The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-06-08


teal this month. which is gratifying. Its
usual excellence as TO Illustration Is MAIN
tanned. even the vulgar pig and its habitat
being made attractive in the pictures.
The Craftsmen for June is notable for
the two articles American Ceramics
They ought to stimulate the interest in
their practical and artistic work in clay
that is now doing in this country. and they
doubtless will be of special service in call
ing attention to the opportunity to gain
real knowledge of pottery and its manu-
facture at the schools that have been estab-
lished to teach the science and art OF pro.
ducing ii. The New York State School, at
Alfred, equipped and provided for by the
Legislature, has taken up the matter or
clay working in an educational way, oHer-
ing courses of study and work that de-
velop the practical and artistic features or
pottery making TO the fullest extent The
story OF what is done at this school is eX-
ceedingly interesting. Other articles, Wen
illustrated, make up an excellent number
of one of the best art magazines pupiisheo
"A New Playground in the New World
is the title of an article by EDWARD
Whymper in the June Scribner, in which
he describes some of the magnificent
scenery of the Rocky mountains in British
America. with Banff as a starting point
The illustrations striking. Brig. Gen.
William H. Carter, L. S. A, writes or the
War Department. its history and admins
tration. Gen. John b. Gordon has paper
on Antietam and Chancellorsville. SOPHIE
Jewett grows enthusiastic over the beauty
of trees in Italy '.Cliff-Dwellers Is an
| illustrated account, by 4. G. Peixotto, OF a
| French town built upon a hillside and into
| the hillside. 1.-The Modern French Girl
| Gilbert Hamcrton. Several short stories
and an installment of John FoxS Little
Shepherd of Kingdom Come" comprise the
| fiction of the number.
While there is nothing especially notable
Moo III
there is a variety of entertaining matter.
Edmund Gosse writes about the literary
patron Of the eighteenth century, there is
an interesting story by the late Julian
Ralph of the mountain people of Kentucky
and Tennessee-"Our Appalachian Ameri-
cans" as he calls them; A. A. Stevens be-
lieves that one of the great needs or every
day life in America is larger culture,
and considers ways of obtaining this. Is
rael Zangwill contributes IAN Italian Fan
tasy"- poetic essay or study OF places and
In d o the
| ing of buried city in Palestine, Norman
Duncan writes of the books written, pub
lished and read in the New YORK tenement
valuable information about ants. There are
a number of short stories of average merit
as magazine fiction goes. and as many
poems by well-known writers. Mr.. How
ellis, in the Easy Chair" discourses of
the mysteries of life-of sleep. of dreams.
the acknowledgements, the unknown quality
| in us that enables those lacking in certain
senses to acquire knowledge.
Arthur Schneider, the artist who was in
vited to teach art to the Sultan of Morocco.
| contributes to. the June Century second
| readable article concerning his experience
with that interesting ruler. The London
Stock Exchange is described by Henry Nor
| man and Ashton Jones' with illustrations
| by Andre Castaigne Ray Stannard Baker
| writes of the salmon fisheries OF the North
| west Howard Crosby Butler tells a surpris-
| ing story about the LAND of deserted Cities"
meaning thereby part of the old Roman
empire not known to tourists, where the
ruins of ancient cities yet exist and are not
buried like those OF the Mesopotamian
| plains, yet waste their beauties upon half
| civilized nomads. L. r. Dawley tells or MS
| experiences while stranded in Spanish hill
| town Eliot Gregory contributes rather
| cynical essay on "Unavailng Wealth, with
| especial reference to the prevailing worship
Of the dollar Hermann Klein writes about
| Sir Augustus Harris, impresario, ana Jean
| de Reszke. tenor. There is nature paper
| by John Burroughs, and another readable
| contribution to the ''Old Maids Corner" by
| talks about the state Boss and tells how
| he may be detnroned. There are several
| short stories, including one or the ia
| Gladdin" series, and as many poems
A writer who signs himself 'Pater-
familias'' takes UP the race suicide"
June and treats it boldly from a stand
point opposed to that taken by President
| Roosevelt The article is worth reading
and women who agree with it, as doubtless
most of them WILL may possibly express
| their approval by sending marked copies to
| the President Anything written by Fred
| eric Harrison Is worth reading, II only for
his felicity of expression. He contributes
| to the Review a study of Sir Alfred Lyalrs
recent book on Tennyson in which he gives
| Tennyson the first place as master of
a Ppe''s eT iUe wesley ' Bicentenniai.S Eng
Securities Decision,' Notes. on the Irish
hsnd n IF in Eng
land" 1.-The Alaska Boundary Question"
and the Supreme Court of the United
1os as pamee boa article Henry by
James's story, 1.-The Ambassadors"
has all the peculiar characteristics
who s DO not like James but It is neverthe
| less an exceedingly acute psychological
| study.
| Arthur Sherburne Hardy's novel, "His
Daughter First" which has been running
as serial in the Atlantic Monthly, reaches
| a conclusion in the June number. 1t is a
| clever study Of character and certain social
| conditions, but on the whole is hardly equal
| to what readers of But Yet Woman"
| and "Passe Rose felt that they had a
| right to expect from this author. In this
| issue of the Atlantic Oswald G. Willard
| shows that the negro makes a good soldier
| and gives him his just dues in this respect
THE Boston Religion" is the title given to
1 little account by M. A. De Wolfe Howe
of the movement which resulted in the for
| nation of the Unitarian sect. John Bas-
/ com writes of changes that have come
| about in college life during the last half
! century John Ball Osborne writes enter
| tainingly of consular life, telling of the
swift passing of it's early glamour and adj
| vising the young man who would serve his
! country in this capacity to seek other fields
| of endeavor. New Aspects of Art Study"
| is the title given to a review by Royal Cor
| tfssoz of several recent books dealing with
| various phases of art. Space is given to
| the address on Emerson as Seer, deliv-
cred by President Eliot in celebration OF
| the Emerson centenary. Two or three
| short stories and several poems go TO make
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