The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-02-26

by w. J. Stillman; "Japans Entry Into
the Worlds Politics." by Garrett Drop
by Henry T.: Finck; The Future of the
Short Story" by z. Charlton Black, and
Recent Work in the Science of Religion"
by c. III. Toy. All these papers are care
fully prepared and give this new 'maga-
zine of contemporary thought" a distinct
place among the dignified and thoughtful
periodicals.
Mr.. Ebenezer Charlton Black has an
interesting paper on the short story in the
February number of Macmillan's Interna-
tional Monthly. He thinks the nineteenth
century is finding it's best and most char
acteristic expression in the short story,
rather than in the novel. He makes other
statements with which not all of his read
ers will perhaps agree, but when he points
cut that the tendency of many writer's to
picture lowly life as one of inevitable mis-
cry is misleading, and that misery is some
thing quite other than the result OF being
poor, he certainly touches a prevailing
fault. Writers of either novels or short
stories fail to represent life when
they assume that slum life, fer example,
IS unrelieved gloom. Even the people of the
slums have their joys.
The principal features of the March num-
Der OF the American Monthly Review of Re-
views are an illustrated character sketch of
John Ruskin; a study of the Southern
mountaineer. by President William Godell
Frost. of Berea College. with pictures of
Kentucky and Tennessee mountain types;
notes on the educational opportunity at
Berca: an account OF the Craig Colony for
Epileptics In New York State, by Sydney
a Small Maryland Peach Farm" by Worth
B. Stottlemyer; an article on THE Amer
lean Merchant Marine" by Winthrop l..
Mar Marvin ,, paper on phe Policy OF steam,
Yale; and THE Emancipation of Slaves
Under Moslem Law" by Prof. d. B. Mac
donald.
Appleton's Popular Science Monthly is
full of good reading. Prof Shaler tells how
the negroes were transplanted to America
and the conditions attending their acclima-
tization. Nelson p. Lewis. engineer of
highways for the borough of Brooklyn,
writes about roadways and the best meth
DDS of improving them. There is an Illus
trated paper on Typical Criminals, a
study of that peculiar mental state known
as the sense of injury" an account OF
"Salamanders and Salamander Cats" a
theory of "Cross-education," based on some
| psycbical experiments is put forward by
| Topics of other articles are: "A Century of
| Geology" What Makes the Trolley-car
| Coz" "A Survival Of Medieval Cruelty,
Ribbon lightning and EARLY Expert
ments in Air Flight.
The current number of the quarterly pub
| hcation, Municipal Affairs. is devoted to a
| consideration of 1.-THE city beautiful and
| contains the ideas of number of practi-
| cal men in regard to the aesthetic better
ment of the towns We live in. Since many OF
| these improvements tend to health and
/ happiness and involve no more expense
| than ordinary municipal undertakings
| they are not to be sneered at fancful
| and unnecessary. II is coming to be under
stood that beauty belongs TO city and is
| 10 be considered in building 1t. Phases OF
| he subject considered are: Trees in City
Streets" THE Use of Stained Glass,
| City Parks "Civic Improvement in
| Edinburgh THE City of Bridges New
York City Monuments" 1.-The City Beauti.
| tul." "a Word for Municipal Art" and
Municipal Aesthetics from Legal Stand
| point"