The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-06-07

is an account by Kate Douglas Wiggin OF
London sights to be seen from the roof OF
an omnibus Charles A. Conant notes at
considerable length certain economic ten
denotes of the last decade growing out of
the relations of industry and capital.
Gerald Stanley points out the richness of
the poetry OF the machine age. and the
worcs ia which he speaks are full OF the
spirit OF poetry. IAN Archer on the Kan
kakee Is the title given TO one of Maurice
.hompson's charming out-of-door papers
Another little out-of-door essay Is Mrs.
Candace Wheeler's Content in a Garden
GENTLEMAN and Scholar IS the title of a
paper by Ephraim Emerton, which sounds
like pseudonym. in which the point is dis
cussed as to whether We are making gen.
tlemen and scholars in the real sense by
our educational methods in these days.
The writer fears that the perfection of the
machine is hindering the development of
hearing en- education w. G. Lawton urges
The substitution of German as a language
study instead OF Greek. Other contributions
are: "A Letter from France, Avian +.
Sanborn; In an Alpine Posting Inn. by
Edith Wharton; "Dante's Message" by
Charles A Dinsmore. an installment of
Stillman's autobiography. The Municipal
Voters League of Chicago" Realism on
the Ghetto Stage, by .Hutchins Hapsood.
and several stories and poems.
The paper in the June Century which
will attract most attention is Nikola Tesla's
discussion of 1.-THE Problem of Increasing
Human Energy" Tesla, though he has ac-
complished little in the way OF practical
invention, is recognized among. scientists
leader and expert. He is. in fact. in
advance of his time, and the developments
which he regards as certainties or at least
possibilities, of the future have, many OF
them, not yet been reached, even in the
thought of men working in the same field.
1t is generally believed. however. that
IN 10 oil % ffn hDcy
and it will not do for any mere layman to
scott at what, in his ignorance, may seem
TO him as merely fanciful or visionary sug-
gestions when they come from such an au-
thor1ty. Ii is better to read them with re-
spect and thus to get a glimpse of the
modern improvements" TO be enjoyed by
generation yet to come. Mr.. Tesla s article
is not in such technical phrase but that it
may readily be understood by any reader,
and it has fascinating interest Another
feature OF the magazine is hitherto I'M
published letter written by Alexander Ham
ilton, in which he expresses at some length
his opinion of Aaron Burr 1t is hardly
necessary to say that this opinion is far
from fiattering. Richard Whiteing con-
tributes another picturesque chapter con-
corning the life of the Paris boulevardS.
Harry A Garfield calls attention TO some
faults of our consular service. Theodore
Roosevelt has characteristically out
spoken and common-sense article on Lat-
tuGe and Longitude Among Reformers.
He hits a good many well-meaning would
be reformers hard. but they will do well to
heed and profit by the blows. The prize
essay in the college graduate competition
appears in this number. 1t is study OF
the poetry of William Blake, and is the
work of Henry Justin Smith, of the Univer-
sity of Chicago. Dorothea Klumpke. the
astronomer. tells of nights experience in
a balloon. undertaken for the purpose OF
observing the falling stars or leonids of
last November. The leonids did not APP
pear and the expedition did nothing for the
good of science, but was a personal ex-
perience of sufficient novelty to be worth
describing. The fiction and verse of the
number are of good quality, and as whole
the magazine is of exceptional merit