The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-07

TO feed and clothe themselves on that
sum. Among the educational articles
which the Companion will shortly Pub
fish are Hints on Reading" by the Rt-
i aon' James Bryce, author OF The Amer
New York" by the president of the Art
Students League, G. w. Breck; "A Grow
the chief librarian of the Boston Athe-
naeum, and Singing as a Profession for
Young Men" by the eminent baritone,
David Bispham.
A systematic and well-studied plan Of
popular instruction in philosophy as a ba-
sis of religious research, has been pursued
by The Open Court (Chicago) for number
OF years, and the announcements for the
coming season offer new features. In the
November number, Major j. W. Powell. OF
Washington, contributes a Psychological
Study of Judgments" Professor Levy
Bruhl OF Paris, writes on "Bayie," as a
precursor Of the philosophy of the eight
zenith century-an article accompanied by
a handsome portrait of the great French
thinker. and DR.. Paul Carus gives a paper
ON The Greek Idea of Salvation" with
numerous Illustrations from ancient Gre
clan mythology. Timeliness is added to the
number by an article on the Cuban ques-
ton, and by a discussion of the American
schism in the Roman Church.
No periodical coming out of New York is
row complete without something relating to
Roosevelt. Mcclure gives mis- portrait as a
frontispiece, and has a character sketch OF
him contributed by r. S. Baker A feature
of the number is THE Inner History of Adj
miral SIMPSONS Campaign" 1t is based on
official dispatches and tends to cast some
discredit upon Schley. Another interesting
war article is The Diary of the British
Consul at Santiago During Hostilities."
contributions of different character are:
The Mystery of Vesuvius." THE Worlds
Bill OF Fare" showing the comparative
amounts of food used by the principal ma
ions Inc Adventures of a Train Dis
patcher and an account of the first ascent
or the two highest mountain peaks in South
SStneLlca- snort stories are by Robert Barr,
stephen Crane and Harriet A. Nash.
The Wide World Magazine undertakes ia
publish none but true stories of adventure
and curious happenings, but certain it is
that imagination could conjure up no more
exciting or marvellous tales than are set
forth in its pages. The November number
opens with the first chapter of 'The Adj
ventures of Louis de Rougemont, being a
narrative OF the most amazing adventures
man ever lived to tell. This will be read
win none the less interest because of the
charges being made that Rougemont is A
romancer Following this is a story of an
lIIdlense zoo in Colorado, which is man
aged entirely by woman; then comes the
experience OF a man who spent five nights
ana days IN the wilderness of New Bruns-
Scrlptlon or tiger and elephant hunting in
Sumatra, thrilling story of the entomb-
ment OF party of explorers in a cave and
chapter of curious adventures of mission
aries IltleS or other articles are: "A Race
with Ice F1oes," Saved from a Swarm Of
hornets, The Strange Life of Lone St
Kilda," THE Hasheesh Smugglers' Muse
UNI and "A Fight with a Conger Eel A
good deal OF geographical information and
natural history is contained in these sto.
RES, and whether the incidents related are
al an 5 absolutely true or not they make good
reading Tor young people
Prof. R. w. Moore, of Colgate University.
mas this to say of the wonderfully scholarly
pathological magazine published at Bloom
lngton' Ind, and edited by Professor Kar-
stem, of the State University: about wear
ago the Journal of Germanic Philologv
made its appearance and announced its
intention of taking rank heretofore
uninterrupted in this country, and the
first volume has fulfilled the announcement.
It's articles have been of varied character.
but every one of them is contribution TO-
the science of germanics. They have been
OF both purely linguistic nature and of liter
airy quality, so that the man of literary
tastes finds something new as well as the
man whose delight is in the study of Ian
guaSe. The Journal undoubtedly ranks as
tne very foremost critical journals for Ger
manlStS IN this country and even the long
established papers Of The same kind .Das
Litterarsche Centralblatt 'Deutsche Lit
Deutsches Alterthum' have given if cordial
recognition and praise The reviewing de-
partment mas already been used by num-
erouS libraries as their source of reliable
information in regard 20 new books dealing
with Germanic subjects and this DEPART
ment alone ought TO put the journal into
every college and university library and inta
larger public libraries The reviews are all
prepared by specialists in their own lines
they are stern, independent but just and
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as thorough as anything else in the Journal
Prof. Camille Won Klenze of the University
OF Shlcago, mas been added to the. editorial
stafr, and he will have charge of the de-
partment of the comparative study of lit
erature. Great credit is due to Professor
KdrstSn, to whose personal expenditure of
time and money the undertaking has been
well inaugurated and it is to be hoped that
Germanists and libraries in general will en-
large the subscription list so that it will
ultimately make the Journal self-support-
ing
In an article in the Atlantic Monthly on
the intellectual movement in the West Mr..
Hamilton Mabie has this to say of an in
stitution with which all Western people are
familiar: 1.-The head of an Oxford college,
who happened to be at one of those summer
assemblies which have become a feature of
life in many parts of the country, confessed
that all his traditions as a university man
were shocked by some of the methods and
a 6OOu OCe1 VI Tic lSdCulIiS WHICH ne mao
been observing; but added that he was filed
with reverence for the hunger and thirst for
knowledge which had become passion with
a multitude of people whose work is severe
and whose leisure is limited; men and wom-
en- of limited educational opportunities who
were striving in middle life to gain the
outlook on life which was denied them in
youth; hard-Worked mothers, who were
pathetically endeavoring to keep within
spiritual reach of their more fortunate chii-
dren in college. 1t is easy to dismiss the
which finds expression in summer
schools and assemblies as shallow in method
and superficial in spirit. The methods are
1t is true, sometimes inadequate and even
cheap, but they are also, in many cases, in
telligent and wisely planned; and the spirit
behind the movement is quite as deep and
genuine and uplifting as that which has
from time to time set great educational
forces at work in older societies. In the
long run, it will be found that these as
semblies and schools are the nurseries of
the colleges and universities; and that the
awkward and sometimes badly directed en-
deavor of the unprivileged classes intellec-
tually to share the higher resources of civil
liZation with the more fortunate is not only
sound ard real, but the clear prophecy OF
the approach of an era. of culture in this
country-an extended though often uncon-
scious endeavor to assimilate the culture of
deepest impulses, instincts and aspirations
Of the new world"
THE PHILIPPINES QUESTION.
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