The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-09-01

labor. Several good short stories, inciud-
ing ghost story by Mary ElWhkins. a.e
features OF this excellent number.
The new English edition OF The World
Work is TO be edited in England by Henry
Norman. NJ p. TO make IL thoroughly
English magazine But il viii be set with
American type on American machnes. ana
printed on American paper ana Anl, t. ,,
presses The American publishers, Douoit-
dav Page e. Co have made the final ar
rangements for its initial appearance IN
November.
Charles MeIlvaine. who is recognized
authority on the subject. writes In an inter-
esting manner in the September Era OF
Some Autumnal Toadstools-" The COM
plete short stories include "A Literary
Character" by Albert Lathrop Lawrence,
Rain" translated from the Chinese Dy
Helen @. smith; 'Moogwa, the dnree
Thieves and the Man-Squaw," by j; onker
Curwood: and I'm the Sierras, by Mahaon
| Stacy. Two articles worth reading are
Uncle Toms Cabin in KENTUCKY py
Joseph M. Rogers. and Newport fressne
and Past" by Mary Moss Marie Anton
ette." by Henry Francis. and Gabriel loi-
liver" by Joel Chandler Harris. are con-
| tinued.
The special features OF the September
| number of the Review OF Reviews are Al
| illustrated account of the migration TO
northwestern Canada, by Cy Warman'
summary of the present political situation
in England, by w. 7. Stead; character
sketches of Baron Shibuzawa, known IA
| this country as THE Pierpont Morgan OF
| Japan. Justice Oliver Wendell HOMES,
| and the late Rabbi Joseph. of New YORK
last last Side: an article on me ,so H censas
| OF manufactures by Chief Statisucish
| North; IAN Instance Of Proflt-sharing: py
| Samuel Cabot; 1.-The Bonus system of Re-
4 wa r6i l.Qh hV L.
| proved Conditions in the American Farm
| tr's Life" by Clarence ii. Matson; The
iiam prapeT snee' DIFFUSION 5Hr Of Agr
| cultural Prosperity" by Prof. Henry g
Adams: Fixing Nitrogen from the At
| mosphere." by Thomas G. Martin: and an
| Illustrated account of the recent fall OF the
| Camranile of st. Marks In Venice.
In Scribner for September is a well-writ-
ten account, by Louis Edward Fournier. Of
life at an art school in Rome. W. +. White
house writes entertainingly of tour
through Abyssjnia, the country Of Meneiik.
who calls himself king of Kings" Walter
| A. Wyckoff, who studied the labor question
| in this country by travelling over IL seeking
| employment an unskilled laborer. mas
| been looking into the condition of London
| wage-earners, though apparently from the
standpoint of an outside observer rather
| than would-be workman. be nnds the
much-talked Of London East Side pros
porous and with no problem OF the unem-
ployed confronting it. For the great BODY
of wage-earners," he says, lone has to see
them as they live and work by hundreds or
thousands in East London in order TO real
ize how hardy and well-nourished and we'll
clothed and well-schooled race they are
and how adversely skilled-forming, as
think, industrial army OF rare efti-
cheney" The first instalment of a two
part story, by Mary r. s. Andrews, has
among its characters Talleyrand. the King
of Rome and the son of Marshal Ney.
Richard Harding Davis's Captain Mack
1 i'm is Ind ed in nfar 1hQr
| will probably be two opinions among read
ers as TO the merits of Barrie's serial. 1.-The
1ntii in IL h'e foreed note some MAXIM IL rather
dull reading. Two or three short stories
and many poems complete the number.
| The illustrations, as usual with this mag
aZine, are worthy or close study.
In the September Atlantic W. E. Burg
hardt Du Bots, himself a negro teacher Of
distinction, gives his views on THE Train
ing OF Black Men," setting forth the argu-
ments in favor Of the higher education
for those of the race who are fitted to take
it. 1t is the other side of the question
from that taken by Booker I. Washing
ton, who urges industrial education as the
first and most Important thing to consider.
The first of a series of papers by Emily V.
Mason, who was a nurse in Confederate
hospitals during the civil war, sets forth
some OF her army experiences and gives a
| grim picture of war, justifying General
Sherman's forcible definition Of it. Going
| INTO the WOODS Is "A pleasant essay Dy
, Eben u Scott on the charms OF out-of-
door life to americans in summef.-An-
other nature paper is AN Autumn
, w. Horwen argues in favor of national
standard in higher education and outlines
a scheme by which such standard may, he
thinks, be established. "In Democracy and
Society Vida d. Scudder discourses in a
rather visionary way of what the future
may bring about in the way of social unity
; and equality-a real democracy. very
interesting article on What Public Libra
ries Are Doing for Children" is contributed
. by Hitler c. Wellman. Nothing in modern
library work is more important than this
[ recent movement toward guiding children
I to the intelligent of books Many
parents whose children are profiting by
the new system are unaware OF what Is
being done. Other papers in the number
, are THE Kansas of To-day" "A Bit OF
Unpublished Correspondence Between
: | Henry Thoreau and Isaac Hecker." 1.-The
. | New Navy and William Black" An in.
I stallment of 1.-The Lady OF the Beeches.
!, by the Baroness Won Hutton, and several
? short stories form the fiction of the mum
! Der.