The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-02-02
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Walter Wellman; a statement of the main
points in the recent Taft Vale Railway
case In England, involving the liability of
labor unions in strikes, and a comprehen-
sive discussion of recent reforms in Amer
lean taxation systems. by John r. Com
mons. In the editorial department, THE
Progress of the World" the Venezuelan
and Panama canal situations are fully
treated. as are also tariff revision and other
pending problems in Congress, President
Roosevelts Southern policy, conditions in
the Philippines, the Irish land programme
and many other matters of current interest.
The fiction of the February Atlantic con-
sists of an installment of His Daughter
First" by Arthur S. Hardy; "In the Abb
sence of Monsieur by Guy w. Caryll, and
''Thorkyld viborg." by Ella w. Peattie.
'Absalom's Wreath a sketch by Eliza
beth Taylor. relates to the customs, the
flora and the appearance of Iceland, land
almost unknown. "Libin, New Interpre-
ter of East Side Life" is commented on by
Charles Rice 'Lafcadio Hearn,' by Paul
Elmer Moore. is criticism of "Kotto," by
Lafcadio Hearn, and dissection, as ii
might be called, of the author and his art
Mr. Moore writes: eff we examine the ac-
tual substance of that art we shall discover
that it is borrowed from three perfectly
distinct, i'm fact, almost mutually destruct-
i've, philosophers, any one of which alone
would afford material for the genius of an
ordinary writer. He stands and proclaims
his mysteries at the meeting of three ways.
To the religious instinct of lndia-Bud-
dhism in particular-which history has en-
grated on the aesthetic sense of Japan,
Mr.. Hearn brings the interpreting spirit of
Occidental science. and these three tradi-
tions are fused by the peculiar sympathies
of his mind into one rich and novel COM
pound-a compound so rare as TO have in
troduced into literature a psychological
sensation unknown before More than any
other living author, he has added a new
thrill to our intellectual experience" The
criticism is elaborate and suggestive of new
ideas in art other contributions are
worthy of the authors and of the Atlantic.
The Cosmopolitan Magazine for February
has a continuation of Mankind i'm the
Making" by H. c. Wells Mr. wells's
views may well be recommended to the
consideration of the controllers of the cur
riculum in our public schools. ''Barlasch of
the Guard" story by Henry Seton Merri-
man. is continued Beyond the Limit"
by Octave Thanet. is a realistic story de-
scribing the after effect of lynching upon
the participators and upon the surrounding
people, especially the children. In What
a Father Can Do for His Daughter the
self-sufficient Harry Thurston Peck offers
some characteristic views He complains
that young girls who are solely under the
influence of the mother grow into early
womanhood with the feminine traits which
were hers at birth all heightened and ac-
centuated," and that here is suggested the
value of fathers influences IF he be
his daughters friend the girl will grow up
with mind unlike the minds OF the many
women I'm whom femininity verges on ia
tuity. From close association with ia
Their the young girl quite unconscious.y ac-
quires something OF the largeness OF the
mans nature and loses something of the
pettiness and marrow ness of the woman's
His tolerant, genial spirit will moderate her
tense emotionalism. His sense Of humor