The
only serial fiction now running is Mrs. Kate
Douglas Virgins Marin Lisa, which is
a study in the education OF seml-imbe-
Gle child.
President Eliot, of Harvard, discourses
in the Atlantic Monthly of five American
contributions to civilization which he names
as peace-keepng, religious liberation, the
development of manhood suffrage, the well
coming of newcomers and the diffusion of
well-being. He holds these five Ito nave
been eminently characteristic of our coun-
try and SO important .nad, IN SPY oa ,e erv
candid citizen would admit with regard to
them, they will ever be held in the CRATE,
full remembrance of mankind Iney are,
he adds. reasonable grounds for steady,
glowing patriotism. They have had much
to do, both as causes and as effects. with
material nrOSDeritV OF the United
States; but they are all five essentially
moral contributions, being triumphs or
reason, enterprise, courage, faith and JUS
tice over passion selfishness, inertness,
tinidity and distrust. Beneath each one
social purpose. 1t is for such work that
multitudinous democracies are fit.
Bradley: His Book, for October. is some
thing unique in the line of small magazines,
Of which SO many of the Chap-book order
have been issued that they of a weari
some monotony. Will H. Bradley, the
editor, is a well-known poster artist, and on
this number he has lavished material that
would make many posters The usual liter
airy features of the periodicals are a small
and inconspicuous part or the attractions,
the attention being at once ABSORBED by the
Illustrations, which are a series of draw
ings developing a spectacular eAtravaS aIlza
of Beauty and the Beast. The ten scenes
of two acts are Illustrated by Bradley, with
seven songs by Nixon Waterman, set to
music by Edmund Severn and Will R. Hos
mer, and the whole is in shape to be pro-
effect. The songs both sentimental ana
humorous, are catchy" and the entire
composition is creditable to the producers;
MIR. Bradley has shown much artistic skill
and ingenuity, if not imagination. in his
part of the work his chief failure being
In his representations of small 'darkies.'
which do not look in the least like darkles.
The number whole is one which pic
ture-loving people will place among their
art treasures.
Admirers of "Trilby" who found the
charm of that tale for themselves before
it became a fashion that was later talked
to death will probably not take quite the
same pleasure in reading 1.-The Martians,"
by the same author; because they come to
it with expectations raised and not as
original discoverers. The expectations, how
ever, are not likely to be disappointed with
the opening chapters in Harpers Maya
zine. There is the same air of taking the
reader into the writer's confidence. and of
telling him things which he is sure to be
glad to hear, that was so distinctive a
Characteristic of "Trilby.' and there is the
true tale "Barty'' is evidently as wen
beloved by Du Maurer was Little Bill
lee. though he is not at all the sort of
person, and the boys school in the Paris
of forty years ago is made as real as the
famous studio in the Latin quarter. There
are the same Illustrations, too, that helped
to make 'Trilby" so Observation-Disclosures lit
orally the same. for here .'Barty'' does sug-
gest Little Bi!ee." while the amlable and
usher, .gEonzig. might serve
the same long favored people with whom
the public has so long been familiar in the
Du Maurier what-one- would ra ther-not-
illustrate. for all that and cannot be dis
pensed with. Altogether the first INSTALL
ises of the advance announcements, which.
when you think of it. is saying good DEAL