The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-03
AUGUST MAGAZINES.


Scribner for August is not entirely given
up to fiction. 1t has in addition an excellent
paper on the woman collegian, by Helen
Watterson Moody, and the frs: chapter OF
An Experiment in Reality in which the
writer, Walter A. Wyckoff, tells of his ex-
perlence in the field Of unskilled labor,
which he entered with deliberation for the
purpose OF studying the condition of the
workingman from the latter's own stand
point.
McClure's Magazine for August opens
with an interesting description of the great
dynamite factory at Ardeer, Scotland. The
first installment of Rudyard Kipling's
Slaves of the Lamp" is q feature. An
thony Hope has a study of c. d. Gibson's
art, Hamlin Garland tells about the first
meeting between Lincoln and Grant, there
is q sketch of child life by William Can
ton, stories by Conan Doyle and Robert
Barr, and poems by Cy Warman James
Whltcomb Riley and Albert Bigelow Paine,
Der.
Scribner's Magazine secured a choice
collection Of stories for it's midsummer
fiction lumber. The opening tale is by
Kipling and is a chapter of the experience
or a locomotive told in the first person. No
one but AN imaginative child equals Kip
ling in the power of giving life to mani
mate things. He succeeds in this case in
investing the locomotive with intelligence
to such a. degree that from the start the
reader who Is not hopelessly matter-of-fac
IS deeply interested in its emotions and
follows its fortunes with deep concern.
Kenneth Grahame, the young English wri-
ter, adds another to the list of his delicious
stories or the golden age" An exceeding
~ clever bit of work is 1.-The Stolen Story"
by Jesse Lynch WilIiams-a new name
among magazine contributors. 1t is a story
of newspaper life, and, unlike most tales
protesting to be- written from the inside,
it proves the writer's familiarity with the
workings of a newspaper Office. Other
stories in the number are by Molly Elliot
Seawell. Blanche Willis Howard and Frank
K. stockton.
w. E. %Burghardt Dubois contributes to
the Atlantic Monthly an eloquent %presenta-
ton of the negro problem from the negro's
own point Of view and a plea for freedom
the freedom not yet attatned-the freedom
to work and think Work, culture and
liberty-all these we need" he say mot
singly, but together; for to-day these ideals
among the negro people are gradually CO.
alescing, and finding higher meaning in
the unifying ideal of ace-the ideal of fOs-
tering the traits and talents of the negro,
not in opposition to, but. in conformity
with, the greater ideals of the American
Republic, in order hat some day, on Amer
lean soil, two world races may give each
to each those characteristics which both so
sadly lack. Already we come not altogeth-
er empty-handed; there is to-day no true
American music but the sweet wild melO-
dies of the negro slave; the American fairy
tales are Indian and African; we are the
sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in
a dusty desert of dollars and smartness.
VIII America be poorer if she replace her
brutal, dyspeptic laundering with the
light-hearted but determined negro humili-
ty; or her coarse cruel wit with loving,
1ovial good humor; or her Annie Rooney
with Steal Away? Merely a stern con-
the great Republic is the negro problem,
and the spiritual striving of the freedmen's
is almost beyond the measure of their
strength. but who bear it in the name OF
an historic race, in the name of this the
land of their fathers fathers, and in the
name of human opportunity"