The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-12
CURRENT MAGAZINES.

with map of the world on the opposite
liable at this time, are also given.
Undergraduate life at Wellesley, as de-
picted by writer's and artists in Scribner.
appears very inviting and to leave little to
be desired, at least in the way of aesthetic
surroundings in a girls educational career
The Home Magazine, literary organ of the
Commercial Travellers Association, has
transferred its publication office from Bing
hamton to New York city. 1t appears in a
new cover and with other typographical i'm
provements.
Meehans Monthly for May has a very
dainty color plate representing the prairie
rose. Lovers of wild flowers find much to
please them in this little magazine, which
devOteS much space to the native flora. 1t
is published at Germantown, Pa.
1.-THE Child at Play in the Home 1.-THE
Question of Sleep" Some Suitable Foods
for Young Children" 1.-THE kindergarten in
the Home" and Legal Rights of Mother
and Child" are some of the topics dis
cussed in the current issue or Trained
Motherhood.
at suddenly revived memories when they
read Oscar Chrisman's Secret Language
of Childhood in the Century For where is
the one who has not as a child INDUCED in
the gibberish of hog Latin, goose Latin
and the like?
Little Folks CBoston), the illustrated mag
azine for youngest readers and for children
so small that they must be read to, is
edited by Charles Stuart Pratt and Ella
Forman Pratt, who conducted that we'll
remembered juvenile magazine. Wide
Awake 1t is dainty little periodical
May oath is the four hundredth annivers-
airy of the burning of the martyr and patriot
Savonarola, whose death is to be commem-
grated in Florence by special church serv-
ices, on that day. The article on Savonarola
in the Open Court, which is accompanied by
illustrations, gives q brief sketch of his ca
reer and significance
Occasionally a bit of writing that is not
meant to be instructive nor to set forth
some pet theory breaks into the magazines
and is read with pleasure for the mere art
of it. Such thing is Mr.. Aldrich's His
Grace the Duke in the Century. Who but
Aldrich could have told the story of the
poor old dukes head so we'll?
Popular Astronomy (Northfieid, Mimi,
for May contains papers on Women AS
tronomers," Astronomical Myths-Astrolo-
gy," Comets and Comet Families "The
Suns Heat" New Method of Determining
a Double Star Orbit 3 "Ephemerides of Sat
elites" and variable Stars There is also
a variety of editorial notes on astronomical
subjects.
Walter wycl1off offers. in Scribner, an
other installment of his experiences in Chi
ceed in conveying the impression that he
saw life from the standpoint of the unem-
ployed and hopeless after all. To know that
one Is merely disappearing, thougn II De
for serious purpose, gives very dlHerent
point of view.
Jesse Lynch Williams's story in Scribner
of THE New Reporter" is a clever sketch
with a moral, If one cares to draw it. 1t
bears various unanistakable signs of having
been written by a genuine newspaper man.
and. as if the internal evidence were not
add to the 'effect-aS If the article were
written under pressure late at night and
hastily printed.
Outdoor Life is a. new magazine whose
title indicates its character-that of en-
couraging open air sports and forms of rec
reation Among the topics of papers in the
Dwellers.'' "A Month in Florida" An Elk,
citing Wild Bull Hunt, - Colorado Nature,
An Impromptu , Wildcat Hunt and mRec1
in Denver, Col.
Among the papers from current English
magazines in the May Eclectic are those on
the following subjects: THE Coming Parti-
ton of China" "a Lady's Ride in Burmah."
THE Higher Rascality," England and ia
mu aii Burke" "The Difficulties of Democ-
racy." Some Of the Resources of Canada"
Balloon and Kite in Meteorology." eli
L
aster and After"
A new portrait of John Keats, reproduced
in the Book Buyer from drawing by Jo-
seph Severn shows distinctly feminine
face P. G.. Hubert, jr., contributes read
able article on physical exercise for literary
workers. in which he recalls "reminiscences
of William Cullen Bryant, VINO at elghtyc
three frequently climbed the nine flights OF
stairs to his office after three-mile walk
from home in preference. to taking the ele-
vator. The signed book reviews IN THIS
issue are especially interesting.
The Newspaper Magazine, made up from
selections from the newspapers of the coun-
try for the month, contains greater va
riety of matter than any of the other mag
azines. and as it is the best matter from
the papers it's literary character is quite
as high as that of the other periodicals
to discussions of the war, though the editor
must have been greatly tempted TO give
that subject the lead, seeing that other sub
jects fell into the background at the time
he was making up his pages.
An interesting article in the Engineering
Magazine on Railroad Fares and Passen-
ger Travel" closes with this paragraph:
Reducing fares will increase movement,
and so will the provision of some attrac-
tons at the end of the journey; but the
density of population and the wealth OF the
people come in to modify the matter in a
subtle and ever-changing way. Thus the
best policy of any given railroad in any
given case must be q matter or judgment,
based on careful experiment ana much OBJ
servation. 1t is a repetition or the old story
that the judgment of a wise man must al
ways be superior to theories based on gen.
eral facts"
Joseph Wheeler, ex-Confederate officer,
congress- from Alabama and lately ap-
pointed major general in the United States
army, has an account in the May Century
of an effort to rescue Jefferson Davis, or,
troops after the war was practically ended.
In the series of papers on the seven Won
ders of the World" Benjamin lde Wheeler
writes OF the pyramids of Egypt. Andrew
d. White contributes a sketch or the RuS-
sian statesman, Constantine Pobedonostzeff.
Louis Botan has a paper on submarine pho
Biography, Brander Matthews discourses of
'After-dtnner Oratory" Franklin Is Locke
of Railway Crossings in Europe ana Amer
ica, and Mrs. Van Rensselaer, or The
Mother City of Greater New YORK
1.-THE Spy Of the Neutral Ground" is the
subject of paper by Harry Edward Miller,
in the New England Magazine, which treats
of the man who was the original of the
hero in Cooper's novel. '"The Spy" Many
are not aware that this character OF Har-
vey Birch was drawn from life; put cooper
himself admitted that many OF the Incl
dents related in his story were real happen
ings in the life of Enoch CROSBY, or whose
exciting experiences as a spy In the coun-
try bordering on the Hudson ourlns the rev.
olution, Mr.. Miller here tells Although the
descriptive articles in this magazine are; as
rule devoted to places WITHIN the poroers
of New England an exception appears In
the May number in the shape Of a paper on
Oklahoma Territory Some excellent short
stories appear in this magazine from time