The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-04


space to matters relating to the war. Much
of it is a repetition in substance of what has
already appeared in the newspapers. Three
descriptions of the battle of Manila bay,
given by eyewitnesses, are of interest. how
ever. less having been published about that
naval engagement than about the doings
of SIMPSONS fleet, These eyewitnesses are
Col. George A. Loud. a paymaster, who
watched the battle from the deck of the
revenue cutter McCulloch, and took notes.
Charles P. Kindleberger assistant surgeon
on the flagship Olympia, and Joel C. Evans
gunner of the Boston The sketches are
graphic, and prove that fight to have been
even more remarkable than the first re-
ports indicated. Wallace Cummings writes
of life in Manila, and Frank A. Wander
lip assistant secretary of the treasury, pre-
sents some facts about the Philippines
and discusses pending problems. Walter
Russell. an artist with Admiral SIMPSONS
fleet, offers some drawings made on the
spot during the early movements of the
ships. Surgeon General Sternberg gives his
views as to the sanitary regeneration of
Havana, d work that must be accomplished
before it becomes a fit abode for Americans
Frederick A. Ober, late commissioner in
Porto Rico of the Columbian Exposition
sets forth some important information
Among other things he says the commerce
of the island is chiefly with the United
States, and for the last ten years we
gained half a million each year in
ports, and two millions in imports In
addition to the war articles a variety of
topics are handled III the current Century
Charles w Shields writes of the wonder
full natural monument in the Arctic regions
named for Tennyson by Dr. Kane: the
statue of Zeus at Olympus one of the seven
wonders of the world is described by Ben
ion lin do T[n1n In fo1I 1f
the uses of the trumpet in military service
and for art students is a paper on Gilbert
Stuart's portraits of women, and one on
Coles Old English Masters" Among a
number of excellent poems in the number is
one by Meredith Nicholson in which he de-
picts happily the inspiring effect upon the
listener of the horns in orchestral music.
Mr.. NicholSon's name appears with fire.
quency of late in the leading magazines.
Scribner for August is full of pictorial and
literary attractions. Richard Harding
Davis, who is at his best in descriptive re-
porting, has a picturesque account of the
waiting at Tampa, or, as he calls it, the
"rocking-chair period of the war. Davis
also tells briefly of the landing of the
army at Baiquiri. John r. Spear, also a
New York newspaper correspondent, de-
scribes the chase of Cervera by SIMPSONS
ships before the Spanish admiral entered
Santiago harbor Mr.. Spear also tells of
the attack of the Winslow on a Spanish
gunboat, during which Ensign Bagley lost
his life A further addition to the war lit
ef r t, is the story. by J: f J. Archibald,
or the first engagement of American troops
on cuban soil, which it will be remembered
was between detachment of troops from
the little transport Gussie. which tried to
land supplies for insurgents and failed. A
second paper by Captain Mahan on John
Paul Jones in the Revolution will be read
with an increased interest because of the
10 in
stallment of Senator Lodges History of
the revolution" treats of the part taken
by the Southern States. Two unusually
good short stories appear in this number
one by Charles Warren called THE Anal
gamated Bill; the other a newspaper story
"Gormley's Scoop" by E. A. Walcott. The
first is an episode in American politics and
is one of several recent examples showing
tnat notion writer's are turning their atten-
ton to this by no means overworked field
The newspaper story, unlike most fiction
so labeled, was plainly written by one IA
miliar with the technicalities. of newspaper
life. A short story of child life, by Kenneth
Grahame, is hardly up to the level of merit
which his Golden Age has led his readers
20 TO- expect = ct. poem by p; :: Martin. The
which are remarkably fine and a novelty
in this form of art
striking color-plate, representing a
scene on 1.-THE painted desert" forms the
frontispiece of the midsummer Harper. 1t
is to illustrate an article by t. NJ. Prudden,
descriptive of the Grand Canyon of the Colo
RADIO, which follows. This magazine has not
yet offered any Cuban war literature. but
inasmuch as the newspapers have told all
that is worth the telling up to this time
the public misses nothing. Nevertheless.
because the war is its first thought probably
1T will not read with the interest that might
otherwise belong to it, Stephen BonsaIs ac-
count OF the convict system in Siberia.
Bonsal sees with very different eyes from
George KEENAN, and asserts that there is no
inhumanity in the treatment OF prisoners.
An article by an English writer whose
name does not appear sets forth some pOliti-
cal reasons why it would be unwise for
Queen Victoria to abdicate, but also ex-
presses the opinion that when the Prince of
Wales comes to the throne he will make a
popular, and even beloved, sovereign.
There are short stories by Stephen Crane,
II. B. Marriott Watson, Margaret Deland,
Bliss Perry and Julian Ralph. Crane still
SupS on hOrrors-a taste that he Will per-
haps outgrow, and he goes too much into
detail, but that he has ability the first
pages Of this story. showing the relations
between a negro coachman and the small
boy of the household, are enough to prove.
Scribner's Magazine has an instructive let
ter from the artist. John La Fargo. in
which he undertakes TO answer the ques-
ton How shall we know the greatest pic
tures?" He says. incidentally. I'm GER
tain sense. / do not think that there has
ever been time when painters painted as