The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-12
CURRENT MAGAZINES.

Whittier and Lowell are the subjects of
the article in the American Bookmen Series
in the March Bookmans 1t is written by
M. A. De Wolfe Howe.
The Pocket Magazine, lately reduced to
cents a copy, opens its March number
with a story by Miss Wilkins, and a story
by this writer Is surely worth the price Of
the periodical, to say nothing of the other
stories and humorous bits added.
In the March number of Recreation DR..
J. c. Hennessy has a practical article on
the education of the horse, telling how to
train the animal TO do tricks. Kindness is
the key to such training. LAS soon as you
lose patience the horse will be spoiled
says the writer.
Under the title of 1.-THE Event Of the Year
1885," the Midland Monthly (Des Moines)
presents an illustrated article on the Omaha
exposition. The buildings have quite an i'm
posing appearance. Periodical literature Of
that region will be dominated by this i'm
portant industrial exhibit this year.
Among the topics of the articles in the
current Eclectic are 1.-THE Case of Captain
Dreyfus," 1.-THE Partition of China" rs
Photography Among the Fine Arts?'' 1.-THE
New Humanitarianism," frustrating in
Russia Sleep Matthew Arnold as a
Critic" Mind as Disease Producer" and
Sir Wilfrid Laurier at Washington"
The National Geographic Magazine, an
tional Geographic Society at Washington,
has in its March number papers on Dwell
1ngS OF the Saga Time in Iceland, up
the Kuskowim," a river of Alaska; The
Mount st. Elias Expedition of 1897, THE
Bureau of American Ethnology'' and talks
on various minor matters of scientific i'm
portance.
Among the topics treated in the March
number of Trained Motherhood are: THE
Hygiene of Childhood" prevention and
Treatment Of Measles" "A Childs Intro
duction to Good Literature Suggestions
in I the Study Of ,, Chiidlifs LEGAL Rights
Home" and Care of the Baby" There
are various editorial departments in which
practical nursery topics are considered. This
little magazine is handsomely printed and
we'll conducted. ross
The standing announcement of the Book
man that it cannot undertake to return re-
jected manuscripts whether stamps are in
closed or not precludes the idea that any
self-respecting writer sends contributions 20
that periodical unsolicited, and leads to the
natural inference that all it's essays, re-
SO far as the poems are concerned, it seems
likely that the Bookman's readers would
fare better If it trusted to chance rather
than to special arrangement.
Louis II. Gibson has article in the
New England Magazine for March on
Architecture and the People" Joseph Lee
argues that expensives living is the blight
on America. Emma Itford writes of the
American college for girls at Constantine
pie. Municipal Art in Italy," Woodstock,
VT" New England in india" Wheaton
Seminary and william Pitt Fessenden''
are titles of other papers. Several short
stories and poems make UP an admirable
number OF this always readable magazine
The subject of ''Trusts-Their Causes and
the Remedy" is discussed in the March
Arena by Senator Butler, of North Caro-
lima. c. A. Robinson, of Fountaintown,
Ind, president of the Farmers Mutual Ben
eft Association, writes of ''Pingree Potato
Culture and Its Effects on Business" He
regards the plan OF towns going into agri-
culture as direct outgrowth of plutocracy
and the British money system" Robert
Stein has an interesting paper describing
the workings of a successful cooperative
boarding home for girls in Boston.
The secret of How to Get on in the
World is what the magazine Success is in
tended to disclose to ambitious young peo-
pie, and to that end biographical sketches,
stories and Illustrations, literary and pic
torial, are all directed. In the March num-
Der are papers on 1.-The Armour Institute, -
on 1.-THE Country Girls Possibilities, John
Wanamakers Business Career" Debates
Business, Health Culture" and a dozen
other topics of interest. Chats with Mrs.
Henrotin, president of the Federation, of
lures of the number.sd
Nothing more clever has been done in re-
cent fiction than Hopkinson Smiths hand
ling of the friendship between the leading
man" of his story and a married woman
unhappily mated. 1t was a friendship so
close and sincere that it might easily have
merged into something more, and would
have done so but for the self-respect and
self-control of the two. The situation is
CO al ffcft llxY ho cd hxy
the writer that readers wearied with the
tmn1Oral1t1eS OF so much of the fiction of
the day have a feeling of relief when this
man and woman go on their separate ways
without an attempt to break legal bonds
or the thought of such a road to happiness.
This story, "Caleb West" comes to an end
in the current number of the Atlantic, as
does also Mrs. Wiggins's Penelope s
Progress"
In the March Atlantic E. l.. Godkin COM
pares the democracy of the Australian col
onies with our own. The Australian plan
of government includes no president,
of course, theirs being the cabi-
net system, which has the advan-
tage of permitting the people to call
the government officers quickly to account
and the disadvantage of being subject to
more frequent upheavals than is possible
in this country. The history of Australian
democracy is a. long record of successive
changes and experiments in every possible
and building schemes, in public works, in
finance, but especially in laws for the pro-
lection of labor. which have been extended
to the most extreme and minute paternal
supervision. Mr. Godkin details at length
the nature of these experiments, which so
far seem to have been successful, and he
looks for still further interesting and valu-
able developments, fostered by the general
prosperity of the community and the Won
derful resources of the country.
Mr.. Henry Sedgwick, jr., argues with
much cleverness in the March Atlantic that
English literature is UNNECESSARILY superior
to the French. The lack of French writers,
he thinks. is that of common sense; they
have imagination, style. power of kind,
he admits. but do not put themselves in
touch with the experiences of common men.
Whether he is right or whether he gives his
case away by the final admission that we
love our own language and our own litera-
ture because they are ours are questions
open to discussion. sThe great books for
us are the books which we read when we
were young" he says "They bewitched
us with our own language, they brought TO
us our English thoughts. The power of the
English Bible is not the reward OF merit
only-merit has never enjoyed such measure
of success; it exists because we read it and
reread ii when we We're little boys. This
early language of our mother and of our
books is part of the trailing clouds of
glory that came with us from the East.
Love of ii is a simple animal instinct, and
the man who can proclaim himself free
from il does not comprehend the riches of
language the great passions of life. We
would alter line of Wordsworth 30 fit this
case:
" We must be bond who speak the tongue