The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-10

South America, of Africa and Oceanica,
and of the Australian aborigines
What to Eat is much more than mere
monthly manual of cookery. 1t is full of
ideas bearing on the philosophy Of food
ana treats of cookery. as a hne art IN a
way to tempt the most inexperienced 10
try its recipes.
The International MAGAZINE for Septem-
Der contains short story from the Span
ish of Emilia Pardo Bazan, entitled "A
True Grandson of the Cid" The author
is one Of SPANS greatest writer's to-day
William Dean Howells includes her among
ms three favorite noyei.sts
Meehan's Monthly Germantown, Pa.)
which is devoted to general gardening and
the cultivation of wild flowers, has for its
frontispiece-a fine color plate representing
the plant known to most lovers or forest
has ever been able TO make success of
this plant under cultivation.
Number five of the Colonial Tracts, IS
sued by George P. Humphrey, Rochester,
N. Y, is IAN Account Showing the Prog
ress of the Colony of Georgia, in America,
from It's First Establishment. This series
OF historical documents, hitherto inaccessi-
bic to the general public, are being issued
monthly and will be found useful by stu
dents.
The Inland Educator contains an inter
esting historical account of Indian corn, its
origin, its cultivation by the Indians when
America was discovered by Columbus and
its subsequent development. In addition
are legends and verses relating to this
tive grain. The artcIeifs prepared by Ber-
tina Greene Lockwood, of Indianapolis, for
use in schools.
Andrew Lang writes in the English Il
Illustrated Magazine of ''Midcentury Crick-
eters. American readers, knowing little
or nothing of the game of cricket, will not
be interested in what is said, but the IL
lustratlons are amusing, showing as they
ana whereabouts. Even in the pictures
they have a self-conScious, awkward
LOOK as If they knew, that high silk hats
things for cricketers to wear
In the summer of 1896 when John Muir,
the explorer of Alaska and Sierra, and
godfather of the Muir glacier came East
to get an honorary degree from Harvard,
he delighted his friends in New York and
Boston with certain dog story the
iaihe or which had preceded him. The ed
Muir to write out this tale and the hair
breadth escape-for such it is-appearS
IN the september number under the title,
An Adventure with a Dog and Glacier"
The first number of a handsome monthly
called the Dramatic Magazine comes from
Chicago. 1t is devoted, as the name indi-
Gates, to the interests of the stage and of
stage people. The opening article is a bio
graphical sketch of Edward S. Willard. the
English artist: The Illustrations, winch
are numerous, are confined 10 portraits of
actors and actresses, prominent and OBJ
Scure, and to scenes from plays. The style
ana grammatical construction of the liter
airy contributions are open to criticism, but
tney PROBABLY meet all requirements in the
way of giving the desired information as to
the personality of the artists and the sea-
sons possibilities ~
Walter A. Wyckoff, in the September
Cor in1n.as k1I1~
Workers." what one of them thought of
Shakespeare: When l go to the theater
go to laugh. l want to see pretty girls and
lots OF them, and want to see them dance.
l want songs as | can understand the
words of, and lots of jokes, and horse-play.
You don't get me to the theater to see no
show got up by Shakespeare, nor any of
them fellows as lived two thousand years
ago. What did they know about US fellows
as is nV1ng now? Pete, you mind that Tim
Healy in the union, him that's full of wind
IN the meetings? Onct he give me a book
TO read, and he says it's a theater piece
wrote by Shakespeare, and the best there
was l read more'n an hour on that piece.
ana m damned if there was joke into
1t, nor any sense neither
In timely accompaniment to current Arc
tic literature is a description of Grant AL
len in the Strand Magazine of a curious
Alpine flower, the goldanella, that actually
forces itself UP through a solid sheet of
ice not by hewing its way, but by melting
a path for itself. The plant warns the
ice as it goes. The buds begin to grow on
the, frozen soil before the ground is bare,
under the hardened and compressed snow
of the neve-which at It's edge is always ice
like in texture. They then bore their way
up by internal heat dixie that OF an animaD
through the sheet that covers them; and
they often expand their delicate blue or
white blossoms, with the scalloped edges,
In a cup-shaped hollow above, while
sheet of refrozen ice, through which they
have warmed tunnel or canal for them
selves, still surrounds their stems and
hides their roots and their fattened TO-
liage."