The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-05
CURRENT MAGAZINES.

Harper's Round Table in its new monthly
form presents an attractive appearance. 1t
retains the same features that made it so
popular as weekly, and will continue to
hold its place as one of the favorite juvenile
periodicals.
The Art Amateur gives a page to an ac-
count of the American artist, Walter Sat
terlee, and his work. full-page wood en-
craving of Satterlees Monk at Prayer"
and number of his smaller sketches are
given The colored plate THE Grand
mother is also after his painting.
Among the contributed articles to the Re-
view of Reviews are character sketch of
the late Henry George, a review of the
political situation in Spain some impress
sions of the Bayreuth plays. and presenta-
ton of facts that seem to make necessary
a ship canal from the great lakes to the
sea, together with an account Of inventions
and devices that render such project
feasible
Mrs. Lyman Abbott tells an interesting
story in the Ladies' Home Journal of the
beginning and development of certain viii
lage library. 1t began with a book club
among a few neighbors; other neighbors
wished to share the benefits, summer
visitor contributed $2o for the purchase or
new books, and finally general interest and
enthusiasm resulted in establishing a cir
cuating library as permanent institution.
1t is an experience that might De repeated
in many places.
In William Allen Whites account in
Scribner of the business of a great wheat
farm he pays farmers this appreciative trib-
ute: 1.-THE successful farmer Of this genera
ton must be a business man first and a
tiller of the soil afterward. In him must
be combined many talents. He must be
capitalist, cautious and crafty; he must be
an operator of industrial affairs, daring
and resourceful and he must play labors
part with patience and humility. He is in
business as certainly as the banker And
henceforth until the order changes the
farmers success in business will quadrate
with the kind and quantity of brains he
and with the number of fertile acres
under his plow."
Richard Harding Davis tells the readers
of Harper's Magazine about the Greek SOL
diers as he saw them during the recent war.
James Barnes writes of that part of Greater
New York which lies north of Harlem.
Henry Smith Williams, M. D., reviews the
century's progress in biology tracing the
development from Darwin on to Haeckel
He says chemists and biologists have almost
spanned the gap between the organic ana
Inorganic worlds. Already" he adds
philosophy can throw a bridge across that
gap. But inductive science, which builds
its own bridges, has not yet spanned the
chasm, small though it appears Until it
shall have done So the bridge of organic
evolution is not quite complete, yet even as
it stands to-day it is the most stupendous
structure OF our century,.
Whatever faults may be found with Mr..
w. D. Howells as a story teller. his art
in conveying an exact idea OF the situations
as he sees them and his skill in depicting
the attitude toward each other of a hus-
band and wife after they have lived long
enough together to understand each other
thoroughly are unexcelled. He may seem
to dwell too much upon details, and the
fsaDT
of no particular consequence and hardly
worth while but when we have read the
stories we know those people intimately.
and they are. when we come TO think or 1t,