The Indianapolis journal., 1904-06-06
Current Periodicals.

st. Nicholas for June will commend itself
to boys because of an article telling in de-
tail how to keep baseball score.
The Housekeeper (Minneapolis) for June
appears with a most attractive cover de-
sign. It's contents cover a wide range of
well-prepared matter of domestic interest.
In Leslie's Monthly for June is portrait
Of Horace Fletcher, the author Of "Menti-
culture" and other books and best known
for ideas concerning food, much mastica-
ton, etc. He looks like well-fed person.
The name of Mrs. n Zangwill now ap-
pears as magazine contributor, a short
story over her signature being feature of
the June Lippincott. Who says there is
nothing in a name where magazine editors
are concerned?
The memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt form
the distinctive feature of the Strand Mag
azine. In the current installment Madame
Sarah tells of the family council which
ended in a decision that she must be an
actress. At the time she was fourteen and
had never seen play. She wished to enter
a convent.
The Black Mirror is the title of minia-
ture magazine published in Chicago and
bearing as its subtitle The Journal of the
Colonists." The current issue is devoted to
art criticism and to discussion of the busi-
ness methods of certain artists and art or
ganizations. The makers of pictures will
doubtless find 1t interesting.
Dodd, Mead & Co. announce that they
will publish in the early autumn a new
novel by Marie Corelli. They do not think
ii advisable at present to give the title, or
any description of the contents of the
book, but they can say that it is work of
great vivacity and charm, and one with so
great human interest that ii will appeal
to large circle of readers.
st. Nicholas Magazine has always felt
that it appealed more or less to sensible
older people we'll as to boys and girls;
but not every day do its editors get such
a letter as came recently from subscriber
who had taken two copies ever since the
magazine was started, and who writes: s'I
find nothing better for restful reading at
the age of eighty-siX.
The June number of Country Life in
America is seasonable in its contents, pre-
senting in a beautifully illustrated way.
papers on fruit growing, sailing, house
building, chicken raising, dogs bees and
sports. The Henry Clay homestead in Ken
lucky is described. and much valuable in
formation from a builders point of view is
given in Doors and Doorways."
good deal of space is given up by the
June Bookman to illustrated article on
The American College Commencements"-
surely a timely topic Robert Arrowsmith
tells how guidebook is made. In "Chron-
a
Charles Reade's novels is said TO be at
hand. In England a new and complete edi-
| tion of his books is in preparation.
President Roosevelts books continue in
| good demand. The publishers of the Cen
| tury Company report that the tenth edition
| of 1.-The Strenuous Life has just come
| from the press, and that Hero Tales from
| American History" which Mr.. Roosevelt
and Senator Lodge wrote together, is in
| its thirteenth printing 1t is now eight
| years old, but from 500 TO 1000 copies are
sold each month.
| The best thing in the June Mcclure is
| Samuel Hopkins Adams's story of Dan
Cunningham. the West Virginia hunts
man of the law He is a man who is pur-
| suing career of personal vengeance un-
| der due legal authority, and, strange tC
| say, his revenge is just and he is doing the
| region a service by ridding ii of worthless
| citizens. 1t IS a curious tale of rampant
| crime and the roofing out OF the criminals
Recreation continues to lead the maga.
zines which are devoted almost exclusively
to hunting and fishing, and "Coquina' has
not lost his art of blanking the so-callec
| sportsmen who fish and hunt for count
I In fact his ''porcine" gallery continues tc
| grow with amazing rapidity. The most in.
teresting article in the June number is May
| Bragdon's sketch Among the Islands oi
| Georgian Bay" a place visited each sum.
mer by many Indiana people.
In the Architectural Record for June is
the history of the Maison Francois Premier
a Renaissance house in Paris; an illustrated
paper on decorative work in bronze and iror
| follows: other articles are The First Con.
! crete Sky-scraper.' THE Present System
| of Architectural Changes, and an elab
| orately illustrated description OF the ST
| Regis New York, a type of the metropol
| itan hotel The Record. a very handsomely
| printed magazine, is published at ii Vesey
| street, New York.
| The contents of the June issue of Sug
gestions (Chicago) are: The Achievement
| of Success Through Auto-Suggestion
| columbus" Practical Psychology" Sub
conscious Health Centers," "X-Ray Phre
| nology and Surgery Suggestion in tn
Cure Of Consumption. Physical Condi