The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-08
THE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAn.

is a paper by r. T. McGrath on Marcon's
wireless signal system, authorized by Marconi
himself, and Professor Mathews Interestingly
writes of his Investigations into the nature
of the nerve impulse. The humorous quality
Is well sustained in papers by George AIDE,
Luther Long, Carolyn Wells and Others and
there are tales of adventure of an Irresistible
character. Edith Thomas The Melting Of
the Ice' and Frank Tooker's THE Call of the
Sea- are the attractive poetical features.
Keiths Magazine on Home Building for
March contains some excellent suggestions
in house building, house furnishing and house
decoration, with practical observations on
household economies and page or two of
entertaining table chat. People contemplat-
ing building homes Of their own can get some
good hints in Keth's. There is an illustrated
account of a Pasadena bungalow the archi-
tect OF the pretty structure aiming at SIM
| plcity, and the pictures of exterior and inte-
rior are very attractive. Minneapolis: Keith
Publishing company.
| Music Chicago: Music Magazine Publish
| ing company, Auditorium Tower), is most
attractive number Editor Mathews gives an
enthusiastic description of kubelik's violin
playing, especially commenting his mastery
bowling and lovely melody playing and his
| mastery Of all the tricks of the conjuring
violinist. Mr.. Van Cleve's paper on the
Strauss family and the waltz is deeply inter-
u. '
| three sons, Johann, Joseph and Edouard all
wrote watzes, polkas and gallops with tie
| facility which true genius imparts. Mr.. Van
Cleve finds the waltz in absolutely perfect
| form in the younger Johann Strauss Beau
| tiful Blue Danube" karleton Hackett's
''Notes on American Music of XVIII. Cent
| ury'' is a notable contribution, the extracts
from contemporary eighteenth century pub
| locations showing the quality of musical en-
tertainment theL current There is an inter-
esting description Of musical reception ac-
corded Washington when he visited Boston in
| 1889. An amusing feature of the number is a
| musical story entitled "A Romance in Two
Flats"
! The February number of 1.-THE Current
Encyclopedia is admirably illustrated, the
| frontispiece being photo Of King Edward
VII, reading his speech on the opening of the
English parliament on Jan. 16, in the house
of lords. The number is up-to- date In it's
| record Of the progress Of science and art, and
! industry, and the doings of tho nations The
biographical feature is we'll maintained and
movements in literature and education are
fully recorded. For instance there is an in
teresting description Of the origin and organi-
cation of the Carnegie institution. Two pages
are devoted to Kubelik, the yolinist, and
there is good summary Of legislation in the
United States in 1901. All important religious
movements receive attention, and, in this
uumDeT, LII. Barton y new cateculSUl, ueSlSueu
to crafty those who wish fundamental Chris
tian doctrines expressed in new terms, is
given in full. For reference purposes this
Current Encyclopedia is unsurpassed.
The Atlantic Monthly for March discusses
some very live questions, as ''Trusus, III the
Light of Census Returns" by Census Director
Merriam, who groups his statistics effective
ly as to industrial capitalization, and con-
cludes that it will take few years more to
show whether the combine system is posi-
lively dangerous. Then there are two papers
on the Philippine problem, on the edu-
cational phase by Mr.. Atkinson, superintend-
ent of education the islands, and valu-
able discussion on the economic future of
the Philippines, by G.. A. Conant, the we'll
known writer on finance and economics, who
sees bright prospect ahead if the archi-
pelago is opened properly as a market for
American surplus manufactures. In Mr..
Drehers Letter From Germany will be
found most interesting statement of the in
dustrial and financial conditions of Germany,
now emerging from eighteen months of bust
ness depression. His remarks on the German
tariff controversy are interesting notable
paper is Professor Goldman Smiths review of
England and the War of Secession" in
which he half apologies for England's con-
federatic sympathies and concludes. that the
one clear gain by the war was the legal
abolition of slavery, while the relation be-
tween blacks and whites is in some respects
worse than ever. A feature of interest is q.
B. Smiths paper on municipal self-govern-
ment and among the sketches and stories
Mr.. Rowland Robnson's can Old Time March
Meeting," and The Exile will command
quick attention, as will Confessions of a
Provincial Editor" A very ambitious poem
is R. H. Johnson's italian Rhapsody"
wherein are some very fine stanzas.
The March Review, of Reviews gives ade-
TO ~ no az Prince
Prussia and to German progress, and George
Fisk, formerly secretary of the American
embassy, Berlin, contributes a valuable re-
view of German American diplomatic and
commercial relations, from the first: treaty
with Prussia ratified in 1885 to the present
time, when the kaisers reichstag is worrying
over the agrarion tariff and the commercial
treaties of Germany soon expire and nobody
knows exactly how our trade relations with
that nation will stand after negotiations are
over. There is an interesting illustrated. bio
graphical sketch of President Eliot of Har-
ward University, and a good presentation of
the South American war issues, by E. Emer-
son, Jr. very valuable paper is Mr.. Mar
tins account Of the Colgate long power
transmission plant which sends electro motive
force into Oakland, Cal, and San Francisco.
220 miles away, seven mile fume furnish
ing the water power to turn the dynamos in
the pOwer-house, the water making vertical
leap of 700 feet before rushing at the
wheels. -
The Popular Science Monthly (New York:
Substitution 84), contains among many attrac-
tive features, an account of the American
Philosophical society which Benjamin Frank
| lin founded in Philadelphia in 1853, and of
| which he was the first president. The late
Mr.. Fraey of Philadelphia served the society
as president for the last twenty-one years
| of his life and the society is strong and
useful to-day, having during it's long exist
| ence, published sixty-ive volumes of pro-
ceedings and having very valuable collections
! of old prints, documents and manuscripts and
| a library rich in Frankliniana and many oil
| portraits Of distinguished members, American
| and foreign. DR.. Chamberlain of Clark uni
! versity contributes valuable paper on
Work and Rest; Genius and Stupidity He
shows that the lower animals even those Of
| large activity, have their periods of rest.
! and coming to human beings, the child is
absorbed in play even to the WEAKNESS which
| induces rest, and during this period the
| school teachers aid should not be applied
| more than an hour or two in the day DR..
Chamberlain, after reviewing the life of the
animal, the child, woman, the genius, the
criminal and the savage, concludes that it is
| not unreasonable to suppose that two hours
of physical labor day would suffice, under
economical distribution of the product, to keep
| the whole worlds needs supplied and that
| two hours of intellectual work, under right
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