The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-11
JUNE MAGAZINES.

The White Rabbit is the freakish title
of a little magazine published at Norwalk,
o. 1t contains only short stories and sells
for five cents. The Gray Goose, a perl0al-
cal similar in character, comes from Iii
cinnati.
Our Day (Chicago) contains an excellent
account of the work done at the Industrial
School for Colored Youth at Tuskegee, Ala.
The life of the founder, Booker l. WASH
ington, is very properly classlhed py the
writer as a romance.
An account of undergraduate life at
Princeton and description of the new Con-
gressional Library are features of the June
Scribner. Stephen Crane tells of an expert
ence of four men in an open boat after a
shipwreck. 1t is explained that TINS tale Is
intended to be after the fact.
Paul Leicester Fords STORY of an I'm
told Love-" just finished in the Atlantic
Monthly, is the history of a man whose
weak qualities exasperate the reader, but
whose manly traits are, on the other hanq
of sufficient strength to win sympathy. II
is a well-written but not pa[uGulaT,Iy
strong novel, and, it may pc aQuGd, the
title is discounted by the fact that the nero
did tell his love after all. e
Richard Harding Davis's serial story,
| Soldiers Of Fortune" is concluded in the
current issue of Scribner. 1t is very cred
liable and readable tale with plenty OF IN
cident and lively adventure, IN Wnlcn d
South American revolution figures usetully.
The descriptions of the tights ana other
war movements have slight SUCCESSION OF
the stage, the hero is rather too Wldely eX-
perienced for a man IF his years, ana the
heroine a little too lovely for real me; put
as a whole, it is d good summer novel,
Locomotive Engineering, the very hand
some magazine issued in the interests or
railway motive power and rolling stock
makes some changes in its editorial man
agement with the June number. ne pub
LEGATION is technical in character, or course
and does much to instruct the men III the
mechanical departments OF rallToauS, ana
nv putting information in an attractive
form helps to make them greater readers
and closer students of the intricacles or
their calling. 1t is published IN New YORK
city.
One of the leading contributions to the
June Review of Reviews is an able pre-
sentation of the arguments in FAVOR Oh
teachers pensions. 1t is the story OF
womans campaign in New Jersey IN be
half of legislation to provide Tor Such pen
sions and is written by Elizabeth n. allen
herself teacher and one OF the orglnat-
ors of the plan. Other papers in the num-
Der are q review of Queen victoria Sixty
wears reign. a discussion of school chill
dren's defective eyesight, and a presehta-
ton of the sugar question In Its lnoustrlal
bearings,
Intelligence is the new title of the
periodical formerly known as the Meta
physical Magazine. 1t has been enlarged
in size and changed somewhat in char
acter. Its scope is indicated by the table
of contents of the June number: Man and
Nature Modern Astrology philosophy
of the Divine Man Vandalism and Be
ing'-The Iranian Dualism and Fire Wor-
ship" "Bhavagad Gita-Songs of the Mas
ter" "Esoteric Puritanism, Leaves from
a Metaphysician's Diary "a Summer ldyD,
Strange Experience in the Rockies
"Odors of Flowers in the Orient.
The May issue of the Annals of the Amer
lean Academy of Political and Social
Science (Philadephia) contains an elabo-
rate paper on Genius. Fame and the Com
parison of Races" by Charles H. Cooley,
| of Michigan University an account of the
use OF silver in China, by Talcott Williams,
and a study of the State Constitutions OF
the American revolution. In addition is the
usual record Of the proceedings of the acad-
envy, notes on municipal government, so
Geological notes, etc. Accompanying the an
nails is a supplement giving a brief account
of the origin, purpose and growth of the
academy. together with list of its MEM
bers. This list includes names OF leading
| men in all professions from every part of
the country.
Du Mauriers Marian" reaches its con-
| cluson in the June Harper, and, while it
contains many of the writer's best char
acteristies. his discriminating admirers
! will wish that his literary career had