The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-15

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| whose heart and mind are stayed in the
| living God. He truly sits under his own
vine and fig tree, with none to make him
afraid.
| Eat Not Thy Heart.
Julien Gordon's novels belong to what
may be called the dollhouse school of fic-
ton. There is a feversh atmosphere about
| them; the personages who move in the
pages are not those of everyday life. and
| the reader is apt to lay down of her
volumes with a sense of wishing for
breath of fresh air. There is also distinct
| in them all vein of vulgarty, the minds
| of her men and women--even those of the
select circles which she loves best to de-
| pict-having an apparent disposition to
| dwell upon forbidden subjects. Eat Not
| Thy Heart is the rather far-fetched quo
| tation that forms the title of her latest vol
! ume, issued by Herbert S. Stone & CO.,
! Chicago 1t is. perhaps, a trfe less fever
! ish than some of the, authors earlier pro-
| auctions, but IS an unwholesome tale of a
| farmers Wife who Is devoured with jeal-
| ousy of the people of wealth with whom
| she is indtl ectly associated, and with
| ambition to meet them on social equality.
| Being ignorant and with little refinement,
| She of course, fails IT. heI rage on dis
| covering how she is rated oy those people,
| she sets the house OF her husbands en-
| ployer on fire. Incidentally, she has fallen
| in love with another man than her nus
band and tbs snan IN turn with the EN-.
| superior being than the author is apt to
| portray never finds it out The one really
| farmer himself but he speaks an unneces-
| Sarily atrocious dialect. The story is told
| with considerable skill and the conversa-
! tons are well handled. The moral If It
| may be said to have one, is that Il IS we'll
| for men and women 20 be content with
| that lot in life into which they are born.
/ Bird NeighbOrs.
This is the title given to handsome vol
ume which makes one acquainted with
I about $50 birds commonly found in the
woods, fields and gardens about our homes
| 1t is the work of Nellie Blanchan, who
seems to be a master of bird lore. In an
| introduction by John Burroughs, who also
| furnishes notes to the text that genial
writer says: when / began the studies
| of birds 1 had access to copy of Audubon,
which greatly stimulated my interest in the
pursuit but did not have the opera glass.
| and could not take Audubon with me or
my walks, as the reader may this volume
and he will find these colored plates quite
| as helpful those of Audubon or Wilson.
| the Identification of our birds easy and GER
| tain, even to the unintiated, BY lis system
| and arrangement. All the birds, are
grouped according to color. or the theory
that birds coloring is the fl st and often
the only characteristic noticed The de-
scriptionS are untechnical, clear and vivid,
and the habitats and family traits and char
acteristics of the various birds are fully de-
scribed. They are also grouped according
describing about $50 birds there are fifty
plates of birds in natural colors. These
plates are very beautiful and accurate, in
Guiding many well-known birds and others
not quite SO common. The book Is well cal
culated to inspire an interest in ornithoiogy,
and is beautiful and attractive besides.
New York: Doubleday & Mcclure Company.
Studies I'm Psychical Research.
These studies by Frank Podmore M. A..
author of ASPIRATIONS and Thought Trans
ference" touch upon that branch of psy-
chicaI research that relates most closely to
the phenomena of spirtualism. AS an in
PRODUCTION the writer gives an account of
the founding Of the Society of Psychical
Research and of its methods and aims. AS
| to the results so far attained he states that
the opinions expressed are his own and in
volve no one else connected with the So
| ciety He reviews the history of spiritual
ism and its phenomena and the growth OF
| the movement in favor OF giving the SUB
| iect unbiased scientific attention After
| giving numerous instances of cases care
| fully investigated, he reaches the conclu-
| sion that outbreaks of bell-ringing and
| physical disturbances are due in the frst
instance to trickery, magnified by malop-
servation and errors of memory. He accepts
certain impressions and class OF visions
as the result of genuine telephathic action,
but finds the testimony in relation TO ghosts
inconclusive. AS to premonitiOns and pre-
visions he concludes that a peliet IN the
possibility of supernormal foreknowledge is
not justified. Concerning trance utteranceS
he gives no fixed opinion as he thinks the
enough AS a whole, the book offers little
encouragement to spiritualists, ana VIII
rection, 1t contains much that IS OF IN
terest to the lovers of~the occult. Published
by G. p. Putnams Sons, New YORK.
Nexv uooIxs with New Features.
| In going into the book publishing busi-
ness the Doubleday & Mcclure Company, of
| New York, have decided TO adopt the same
| general policy that has made McClure's
| Magazine a success, viz, to print at mod
| crate prices and in attractive form class
| of literature that appeals to the widest in
| telligent audience. A new feature is that
| each volume, whether bound in cloth or
| otherwise. is inclosed in a paper wrapper
| on which is printed short description or
| hint of its contents. This will be found Of
| great convenience to book buyers Tho
| Journal has received from this house
''Tales of the West" a collection of short
/ stories culled from McClure's Magazine for
| special merit; Taken from Life a col
| lection of bright ard clever poems contrib
| uted to Life by J. Whitcomb Riley, De-
/ and other popular writers, illustrated by c.
| d. Gibson and others; Little Master
/ pieces, a series eulteu Dy Bliss GeTTys en-
/ bracing each in a separate and dainty
volume. The most characteristic short
| pieces of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washing
/ ton Irving and Edgar Allen Poe; Prince
/ Uno Uncle Franks Visit to Fairy Land
/ a charming fairy story fun or strange adj
venturers and impossibilities calculated to
| interest child, and beautifully illustrated.
| All these are handsomely but not expens-
| sively bound, printed on good paper, and
sold at'surprisingly low prices.
| "Reminiscences by Dean FaTrar.
men l Have Known is the appropriate
! title of book of personal "reminiscences by
the Rev. f. w. Farrar. Dean of Canter-
bury. Every man or woman of cultivated
intelligence" he says. takes an interest in
seeing men of unauestioned greatness. the
chief figures In the age i'm which
they lived" Next to seeing with ones own
eyes comes the pleasure of seeing and
knowing notable personages through the
eyes of another, especially If he be culti-
waited and accurate observer like Dean Far
| rar He was thrown in contact with most
of the great men of the Victorian era. and