The Indianapolis journal., 1899-08-14

Try in regard to certain commercial mat
fsrs Mr. Edward Po-ritt sets this forth
In the New England Magazine in an arti-
Gle entitled rs the United States a Good
Neighbour" He calls attention to various
phases of our protective policy in which he
considers that we are unreasonabIy severe
on our Canadian neighbors In this issue
OF the New England Magazine is an ac-
count OF the proceedings OF the peace con-
ference at The Hague by DR.. Benjamin F.
TrueboOd. secretary of the American Peace
Society. who was present at all the ses-
siOns.
Much has been written about those mys-
teries Of Egypt. the pyramids and the
sphinx. but Alexander Harvey, in the Cos
mOpOlitan brings them nearer to the s.ay-
at-home than IL is often the fortune of the
writer TO do. even when aided and abetted
by the camera. BY Trolley to the Sphinx''
1t requires effort of the imagination to
associate that modern convenience the troll
ley, with the famous relic of bygone age
but. as the writer very Justly says, why
not go by trolley as well as by donkey
back?' The former mode Of travel Is GER
tainly more agreeable.
Even the staid Atlantic Monthly unbends
a little in summer and gives its readers
more than the usual proportion of fiction
Miss Johnstons serial, TO Have and to
Hold" sustains its interest well and is like
~ TO add greatly TO the writer's literary
fame There is clever patriotic sketch. by
the Empty Sleeve" little Maryland love
story, In a Mutton-Ham Boat by Eliza
beth Dupuy. and one of Miss Phelps's char
acteristic emotional tales, this time with
vvisection as it's background. Perhaps the
best thirg in the number is paper by John
B!grroughs. having for its text Tolstois
A sketch OF Augustin DAILY and his the
atriesl work is a feature of the August Cos
mopolitan. 1t is written by Gustav Kobbe
in the same number is an interesting ac-
count of the operation of an underground
route 10 Cuba while the war between the
Spanish and the Cubans in progress
there. The editor of the Cosmopolitan ex-
plains In detail why no more installments
Of Tolstois novel will appear in that maga-
zine. He publishes the contract between
himself and Tolstois agent and alleges that
they violated every provision of 1t. In re-
gard TO the much-talked-of revision of the
manuscript it was distinctly agreed that
the magazine should have this privilege.
The announcement is made that Mr.. WAL
ter N. Page has resigned the editorship of
the Atlantic Monthly and has accepted an
invitation TO take a prominent post in the
direction OF the literary work of the allied
Doubleday & Mcclure Company. His sue
cessor in the edtOrship of the Atlantic is
Mr. Bliss Perry. known in literature the
autnOr or two novels and q number of es-
Gays and stories. Since his graduation from
Williams College. in 1881. Mr.. Perry has
been in the department of English, first at
versity. where he was lately appointed to
the Holmes profcssorship of English litera-
turc.
The Forum for August contains a wider
variety of topics than usual, one of them
being something out of the usual line of
that magazine. 1t is entitled Domestic
Service: the Responsibility of EMPLOYERS. !"
by Prof. Mary Roberts Smith. associate
professor OF sociology in Stanford Universi-
" The writer says the American house
and because she does the competency of
domestics is steadily declining, the stigma
attached to such service grows stronger.
and the relations between the housekeeper
and maid become more ard more strained.
Professor Smith contrasts the attitude of
business men toward employees with that of
women toward domestics to the disadvan-
tage OF the latter.
The Home Magazine for August has an
attractive table Of contents The aurora
BoreaIis.'' with numerous illustrations, is
an entertainingly discussed chapter by AL
bert Operti. and some remarka bic iIIustra-
tions of Lightning and its Curious Ways"
are particularly apropos in these days of
thunderstorms. Aubrey Beardsley the &C.
centric artist, is the subject of "A Final
Word, by Albert j. Klink few of the
pictures which made the fame of this late
artist are reproduced. Arthur T. Vance in
ths, number proclaims Balzac as the
or his reasons for so thinking. The chill
oren OF the home where the magazine goes
VIII be delighted with the Father Goose
article and its laughable illustrations. There
Is a sketch OF the oldest business man in the
world. golf story by Andrew Lang, and
oozen or more subjects to make up the list
or readable pages.
The Illustrations in Scribner's Magazine
are always works of art, but in the August
number the publishers present the results
or some recent experiments in the way of
color printing. and thus add a new attrac-
lion 10 the pages The process used. it is
SAID is in no sense allied TO the three-color
one. but the result is obtained by using
plates that have been very skillfully re-
engraved by hand in such a way as to at
tam much more delicate effects than is pos
slble by the usual methods The color eff
tects are very rich and pleasing. 1t is a fic-
uon number of the magazine, the contrib
rtOrS of short stories being Richard Hard
ing Davis. Henry Van Dyke. Thomas Nell
son Page and William Maynadier Brown
Inc question has been raised by a reader of
baNls story as to whether a young woman
apparently of conventional life at home in
america and guest in most correct Eng
Hsh family could visit young man at his
rooms, as Davis's heroine is represented as
lousy without losing caste. The young
n-who-writeS-plays does not necessarily
i've Bohemian life in this country and
Goes not expect young society ladies or 9TH
sFS whom he respects TO visit him at his
lodgings. Is the custom otherwise in Eng
land. or-painful thought,-has Mr. Davis
blundered?