The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-03
CURRENT PERIODICALS.

me nrst installment of a serial story by
Henry James, called THE Awkward Age ).
DeglnS IN I1arper'S Weekly Of Oct / II is
tale Oh London society,"
The Passing of Robin Hood committees
the series by Barry Pain in the English IL
Illustrated Magazine. Most of the October
NUMBER is given over to fiction.
Inc Curtis Publishing Company, of PhiIa-
delphia, publishers of the Ladies' Home
Journal. has purchased the Philadelpbia
o1tsuIuay evening Post and is making of it
FAMILY paper of excellent quality
Heroes of the United States army who
nave won the medal of honor are discussed
IN the October Strand, with details of their
ueeoS. A series of animal stories from real
Shepherd
ellison Willets contributes to the October
Nickel Magazine realistic sketch, TYPES
of Havana" descriptive of MANY hits of life
and character and accompanied nv an inter
estlng set of pictures made by the author
himself in Havana after the destruction of
the Maine.
Marion Crawford's most important his
torical novel will run through twelve num-
bers of the Century, beginning with Novem-
Der. 1t is entitled Via Crucis." and is a
romance of the Second Crusade The story
deals with young English knight and ST
Bernard and Queen Eleanor enter into the
narrative. The novel will be illustrated by
Louis Loeb.
The Coronation of Wilhelmina, Queen of
the Netherlands-1S9S is the subject of the
leading feature of Golfers Weekly for Oct.
l. There is a full-page reproduction of a
portrait OF the Queen in her coronation
robes, painted by Carroll Beckwith. and
there are four pages of text and illustration
from the special correspondent of Golfers
Weekly In Amsterdam. Golfers is doing
some excellent work in illustration.
The issues of the Youths COMPANION for
DOT will
stallments of an article by Col Henry Wat
terson on the "Oratory of the Stump" No
man is better qualified than he to treat this
theme with rare power. The article is said
to be full of "Reminiscences and fresh. divert
ing stories of such orators as Patrick Henry
James K. Polk Davy Crockett Henry CLAW
THOMAS II. Benton and other giants of the
frontier.
The October Critic contains an article on
American Author-D Diplomats" of whom
there is a surprisingly long list. 1t begins
with Benjamin Franklin equally great in
each walk of life and goes on with Wash
ington Irving-the first American author to
become known in Europe purely as a man
of letters; George Bancroft, J. l.. Motley, j.
r. Lowell, John Bigelow, Eugene SCHUYLER
DR.. Andrew ID. White. Bayard Taylor, Geo.
II. Boxer, Gen. Lew Wallace, w. w. Aston
Whitelaw Reid and Col. John Hay.
The leading article in Modern Machinery
Of Chicago, for October, tells of the rapid
development OF the storage battery and the
uses to which it is applied The article is
entitled, Electricity in Packages" and is
written by E. Ralph Estep, whose contribu-
tons on the Broadening Field of the
Cycle and Thinking by Machinery" were
among the attractive features of preceding
issues The third of the series of articles
on Rotary Motors by W. f. Willis, con-
tains a handsome full-page portrait of the
Hon. c. A. Parsons, who has won internal
tional fame among engineers as the first
man to offer a practical solution of the
rotary motor problem on which inventors
have been at work since the days of Hero.