The Indianapolis journal., 1899-02-13
NIihwinter NIngnnines.

Midvinter Magazines.
Perhaps every reader of Miss Sara Orne
Jewett's pathetic yet pleasing little story in
the February Atlantic. The Queens
Twin, will wish that the queen therein
alluded to might read it also.
The International Magazine (Chicago)
gives a Spanish lesson in each Issue for the
benefit of those who wish to fit themselves
for residence in our new colonies, ana now
offers instruction in French to persons who
contemplate visiting the Paris exposition.
Gunton's Magazine is devoted entirely to
discussion of economic and social questions
The treatment is practical. rather than
theoretical in that the writer's deal with
present events and conditions. Some of the
topics in the February number are Pros
perity and Social Education, Intelligent
Taxation and "Cuba's Industrial Prob
lens.
Among the best and most practical fea-
lures OF the household magazines OF the
day. is one carried out by Table Talk
(Philadelphia), which, in giving menus for
the month, adds directions for the econom-
ical carrying out of the same The Febru-
ary issue has this attractive feature, as
well as many recipes, given in reply TO IN
qurieS from hOuSekeeperS all over the coun-
try
A panoramic view of Manila is given in
Leslies Weekly this week, and an unusual
form of punishment in the army by the
'spread-eagle method is illustrated on the
front page Fataulea, the cleverest and
most influential woman in Samoa, is in
cluded in a page of pictures illustrating life
in Samoa, the present center OF contentious
between the representatives of the United
States and Great Britain and Germany
The Book Buyer (Scribner's) opens with
review Of Theodore Roosevelts writings.
Those who are not familiar with his literary
work will be surprised at its variety and
extent as here outlined. Among other fea-
lures of the number is brief sketch, with
portrait, Of +. T. Dunn, better KNOWN as
Mr. Dooley' An interview with George
w. Cable contains some advice to The
Young Author from an Old Author. There
is the usual variety of excellent book re-
views.
The question of handling the wires and
gas, water and drainage pipes in great
cities, and even in towns, is becoming with
each year one of greater Importance. A
prize was offered to the engineers of the
United States by the Cosmopolitan maga-
zine for the ablest article suggesting a
scientific. economical solution of this prob
been selected by the committee as the one
most ably meeting the conditions. 1t ap
pears in the February Cosmopolitan.
A pretty medieval romance entitled 1.-THE
Falcon Of Langeac" received many compH-
mentary notices from the reviewers when
it appeared last year. The author, Isabel
Nixon Whitley, contributes another very
readable tale, For the French Lilies" to
Lppincotts Magazine, making the complete
novel of the February number. Mrs. White
ly will be remembered by Indianapolis read
ers as the daughter of Rev. j. H. Nixon,
once pastor of the First Presbyterian
Church.
The first paper in the February issue of the
North American Review, by Col. Sir G. S.
Clarke, of England, and entitled Imperial
Responsibility a National GAIN" is one
which conservative people can read with
profit. He shows that Great Brtain's
colonial policy has not only beeI CONNER
cial advantage to the British nation, but that
the responsibility which such power brings
has given the British a sense of superiority
that has stimulated the patriotism and added
to the purpose of the empire. While this
article is the most important, others full of
interest make the February number one OF
unusual value.
Mrs Lew Wallace is moved to deep
sympathy for school children and their
teachers, all of whom she thinks are over
worked What she says Of the children, in
her article in the Ladies' Home Journal,
has often been said in substance by others,
and has been as often disputed by persons
who are we'll acquainted with the workings
Of the schools. These persons assert that
while children are required to learn little
Of a good many things, the constant effort
of the educational system Is TO make the
learning easy for them, to sugar-coat it
and lubricate it in every possible way. The
doing of this lays heavy burdens upon the
teachers, and what she says as to their
oVerwork is not overdrawn wherever the
elaborate public school system is in vogue.
During the past six years New York and
Boston publishers have sold over 10000 text
books on birds, and the ranks of bird stu
dents are constantly growing. With this
phenomenal and steadily increasing interest
in bird studies, there seems to be place
for a periodical OF a popular rather than a
technical character devoted to birds. To
meet this want the Macmillan Company
has begun the publication OF an attractive
little bi-monthly magazine called Bird Lore.
1t is edited by Frank NJ Chapman, assist
ant curator in the American Museum of
Natural History in New York city, author
of a Handbook OF Birds of Eastern North
America" and Bird Life" The prospectus
of this journal names among It's contrlou-
tors for 1899. John Burroughs, Bradford Tor
rey, DIR. Henry van Dyke, Olive ihorne Mil
Ter, Florerce a. Merriam, Mabel OsSood
Wright and Annie Trumbull SlOssOn, and
tho first number, just issued, contains arti-
cles by Mr.. Burroughs, Miss Merriam, and
others. 1t will be the official organ of the
Audubon societies.
Steveneson's letters published III Scribner
give more than mere glimpses into the heart
and nature Of the man and confirm the be-
lief Of those who knew him through his
stor!os that he was first of all an honest.
slmple-minded gentleman. Here is a curious
confession. which is an illustration In point:
How curiousy built up into
false positions. The other day, having
toothache and the black dog on my back
generally, l was rude to one Of the servants
at the dinner table. Nothing, OF course,
can be more disgusting than for a man to
speak harshly TO a young woman who vii,
lose her place If she speak back to him
and of course, 1 determined TO apologize.
Well. do you know, II was perhaps -four
days before I found courage enough, and
felt as red and ashamed as could be. Why?
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