The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-29
The PERIODICALS.

Harpe-s Bazaar for Jan. q contains an
article descriptive OF the home life and
personality of Mary F. wilkins. An edi-
torial by Marguerite MerIngton discusses
the problem which confronts the woman
who has arrived"
With the Ledger Monthly for February
is Incorporated Demorest's Family Maya
zine The fashion and pattern departments
of the latter magazine are continued In
the Ledger Monthly, making the latter
more distinctly than before a home peri
odical
The Methodist Magazine of New York,
lately published by Thomas d. Taylor. has
been purchased by the Methodist Magazine
Publishing Company. of st. Louis. and
has been consolidated with The American
Illustrated Methodist Magazine published
the subscription list copyrights, goodwill
and other assets of the New York publica-
ton. The Methodist Magazine of New York
will not again be issued.
With its February number The Critic
inaugurates a new department made up of
reports from the public libraries. free and
subscription, in the principal cities of the
United States and Canada. Each library
sends a list prepared by its librarian. or
the ten most called-for books other than
fiction Though one novel is adn1itted) dur
ing the month past. Certainly no other
reading public OF this country.
The New York World Almanac and En-
cyciopedia for 1900 is the first of this class
Of ANNALS to be received 1t contains an
immense amount of statistical information
and Is Invaluable as a book OF reference in
every office and household. There Is no
better way to invest twenty-five cents than
10 bly, one of these almanacs. The Journal
advises those OF its readers who are in the
habit of writing to the editor to ask
questions to provide themselves with
World Almanac and SO save their own and
-he EDITORS time.
In the February number of Appletons
Popular Science Monthly Prof. John Trow-
bridge. of Harvard University, sounds a
much-needed warning against the South
Sea Bubbles In Science" which have been
SO numerous and disastrous during re-
cent years. The Kelly motor. gold from
sea-water, energy from nothing and many
others OF the absurd propositions which
have recently been used to rob the pub
lie. are moralized upon. William Baxter
undertakes TO answer the question. What
Makes the Trolley-car Coz" Rev. DIR.
Briggs. of heresy trial fame, asks and
answers the question, us the Christian Re-
ligion Declining?' He points out that the
answer will depend upon the point of view,
but in his opinion II Is advancing instead
of declining. Professor lie Conte tells what
the nineteenth century has done in the
way of advancing sociological science Gino
c. Speranzo, of the New York bar, writes
Of ''The Decline of Criminal Jurispru-
dence." II is a paper we'll worth reading,
not only by lawyers, but by the laity. Prof.
Angelo Heilprin contributes the first of
two articles giving the result of a second
visit TO the Klondike. Subjects of other
papers are: "The Applications of Explo-
sives," blind Fishes of North America
THE Man or Science In Practical At
fairs" and Forenoon and Afternoon"
and Professor Jordan's 'Neminism.' "
1.-The Nest anu Certain Literary Discov-
cries: or. How Fiction May be Stranger
than Truth" Is the title of an article ap-
pearing In the February Century. 1t is not
the record Of new discovery of the
transmississippi region by an Fastener,
bu. the assertion of the present status of
the West by representative young West
erner-E. Hough. author of "Fhe Story of
the Cowboy" In the article occurs the fol-
lowing bit of dialogue:
Then. after all. your boasted West is
changing, IL Is going. We'-triumphantly-
"have discovered that"
Yes. The. West has known and wept
over these changes for score OF years.
And your cowboy Is gone"
He Is at Washington"
And your plainsman Is no more"
He is raising section of wheat.
And your prospector-"
us I'm the Klondike. founding a family
tree"
"And all your wild men are coming to be
shorn."
Friend. where have you slept these
years.
Perhaps. then. new day is, after all,
dawning for the West"
Friend. IL Is already noon"
In a very readable and suggestive article
In the Atlantic Monthly on the subject of