The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-10
CURRENT MAGAZINES.

The Curtis Publishing Company. which
has made an enormous financial success of
the Ladies' Home Journal has purchased
the Saturday Evening Post, of Philadelphia,
which is said to be the oldest newspaper in
America, and converted 1t into a weekly
magazine.
Thurston Peck in the pages of the Book
man for complete enjoyment of that periodi-
cal, but the chapter of literary notes and
gossip is interesting. and the book reviews
for the most part, give fair idea of the
various authors works-a thing not always
the case with so-called book reviews.
Frank Myrick illustrates in very pleas
ing way Meredith Nicholsons sonnet "Old
Wharves' in the New England Magazine
The sonnet has a thought that brings the
reader back to closer reading of the lines
The fact that this magazine at % cents a
copy holds its own and shows signs of pros
perity among its host of low-priced rivals
proves that New Englanders appreciate it's
excellence
Literature, the English literary weekly,
repubshed in this country by the Harpers,
is giving good deal of attention to Ameri-
can writers. w. D. Howells and Henry
James will contribute regularly, their let
ters appearing alternate weeks A series
OF excellent supplement portraits of Ameri-
can authors is being given, one If Edward
Belamy appearing in the current issue
The New York Ledger calls attention to
the inventor of the monitor, Theodore r.
Timby LII. D., of Philadelphia, one of those
public benefactors who somehow or another
has hitherto failed to receive the honor and
just recognition of his countrymen for an
invention which saved the country in an
hour of extreme peril, and revoluntioniZed
naval warfare throughout the world.
The complete novel in the June Lippin-
colt has an especial interest from the fact
that it is the work of Maria Louise Pool,
whose death has SO lately occurred. The
story, however, is hardly worthy of the
author and falls far short of her best eff
forts. 1t is the story of man who made
love 10 two women alternately and was APP
parently in deep earnest on each occasion
AS might be expected, he laid up a good
deal of unhappiness for himself and the
women
Mr.. Lawrence Hutton. who has so long
written the book reviews for Harper's Mag
azine, withdraws from his connection with
this department of the magazine. His theory
of book reviewing is thus set forth: HE has
looked, in books and in authors, for what
was good rather than for what was bad
While 1t is very much easier to blame than
to praise, he has tried to show his apprecia-
ton of the best efforts of the older writer's,
and to encourage, not TO dishearten, the
younger
The last finished literary work of William
Z, Gladstone was his eloquent and tender
tribute to the momory of Arthur Henry
Haliam, the friend of his school days, and
thereafter until his untimely death. The
article was the last of five which Mr.. Glad
stone had at different times written ex-
pressly for the Youths Companion, and APP
peared recently. The final revision Of the
article, in the venerable statesman's own
handwriting, was concluded in November,
1897 The article has been issued by the
Companion in neat pamphlet form
There is somewhat too much of Harry
Modern Machinery, of Chicago for June
contains an illustrated article from a Lon
don correspondent on the aerial torpedo
system invented by Hudson Maxim. brother
of the famous inventor of the rapid-fre gun
BY this system he proposes to hit an IRON
clad with half ton of gun cotton at a dis
lance of nire miles; but the destructive
results of a discharge do not depend en-
tirely on accurate Workmanship as an ex-
plosion in the water would, Mr. Maxim m
dertakes TO demonstrate mathematicaIiy
sink the strongest ironclad within a radius
OF lao feet. The article shows Mr. Mnxin,
standing beside one of the torpedoes. and
Is further Illustrated with scientific dia-
grams explaining the philosophy of exnlo-
sives and projectiles.