The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-10

Clure's Magazine. AS a boys story it is
likely to take high rank, and. like all OF
the best literature for youth. will afford
pleasure to older readers. Some reproduce
tionS of fine photography, the work of a
New York artist. are features of the num-
Der. Among the contributions IS a review
by Carl SchurZ of Grover CleVelandS sec
ond ADM distraction. Hamlin Garland offers
an interesting account OF the discourage
ments met with by Grant when he wished
10 enter the army at the beginning of the
war.
That art is inextricably interviewer with
business is shown by an article in the Art
Amateur relating to the making of adver-
Using posters and the best method of sell
ing them. The artist is worthy of his
hire and though would-be aesthetic per-
sons affect to believe that the painter
should give his mind wholly to the produc-
ton of his ideal. success depends also upon
his attention to commercial interests. The
Amateur for May contains the usual variety
of interesting reading matter and supple
Study of Windmills, by Claude Monet,
and a drawing of Washington's headquar-
tiers by Charles Volkmar.
A chapter on the adaptability of various
qualities of paper to different kinds of
type and printing processes is an interest
ing feature of the Bookman. Being written
by a publisher, Theodore L. Devinne, it is
somewhat technical, but nevertheless af-
fords clear explanation of certain peculiari-
ties of modern books. A sympathetic bio
graphical sketch of Edgar Allen Poe is con-
tributed by NJ. A. De Wolfe Howe. The
signed reviews in the Bookman ale fol the
most part carefully done, but certain edi-
torial features lack the dignity that should
pertain to a periodical of this character.
The Letter Box" for example, in the eff
fort at humor, is rather painful.
According to the BOokman, the friends of
the late Henry C. Bunner have established
a fund to provide an III. C. Bunner gold
medal to be awarded each year to the
writer of the best essay on a given literary
subject, the competition to be open to all
members of Columbia University who are
candidates for any of it's degrees. The SUBJ
iect assigned for this year is American
Satiric Poetry A memorial of this char
acter is in much better taste than the cree
ton of a statue, but what particular fit
ness there is in selecting the essay as the
form of literary monument is not quite
Gear at this distance to those who knew
Mr.. Bunner as a writer of society verse,
humorous sketches ard short stories, and
never as an essayist.
The May Century opens with an illus
trated article descriptive of Prof. Charles
Sprague S%argent's suburban country home
near Boston. The place is said to show
what may be accomplished in the way of
intelligent, artistic landscape gardening.
Three articles on scientific kite flying will
attract much attention from readers who
nave not known of the experiments in this
direction. General Porter's "reminiscences
VI the GTdIJ campaigns cover the siege OF
Petersburg and the raids on Washington
IN this installment. General Schofield con-
tributes a chapter of secret diplomatic his
tory IN relation to the part taken by this
government in securing the Withdra wal of
the French from Mexico. Minister Romero
presents briefly his views as to the cause
OF the fall of the second empire. He be-
leVes that it was largely due to Louis Ma
poleon's intervention in Mexico. In spite of
all that has been written recently of Joan
of Arc, Mrs. CatherWood's romance having
the Maid of Orleans for it's heroine has a
charm that is likely to hold any reader
who once begins the story. Other features
OF the number relate to the Tennessee CEN
tennial celebration, to the royal family of
Greece, and to the political situation of
Crete.
The international Magazine, which de-
votes itself to translations from foreign pc
riodicals, has met with such a measure of
appreciation and success that it has in
creased it's number of pages and added
some new features. One of these is a
register of frst-class passengers leaving
American for foreign ports, together with
list and sailing dates. This registry is by
States, and is likely to prove a convenience.
An editorial paragraph in the current issue
or the magazine alIudes to the criticisms
directed toward it for its use of the verb
to English 1t points out the word is
given in Worcester'S dictionary with Lord
Bacon for authority for its use, but adds
this rather interesting explanation of its
own adoption of the unusual term in con-
nection with it's foreign matter: Trans
late in its various forms has been appro-
priated by a class of business men and
women who do not claim to be known as
literary workers. In almost every large
city in this country the classified business
directory gives under the head of trans
%lators' the names of persons who make a
business of giving practically literal rem
behring's of business correspondence. This
work is utterly different from the kind we
require, and very seldom is it that those
who do it possess the grasp of the English
language necessary to interpret the shades
Of thought constantly met with in literary
work. Indeed a large majority of these
'translators' are foreigners, and our ex-
perience is that the language in which an
article is to be clothed must be the mother
tongue of him who does the work. There
fore it has seemed to us especially appro-
pirate that these two paths of industry
should be differentiated and how better
than by letting one keep its verb to trans
late and reviving for the exclusive use of
the other the verb to English? p "