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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-26
0Newest England"

The author Of this work, Henry Demarest
Lloyd, is an American journalist and writer
of extended experience The Newest Eng
land" referred TO is Australia, and the book
is a very full and comprehensive descrip-
ton of the operation and results of the
social and political experiments which are
being carried on in that country. One of
these new departures and experiments, the
Australian ballot law, has been adopted in
this country, while othevs partake too much
of the paternal or socialistic character TO
find favor among Americans. Some of them
have not yet fully passed the experimental
stage, and it is too soon to claim that they
are permanently successful. They relate to
capital and labor, education, monopolies,
taxation, the treatment of tramps, the pre-
vention of strikes, cooperation, compulsory
arbitration, government banking, govern
ment life insurance, old-age pensions. etc.
The operation of these experiments, carried
on by a people who are undoubtedly the
most truly democratic and progressive in
the world to-day, and who are doing more
than any other to prevent the. extremes OF
great wealth and great poverty and TO con-
serve the interests of the middle class, is
very intelligently described in this book 1t
is full of instruction and suggestiveness for
statesmen, publcists and politicians. Dou-
bleday, Page & Co., New York.
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Music in Art.

Heard melodies are sweet, but those I'M
heard
Are sweeter; therefore. we soft pipes play
on;
Not to the sensual ear, but, more endeared,
Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone"
Imagined music was fixed forever on the
Grecian urn that Keats sang; ii is fixed for
cons OF time in many works Of art, sculpture
and canvas that grace our galleries. The
wild, enhancing strains of melody that
stirred the hearts OF pagan peoples are pre-
served in imaginative semblance as well as
the conventional organized tunes Of civiliza-
ton. The imagined music or a picture like
Sir Frederick Leighton's "Daphlephoria is
a far cry from that of Fra Angelicos AN
gels in the Coronation OF the Virgin" or
Della Rabbia's Singing Boys" or Ham
mans "Bach's Preludes." The young
satyr plays a more immature idyl than
Pan. The relation Of music and pictorial or
sculptural art is the subject of Luna May
Ennes's book, Music in Art" She defines
the important part played by music in
youth and love, in patriotism, in worship
and in every field Of Imagination and action.
In music every emotion finds its perfect ex-
pression-it is the souls subtlest and most
expressive language-but it's sweetest note
is momentary. The sound dies with the
vibration of the strings, with the vanish
ton we hear through a painting music we
have heard befOre-the music is repeated in
our ears. The author covers the subject only
partially but with so much tact that art
lovers and music lovers will find unique
pleasure in reading her pages. The book Is
copiously illustrated with examples of
music in art l.. c. Page & Co., Boston.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-26
Ike Glidden in Maine.

rural novel. something on the order Of
AIDES County Chairman" is this Ike
Glidden in Maine" by A. d. McFaul. 1t is
a good, wholesome sort of fiction we need
more of, but it lacks in literary construc-
ton and refinement Ike Glidden is law
yer who wins his first case before magis-
trate, whose mind is already made up
against Glidden's client, by spell-binding
speech that brings the speaker the con-
gratuiations of the whole community. He
then enters a double campaign for the
hand of Widow Garland's daughter and
political preferment, gets everything he
goes for, and lives happily ever after"
Both the humorous and serious sides of
country life are shown in d way that is
vivid If not artistic. Dickerman Publishing
Company, New York.
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Our Lady's Inn.

This entertaining story is a good example
of the sort of novel which has many more
readers in England than in America A
charming young girl, Barbara Cheyne, is
left an orphan with relatives who Nare not
particularly kind. She attracts the atten-
ton of a wealthy widower, who pays the
expenses of her education with the inten-
ton of marrying her when it shall be COM
pleted. He is cold and selfish, and she does
not love him, but is coerced into an engage
ment. Finally, goaded to desperation she
runs away to London, where she falls in
love with penniless young novelist. He
turns out TO be the cast-off son OF her for
mer fiance. The plot is somewhat hack
neyed, but the story is charmingly told, and
the sweet but independent character Of Bar
bara must appeal to every reader j. Storer
Cluston the author, has the power of tell
ing story in such a way as TO sustain the
interest 10 the very end. as ne proved i'm his
former book. The Adventures of NJ
DHaricot.' His books are not of the va
riety that become ''all the rage" nor that
will be remembered by the reader over
night, but they are at least true to the pri-
mary purpose of all novels-they are enter
tanning. Harper < Bros New York
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The Making of a Journalist.

