The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-11
CURRENT PERIODICALS.


the Book Buyer represents that gentleman
as at least fifty years old. 1t is said to be
an excellent likeness.
The Pocket Magazine contains short sto-
res that afford half hours pleasant read
ing. The February number opens with a
clever tale by Octave Thanet.
Rev. Edward Everett Hale is contributing
to the Outlook some very entertaining rem
iniscences of James Russell Lowell and
His Friends Rev. Lyman Abbott's SER
mons on Paul are appearing regularly IN
the Outlook.
Mr.. Johnson Brigham, editor and pro-
pretor of that interesting magazine The
Midland Monthly. has been appointed state
librarian of Iowa. The Midland has been
purchased by a stock company, but Mr..
Brigham will continue to edit it.
The sudden possibility of war with Spain
gives timely interest to the clever account
in the Cosmopolitan magazine of an imag-
mary war between the United States and
Spain. The outcome of this conflict was the
bringing of Canada into the union of States
and the Transforming of Cuba into an indie
pendent republic.
In the New England Magazine Charles
Il. Written adds an interesting chapter to
the discussion of roads in a paper on
Ancient and Modern Highways" A de-
scriptive and historical sketch of the city
of Holyoke, Mass, is a feature of the num-
Der. There is also an account of the Cabot
celebrations of 1897.
The International Magazine (Chicago),
which contains translations from French
German and other foreign periodicals. has,
in it's current issue, a paper containing
valuable information concerning the study
of art in Munich by women. The article is
from the Wege and Zeile, Stuttgart A de-
Scription of canal boating in central France
relates to a picturesque phase of life seldom
touched upon by the literary tourist.
The Eclectic Magazine is full of good
reading, containing as it does the choicest
selections from current English periodicals.
Among the subjects discussed in the Feb
ruary number are: India and England, =
st. Paul" Saint Simon THE Ways of
Settlements and Of Missions, = "Reminis-
cences OF Huxley" Effects of a Possible
Gut of Capital" Eye Language and
''The Modern Worship of Money" Pub
lished by Il. r. Pelton, 129 Fifth avenue,
New York.
The London Academy, by awarding a
prize of over $500 to the Poems" of Mr.
Stephen Phillips, has attracted general at
tention to the newly published volume In
England ii has been greeted with a chorus
of praise but The Critic, reviewing the
American edition, finds little or nothing to
say in commentator of the book, pro
nouncing most of it's contents morbid,
mon0tonous and unmusical and prescribing
beef, iron and wine and a sea voyage to
the apparently anaemc author. A portrait
Mr. Stephen Crane is following up the
chromatic scale. After the RED Badge of
Courage" and the Third Violet he pre-
sents a tale called 1.-THE Bride Comes to
Yellow Sky" This appears in the February
Mcclure. An illustrated paper on Future
North Polar Exploration by DR.. Nansen,
and account &c THE Last Days of
George Washington from the manuscript
diary of his private secretary, are other
features of the number. installments of
Of ar1d
Dana'S "Reminiscences" help to make up
an entertaining number.
The Decorator and Furnisher keeps its
readers informed concerning the latest de-
signs and ideas in furniture, house fittings
and decorations of all kinds, from art glass
panels to linen doyleys Among the features
Of fine current number is an illustrated de-
Scription of the artistic interior of the New
YORK Transportation Club rooms in the
fourteenth story of the Hotel Manhattan.
This club was organized by q body of In
tellectual men, comprising railroad mag
mates, workers in business circles, with lit
erary and artists people well represented
and includes women in its membership.
Jacob 4. Riis contributes a stirring pa
per to the February Century describing the
daring deeds of heroic hremen. Two or three
articles contain information of more or less
value, one Of them relating to the Omaha
exposition, one to Sfeerage travel ON ocean
steamships, another to the United States
revenue cutter service. There is also paper
by Hon. Robert S. Taylor, of Indiana. en-
bodying his views on currency reform
These views have been presented since with
greater amplitude in an address delivered
before the Columbia Club in Indianapolis
Outside of the articles named the contents
Of the number are not of special interest
The fiction, in particular, including the
serial by Mrs. Burton Harrison, is COM
mOnplace.
The international Magazine makes this
sensible suggestion: 'It is a pity that many
of our Western and Southern river lines of
steamboats, are not more largely patronized
by those who travel for rest and pleasure
When one is away ON business the quick
est route is naturally selected, but when
the trip is for recuperation il does seem
strange that the rest and recuperation are
not allowed to begin at the earliest pos
sible moment. Instead of rushing off to
some far distant point of destination. why
not stop over mere, and there ana see
something OF our many beautiful cities?
Seldom is it that the hotels will not be
found thoroughly satisfactory, as the ex-
acting demands Of our hosts of CONNER
cial travellers have made this country a
marvel of good hotels. And when the habit
of not hurrying is once forced. the scenery
and novelties of travel by inland water
routes will open up new pleasure to those
who are able 20 get away from their desks
for a change of air, and perhaps more i'm
portant still, change or mental occupa-
ton 4fsax s*a