The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-04

The variety that even a Decent magazine
offers to it's readers in these days is well
Illustrated by the January Leslie's Monthly.
Beside nine short stories there are articles
on 1.-THE Gambling Spirit" pills" THE
Experiences of an Emigrant," George 3.
Cox. the Boss of Cincinnati and Auto
mobiles"
In the Agricultural Record New York;
for January are papers on The Warehouse
and the Factory in Architecture" Gordon
Hall, the House of Dan X. Hanna, Cleve-
land. o." 1.-THE New Theaters in New
York" and Individualisn in Architect
ure." All the articles are well illustrated.
The Record is a handsome magazine.
Everyone who has laughed over Mark
Twain's essays on the German language
will read with amusement his paper en-
titled italian Without a Master" pub
ly. Mr.. Clemens is spending the winter in
Florence. and has been having adventures
with the Italian language as ii may be
studied in the newspapers.
Edwin Sandys, author of upland Game
Birds" and "Trapper Jim macmillan Coz.
has just returned from a trip into the wilds
of Athabasta, Assinobia and Alberta. Ad-
ventures in Athabasta are as common as
street cars on Broadway. Mr.. SandyS Is TO
tell all about them in forthcoming numbers
of Outing, and will have a lot to say to
sportsmen about Northern game.
GrdlC IN 1TlNdIe bQSlIlSSS, WHO OWLS
the Railways "Colorado's Colossal
Strike" Twill Living Matter be Formed
Artifcially?' Against the Machine or in
the Machine?" are the significant titles of
some of the contributed articles in the
World To-Day for January. A valuable
feature of this magazine is its review of
the events of the month. The World To-
Day is published in Chicago.
The Reader for January contains as
usual a variety of readable matter more
or less related to literature and to literary
workers. Among the contributors are Clara
Morris, Julius Chambers, William Wallace
Whitlock, Frederick Kippel, Geraldine
Bonner, Carolyn Wells and Bliss Carman.
A portrait study of Weir Mitchell, by John
Cecil Clay, forms the cover design. The
Reader has already taken its place as one
of the best of the periodicals dealing es-
pecially with literary craft and craftsmen
and seems to have found a field quite its
own.
The January number of Mcclure opens
with a Western story by Henry Wallace
Phillips that will hardly appeal to the av-
| erage reader. THE Wild-Animal Surgeon
and His Patients is an entertaining arti-
Gle. Carl Schurz contributes a paper enti-
tied, Can the South Solve the Negro Prob
lem % There is an installment of Miss Tar
bills History of the Standard Oil Com
pany." James Nj. Wells, once a lieutenant
in the Union army, tells how he tunneled
ont of Libby Prison.. Among the short StO-
ries is another of the inimitable studies
of East Side school life in New York by
Myra Kelly.
The special features of the January num-
Der of the Review of Reviews are a charac-
ter sketch of Elihu Root, the retiring Secre-
tary Of War, by Walter Wellman; a group
of articles dealing with the new years bust
ness outlook, under the heads of steel and
Iron," THE Prospect for Railway Earn
ings," Good Crops and Good Times in the
West" and The Promise of 1904 for Trade
in General, a review of the life and work
of Herbert Spencer. by Prof. +. j. +. Wood
bridge; a sketch Of the keen-eyed %investi-
gator of the postal frauds, the Hon. Joseph
l.. Bristow, by Clarence II. Matson; an ac-
count of the long and successful fight waged
by science against the Texas cattle fever,
study of The Status of the Southwestern
Oil Industry" by Day Allen Wiley; and the
story of The English Walnut in southern
California" by Elizabeth a. Ward.
The Atlantic Monthly opens with a de-
lightful little essay by the editor, Bliss
Perry. ION Catering to the Public" The
problems that confront an editor are set
forth in an amusing way. Some of the
articles m this number which do not at
tract the ordinary reader by their titles
prove. on investigation, to be highly enter
tanning. One of these is THE Psychology
of Advertising" by Walter ID. Scott, in
which the writer treats of the manner in
which an advertisement should affect the
mind. Another is the radical view of the
labor problem presented in THE Scab'
by Jack London, a young man hitherto
known only in fiction. Still another is
Street Railway Legislation in Illinois .
a dramatic narrative showing the power of
corporations over legislative bodies. In ad-
dition Is a paper on The Sunny Side of the
Transcendental Period, by Thomas Went
| worth Higginson. The opening chapter of
Robert Herrick's novel, 1.-The Common