No better reporter was ever attached to
the stan OF any newspaper or magazine
than the late Julian Ralph Much of his
earlier work was done for the New York
Sun, but during his later years ne wrote
almost entirely for magazines, yet all that
he did was in the line OF reporting The
art OF description was his to perfection He
could take what 10 ninety-nine persons out
OF hundred would seem to be a totally
uninteresting theme and out OF it he would
make thoroughly entertaining story. His
mind fixed Instantly on the points that
should be brought out and he knew how TO
bring thcm out. He had the intuitive sense
Tor news-which is another way OF saving
that he instinctively knew what people
would care 10 hear-WithOut which knoNil-
edge no reporter can succeed. The re-
porter, as he says, must have training but
ne must also have the Unborn news sense
Mr.. kaipn, having both. was well qualified
10 give advice 10 those young men and
women whose ambition IS 10 engage in
newspaper work. In no better way could
ne give this advice than by drawing upon
his own experience and this he did i'm a
his own experience and this he did in a
Saturday Evening Post. of PHILADELPHIA
and now gathered into q volume In these
Chapters he does not deal with the fechnf-
calitles OF the Professionalism this man on
a paper has 20 do and how he does ii; what
are that mans duties, and so on. He
treats rather OF the methods, the motives
and the ethics or the profession and illu-
strates his points with stories from his
own experience. The chanter headings in
dictate the drift or his talk-"Choosing the
Profession. "A Nose for News " =" Get
what You're Sent For, " '~rhe Newspa per
Interview" Reporters OF crime" The
Mysterious sixth Sense 4" The War Cor
respondents. The Importance of Good
Nature" "A Wide Field OF Action" ''The
H HSSss q EsgSrtSE; ., The Value q
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The Moth Book.

few years ago DR.. w. ]. Holland, d.
rector of the Carnegie Museum at Pittsburg,
and an entomologist of more than national
reputation, published 1.-The Butterfly Book
describing and classifying the butterflies of
the United States and Canada. He now
follows it with a similar work on moths.
The species of moths found in the United
States and Canada vastly exceed those of
butterflies. In fact, they are so numerous
as to require very intelligent selection in
order to get a satisfactory account of them
within the limits even OF a large volume.
DR.. Holland has accomplished this very sue
cessfully. Instead Of attempting TO briefly
describe and ILLUSTRATE all the thousands of
species of moths which have been found to
exist in North America north of Mexico, he
has selected those species which adequately
represent the various families and the COM
mOner and more important genera. Even
under this process of selection the result is
of pages in the text and forty-eight full
page plates In color photography. AS these
color photographs are taken from life, they
are perfect reproductions in form, color and
expression of the originals. Every person
has encountered some of these varieties of
moths, but only an entomologist or an ex-
pert would have believed they are as numer-
Gus and varied in structure, form, color
and other distinctive peculiarities as this
book shows them to be- The general reader
intrest him in the discussive parts of the
work, while the scientist and moth collector
will find an endless field OF study in the
technical ClasSifications This work is
natural sequel and companion piece to the
authors Book on Butterflies" and the
great order of scale-winged insects.
Doubleday, Page a. Co., New York
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The Understanding Heart.

