The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-10
CURRENT PERIODICALS.

The Black Cat for October contains sew
eral very readable stories, among them a 500
prize story. The Lost jurisdiction by
Ellis Meredith.
An article in the current number of
Music (Chicago). on What Gives the Voice
Value?" might be read with advantage by
all vocal students 1t is written by Karleton
Hackett.
The September issue Of the College Ath-
lete (Boston) is. naturally enough, largely
devoted to consideration of football in its
various phases. Contributions are from
well-known authorities on the subject.
1.-The Negro as a Soldier is the title of
two-page article in the issue of Golfers
Weekly for Oct. g. There are half dozen
pictures of the negro troops in various stu
atoms, and the whole subject is treated IN
manner worthy of peculiar interest.
Meehan's Monthly, which gives a Prang
illustration of some wild flowers of Amer
lea, compliments the Pacific States by CIV
ing, in the October issue, picture OF a
curious member of the Orchld famlly, the
Douglas Helleborine, or Epipactis gigantea.
st. Nicholas for October has an. unusually
varied table of contents. The first two
articles are, appropriately enough devoted
to young Queen Wilhelmina of holland.
Another Illustrated article describes the life
and methods of the diver who explores the
bottom of the sea.
Among the subjects treated in Self
Culture for October are: Socialism in the
Price Question" ION Reading the Past and
the Future" Issues of the Spanish-Amer-
lean War Who Are the English?"
"EroWnngS Theory of Poetic Art and
1.-THE Philippines and Their Prospects"
AS the Writer (Boston) is published main
ly for the benefit of the unknown author
that parsonage will read with interest an
article in the October number by Ruth Hall
on Chance the unknown writer has of
getting into print To add to the interest
not To n6if 10 edit nf
magazine expresses views on the subject
quite contrary to those Of Miss Hall.
Fiction is not the strong point of that
otherwise very excellent weekly, the Out
look, but a sea story by Joseph Conrad in
the issue of Oct. is of remarkable power
and intensity. It's title, Youth Nara
tive" is well chosen, for it is a study of
youth, and depicts with vividness the hope
and energy and zest of life belonging to
twenty years, and which then seem death
less, but are gone at fifty.
The three prizes in the Century Maya
zines competition for the best story, poem
and essay, open to students who received
the degree of B. A in 1897, have been won
by young women, although more men than
women entered the competition. Two of the
prize-winners are Vassar graduates, and
one is from Smith. The report of the COM
petition will appear in the November Cen
fury, with the prize story "A Question of
Happiness" by Miss Grace M. Gallaher. of
b. A., 1897
The Arnold Arboretum, situated in the
Jamaica plain district of Boston, and form
ing part of the Metropolitan parkway, is
more than a mere division of the park
system. 1t is as a department of Harvard
University and outdoor museum of trees
and shrubs that it has become so widely
known. The New England Magazine in its
October number takes up the Arboretum
In its series on the Metropolitan parks, sew
eral articles on like reservations having al
ready appeared. The present article is by
William Howe Downes, art editor of the
Boston Transcript who describes this
beautiful tract of country with full appre-
citation.
In the Humanitarian is curious study Of
undeveloped man by Professor Lombroso
His Investigations lead him to believe that
the games among criminals and savages
betray natural traits and propensities The
pastimes of criminals in their hours of re-
taxation he finds to be of a cruel sort and
to represent the triumph of brute force. In
cruelty as the elective form of their ac-
tivity 1t Is because it corresponds with the
rebels against all progress and against
moral sentiment. This manner of acting has
the exercise of the particular function which
is individually his"
Readers who in advance regretted the
change Of the Critic from a weekly to a
monthly can hardly do so now, when they
find that the monthly brings them so much
that they learned to look for in the smaller
periodical. The 'Lounger's" chapter of lit
erary gossip leaves little to be desired by
those who are interested in the personality
OF authors-and who is not?-while the con-
tributions and reviews are even of higher
standard than was the case before A good
deal of space is given up in the October
number to an illustrated article on Amer
lean author-diplomats. beginning with Ben
1amin Franklin and ending with John Hay,
and with an account of the dinner in honor
Of TolstOy given in New York last month.