The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-07

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with the life of a young girl whose fortunes
take her from New England to a brilliant
career in Europe.
In the current number of Harper Hon.
David Turpie reviews the various projects
for the building of an isthmian canal. and
mobiles very decidedly his opposition to the
Nicaragua canal expressed in the Senate
some time ago.
Kirk Munroes article in Harper on Some
Americans from over Sea" is worth read
ing for the light it throws on the immigra-
ton question, The Russians and Icelanders
ne nndS in the Northwest seem, according
to his account, TO be in a fair way to make
good American citizens.
Mr.. Jacob a. Riis, who wrote How the
Other Half Lives and other studies of ten
ement house life, contributes to the Feb
ruafy Century an article on Heroes Who
right Fire 1t recounts some of the most
stirring incidents that have found record on
the roll of honor of the New York fire de-
partment. The. paper is one of the Cen
turys series of Heroes of Peace" and is
illustrated by Jay Hambidge
The weekly publications, Judge, Leslies
Weekly and Demorest's Magazine have
been consolidated. The papers will here
after all be published by a new corpora
ton known as the Arlxer Publishing Conn
pany. Of which w. j. Arkell is president,
new company has 81 100000 of capital stock
and 100000 of bonds, with which the exist
ing STOCK ana bonds of the three different
publications have all been taken up.
The special features of the February Re
view of Reviews are an illustrated article
on Arctic Exploration and the Quest of
the North Pole, by Walter Wellman fol-
lowed by a collection of expert opinions on
the question. why Should Arctic Explora-
ton be Continued?' sketch of Alphonse
Daudet; an article on THE Travelling
Library" a resume of THE Advance of the
Peace Movement NnrOlIohO1ff he
by Frederick Passy, president of the French
Society for a between Nations,
and Mr.. w. Il. Stead'S Survey of British
Problems and Policies for 1885,"
Golfers Weekly has donned a dress en-
tirely new and has almost doubled its guam
tity of Illustrations. The current number
is in larger type than its predecessors, and
the three columns have been replaced by
two broad ones. Five of the pages are en-
tirely covered by illustrations, besides which
there are a dozen pictures The first in
stalment of Henry James's new novel, 1.-THE
Turn of the Screw appears, as well as the
beginning of AN Impossible House Party"
IAN amusing serial by Caroline and Alice
Duer Another new contributor is Blanche
Willis Howard. author of One Summer
"Guenn, etc, who has department en-
titled Under the Sun"
John Hays Hammond takes the place of
honor in the Engineering Magazine for Feb
ruary with a comprehensive paper on '"The
Gold Mines of the Witwatersrand." South
Africa has supplied an endless chain of
fragmentary literature, in both the daily
and the technical press, and the worse than
doubtful character of much of it renders
douDly valuable this authoritative eXposi-
ton by one whose name stands first among
the mining experts and economic leaders
of the Trdnsvaal. In this opening paper,
after briefly reviewing the marvellous eX-
pansiOn of the South African republic, MIR.
Hammond gives a concise and definite de-
Of q Of
An interesting account is given in the Re-
view of Reviews for February of a Wiscon-
sin experiment with travelling libraries.
Among the books most in demand during
the first year We're the following well-known
stories: Miss Alcott's "Old Fashioned Girl"
Aldrichs STORY of a Bad Boy Habber
toms ''Helen's Babies" Colonel Kings
"Colones Daughter and Edward Eggles-
toms 'HOoSier SchoOmaster.' After these
in order of popularity came Rudder
Grange" "A Singular Life Prisoner of
Zenda.'' "Old Curiosity Shop and .'Oliver
Twist" American history and biography
We're much read, and the farmers families
took a great interest i'll the accounts OF New
York tenement house life, How the Other
Half Lives" and Children of the Poor"
The February Harper contains short sto-
ries by Mary Hartwell Catherwood, Mar
guerite Merington, George Hubbard and
Sarah Barnwell Eliot The last-named
given to dealing with unpleasant themes.
Southern lynching problem. She han
dies Il very delicate subject with
great skill, but the wisdom of
bringing the matter of assaultng women
into literary periodicals. or into fiction, is
questionable. 1t is difficult TO see what good
is gained by so doing. It seems sufficient
freely discussed in the newspapers. More
over, this treatment Of it conveys the idea
that the problem is one peculiar to the
South and involves only the negroes, where
as some of the most horrible crimes of that
nature are committed in other parts of the
country by white men, for example the
murder of two women in Iowa a few days
ago.
OF the two short stories in the February
Scribner one, by William NJ. Browne is
very clever little sketch of the maneuvers
of an Irish saloon keeper in his effort to
prevent the marriage of his daughter to an
undesirable person The other, by Mary
Tappan Wright, describes a Irritation be-
tween a distinguished author of forty and
unmarried woman of thirty-six, princi
pal of young ladies' school. who meet by
chance in an art gallery, and, through in
slant mutual attraction, are drawn into in
innate personal conversation in ten mini
utes, though neither knew the others name
Whatever may be said of the probability
of the incident the conversation is i'm
possible. When will magazine editors learn
that grammatical composition and fdcile
diction do not of themselves constitute lit
erature, and that fiction, to be artistic
must. TO some extent, at least be realistic?
The writer of this story has set forth what
doubtless seems to her a very effective
conversation, but it is really stilted, and
could never occur outside of magazine.
The paper in Scribner's Magazine entitled
1.-THE Police Control of a Great Election
is not a tale of municipal corruption, as
might be supposed but is an account of the
part taken by the New York police in
guarding the polls and securing early re-
suits on election day under reform methods
A valuable historical paper in this number
is an account by Captain Mahan of the
naval campaign of 1776 on Lake Champaign
1t is a chapter from the authors History
of the Royal Navy of Great Britain" soon
to be published. The current installment
of Senator Lodges STORY of the Revolu-
ton relates to the Second Congress and
the siege of Boston. and, familiar the
it, of fresh romance. The most striking
and spirited Illustrations for this chapter
are by +. c. Yohn. A readable little out
of-door sketch, by Ernest S. Thompson. has
to do with that always entertaining bird
the crow Helen Watterson Moody con-
tributes a fresh chapter to the discussion
OF the domestic-service problem, but offers
nothing of special Importance towards the
solution.
THE QUIETEST CITY.
The Efforts Made i'm Berlin 10 Prevent