Wordsworth describes the man with the
understanding heart" His thought
From a clear fountain flowing, he looks
around
And seeks for good; and finds the good he
seeks"
He is no mere sentimentalist; nor is he
cold nationalist. He believes in the in
stinctS of his own heart; yet he Is anxious
to preserve his sanity of reason unim-
paired" He has reverence for inherited
faiths, yet he would subject them to that
skepticism through which alone the true
may be distinguished from the false.
Samuel NJ. CrOthers writes of such a man
in the continual process of REIMBURSEMENT
made imperative by quickly changing
modern conditions of life. Modern social
and commercial life have resulted in new
conceptions of literature. of morals, of
business, of religion. The thinking man
must be free to follow new developments
as well as to chronicle the old. The uni
Of thought can express its reality. The
lectual way to harmonic religious inner
itance with our fresh experiences, so that
men may do their work with Joyous and
understanding hearts In a way he brings
religion down TO date, and in so doing is
half a century or more ahead Of most of
the churches. Books of this kind of
real spiritual significance and service.
They are a powerful agent in organizing
the forces of the higher life. No religious
books now being published of more
practical valCe than those being issued by
the American Unitarian Association, Bos-
ton.
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Judgment.

Alice Brown showed a genuine story
writing gift when she wrote Meadow
Grass" and some of her shorter pieces OF
fiction, but in judgment she has wan
dered far from her early originality and
simplicity. In this story she does not deal
with everyday people and their ways, but
adopts something of Miss Phelpss hys-
terical method and introduces characters
who are keyed up to an unnatural de-
gree and behave quite unlike sensible hu-
man beings. There is air of improb-
ability and artiiciality about the tale. The
passion of the narrow-minded but aspir-
ing New England woman for orchids is an
incident that arouses instant skepticism
1t is a hectic" sort of story altogether
and it is a pity that a writer who has
done better should have allowed 1t to &c
out OF her hands. It's only psychological
interest is the manner in which 1T treats
of the problem discussed by James Lane
Allen in THE Mettle Of the Pasture" The
Illustrations are by W. r. Smedley. Har-
per & Brothers. New York
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Among the Publishers.

Optimism the recent book by Helen
Keller published by Messrs Thomas Y
Crowell & Co., is to be translated into ia
panese.
It is announced that DR.. Samuel NJ. Gro
theirs is writing the Life of Lowell for the
American Men of Letters Series" Hough-
ton, Miffiin q Co.
The publishers of Ann Arbor Tales"
George w. Jacobs & Co., of Philadelphia.
note demand for, the book from all parts
of the country where former students of
Ann Arbor University are found.
Mrs. Mary Stewart Cutting, whose "Stor-
les of Married Life" have been so widely
read has written another longer story.
which j. B. ippincott Company will pub
lish in February. 1t is said to be love
story OF unusual charm. Its title will be-
1.-THE Heart Of Lynn.
Among the rev books announced by the
Dillinghams are: THE Corner in Coffee. :"
a romance of New York society and the
Coffee Exchange, by Cyrus Townsend
Brady: Left in Charge" a story OF West
ern farm life just before the civil war, by
Clara Morris. and Il Need the Money" by
Hugh McHugh, author of John Henry
etc.
d. Appleton & Co. win bring out Jan. %
THE Close of the Day." a novel by Frank
II. Spearman. author Of 1.-THE Daughter of
a Magnate" and Held for Orders" and
a weil-known magazine contributor This
new story is of stage and of commercial
life as they affect a woman, who is an ac-
trcss, and a man Of large means who loves
her.
The controversy which has been going on
over the appointment OF General Wood as
major general has awakened interest in
Johnston's History Up To Date" a con-
else account OF the war of 1893 between
the United States and Spain "a s. Barnes
* Co, publishers) The book was written
al the time the events described took place.
and the facts were gathered largely from
eye witnesses.
The Macmillan Company have published
Electric Traction. a Practical Handbook
on the Application of Electricity as a Lo-
connective Power" by John Hall Rider; Vol.
III. THE Reformation" in the Cambridge
Modern History Series: Eighteenth Cen
fury Essays on Shakespeare" edited by ID.
Nichol Smith. NJ. A; Who's Who for 1904:
Goodwin's DE Corona" Transitional
Eras in Thought" by Prof. A. G. Arm
strong; Points at ISSUE" by Prof. Henry
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Parliamentary England.

