The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-14

most published portraits have done. IL
Is reproduction from drawing by George
L. Tobin.
The current number of the Literary Col
lector Greenwich. Comm contains SYM
pathetic biographical sketch of George
William Curtis There is a chapter of
Notes on Whistler and some Memories
of James LuckingtOn, Bookseller
The name of Harold MacGrath's new
novel of comedy adventure has been
changed to THE Man on the Box" The
first installment will appear in the April
number Of the Reader Magazine. The story
is being illustrated by Harrison Fisher
Mr.. Howells's serial. The Son of Royal
Langbrith," now running i'm the North
American Review, is likely to rank among
his best. a feature of it is a study of a
victim of the morphine habit Pictures of
young girl life show, too, the sympathetic
insight of the author
Impressions Quarterly. the beautifully
printed little magazine issued by Paul Elder
& Co. San Francisco, Cal, affords a num-
Der of young writer's opportunity for the
expression of poetic thought in prose and
verse, and some of il is worth the setting in
which the publisher puts it.
Israel Zangwill will contribute TO The
Reader beginning with the April number,
a series of short essays entitled without
ITtJuulct 1HeSe essays, ne says, Will De
the play of a free mind on all subjects
treated in a literary way. Some years
ago Mr.. Zangwill published a volume of
essays with the same title.
John Fox. jr.. the author of 1.-The Little
Shepherd of Kingdom Come" who was a
war correspondent during the Santiago
campaign, has arrived in Japan and will
represent Scribner's Magazine exclusively
during the Russo-Japanese war. 1t is ex-
pected that every number of Scribners
Magazine will contain one of Mr.. Fox S
graphic descriptions.
The novelette, in Ainslee's for April is
1.-THE Inn of the Long Year." by S. Garlic
ton. Other well-known contributors are
Edgar Saltus. Kate MastersOn Beatrice
HanscOm, Justus Miles FOrman, Richard lie
Gallienne. Sarah Guernsey Bradley, Ash
ton Killers, Cosmo Hamilton, Alice Duer
Miller, Joseph c. Lincoln, Owen Oliver and
Elizabeth knight Tompkins.
Mrs. Humphry Ward is busily engaged
with preparations for the marriage of her
younger daughter. to occur on March p.
After the wedding she hopes TO leave Eng
land at once FOR Italy, where she will be
able to work uninterruptedly on the COM
petiOn of her new novel, which will follow
Mary Johnstons brilliant serial, Sir Nor
timer, in Harpers Magazine.
How to Get Strong" is the title of an
amusing contribution in Everybody's Maya
zine for March, burlesquing the active and
passive methods advocated by their respec-
tive championships active being physical
exercise the passive. foods of various sorts
"A Study of the Car" by Arnold White
affords an interesting glimpse of the per-
sOnality of Russia's ruler. A feature OF
the number is a series of excellent drawings
by Vernon Howe Bailey of buildings and
| scenes in Boston. Everybodys offers a good
variety of well-prepared matter and is one
of the best of the 1O-cent magazines
Ine Atlantic Monthly. always full of good
reading, is more than commonly entertain
| ing this month. Not that any one reader
would care for all its contents, perhaps, but
| the variety of the contributions offers some
thing for many tastes. There is a paper fol
the lover of landscape beauty on 1.-The
Abuses of Public Advertising Race Fac
| lions In Labor Unions will interest the
| sociologist; The Small Business as g
! School of Manhood should be suggestive tC
| the father of sons; Thomas Wentworth
! HlgginsOn contributes a pleasant essay or
Books Unread" Lafcadio Hearn offers z
poetical story, and Agnes Repplier-likt
| Hearn, too long missed from these pages
| has a graceful essay with Italian beggars
| for its theme. Two or three stories, a mum
| Der of poems of good quality, book review.
and THE Contributors Club make up tn,
| number.
March Outing has such a variety o.
| interesting articles that any lover of out
| door life, matter what his particular
taste, will find something to please Their,
are stories of travel and adventure and Of
| fishing and shooting. well-prepared article!
! on athletics, college and military: two love
| tales. with golf and riding to the hound:
| as their bases, and miscellaneous matter
! covering a wide field. Where Romano,
| Lingers," written by Leonidas Hubbard, jr
| throws light on the methods of the Hudson
| Bay Company and the trappers who worl
| Mount Mp
| ley" by Robert Dunn, tells of efforts Il
| scale the towering Alaskan peak. 9TH,
| Bluegrass Country is an accurate sketch
of scenes in Kentucky. In THE Freeman
Shod with Steel" Vance THOMPSON gives in
| cidents of an afternoons skating in parl
near Paris. Outings illustrations are
feature.
| In the North American Review for Marcel
is a spirited protest by Wong Kai-Kah
Chinese commissioner to the st. Louis fair
against the restrictions placed by tn
| United States on the admission of ever
| high class Cinnamon to this country anC
especially the rules covering the admission
of all persons having charge of Chinese ex
hibits. He points out that merchants al
| over China were eagerly preparing thei
| exhibits-this being the first time Off
| cial display by China has been promised 70
| any fair-when rules were promulgated b,
this government which are an insult to al
! exhibitors who come here in good faith
He says these rules are so Vagu
| in their specifications that no MAJ
can be sure that he is complying with then
| all. In other words. the United States i
| preparing to treat like criminals Chimes
exhibitors who come here in good faith II
| makes il plain that the trade of this coun
| try with China is sure to be injured by thi
| outrageous treatment and by other forms o
| injustice practiced toward his countrymen
| The article should be brought to the atten
] ton of Congress