The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-06

Tinklin Simlins" by Mary Tracy Earle, are
above the average merit of magazine tales.
In the Engineering Magazine for August
Joseph p. Nimmo, jr.,- discourses of the
Nicaragua canal and its commercial and
military aspects and presents the negative
considerable force, but will hardly convince
the advocates of the undertaking that they
are in error.
The woman's Home Companion (Spring-
field, o. belongs to the class of department
magazines, but is very good one of the
kind. 1t has an excellent list of contribu-
tors, Mrs. Burton Harrison, Martha Nc
Culloch- Williams, Clinton Scollard, Ernest
McGaffey, .Salie Joy White and Madeline S.
Bridges being those who have articles in the
current number
Clara Morris, the actress, has taken to
writing fiction. but the specimen in the Au-
gust Ladies' Home Journal is not of a kind
to cause her readers to wish her to repeat
the attempt. The editorial taste that
shies' at pictures of underwear in the
fashion department of the magazine and
gives place of honor in the literary pages
to this tale of throat cutting is peculiar, to
say the least.
The concluding chapters of Charles A.
Dana's "reminiscences of the civil war, which
appear in the August number of Mcclure
touch upon the part taken by General Miles
In the capture and Imprisonment of JEFF
Davis. portrait of General Miles shows
HIM to have been very handsome as a young
man. These last chapters of the Dana rem
lnlScenceS cover the dSSaSS1nat1o OF Lin
coin and the grand review of the army.
The Eclectic culs some very well written
and entertaining articles from the English
periodicals of the month. Among the topics
considered are THE Fine--Art of Living,
The Dread of DEATH, THE Microbe. in
Powers, the Selfshness of Englshmen,
THE Ethics of the Tramp. Modern Lam
guage Teaching" and Spain and the Phil
ippines.
The special feature of the Review Of Re-
views for August aresr'The Battle with Ger
Churchill; "The Siege and Capture of San
tiago," by John A. Church; Our Eastern
Squadron and It's Commodore by Park
te of b erdn Perre ana Co1ber
tin, and Spanish Traits and the New
World" by Sylvester Baxter.
One of the best things in the August At
lantic is the tender and sympathetic tribute
by w. d. Howels to the memory of Ed
ward Bellamy man and author. Mr.. How
ellis says at the close of his article: II am
glad that he lived to die at home in Chico
pee-in the village environment by which
he interpreted the heart of the American
Nation, and knew how to move 1t more than
any other American author who has lived.
The theory of those who think differently
is thathe simply moved the popular fancy;
and this may suffice to explain the state of
some people, but it will not account for the
love and honor in which his name is pas
sionately held by the vast average. East
and West. His fame is safe with them, and
his faith as an animating force concerning
whose effect at this time or some other
time it would not be. wise to prophesy.
Whether his ethics will keep his aesthetics
in remembrance / do not know, but l am
sure that one cannot acquaint ones self
with his merely artistic work and not be
sensible that in Edward Bellamy we were
rich in a romantic imagination surpassed
only by thai of Hawthorne"