The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-12

The second number of the Critic in its
new form as a monthly is full of readable
literary gossip and book lore The illus
trations are NUMEROUS and excellent-the
portrait of Zangwill, for instance, being
worth the subscription price,
A portrait of Edmond Rostand, the sud-
denly famous author of "Cyrano de Berge-
rae" appears in the September Book Buyer,
together with a new photograph of Coquelin
as Cyrano. An enthusiastic letter from
COquelin adds to the interest of the por-
traits.
The September Harper contains I'M
usual proportion of fiction. the contributors
being Margaret Deiand Julian Ralph, Ka-
trina Trask, Alice Duer and Mildred How
ellis. The only new note is struck by Julian
| Ralph, whose theme is the influence of de-
parted friends upon the living.
Current History for the quarter ending
June 80 is at hand. Among other subjects
it covers the war with Spain up to that
time. also the far-eastern situation and also
| records the death of Gladstone, accompany
| ing the announcement with a biogra phical
| sketch AS book of reference this Boston
periodical is invaluable.
Under the title Great Problems in Or
ganization," the Cosmopolitan is publishing
a series of articles by men in different lines
| of enterprise best able to prepare them
| The current number has an account of the
| workings of a modern newspaper in time
of war; A study of the modern battle ship
on the Morality of Perfumes by Harry
Thurston Peck suggests a possibility that
| Il was written with advertising intent.
The Illinois Public School Journal Bloom
ington), edited by George p. Brown, has
changed it's character somewhat and also
it's title, the latter now being School and
Home Education" 1t will henceforth de-
vote more attention to primary work and
the training of the children in the family
| Especial endeavor will therefore be made to
| interest
Stanton Brown, well known In Indianapolis,
has been added to the staff of the magazine
and will conduct the home department..
The Hon. James Bryce contributes to the
September Harper Some Thoughts on the
Policy of the United States He under
takes to outline the views on the subject
held in Europe, and he speaks, he says
mot as an Englishman thinking first of
English interests, but as disinterested OBJ
server" He admits, in conclusion. that it
would be to British advantage if Cuba and
the Philippines were annexed by this coun-
try. but his arguments show the disadvan-
| tageS of such course for the United States,
and his personal opinion is that it would be
| unwise.
The Indianapolis kindergarten Monthly
for September contains a very interesting
account, by Miss Brockhausen, of the work
of the vacation school in this city. No one
reading the article can fail to be convinced
of the benefit of such schools to the chill
dren in attendance With this issue Of the
Monthly Its character is somewhat
changed and it begins it's career as an edu-
it not only the organ of the Free Kinder
| garten Society and Of the Normal Training
School, but to present to parents and teach
ers articles bearing upon the training and
| teaching of children, stories, etc.
There must have been some form of in
surance in the earliest history of commerce
and industry" says Charles w. Burpee. in
an article on Fire Insurance in New Eng
land" in the September number of the New
England Magazine. TT is we'll tablished
that in the old English guilds there was a
| common fund, maintained by fixed period
ical payments, for security against fire,
water, robbery or other calamity" In his
! research he has found that there is record
| of the first definite form of insurance some
time in the eleventh century. He states
many interesting facts in connection with
the growth of this interest, and follows its
| development to the well-organized compa-
| nies of the present day. His article is fully
! Illustrated.
Self Culture, high-class periodical from
the start, plans to extend it's field some
what. 1t will have 1913 pages of text, in
stead of ninety-six as heretofore, and sew
eral new departments will be introduced.
While increasing it's size it has reduced its
/ price to 81 A special feature of the mag
| azine in it's new form will be an editorial
| review of the world, which, with a very
complete record Of current events, will en-
able it's readers to keep thoroughly in touch
| with all the movements and activities of
the day. Its purpose is to cultivate taste
| for the best literature, and it meets a want
| among students and in families better than
many more pretentious periodicals. 1t is
handsomely printed and illustrated, and
| counts among its contributors many of the
| best writers of the country. 1t is published
| at Akron, o.
Harpers Magazine for September, which
| was issued while the heat of summer was
| at it's greatest intensity, opens very appro-
| priately with an interesting and well-illus-
| trated account by Frederick G.. Jackson
of Days in the Arctic" The writer was a
member of the Harmsworth Polar expedi-
don, and his experience was not the COM
| paratively common one of travel through
| the northern region, but of living there for
| a thousand days" The greatest enemies
of the party. he says. We're not cold and
of companionship. He adds: For six men
| to be boxed up three years in a hut twenty
| feet long by twenty feet wide, and only
seven feet high. never seeing any other
| being nor hearing scrap of news is a try
ing existence. Yet l can unhestatingly say
no jollier or happier little party ever lived
| in northern ATTITUDES. Four months of solid
night every year has, however, depressing
| effect. not only the spirits, but on the
| appetite, and it also destroys sleep"
! The Indiana Medical Journal is a war
| number, containing as leading feature DR..
| Nicholas Senn's letter in defense of the
medical staff, which has heretofore APP
peared in the daily papers. The issue also
| gives due attention to the medical corps of
| the various Indiana regiments; to the hos
| pital privates of which our State has en-
| listed over $780, TO the notices of books on
military medical matters such as wounds
! in War Tropical Diseases and Hos
/ pital Corps Manuals" Opinions of the for
| eign press are cited to the results of the
| war and the editorials are directed TO the
! same features. AS explanation of giving so
much attention to the war and It's complica-
| tons the statement is made: "Ethnol0gy is
| a biological science, and therefore within the
/ province of medicine and medical literature
| The decadence of Spain and the stationary
| condition of France and Italy. predicting the
| disappearance of the Latin race in the
| drama of civilization, are biological prob
/ lens more attractive at the present time
/ than dissertations upon the bacillary path
| ology. Even these are interlnked, bur just
now our attention Is fixed upon the ethnic