This book. by Edward jerks, reader in
English law in the University of Oxford,
deals with the single line of national life
it's title indicates. A century and a half
Of modern parliamentary history, which con-
Germs the evolution of that curious form of
government known as the Cabinet system
the immense influence of this system on
the politics of the world, are treated in a
learned yet simple way that is informing
and entertaining at the same time. The
Cabinet system is one of the most charac-
teristic products of the English mind, and,
it should be noted, the word English is
used advisedy, neither in Scotland nor
in Ireland before the unions, is there any
trace of the Cabinet system. And though
it has been freely adopted by the self-gov-
erned colonies, there are many who doubt
whether it is essentially suited to the cir
cumstances of colonial or of imperial gov
eminent. The book contains many illustra-
tions of famous or noteworthy persons who
were connected, in forwarding or opposing
il, with the evolution of the system. @. p.
Putnams Sons, New York.
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MIR. Salt.

The conscience which speaks fortissimo
will find nothing to promote its function in
this new novel by Will Payne. 1t is well
written, beautiful American fiction, whose
scenes are Chicago and some central West
ern villages. Mr.. Salt is a typical captain
of industry, a strenuous, willful, powerful
commander of success He goes through the
crisis of panic, great strike at his
mines, and the bitterness of the miners, like
a relentless son of destiny. He sustains a
failure, but comes out at the end of the
story still rich. and, with his favorite
stenographer, a girl OF beauty and refine
ment, as his bride. Mr. Payne makes the
most of realism of modern business to avoid
a melodrama, which most books Of this kind
are likely to be if the realism is not en-
forced Modern business situations of the
highest class are so wonderful in their far
reaching influence and effect that they are
equal and in some ways superior to the
most extensive imaginings of a few years
back. Mr.. Payne keeps a good balance and
writes a business romance that will attract
and please many readers. HOughton, Milf
film 4. Co, Boston.
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Barbe of Grand Bayou.

This is a story which smacks of the sea.
Mr.. John OXenham, the author has Sc
cured for it, by choiceness of language and
originality of plan, a place above the ordi-
nary story of adventure. Barbe, the daugh-
ter of lighthouse keeper near the shores
of Brittany, is magnificent young crea-
ture, with only nature for her teacher. The
descriptions of Barbe and her surroundings
are delightful. and the love that comes
into her life in such a miraculous way is
told of with much purity and sympathy
A rival for the hand of Barbe causes her
and her lover, Alain. much misery. and
large part of the book is taken UP with
the adventures Of Alain in a wonderful and
horrible cave into which he Is thrown 1t
is a book that cannot fail 30 be entertaining
to all who love the sea and the wild, free
New York
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Kntharine Fren.ham.

A scientist with a temperament marrles
a woman with an entirely different sort
of temperament; they have one child who
inherits his fathers qualities. The man
and woman do not understand one an
other. They quarrel continually, and the
scientists career is ruined by his trouble
and constant fretting. Finally comes
night when the man sleeps and dreams
that he is having it out with his wife"
In his dream he pouTs forth all the bit
teruess Of his soul, and tells her she has
ruined his life. His wife dreams the same
thing, receiving the telepathic impression
OF his subjective mood. She asks him If
he had the Dream he admits 1t; she dies
Of the shock. He is free, but his mOrbldly
sensitive conscience tells him he has killed
her A woman poisOns the mind of his
son against him. and they draw apart.
At this juncture there appears woman
who understands him. They fall in love.
she succeeds in freeing his conscience of
the fancied crime and in reconciling him to
Such is the strange plot of the latest
novel by Beatrice Harraden. 1t Is
dreary sort OF book, Though it has many
beauties that cannot be denied. The char
acters are all cursed with temperaments
and possess 'auroras''-if that is the proper
plural-which chord or do not chord TO the
woe or pleasure OF their possessors. They
are strange, uncomfortable people, and
IN real life must be extremely hard TO
get along with To be physically sensi-
tive must be great cross TO bear, if the
people one meets in the pages Of these
novels are fair samples.
Katharine Frensham is a beautiful, and
perhaps not altogether impossible char
acter. Her ability to understand the de-
vious workings Of morbid minds and per-
verted coIsciences is well-nigh SUPER
natural, but where such minds and con-
sciences exist, she or someone like her is
OF course necessary TO set things right
and prevent suicides and lunacy inquests
There is another delightful character in the
book-Tante knutty, the old Danish foster
mother OF the professor. She is big. large
hearted, practical and OF a happy dispo-
sition. and Is necessary to the happiness
OF all concerned a part OF the story takes
place I'm England and a part in Norway
The Norwegian part is especially good in
its intimate pictures of northern life and
customs. At times it reminds one of Marie
Corelli's 'Thelma," but il is never so lurid
and always more realistic There are
many Morse fOlk-songs scattered through
the book, and the author follows her old
habit OF printing the music with the
words. Katharine Frensham" is a book
which will impress every reader wildly,
but not every reader pleasantly. Dodd
Mead & Co. New York
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The Rover Boys on Land and Sen.

