Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-10-03
Nez0 Publications.
THE OCTOBBR .u.sG.szr.yEs.

SCRIDNERs MONTHLY opens with an in
teresting and handsomely illustrated arti-
Gle on "Tbo Geysers of California" and
has another pictorial paper on "New York
Central Park" together with a notable il
lustrated description of "The Old Van
Rensselaer, Mansion" To very many
minds the most prominent and important
article in the number will be DR.. Blauvetts
concluding paper on "Modern Skepti-
cism," in which he tells "What our Lay
men must do about it," 1t certainly de-
serves an attentive perusal. This number
has the concluding pages of DIR. Hollands
"Arthur Bonnicastle' and of Bret Harte's
episode of Fiddletown." There is also
the usual number Of essays, short stories
and poems. In the November number,
which will begin new volume, two new
serials will be mmenced-"Katharine
Earle" by Miss Adeline Traflon, and
"Earthen Pitchers by Mrs. Rebecca
Harding Davis.
"ST. NICHOLAS will be Tie title of Scrib-
ner's new magazine for boys and girls, TO
which we made special reference two weeks
since. It's publishers announce that they
lustrations tirst-class and its reading mat
ter carefully prepared as though it were in
tended for the most cultured adult readers.
The first number will appear in October,
and each issue will contain something for
every age from five to sixteen.
HARPER's MONTHLY is filled with tho
usual amount of varied and entertaining
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ard of uniform excellence for which this
magazine is noted. The illustrations are
numerous and very good. The opening
article, and one which will be read with as
much interest as any, tells how, in France,
lady devoted herself to raising poultry
and thereby derived a handsome compe-
tency. 1t should be read by every woman
who is seeking an Occupation" as well as
by every one in any way interested in the
care and raising of fowls. There is the us
ual attractive variety of lighter articles in
both prose and poetry, interspersed with
the heavier matter, and tho usual editorial
departments are ably sustained. For sale
at Carpenters.
The October number of WooD's House.
HOLD MAGAZINE is at hand, and as usual,
is bright, wide awake and entertaining.
For magazine published at so low price
(Sl per year, it contains large amount of
reading that is really useful and interest
ing. The firm of S. S. Wood & Co. dissolv-
ed in March last, S. L. Shutes, Mayor of
Newburgh, n. j., retaining the magazine
and recalling III. V. Osborne as editor, so
that the management really remains the
same. Improvement is evidently the mot
| to of the publisher.
We can hardly do better, in bringing the
October number of the ATLANTIC to the
attention of our readers, than to copy the
table of contents, which is as follows:-
Mademoiselle Olympic zabriski. A Piece
of Club Gossp.-T. b. Aldrich.
! The old Surprise, a Poem. m.-Eunioe E. Com
| stock.
Thomas Jeffersons Last Years.-James
Parton.
| Solomon.-Constance Fenimore Wooson.
| Golden Dell, Poem.-Paul II. Hayne.
| Gunnar, Morse Romance.-H. ii. Boye-
sen.
The American Pantheon, Pocm.-C. P.
Cranch.
Honest John Vane.-J. w. DcFofest.
| Frances Wright, General Lafayette, and
Mary Wollstoncratt Shelley.-Robert
Dale Owen.
| The Germans in the West.-J. ]. Lalor.
Daniel Treadwell, Inventor.-Morrill Wy
man.
Some Objections TO the Sea.-Charles Daw-
| son Shanly.
Our Population in 19OO-Francs A. Walk
er.
Literature.-A -Science.-Music.