The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-02-05


with matters of permanent interest, time
has not lessened their readable quality
Cincinnati: Robert Clarke Company.
Current Periodicals.
In Harper's Bazaar of Feb. 10 will ap-
pear two contributions of especial interest
to musicians and music lovers: 'Ignace
Paderewski on Piano Playing, and The
Long Uphill Road to Success, by Emma
Eames-Story.
The best thing in the February number
of Dixie is a series of drawings by Gordon
B. Pike, representing places Here and
tea gardens of South Carolina is of inter
est.
Ex-Speaker Reeds paper on "Monopo-
lies,' which is to appear in the Saturday
Evening Post of February 10. is said to be
a suggestive discussion of the methods OF
vast corporations and to discuss In strik-
ing and original manner one of the most
pressing questions of the day.
ST. Nicholas Magazine has department
entitled Books and Reading" with a
decorative head differing each month. "Our
heading this MONTH" says the editor, 'is
the work of a contributor from Indianapo-
lis. We thank her for the drawing, which
seems to us very effective and creditable
as the work of a young artist. The de-
sign which is that of row of youngsters
on a bench, all reading, bears in Its corner
the name Lydia III. Latham.
A considerable portion of the Indiana
School Journal for February is devoted to
the proceedings and discussions of the In
diana Teachers Association. school Hy-
giene'' is the subject of an article, the value
of which is not confined to teachers.
when the Old Saxons Lived and What
They Loved by Lydia X. Blaich, contains
information which ii would ordinarily be
necessary to read volumes to obtain. Pub
lished by d. NJ. Geeting, Indianapolis
The Art Amateur for February contains
a photograph of few of the pieces OF
china shown at the recent exhibit by the
Indianapolis Ceramic Association. Among
olner features of the number is an article
on Art in the Home, which Is distin-
guished for it's common sense. The key
note of the paper is this proposition: art
in the home should begin with an eye to
cleanliness. Furniture. drapery and shelves
should be arranged as to be get-at-able
and should not be overcrowded with bric-a-
brac."
The issues of the Youths Companion for
the four weeks of February will contain
the following contributions among others
of interest: Character, Credit, Capital
by Hon. Lyman j. Gage, secretary of the
treasury; "Old Wary. the Robber Dog OF
Chicago. by H. S. Garfield; "A Chat About
the Stars" by Prof Simon Newcomb:
How Jim Went to the War;" by Jacob
Riis; 1.-THE Manila Wire" by Gen. Charles
King; "For His Country" by Marshall
Saunders, and IAN Encounter with Bolo-
men," by Lieutenant Ira l.. Reeves.
Among the contributions in the Coming
Age for February are Educational and
Therapeutic Value of Hypnotism,' by the
eminent New York physician and author,
II u NJ n a
Ideal Philosophy of Leibnitz," by Prof. Z.
NJ. Chesley, a. NJ; Happy Hours in
Mirthless Childhood by Alma Calder
Johnston: Personal Atmosphere" by An
ME Pillsbury Young; Fra Elbertns and
Shakespeare and the Development of Gen.
eral Culture" by Rev. III. c. Meserve; 1.-The
Referendum in Boston" by Prof. Frank
Parsons; Peace, Interior and Economic,
by Bolton Hall; "An Unobjectionable Ex-
Emerson" critically considered by Charles
Malloy president of the Boston Emerson
Society; and Poe and Emerson, COM
pared by Leigh II. Irvine.
McClure's for February opens with a
second installment of DIR. John Watsons
1.-THE Life of the Master Among the H.
Illustrations are several In color Among
other features Of the number is an account
by Walter Wellman of some of his ex-
periences on his recent arctic expedition
Alleyne Ireland contributes some interest
ing facts about the colonies of England
and Germany. Some months ago a writer
for this magazine perpetrated a joke in
the shape of a purely imaginative article
about mammoth, but many readers ac-
ceptec is as truth, to the discontinue OF
publisher and author. BY way of Offset &c
this the magazine has secured article
descriptive OF the mammoth, written by
St Of q
tional Museum. This is vouched for as
truth. so that the public may have no hes
itation in accepting IL. The latest theories
held by scientists concerning the interior
of the earth are set forth by Cleveland
Moffit In the shape of interview with
Prof. Milne A sketch of General Leonard
Wood, chapter of the Hon. George S
Boutwells recollections of the Grant adj
ministratiOn, and two or three short stories
make up what is, in all, an excellent num-
ber-
OF the interesting and instructive papers
in the February issue of the Forum, the
one which is really of more practical i'm
portance to this country, but which will
receive less attention than some others. Il
entitled University Extension i'm Agri
culture" by Mr.. A. C. True. director OF
experiment stations under the Department
of Agriculture. There are now fifty-sia
experimental stations under the supervi
sion OF the Department or Agriculture
usually connected with some college or uni
versity. Pamphlets showing results Of thes,
experiments by practical and scientii,
farmers are distributed to half a million
farmers without cost. Indeed, every farm
er in the country may have this informa
ton. Partly under the direction OF the agri
cultural colleges and experiment station.
there are 1000 farmers institutes which ar,
attended by half a million farmers, thoss
in Indiana being attended by 5000 farmers
Another
Longevity and Degeneration" The au
thor bases his article upon the fact thai
the average human lie has been length
ened from thirty TO forty years during tn,
century in all civilized countries. He mex
proves that the century has been that 81
the greatest reforms and that all nation.
have made progress, which refutes tn.
charge of oegeneracy of the age made b,
the morbid psychologists.
Nearly two-thirds of the pages OF tn,
North American Review for February ar,
devoted to some phase of the conflict nov
<~ofv IN Coufh A frlca Thpoo o~tfc1.,