This is the seventh of the Rover Boys
Series for Young Americans by Arthur
NJ. Winfield. 1t continues the always ex-
citing adventures of the three brothers.
who in this volume are cast on a desert
island and lead sort of Swiss Family
Robinson life for protracted period Their
adventures are always complicated by the
bitter enemy-for like all well-regulated
boys books this series has a bad villain
who is totally discounted at the end of
each volume. The Mershon Company, New
York.
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A Checked Love Affair.".

Two short stories by the late Paul Leices-
ter Ford have been bound together in a
beautiful hook whose decorations and IL
Illustrations are worth nearly as much as
the stories themselves. To the story which
gives its title to the volume has been added
THE CoftelyOu Feud." The handsome
photOgravure illustrations by Harrison
Fisher are printed on Japan paper and of
the text there are scarcely more than
ninety words To the page, the generous
margins being occupied by decorations by
George Wharton Edwards. So, altogether
the volume comes near to meriting the
bookstore mans OVerwOrked adjective
"sumptuous" The stories themselves are
slight things. but very good examples of
the artistic touch which the unfortunate
writer brought TO his smallest pieces of
work. DOdd, Mead & Co, New York
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psychological topics enough material for
new volume This posthumous publication
viii b. called The Evolution OF the Soul.
and Other Essays" and viii he !n uniform
style with the rest of Dr. Hudson's works.
with the ADDITION of portrait and bograph-
ical sketch, neither of which have been in
Guided I'm any Of his other books
The Torch" the story o. university life
by Professor Herbert n = )yins issued 10y
tie Eoobs ,Ierrill Comp ny quite recently
has incurred discussion in college circles.
especially in the far West aGd California
magazine, assuming That the author is at
lacking Stanford University. President Jor-
dan and Mrs. Stanford. violently criticises
the book Mr.. Hopkins I'm a dignifed man
ner admits that he had the Stanford Incl
dent i'm mind the basis OF his story but
denies that he makes further use OF the uni
versity or its people in his story.
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the sort to be read with enlightenment by
others than the single sisters themselves.
There is that about u.s." she says, for in
stance, ~ have never discovered exactly
what it isl that inspires in the minds of
most Of our acquaintance mot of all, to
their glory be il said desire TO manage u.s.
Everyone would have hand at us" Again
she says: Laugh at us who are spinsters,
but one reason why our corners are so
comfortable is that we reflect no one man s
opinion in Them
The titles Of some of her essays are: Some
Very Particular Old Maids My Neigh
bOrs Of the DOorways,' Some OF My Sun
day Visitors" "Out OF Many Portfolios"
1.-The Real Springtime for Me" The Cen
turY COMPANY. New York.
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have become additionally associated with
certain localities. The subject is mex
haustible: the author himself says: L
plead guilty to a bit of authorial conceit in
the preface To Myths and Legends of Our
own Land. in that l claimed for it some
measure of completeness l am older and
wiser now. The first collection not
complete or the second would not be here"
The stories are we'll and simply told, with
no attempt at any other ornament than
their natural inherent impressiveness. New
England occupies large share, but there
are also tales from the South and the West,
from old New Orleans. the Pacific coast
and the Mississippi valley. The book will
be most valuable addition To the library
of the historian, the novelist and the lover
of legendary lore. There are two volumes,
dantiy bound in red buckram ana illus
trated from photographs of various Ameri-
can scenes and localities. The ]. Il. Lip
pincott Company, Philadelphia.