The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-17
MAGAZINES.

~S C4bS u GOAlpduy Il lSSuiIlS
a new work called Great Pictures, each
number containing four pictures IL by IA
inches in size, reproduced from the work
OF artistSA The subjects shown
IN the current number are Leda, by F1eury;
The Spiders Web, a study of the nude;
oan LUIS Rey, a California mission; and
the machinery hall of the worlds fair.
Topics discussed in the Eclectic Magazine
this month are: 1.-The New Situation in
China" Gibbons Autobiography" Ami
NAL Helpers and Servers. The Disburse-
ment Sheet THE Mission of Tennyson,"
The Battle Of Val" Tiger Shooting in
the Deccan," Life in a French Commune
sThe Irish School of Oratory.' Cold
smiths Country" and Changes in Social
Life During the Queens Reign"
The Printer and Bookmaker, a monthly
trade periodical published in New York,
Is, as it should be, a beautiful specimen of
the printers art. The Illustrations are no
tlceably tine, particularly a color print made
with the three-color-proceSs inks. In an
article on type setting the writer expresses
the opinion thai an intelligent telegraph OPP
orator should be able to take a report on a
linotype machine and to give telegraph mat
ter to the editor in the form of proof instead
of copy.
The opening article in the International
Studio for May relates to the work of Mr..
I. Mile Dow, an English artist of repute.
It is well illustrated. A practical paper on
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for the home is worth reading. Among the
numerous reproductions of Mr.. Menpes's
Japanese drawings is a remarkably fine
color print representing a procession OF
archers. The chapter of notes from Anleri-
can exhibitions and studios is of especial
interest to artists.
In a series of Illustrations in the May
Cosmopolitan which profess to represent
scenes after a battle is a picture showing
bleaching skulls and skeletons lying in a
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of Bull Run after the second engagement,
Aug. 80, 1862" the remains, however, being
those of men who were killed in the first
fight, thirteen months before. There is a
degree of improbability about this. 1t is
hardly likely that men of either army were
left unburied on that field.
President Gilman, of Johns Hopkins Uni
versity, has a suggestive article in the May
Cosmopolitan on Modern Education He
discusses the question as to whether or not
it educates in the broadcast sense of the
term, and concludes that it does not. He
points out certain deficiencies in the system
and suggest remedies, one of which is a
closer study of the Individual, who has
been considered less than the institution in
recent years. An illustrated description OF
the new Congressional Library building and
an account of the workings of the Asso-
ciated Press are features of the number.
Many public libraries ave adopted the
system of giving out two books at a time
on one card, and find the plan beneficial to
the readers and satisfactory to all con-
cerned. The system is usually limited by
the provision that but one of the books
taken shall be a novel. Some arguments
in favor of the plan are set forth in the
May number of Public Libraries (Chicago):
Borrowers will take a novel because they
come to the library usually to get a book
for recreation. If they could take a work of
history, biography or travel for more lei
surely reading they would like 1t; but many
libraries give only one book on a card.
Probably most readers would like TO know
something of the serious and notable liter
allure of the age, but comparatively few
will sacrifice their beloved novel to do so.
that they will gladly avail themselves of
the opportunity. The method, in fact,
smackS of the wisdom of the serpent, for
it allures borrowers by the prospect of two
time tends TO increase the use of solid read
ing and not to swell issues of fiction" The
arrangement also permits the use of books
by a greater number of people, as usually
there are not as many cards taken as there
are members in a family. 1t also affords
the opportunity for patrons OF a library to
carry on two lines of serious reading or
study at the same time. Free access of
patrons to the shelves is also
The current Humanitarian, an English
monthly, edited by Victoria Woodruff Mar
tin, contains a brief memoir of John Bid
dulph Martin, her husband, who died a few
weeks ago.. 1t is extremely eulogistic in
character, as might be expected, although
it is not written by Mrs. Martin, but is of
interest as describing the prosecutions and
abuse to which he was subjected for the
eighteen years of his married life because
he had married Mrs. Woodruff. The perse-
cution. the writer says, whic had been
begun in the United States, never ceased
for an instant through the whole eighteen
years of Mrs. Martins married life, and
it was fomented and fostered by those Who
should have been the last to attack ner.
False charges, lying accusations, anony-
nous and obscene letters, ScurrllouS pam
phletS, coarse and brutal eQithetS, were
simply pelted at her and her husband; nay
more, every one with whom it was known
they visited or came into contact, even the
officials and numerous societies and institu-
lions with which Mr.. Martin was connected
were sent these foul illusions. Even the
private and intimate friends of himself and
his wife were inundated with them. The
attempts to annoy. and to eXtort money,
were incessant. The agony or TINS per-
petual worry can be better imagined than
described. An intensely sensitive man, Mr..
Martin writhed under it, and proud and
Jealous of the honor of his house, the honor
of his name, and the honor of her who
was dearer to him than life Itself, he SUI
fered with a. keennesS which it Is not given
to lower natures to know. He shrank more
and more into himself, but to the world he
kept an unmoVed front. and to his wife he
had ever cheering and encouraging words"
All of Prof. Max Muller's Literary Rec
elections published in Cosmopolis have
been delightful, but the chapter in the May
issue is especially entertaining to American
readers, since it relates in large part to
their own countrymen. He speaks in a
most kindly way of Americans in general,
not excepting the interviewers and the 9TH
ers who bore him; but for his distinguished
literary visitors from this side of the sea
he has the appreciation of true intellectual
friendship. For Emerson, who spent a few
days with him during his last visit to Eng
land. he had the highest admiration, and
thinks the influence of his teachings and
philosophy is becoming noticeable in Eng
land as it has long been in America. With
Lowell he was Intimately acquainted, and
greatly enjoyed the friendship. Lowelfs
Conversation was ineXhauStibie, he says,
his information astonishing. Pleasant as
he was as an antagonist he would OCCASION
ally lose his temper and use very emphatic
language. Sometimes even the most harm
less remark about America would call forth
very sharp replies from him Everybody
knows that the salaries paid by America to
her diplomatic staff are insufficient, and no
one knew 1t better than he himself. But
when the remark was made in his presence
that the United States treated their diplo-
matte representatives stingily he fired up
and discoursed most eloquently on the adj
vantages of high thoughts and humble Iiv-
ing" With Oliver Wendell Holmes, also,