The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-06


The proceedings of the sixteenth annual
meeting of the Lake Mohonk Conference OF
Friends of the Indian have been published
in pamphlet form. 1t is doubtful II any one
will read these pages save members of the
conference. but the Indians are probably
benefited in the long run by the agitation
kept up by their friends"
The Philippines Company, a commercial
organization in New York, sends out little
handbook containing much valuable in
formation about Manila and the Philippines.
Inc facts are compiled from official United
states War Department records, Spanish re-
ports and original investigation. Good
maps accompany the pamphlet.
Are Long Marriage Engagements Judi
cious?'' is discussed from various points OF
view in the February issue of the American
Queen by Margaret Sangster the editor OF
Harper's Bazaar; Edward Payson IngersoH,
ID. D., Lucy Hall Brown, NJ. D., Herbert l.
Bridgman, of the Brooklyn Standard Union,
Helen Lee Sargent and Susan Hayes Ward
Good Manners; Are They a Lost Art?' is
another symposium participated in by able
writer's
The Independent, of New York. for Feb.
?, will contain articles by the following:
Ex-Secretary of State VIM. r. Day ex-As-
sistant Secretary of State John Bassett
Moore, President David Starr Jordan ex-
Secretary of State John Sherman, Dora
Read Goodale Dr. Chas. II. Parkhurst, Miss
Sophia A. Walker, ex-Chief Justice Henry
w. Ide, of Samoa; Adjutant General Corbin,
u. S. A., Maurice Thompson, Our Floor Cor
respondent in Congress, Prof. l.. II. Bailey,
Park Benjamin.
Few of the countless readers of Charles
Dickens think of him as an educator, yet
writer in the February Century shows him
to have been the first English kindergart-
ner of notc-a disciple of Froebel. who had
also caught the spirit of the Americans
Henry Barnard and Horace Mann. over
fprtxr % hn urrn HnnGnhnlh
Words an article which would take lead
ing place ii compared with the papers read
al a meeting of the International Kinder
garten Union to-day; ana MS novels not
merely contain innumerable passages OF de-
structiVe criticisms, but set forth the best
modern ideals of teaching, management and
training.
Very much has been published about Rob-
ert Louis Stevenson since his death, but his
letters, edited by Sidney Colvin, now being
published in Scribner and to run through
the year will repay the reader, if the first
instalEnent may be taken as a sample Of
all. They throw no new light, perhaps. on
this gifted SOUL but they disclose his habits
of thought and his methods of work Other
features of the February Scribner are
continuation of Theodore 2ooseveltS his
tory of the Rough Riders in Cuba, an ac-
count by Senator Hoar OF four national
conventions, an estimate IF Thackeray by
w. c. Brownen, and sevt al short stories
, and poems
Au6 ldDle VI COilGiliS Oh the L OIulil iOE
February furnishes evidence that at the
present time our people are more interested
in the affairs of the whole world than in our
own. why the Treaty Should Be Rati-
fed by Colonel DENLY; THE War and the
Extension of Civilization" by Assistant
Secretary of State Hill: Some Japanese
Ways" Saxon and Latin Courts" The
School System of Porto Rico" 'Coaling
Stations for the NaVy''--all treat of topics
affecting our relations with the world out
side of the United States or introduce us to
peoples and customs which have hitherto
attracted little general attention. These are
half the articles which the February num-
Der contains.
New York newspaper men have suddenly
developed taste for the occult. Julian
Ralph showed it in a recent piece of fiction,
and now comes "Nym Crynkle,'' otherwise
A. c. Wheeler. with a short story in Har-
pers, Ghosts in Jerusalem" in which he
has a touch of Oriental second sight. This
number of Harper gives up good deal OF
space to fiction Other contributions are:
Lieutenant Colonel Forrest at Fort Donel-
son." by John A. Wyeth, NJ. d. "A Trek1ing
Trip in South Africa by A. G. Humbert;
Tine Astronomical Outlook by Prof A. G.
Young; The Spanish Amercan War" by
Senator Lodge; with Dewey at Manila,
by Joseph l. Stickney. and The United
States as a World Power" by a. B. Hart.
The February number of the New Eng
land Magazine contains third and final
article on Negro Melodies" by William E.
Barton, D. D. The first, which appeared in
the December number contained the older
plantation songs; the second, the songs
which show the influence of the war and
of the new freedom which ii brought TO the
slave, and the third concerns itself princi-
paIly with the newer songs which have
grown up been modified by new uses
since emancipation. The articles embody the
words and music of nearly seventy of the
best of these songs, most of them till now
unpublished. Some of these newly published
songs are equal to the very best hitherto IN
print, and all are of interest. The historical
and descriptive notes are cosby and in
structive.
There are a number of particularly at
tractive things in the February Critic, not
ably the frontispiece-a medallion of Mr..
w D. Howells and his daughter who will
be remembered as the Little Girl Among
the Old Masters of few years ago. The
medallion was the last work done by Mr..
Augustus St Gaudens before leaving New
York for Paris in 1893. Miss Agnes Repplier
contributes an essay on the late Wlllan
Blacks work and Madame Blanc CIh.
Bentzon) sends an interesting and timely
paper on the French artist M. Boutet de
Monvel now visiting this country Ihe ar
tcle is pTofusely illustrated, Ihere Is q sos-
shining sketch of the late Lewis Carroll (keV.
e. c. Dodgson) by J. l.. q. IN the paper
entitled '"rhe Creator of Wonderland
which is also illustrated
Perhaps the most striking article in the
American Monthly review VI INSNiS"S - a
character sketch of Aguinaldo. The writer
starts out with the statement that where
nraise and abuse divide the reading public
of a dozen civilized countries, he may be
iustlv regarded as a character of considera-
HE historical Importance. The person1ges
who have passed through this ordeal IN
fhe Dresent century include Napoleon Bona
narte Disrael, Gladstone, Louis Napoleon,
and greatest of all, Bismarck. To this list
NAV now be added the name Of the great
Filipino insurgent, Aguinaldo. A writer
who does not see the grotesquenesS OF put
ting Aguinaldo I'm such llustrious company
is scarcely capable of offering an unbiased
estimate of this person whom he calls one
of the worlds great men,
McClure's Magazine for February opens
with KipHng's poem 1.-THE White Mans
Burden" part of which has already been
reprinted in the Journal In it the white
man is urged to take up his burden and so
forth and fulfill his divine office Of master
and teacher to his new caught sullen peo-
pies half devil and half child" Following
this is an interesting account by Franklin
Matthews of an actual descent in the Hol-
land diving torpedo boat, illustrated with
drawings from life. Hamlin Garland con-
tributes a description Of the daily lie or
the Klondke Stephen Crane depicts In MS
vivid manner some striking instances or
bravery on the part of marines 10 whom
If fell at Guantanamo to signal from shore
"a the ships under full exposure 10 Spanish
sharpshooters A second series of BoWefe
life masks of heroic Americans IS given,
otite as remarkable in the power and reality
of the portraiture as the series that appeared
in McClure's some months ago.