The Indianapolis journal., 1896-08-31

CURRENT MAGAZINES.
In the September Cosmopolitan Mrs. Lew
Wallace has a pleasant chapter of recol-
lections of the late William Wetmore Story.
the sculptor.
A readable chapter of "reminiscences Of
the personal Side of Dickens" by Stephen
Fiske. is one of the features OF the sep
tember Ladies Home Journal
The illustrations Of the summer number
of Modern Art include facsimile by
of print from wooden
blocks. some specimens of artistic book
binding, a heliotype from painting by
Miss Noes, Dutch artist of high reputa-
ton. feature of the number is paper
by Louis Prang on lthoSraphy-
The Illustrated Monthly Magazine num-
Der of the Outlook. which is the regular is
sue for Aug. 49, contains an account, by
Col. Fred Grant. of General Grants visit
to China in 1879 and his acquaintance with
Ii Hung Chang, Viceroy. Other features of
this number are sketch OF Moody. the
evangelist, and a paper on Higher Life or
st. Louis"
The September Harper gives a good deal
of space to fiction. Mark Twain's Tom
Sawyer, Detective is brought to a con-
clusion. also Mitchelrs Two Mormons
from Muddlety. There are several short
stories, one, by Octave Thanet. being of an
unusually grisly sort, describing, as il does,
one blow, so to speak.
IL Woodrow Wilson. who is contributing
to Harper's. has found nothing new in his
study of the part taken by General Wash
ington in public affairs after the close of
the revolutionary war, he has at least pre-
sented his facts in new relation to each
other and succeeded in adding an interest
ing and valuable chapter TO the biography
OF the great American.
"A Marital Liability is the title of Eliz-
abeth Phipp Trains novel in the September
Lippncott. 1t is a well-told tale based on
an improbable incident-that of a man who
submits to an Imprisonment of ten years
on a charge of embezzlement of funds be-
longing to his wife's father in order to
shield an unloved wife, who is really the
guilty person. A protest In the same num-
Der against unsought company will COM
mend itself to the many persons whose
time is too valuable to be wasted in OBJ
servance of social conventionalities.
Among the attractions Of the September
ST. Nicholas is a biographical sketch of
Joseph Francis, inventor of the lifecar for
saving people from shipwreck. and founder
of the life-savng service of the United
states and other nations. He was a man
who received tardy honor from his own
government though long ago noby recog-
nized in foreign lands. He died three years
ago at the age of ninety-two In 1890 a
beautiful medal, the most costly one ever
bestowed by the United States government
upon American citizen was formally
presented TO him by President Harrison.
A good deal Of space is devoted to cur
rent American politics by the September
Review of Reviews. Theodore Roosevelt
writes of the three vice presidential candi-
dates and what they represent Dr.
j. Laurence Laughlin, of Chicago, present
respectively. the negative and affirmative
sides of the question. Would American
Efra- Il. h. Dit
the Markets Of the World?" Henry D.
Lloyd writes OF the Populists at st. Louis
Whether or not the art of driving can be
learned from a book is a question, but at
least Mr.. Henry Chil6s Merwin makes a
very readable and what seems to be an in
structive article on the subject in Harper's
Magazine. Incidentally. he makes one
statement which will strike many Ameri-
can readers with surprise. He says that
the English ARE almost entirely unprac-
ticed in the fine art of driving single horscz
and pairs They have no trotters scarce
ly any last roadsterS, and the dog-cart
which they usually employ wiA a single
horse. is very heavy, weighing from four
10 six hundred pounds. so that II is not
adapted for quick work, or even for long
| distances
| Posters have arrived at the dignity of
having a periodical exclusively devoted to
| them. Poster Lore is the title of a diminu-
| tive magazine, all of whose contents relate
| to the development of the modern art pos
ter. THE mission of art" says one con.
| tributor. lis to tell truth by symbols, and
no chains of convention may hamper its
| creative workers. Art should be subserv-
| lent only to the highest ends of life. II
the art OF the poster is not all this at the
present time il gives promise of fruitful.
ness in that direction, and the publication
of posters without lettering already com
| menced. is earnest of the emancipation Az
| its acceptance gains ground the cruditie.
| of undisciplined talent will disappear fol
this work like the decoration of Greel
| vase. calls for perfected knowledge Illus
trations OF a wild and weird, but no doub
artistic. character are "A feature of ths
magazine. which is published In Kansa.
City, Mo-. by Frederick Thoreau Singleton
1.-The Wonderful New Eye of Science" o
which Camille Flammarion talks In tn,
Cosmopolitan. is the improved Photographic
camera used in connection with the tele
scope. with the new improvements" h,
says. photography takes distinctly tn
image of each star. whatever its distance
from US, fixes it on document which ma.
be studied at leisure. Who can tell but tina
one day. i'm the Photographic views o
Venus or Mars, a new method OF analyst
may enable us to discover their inhab bi
tants. And this power extends to infinit
| space. Here. for example. Is a star OF tn
fifteenth; the sixteenth. the the seventeenth
distant from Us that its lgh
takes thousands. perhaps million
OF years TO reach US. notwithstanding
that il travels with the inconceivable rapid
Ity of three hundred thousand kilometers
second and this sun is so far OF in spac
that its light never reaches as, still more
the natural eye of man would never hav
seen it, the human mind would never hav
divined it's existence without the instru
ments OF modern optics. And yet this fain
light, coming from so far. suffices 20 i'm
press a chemical plate. which retains 1t