The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-04
cunRENT periodicals.


The complete story of the March Lippin-
colt, written by Jennie Billiard Waterbury,
is the history OF two American girls in
Paris, one of whom had an ambition 10
marry a title the other to be a prima
donna. and each of Whom abandoned her
aspirations to marry an American man.
English, as well as American, periodicals
keep their readers well supplied with infor-
nation about the KIondike The Illustrated
Magazine for March has an article on the
subject by writer who has been fifteen
times to the Pacific slope. Two or three
readable short stories are in this number
Henry Cabot Lodge is putting very vivid
interest into his story of the revolution in
Sctibner. The current installment treats of
the spread of revolution and the growth of
the sentiment favoring independence. The
illustrations of the work, which, as FAR as
possible, are historically accurate, are a
valuable addition.
st. Nicholas opens with an interesting
paper on the great lakes. treating of their
beauty, significance in time of war, sani-
tary elements and vast commercial impor-
lance. Young artists will read with pleas
perience with the birds and animals that
serve as his models The continued stories
are by Frank Stockton and j. /. TroW-
bridge.
Octave Thanet is one Of the few writers
write of Iaboring mon, and their wrongs
from a standpoint of entire sympathy and
understanding, and yet produce pleasing
and cheerful tales. She possesses in an un-
common degree the saving grace OF common
sense. In her story IN Scribner she brings
in Leroy Aguire, one of the attractive char
acters in a former sl1etchoa
In the Pail Mall Magazine is the story of
Major Andre from the English point of
view. in which he is regarded as the inno-
cent victim of Arnolds treachery Sir
Walter Besant has an illustrated paper on
South London. A picturesque account OF
the great BeneS1ictine Abbey of La Bataille,
built by William the Conqueror on the site
of the battle OF Hastings in commemoratlon
If his victory, is contributed by her Grace,
the Duchess of Cleveland, the present
owner of Battle Abbey.
In the Ladies' Home Journal a Wisconsin
school teacher, with a. salary of $4C0 year.
tells how he not only lives within his in
come, but saves nearly $500 of it. His fam
lily concists of q wife and two children. An
itemized account of the expenses is given.
It includes $96 for rent and $40 for clothing
for the family. Their food, he says, is
abundant in quantity and of sufficient va
riety The secret of the economy seems 10
depend in this case, as in so many. many others;
largely upon the wife, who makes over
and goes without.
The Ladies' Home Journal for March tells
the story of the country school in pictures
without the aid of explanatory text, and
tells it well. A page of interior views of
the rooms OF college girls gives an idea of
life at the colleges that no verbal descrlp-
ton could convey. Pictorial art is getting
to such a point that reading matter is IN
danger of being superseded, but whether
the new fashion is an Improvement or the
literary mode of expression is not SO GER
tain. Primitive. man used pictures 70 eX-
press his thoughts before writing was IN
vented.
The second series, Of papers by Walter A.
Wyckoff, the young man who voluntarily
undertook the life of an unskilled laborer
in order to put himself in touch with labor
ing people, begins in the March number OF
Scribner. He finds himself in Chicago dur
ing the winter previous to the opening of
the worlds fair. He is without penny,
work is not to be had, thousands of men
are out of employment, and he spends his
first night in the station house, going there
voluntarily as his only refuge. The people
who visited Chicago during the spring OF
the exposition year ana saw the hundreds
of idle men along the lake front and Wher-
ever they. could remain unmolested by the
police will feel sure that the next chapters
of Mr.. Wyckoffs experience will not make
pleasant reading. 3t
The Cosmopolitan contains an excellent
review, by Theron c.. Crawford, of the
Dreyfus case from the beginning up to the
trial of lola. Richard Harding Davis Goa
tributes a depressing story bearing on the
Cuban war that is curiously suggestive in
style of the stories his mother, Rebecca
Harding Davis used to write. A feature
of the number is an illustrated description
OF the interior of a Pompeiian house.
Shall We Annex Leprosy?' is the title of
a very unpleasant account OF the preVa-
lence OF the disease II HAWAII the writer
of which is evidently brittle belief that an
nexation of the islands will in some way
encourage the spread Of, the dreaded plague
To- Re try m
ford University, answers a series of ques-
tons on the utility and purpose of modern
education propounded by the editor OF the
| magazine.
The Strand Magazine, contains an Illus
trated account of a "eruise on Wheels the
wheels being the new wheel skates The
writer regards road-skating healthy
and exhilarating pastirne, and says in sum-
ming up his experiences; 80 far as speed
is concerned, the macadam skater will
never be able to hold his own with even an
indifferently mounted cyclist; but for mod
crate journeys, undertaken on roads which
are beyond reproachsl the new sport has
many advantages to recommend 1t. The
convenient portability of the skates Is a
strong point in their favor, ana II any
rivalry could exist between road skating
and cycling, the former would score heavily
in this connection. Am enthusiastic admlrer
has aptly described aCthe paStlme as the
missing link between cycling and walking,
and, as such, it can scarcely ran TO claim
a large number of patrons from every class
| of the community" @
Scribner's Book Buyer for March has this
about young Indianapolis artist: I'm the
! gallery of Revolutionary Pictures the
original paintings and drawings made for
Senator Lodges Story of the Revolution
and Captain. Mahan's THE American Navy
in the Revolution the work most admired
next to Howard Pyle's.i is that Of Mr.. f. G.
Yohn, who has done more of the battle
scenes than any of the other artists His
| painting in color of THE Battle of Brandy
wine and the black and white of the Camp
Scene at the Valley Forge with a single
| figure in the foreground Which tells the
whole story of the American army that
memorable winter) have won so much atten-
ton, wherever the pictures have been ex-
hihited, and his skill throughout in depict
ing dramatic scenes of intense action has
proved so striking, that many have been
asking who he is. He was born in Indian
apolis and studied three years at the Art
Students League in New York, and that
was about all of his career up to the present
time. There has hardly been time for more.
When he began this revolutionary under
| taking he was twenty