The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-14

Theodosia Garrison. Kate Masterson ina
many others satire in verse is entitled
THE Charge of the Four Hundred
A few months ago it was reported that
Mr. s. s. Mcclure was about to publish
new magazine. It's appearance. however.
has been indefinitely postponed. Mr.. Nc
Clure is at present in Europe. building up
his shattered health. He will not return to
his desk In New York till next year. Mean
while. Mr. Robert n. Russell is making
preparations to bring out the periodical
called The New Magazine, which has been
talked of for some time.
The Architectural Record CNew York; de-
votes considerable space in its April issue
TO an illustrated article ridiculing provin-
cial architecture, the term. it is explained,
meaning all the architecture that origin
ates outside of New York and Boston In
the East and a few of the larger cities in
other parts of the country. Some of the
buildings pictured are certainly atrocities,
but readers of the article will recall SINH
lar or even more Objectionable structures
not In the provinces"
In McClures Magazine for May is an &C.
count by Dean C. Worcester of General
Lawton's work in the Philippines. Mr.
Worcester was a member of the United
States Philippine commission and is well
qualified to write on the subject. Prof.
Simon Newcomb tells what astronomers
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the sun, and what they have learned from
previous eclipses. Some interesting facts
are given by Earl Mayo about the Oceanic,
the biggest steamship afoat-" An article
on 1.-THE New Prosperity" an installment
of Watson's Life of the Master" and half
dozen short stories make up the number
Governor Roosevelt talks to boys in May
st. Nicholas, and tells them what cour-
age and cowardice are, and what 1t means
TO have courage. Courage, he tells them,
is lacking in good boys who allow them
selves 10 be influenced for evil by the
jeers of their associates. There is. he
says, mo need to be a prig. There is no
need for boy to preach about his own
good conduct and virtue. If he does he
will make himself offensive and ridiculous.
But there Is urgent need that he should
practice decency; that he should be clean
and straight, honest and truthful, gentle
and tender as well as brave. If he can
once get to d proper understanding OF
things, he will have far more hearty
contempt for the boy who has begun
course of feeble dissipation, or who is un-
truthful, OF mean, or dishonest. or cruel.
than this boy and his fellows can possibly
in return feel for him. The very fact that
the boy should be manly and able to hold
his own, that he should be ashamed to SUBJ
NIT to bullying without instant retaliation,
should in return make him abhor any
form of bullying, cruelty or brutality"
The father of English prose STYLE" ac-
cording to ]. H. Gardiner. in the Atlantic
Monthly. is William Tyndale, translator of
the Bible. His work was done long before
the adoption of the King James version.
but the latter retains his literary style.
Other authorities give earlier translators
credit for this style but Mr.. Gardeners ar
ticle is interesting. In the installment of
w. j. Stillmans autobiography is told
the story of camping party in the Adj
rondacks of which Emerson, Lowell DR..
Howe Agassiz, Judge Hoar and DR.. Bin
ney were members In a picture OF the
group Mr.. Stillman says ''the party is di-
vided in the habit of the morning occupa-
lions. Lowell Hoar. Binney, Woodman
and myself are engaged in firing at the
target; Agassiz and Wyman are dissecting
trout on tree stump while Holmes and
DIR. Howe watch the operation, but Emer-
son, recognizing himself as neither
marksman nor a scientist. is in position
between the two groups, and. pilgrim stan
In hand, watches the marksmen, with
slight preference of them to the others"
Prof. Hugo Munsterberg, of Harvard,
points out some defects in our educational
system and their means of cure He would
substitute certain German methods Tor
those now in vogue in our public schools.
In the Atlantic c. Hanford Henderson
has paper on 1.-The Experimental Life,
in which he urges the individual to develop
his best powers, though by doing so he cut
loose from conventional life and occupa-
tons. In fact he must cut loose, so far, at
least as being able to control his own
movements is concerned, for liberty is
part of the experimental scheme. How the
individual is to do this is matter left
somewhat vague. but here is what 1T in
wolves: ITO live the experimental life Is,
then, to make each year, each day, each
hour, contribute to the increase of ones
own personal power and goodness, and to
allow his Incompatible purpose to be in
terfered with by no schemes OF profit, no
smaller and meaner ends. Such a life is
experimental because 1t has but one fixed
element in it, and that is its purpose. the
quest of culture, the study and pursuit of
perfection; and this quest demands the
boldest kind of experimenting. 1t demands
Willingness to go here and there, TO SUBJ
NIT TO this and that influence, to do one
thing and another, to be ever open to the
emerging requirements OF the spirit. Lit
orally, ii means to take ones life in ones
hand; to cultivate certain detachment:
to fight shy of mechanical engagements
and routine prisons, and all other avenues
to the commonplace; in a word, to be SOL
der of good fortune" All>of which. it must
be said, is rather selfish undertaking. 1t
may be doubted, too, If culture and devel-
opment in the truest sense ever come to
one whose life is planned on the idea of
securing these results at whatever cost
and without regard to the pleasure and
convenience of others from whom he is
hidden to "detach" himself.