The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-01-19

ambitious effort. At least one of the
leaguers. Miss Hilda b. Morris. a young
girl of Michigan City, Ind, after taking
all the honors and prizes one member can
in the league. has had one story published
and two others accepted by a well-known
grown-ups' magazine. Her parents have
placed her under the training of a Chicago
editor.
A series of papers on the government
of the United States will begin in the Feb
ruary Scribners with James Ford Rhodes's
article on THE Presidential Office" Mr.
Rhodes's historical studies ard his wide
acquaintance with public men and the spe-
cial facilities which he has had TO study
the executive Office make this paper one
OF value: Men of the highest authority.
IKE Justice Brewer, of the Supreme Court
senator Lodge, Captain Mahan, Frank A
Nanderlip and Governor Taft, will con-
tribute to this series.
In the February Parsons is begun a
new serial by Gelett Burgess and VIII
lrwin-"The Picaroons; or, A San Fran
cisco Nights Entertainment'-wh has
the uncommon distinction of a really novel
plot. There is the usual variety of short
stories and interesting special articles. Mrs
ID L. .. DeEison. president of the Fedora
uon OF Womens Clubs. argues in
favor of the club organization of wom-
en- More practical is an account of re-
markable invention by Mrs Lydia c..
Sharpless. of Philadelphia scientific
bread machine by which 80 per cent. more
nourishment can be had from flour than
when mixed by the ordinary process.
DR.. William Henry Furness Sd, the
author of THE Borneo Head-H Hunters
Q-ippincotts). is now at Sydney, Australia.
and intends to land shortly upon the east
coast of Borneo, planning to cross that
island. This. if DR.. Furness succeeds, will
be an accomplishment which has never be-
fore been attempted successfully by white
man. Ii is beset with hazards from the
savage tribes. but DIR. FurnesS is satisfied
that the knowledge which he will obtain as
to the habits and surroundings of these
people will add largely to our store of
knowledge of a field from which he gar
nered so richly in his volume recently pub
lished.
The editor OF Harper's Magazine writing
in the Editors Study" of the February
number, recalls that nove-reading two gen.
erations ago in New England was regarded
almost as a vice. Goldsmith's vicar of
Wakefield" was then the most popular Eng
fish novel. and Jane Porter's Scottish
Chiefs was occasionally allowed to be read
by young people because of it's historical
significance. Literary events. he says, were
not often discussed with any warmth I'M
I'll the time of Uncle Toms Cabin" which,
of course, precipitated immediate excite
ment: And when Charlotte Bronte's Jane
munities were divided on the question of it's
morality.
In the January Atlantic Mr.. W. ]. Hen
derson. the well-known musical critic.
prophesies interestingly Of the future OF
orchestral music. After briefly SUMMARY
ing the significant advances in orchestra
ton in the past century and a half Mr..
Henderson ventures prediction as to the
coming course of orchestral music with
particular reference to the Instrumentation
and harmony of Richard Strauss. He says
All recent attempts of progress in music
have been in the direction Of more definite
expression, and Strauss may be only a
stepping stone in advance toward tina,
blissful epoch whose hearers Will display as
much imagination as its composers-that
| transcendent condition in which genius un.
derstands genius. AS in that faculty free
| heaven celebrated in undergraduate song
There will be no music critics there Every
man will be his own critic. The millen.
MUM will have come"