The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-07
CURRENT MAGAZINES.

Progress is the name of a new woman's-
rights paper 1t is published by the Ma
tional American Womans Suffrage Asso-
citation, from the American Tract Society
building, New York. Evidently the pub
fishers are not expecting to wage a very
active campaign by. means OF IL, as IL Is
only four pages in size and is quarterly.
What promises to be a charming series
of recoIIections is the Memories of a Hun
dred Years." by Edward Everett Hale, just
begun in the Outlook. Mr.. Hale's memory
does not reach to the beginning of the last
century, but back of his own generation
he draws upon letters and diaries of his
parents and grandparents In those BY
gone days men and women had time Tor
writing letters and recording events in
diaries, which was a fortunate thing Tor
those who come after.
The best thing in the November Book
man is a summary Of sketches OF Ghetto
life written by Russian Jews of New Yorks
East Side. The summary is more salts
factory TO the reader than the original
sketches could be, because the life is por-
trayed with sufficient clearness and with
out unnecessary details. Boston III flc-
ton is not of especial interest because,
though that city has figured in many novels
few of the novels are or Importance enough
to have created literary landmarks. 1t is
the Boston of history that the American
public is interested in.
In McClure's Magazine for November Ray
Stannard Baker tells in an interesting way
what the United States Steel Corporation
really is and how it works. Portraits of
the men who make up this organization
form an interesting study OF strong faces.
Walter Wellman describes an automobile
race between Paris and Berlin, when the
machines ran faster than an express train.
William Allen White offers character
sketch of President Roosevelt. "Marvels
of
paper by George b. Waldron. Several
clever short stories complete the number.
The November number of the Worlds
Work covers a wide range of topics. The
magazine declares its faith in President
Roosevelt and outlines his difficult prob
lens A story of American trade expansion
is told in the career of American LocOmo-
tIves Abroad by NJ G.. Cunnein. A plea
for health is found in DR.. Fllcks article on
the Fight Against tuberculosis" and Ar
thur Goodrichs "Plain Description of Tam
many gives an idea of the conditions good
municipal government must overcome. In
ternational understanding and good feeling
are furthered by such articles as those
on 1.-The Problems of the British Empire,
by Sidney Brooks, and on the relations OF
Japan and the United States" by Midori
Kon.atZ Prof. Ira n. Hollis offers laud-
atory sketch Of Admiral Sampson, and
phases of our International expansion and
development are touched in the handsomely
illustrated description of The Proposed
Appalachian Forest Reserve" in North Caro-
lima, by DR.. w. j. MCGEE, in the story Of
THE Pivotal Farm of the Union" in Ne
braska, what il is doing and what a future
1T has, by Prof. l.. II. Bailey, and in sug-
gestions for 1.-The Beautifying of Cities, -
by Charles III. Coffin.
Any one who wishes to have the Philip
pine question presented to him in all its
lights and from every side. and is not salts
fed with what he gets in the daily papers,
cannot do better than to subscribe for the
Philippine Review, published at 81 Wall
street, New York The Review aims to Gull
out from official reports all information OF
general interest, and also to summarize
congressional debates, Associated Press
news and important books and magazine
articles on the Philippines The society
representative states that the War De-
partment manifests great Willingness to
assist the work of the society by putting
at its service both published and unpub-
lished records of the department. 1t would
SEEM therefore that the Review Will be
able to furnish its readers with all In
formation 'on the Philippine question OBJ
tainable in this country at the smallest ex-
penditure of time The information to be
obtained in the United States Is, more
over, to be supplemented by correspondence
from competent persons In the Philippines,
which will be publised on its face value
It's rate of subscription is low.
People who are interested in the great
college game-at this season of the year
they are numerous-may care to read
President Thwing's article on the ethical
Functions of Football" in the November
North American Review, and, again, they
may not. However this may be. this col
lege president proves 10 his own satisfac-
ton that though the game has some evils
il helps to develop the gentleman or ethi-
cal chara cter and conduct. Hannis Tay-
lor writes in this number or conquered
Territory and the Constitution; r. de
Cesare, member OF the Italian Chamber OF
Deputies. discusses the next papal conclave
Urban Gohier offers plea for American
Intervention in Turkey; Jules Roche tells
of the national debt of France; Hamilton
w Mabie has an essay on American Op-
portunities and Education; Senator Nc
Laurin takes for his theme, The CONNER
cial Democracy Of the South; j. ID. Philar
tells why the Chinese Should be Elk
cluded;" Anthony y. Brady describes the
services of electricity; o. p. Austin asks
and answers the question, Has the
Threatened European War Against Ameri-
can Manufactures Begun" II. G.. Wells
continues his papers on "Anticipations
and w. ID. Howells contributes a SECOND
paper on IAN Italian View of HumOr. X
a. Pinkerton talks of Detective Surveil-
lance OF Anarchists" and says among 9th
er interesting comments on the dangers OF
the Anarchist movement: THE Haymar-
ket massacre in Chicago ought TO have
been a lesson TO the whole Nation. I'm
fortunately. il was looked upon as a purely
local ebullition, something peculiar TO Chi
cago and 10 her cosmopolitan makeup. The
lesson given by the hanging OF the Anar
chists concerned i'm the Haymarket affail
was largely nullified by the subsequent
pardoning OF the men who escaped from
the gallows and We're sent TO prison. Tha
act had a decided tendency TO revive the
spirits Of the Anarchists and TO bring 4
our shores many of the dangerous fanatics
who were driven out OF Europe.