The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-02-11

Current eriOdicn
Nikola Tesla writes at considerable
length in the current number of Golfers
Weekly on the subject of communicating
with Mars.
The Bohemian is the title of an artistic
little one-column magazine published in
Boston, which gives room TO clever produc-
tons from the pens of a number of young
writers.
.The Making of a Country Home" is the
title of a practical article in Everybody's
Magazine, which describes the revolt of a
young man and his wife at fiat life and
tells of their determination 10 establish
themselves in the country and their final
success.
Some interesting "reminiscences are to be
found in the February Critic. Mrs. Rich
mond Richie talks of Haydn and Mrs.
Hemans. and George Murray Smith, the
English publisher, relates numerous anec-
dotes in which Thackeray, Tennyson. Troll
Iope, Sala and other celebrities figure. The
book reviews are especially readable.
Gunton's Magazine for February con-
tians an article entitled Trusts and
Business Stability" in which the editor.
who is a student of all problems relating
to production and trade, maintains that
trusts or large combinations Of capital in
production give stability to business by
avoiding the evils incident to overproduc-
ton and feverish competition.
The International Monthly for February
contains a carefully prepared and interest
ing account of american Interests in the
Orient" by Charles s. Conant. William
Archer. the great English literary and dra-
matte critic, On THE Real Ibsen." Alfred
Fouillee, the eminent French thinker and
scholar, writes on "Nietzsche and Darwin
ISM" The character of the International
Magazine is dignified and scholarly. 1t is
published in Burlington, VT.
rhA 4<l@ 80 A. ~
great lakes is the subject of an interesting
paper in Frank Leslie's Magazine. Mr..
John r. Spears contributes a paper upor
the 'Mutiny on the Somers,' that extraor-
binary occasion when, to preserve the dis
cipline of the American navy. a son of tbs
United States secretary of war was hune
at the yard arm. 1t is interesting to know
that all of US An~glo-Saxons are cousins OF
Queen Victoria, and equally so that we
may call any prisoner of the Tombs cousin
and still be well within our rights. The
subject is treated by Mr.. Duncan Rose. A
hint is given of the remarkable display OF
electrical wonders at the coming Pan,
American exhibition at Buffalo.
The full-page portraits given in tn.
Worlds Woyk from month to month are no
the least of the attractions of that maya
zine. In the current number are portrait:
of John Marshall Qrom a painting), Gen
Chaffee, President Gilman. of the John.
Hopkins University, Cecil Rhodes and
Charles G. Bush. A feature of the number
Is a "write-up' of the city of Cleveland
Cecil Rhodes and General Kitchener are
men OF whom the public likes to read, anC
the sketches of the two men in this mum
Der are particularly well written. In al
article on immigration 1T is pointed out tina
Italians and Jews are taking the place o.
the Irish. Joel Chandler Harris directs
some humorous but pointed remarks to
ward the Democratic party. Among othe,
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aggressive Emperor.
The February Forum contains a series O
rapers of unusual interest. Few reader
but will find among them a topic Of specis
attraction. The Democrats who are irwin
TO find a way out OF the wilderness ca
read Rehabilitation Of the Democrat
Party" by an ex-Democrat. The thol
sands interested in militia organizatio
will find information and suggestion /
State Guards" All of us, and particularl
the multitude aspiring TO campaign orator
will read William Dudley Foulke's 'Th
and '-should Woman's Education Dfne
from Man's?" the latter by Presider
Thwing. are timely contributions TO edt
ested in the labor problem will find infol
nation in an article entitled America
Trade Unions and Compulsory Arbitrs
ton"
Ainslee magazine is always full of orig
inal and entertaining matter. Richar
Harding Davis is the subject Of a bic
graphical and character sketch by Allie
Sangre. 1t seems to be a fair and impal
tiai estimate OF a man who has been some
what severely criticised. 'Menier and II
Island" by Henry Harrison Lewis is III
romantic story of a mi~llionaire's purchas
of Anticosti, an island one hundred an
thirty-five miles long and forty miles wild
for one hundred and twenty-five thousan
dollars. Besides, the reader learns ths
Anticosti is the greatest lobster fishery
this hemisphere, and that IL is rich enoug
in spruce forests TO supply the Unite
States with paper pulp. "Spotters," b
Samuel H. Adams, possesses much int
est of a curious nature: and THE Depar
ment of Agriculture" by Arthur Henri,
reveals Uncle Sans methods 10 help h
, farmers, fruit growers and other producer
There is a variety of readable fiction.
The midwinter Century Is announced
a fiction number. and much OF it's space
given up 10 short stories and sketches
readable quality. but some OF the more 5
rious contributions are perhaps more e.
tertaining than the fiction. First amor
these is "Humor and Pathos OF the Sa'
ings Bank" an article by Richard Bong
ton, in. which are presented vivid po
! trayass Of real life and Of phases Of huns