The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-03-05

Daniel Chester French" by Arthur Hoeber;
The Pasadena Flower SHOW. by Mabel
Know by John Swinton; rs Prohibition
a Fraud and a Failure?' by Hon. john u.
Woolley. the late candidate for President
of the United States on the ProhlDition
ticket; Artistic American Homes, Lead
ing Men and Women of the Stage, Nhat
IS Anarchism? by Lionel Strachey, ana
the University of Michigan prize story
Several departments deal with domestic
and social affairs.
a story by Frank Stockton, called My
Balloon Hunt" is feature of the March
Ladies Home Journal. The magazine
opens with a sketch of famous sexton
Brown. who once ruled over Grace Church,
New York City. There is an interesting
article about birds, the first of a series by
Nellie Blanehan- Hamilton Wright Mabie
contributes a literary talk, also the hrst
of a series. Other articles outside OF the
regular departments are: How To Have
a Home Wedding" Animated Silhouettes
and other Games and The Literary He
writer's by Franklin B. Wiley. The illus
trations include another OF the popular
double pages Of college girls-this time
AT Her Fun and in Her Room
An article that is bound to excite atten-
ton mas a prominent place in Ainslee's
Magazine for March. 1t is entitled "Psy-
chical Research" and has been written by
j.
age is a charter member of the Psychicai
Society, and relates some marvellous hap
penings from his own experience. Hunt
ing Big Game. by Allen Sangree. recOunts
the hair-breadth escapes OF a New York
man in the African jungle, and is illus
trated with photographs of exceptional IN
terest. Man and His stomach, by Ar
thur Henry, seems especially designed for
the man with the Quick-lunch habit. Other
features are of equal interest. and the
fiction is of good quality. Aihslee's always
affords entertainment.
Pearsons Magazine for March has a
variety of special articles. lone Day with
a Busy Spider is a valuable natural history
lesson, cleverIy done up in the guise of
fiction. The Good Roads Train Il an IN
teresting account of the school on wheels
now rolling through the South. giving the
jewellers IN remote sections valuable object
lessons on the need, the making and the
keeping up of good county roads. Amer
lean Tea is described fully in the article
of that name from the very earliest eX-
periments in its manufacture down TO the
latest phases of its progress. The art of
bubble blowing is set forth entertainingly
also An article of special interest Is that
called THE New Elixir of Life, in which
the wonderful effects of electricity upon the
human body in disease and sickness are
described.
The character of the magazine Country
Life is we'll indicated by the contents of
the March issue-sThe Animals of the
Farm" "A New England Garden Home
Mrs Jack" Gardeners Boston suburban
! RESIDENCE, THE Sugar Bush, The Pass
ing of the Blacktail, Common Sense III
the Poultry Yard" Spring Will Come
Again THE Life of the Trapper," The
Greenhouse in the Snow" The Return tC
the Soil How to Make Garden. The
/ Coming of Spring "A Crop of Lettuce,
THE Flight of the Osprey and The New
town Pippin." All these articles are in
teresting in themselves to one who has the
| slightest interest in country life, but the
! great charm of the periodical is In It's Nus
| trations, which are triumpns Of the pho-
| tographer's art. This is an especially at
! tractiYe number.
An important article styled Bordering
the Mysteries of Life and Mind review
| of DR.. Loeb's researches and discoveries
by Carl Snyder. is the initial paper of Nc
Clure's Magazine. The trial of Aaron Burr
/ is described by Ida NJ. Tarbell. Riddle
/ of the Nineteenth Century is the rather
/ remarkable name given by Clara Morris tC
/ Mr.. Henry Bergh in sketch by her. In
! Next TO the Ground" stories and studies
of farm life, the COW, her peculiar traits
some of them very human-her needs and
/ her capabilities are scrutinized. Juliar
| Ralph reviews Conan Doyle's work OF
/ love" his new book on the Boer war
Emmy Lou" history is continued in "Al
/ the Winds of Doctrine" the best of the
series, by George Madden Martin. Charles
| l.. Hinton's illustrations for this story are
| particularly clever. Dennis Mulvihill
| StOker and Mayor-A True Movement ol
! To-day is "A sketch by Maurice Sherman
Porter, of an Irishman who serves no ma
chine, and in spite of it, because of the
fact. becomes mayor of Bridgeport Conn
! Bumor is represented by Chauncey Thorn
as in ''KiOwa's Revival Other fiction anC
poetry are of the usual excellent character
Under the head of american Humor,
in the Century for March. George AIDE give:
1.-The Modern Fable of the Old Fox and tn,
Young Fox" Wallace Bruce Armstrong
/ tell faIa in hal mix
! French and broken English, of DE Cirqu'
at OF Ste. Anne; John Luther Long de
! Strike on the Schlafe Platz Railroad, ant
! Frank Nerbeck illustrates it with realistic
! groteSqueness; contributions in Lighte
| Vein" are also listed under the same head
but fall rather below the humor of tn
| Hrst three mentioned In Samoa will
| Hunt" "A MariOnette Theater in New
| York" "King James of Beaver Island"
! story of the career of a Mormon prophet
An Apostle to the American Indians.
and THE Improvement of Washington
! City" are of more serious quality. Mar
| conf and His Transatlantic Signal AM
THE Nature of the Nerve Impulse fal
under the head of scientific papers. Poetr,
and fiction are represented by Edwin Mark
ham, Edith M. Thomas. 5. Weir Mitchell
Albert h. Hyde and others.
Lippincott's for March contains as it
complete novel, not too long, wild Oats,
by Francis Willing Wharton; one yer,
short story, much in little. called 1.-The Sin
Of the Fathers" by DR.. S. Weir Mitchell
also three additional short stories by Pau
Dunbar, Mabel Thurston and Alfred Stod
dart, respectively Descriptive papers ar
The Eliza bethan Theater.' by Prof. Fell
r. Schelling, beginning with an accOun
of London in 1880, when Its population
was estimated to be 1884, 900 souls" 'Th
Isthmian Canal from the Beginning" b.
Charles Morris. According 10 the last pa
per the beginning of the idea of the water
way between the two oceans was less tina
forty years after Columbus first saw Ian
from his ship. Its evolution from tina
time to the present is described by MI
Norris. John Bell Osborne, former Unite
States consul at Client, writes of "A Elem
ish Home of the Trappist Monks" lively
miles from the city OF Antwerp, wher
they have fifteen hundred acres of pro
ductive land. reclaimed by "A century O
the soil being very sandy" A brief &C
count Of Mrs. Gladstone and Lady Pa
merston, both Of whom are buried in West
minister Abbey, is given by the daughte
of the dean OF Westminster. Seven shor
poems grace the magazine. The humOrOu
department, "Walnuts and Wine" sustain
its pleasant character better than do tn
humorous department of any other maya
zine. The number is to be commended IL
its uniform excellence.
Among the Publishers.
Messrs. Harper & Brothers will publis
this spring a work of fiction by Williar
Dean Howells entitled "A Family Affair
D. Appleton & Co. announce that the do