The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-21

Maurice Maeterlinck has written of Sin
certify and Love- for the April Century.
The opening sentence. Love contains no
complete and lasting happiness save In the
transparent atmosphere of perfect SINGER
ity" may be taken as the text of the idyl.
With the April number of Book News
will begin the study of English literature In
the Book News educational course 1t will
be comprehensive and full of interesting
matter and will cover the subject from the
earliest times down to the twentieth CEN
fury.
Mrs. Humphrey Wards new novel will
begin it's serial publication in Harper's
Magazine for June. The title for the story
is not yet decided upon Ii will be Illus
trated by Albert Sterner, who has worked
in consultation with Mrs. Ward The pic
lures which he has already completed are
considered highly successful
The Architects and Builders Magazine
for April has this month a carefully pre-
pared article on the Baltimore fire. by
Charles A. Miller, jr., an architect who has
made a special study of the fireproof struc-
lures that were located in the IRE district.
II is illustrated profusely with photographs,
showing the effect of the fire on the differ
ent fireproof material used In THESE puiid-
ings.
The leading story in the April Red Book
is THE Somersault Pony, by kenneth
Brown. 1t is based the experience of a
wandering American in India; he over
comes his hard luck by applying ms All
zona cowboy experience to a rebellious polo
Dony and begins entertaining series OF
adventures thereby which are distinctly en-
tertaining a Hindoo fakir with lmpres-
ma HE pride of caste is an essential factor
The Eclectic Magazine for April reflects
the general interest in conditions in the FAR
East. and publishes several important art-
cles bearing upon them Among these is an
account of the relations between Japan and
Korea. by Joseph III. Longford, who writes
from direct personal knowledge; an ex-
tended list of accessible books on Russia.
Japan, Korea and emma ana oiscussr .s
of things contraband OF war from The
Economist There other timely articles
Professor Lounsbury, of Yale says, in the
April Harpers. that the split infinitive Is
as old as the fourteenth century and has
been used i'm every century since. but never
so frequently as of late. DIR. Johnson and
NacauIv are said TO have used it but once
i'm all their works; on the other hand,
browning used il frequently I'm the second
part of "A Souls Tragedy. which Is writ
ten in prose. Professor Lounsbury believes
that the split infinitive adds both clearness
and force to expression. and that IL seems
probable IL will be adopted in the face OF
the purists' protest.
A measure of current interest is given To
the February number of Records of the
Past in view of the recently established
relations with Abyssinia, by Mrs Theodore
Rent's account of the explorations. by her
husband and herself. of the ruins of Ak
sum. with a description of the monoiths
found there and a reproduction and trans
lation of some of the Inscriptions. IL is
profusely illustrated and gives ample proof
of the high degree of Importance and the
high civilization of the people of the Ahys-