The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-11
CURRENT PERIODICALS.

The Outlook of March has several par
ticularly attractive special features, among
them being a beautifully illustrated paper
by Hamilton w. Mabie on 1.-THE Background
of Wordsworth's Poetry Hale's account
of Lowell as he knew him at Harvard is
good reading also. ae
The Authors Circular, the initial number
of which has just been issued in London,
is intended to aid and enlighten those in
terested in literature as a profession. The
following sweeping statement is made in
thing great or glorious in the literature Of
the Victorian period, it is due the work of
the novelist alone
Anthony Hopes Rupert of Hentzau'' is
continued in McClure'sfwith the customary
Zenda situations, but is overshadowed in
interest by Herbert f. Handlers railroad
true story of rescue by firemen whose
deeds make those of the imaginary Rurt-
lections cover the battle of Chattanooga
and give an insight to the workings of the
war secretary's Office under Stanton.
The American monthly Review of Re-
views for March contains two deliberately
illustrated articles ON the K1ondike and the
Dreyfus case. They speak the last word on
both subjects. The other two leading ar
epidemics and the election schools in St
Louis, in which all classes of voters receive
ballot law that is to go into effect this fall
in Missouri. The other features of the
magazine are up to the usual standard of
excellence
The Indiana Law Journal the third num-
Der of which is at hand, contains some good
reading-matters of interest even to the lay
reader Among other, good things is a
speech by Hon. Charles L. Jewett on THE
Thirteenth Juror" The Law Journal, which
is published in Indianapolis, is primarily
interest to Indiana lawyers. In addition to
communications from members of the bar
on legal tones it gives a complete digest
of the cases decided each month by the In
diana Supreme and Appellate Courts.
In the Critic of March is an account cf
Miss Mary E. Wilkins and her surroundings
at Randolph, Mass. by Mr.. Joseph e.
Chamberlin, the well-known Listener" of
the Boston Transcript There are two por-
traits zone taken at sixteen, the other quite
lists home-an old-fashioned New England
house OF the most familiar pattern. RAN
dolph has become q manufacturing suburb
of Boston but enough of its old self re-
mains to make it a toerable place of resi-
dence for an author who does not court the
crowd
In the North American Review for March
Prof. Goodwin Smith discussed the question
us the Constitution (of the United States)
Outworn? As a foreigner, he is sure that
such is the case, but consoles with the
suggestion that it can be PATCHED so as to
last for a season. Professor Smith knows
many things, but he will not make the PEG
pie of this country believe that the Con-
stitution is an unsound structure. Father
Clark, of the Christian Endeavor Society,
enters into calculation to show that for
eign missions pay. Gould Russia Take In
dia?" is a topic of live interest. while the
account of General Grants attempt at in
PREVENTION in the last Cuban war is a his
torical paper of value.
The article on the indianapolis group of
artists in Arts for America heretofore re-
printed in the Journal is illustrated with
excellent portraits Of Messrs. Steele Adams,
Starke and Forsyth, and specimen repro
auctions of their work. Arts for America
is the national organ of the Central Art
Association, and is published at Chicago. A
writer in the current issue calls the atten-
ton of the G. "A. f. to its responsibility to
art and the future. and urges that care be
taken to secure the best possible models
for army monuments. The writer says:
The Grand Army cannot afford to erect
monuments unless they are designed on
architectural principles that viii i've They