Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-02-20
NEW PUBLICATIONS..

The paper entitled Longitude Naught,"
given in ST. NICHOLAS some months ago, and
describing the town and observatory of
Greenwich England, is to be followed in the
March number TO be issued Feb. 25th) by an
article concerning what the author calls
LONGITUDE Naughty" 1t will be an account
of the crossing Of the Meridian 1902, the line
directly opposite Greenwich, on the globe,
and where one day has to be dropped from,
or added to, the calendar, according to the
direction in which the vessel is sailing. This
subject has troubled older heads than the av-
erage reader of St. Nicholas but the problem
will, the editors say, be simply and fully ex-
planned in the March st. Nicholas
Coon COMPANY, (S3OOa year Springfield,
Mass.) Number Six, is as usual rich in sto-
ries. They include Better Times" by Ell
len w. Olney; cousin Seraphina, by Sgd
ney Hall "Aunt Hetty's story by Mrs. E.
d. r. Blanchard and "Old Barry's Son"
There are these sketches The Threshold
of the Gods" by Maurice Thompson "a
Little Traveller" by Miss s. o. Jewett au-
thor of "Deephaven !" and after Fifteen
Years" The writer of "Acer Saccharinum,"
has charming article, "Snow Pictures
Austin Bierbower sets forth with much dis
tinctness the fundamental differences of the
Republican and Democratic parties. There
is careful account of the treasury depart
ment, and its present head Hon. John Sher-
man, by David Copperfeld." Mr.. G. NJ.
Towlos biographical sketch is about Victor
Hugo. There are also 1.-THE Indian rs he
Used to Be-" "Roman Mosaics," adam and
Eve !" and poems by Mrs Wyeth, and Her
bert Hall Winslow, the young western poet
whose creditable work is to some extent ia
miliar to the public also the editorial de-
partments
The INTERNATIONAL REVIEW for March
opens with an interesting and important arti-
Gle The Treatment of the Insane, by DR.,
VIM. A. Hammond. Mr.. +. w. Whitridge
gives a review of the work and a summary of
the plans of the Independent Republican
party, which may be commended to "scratch-
ers" Another article of paramount interest
at the present time, is one by Ex-Assistant
Secretary of State, VIM. H. Trescot, on The
Administration of our Foreign Affairs" The
| Hon. John Jay continues his admirable re-
view of the Roman Catholic question Au-
| guste Laugel, of Paris begins n series of ar
| ticles ON Chateanbriand, and John L. Morse
| Jr.. one of the editors of the Review, reviews
"Charles Dickens Letters" lately published
| in England. The Review is sold at 80 cents
a number, or S. year. The publishers A.
S. Barnes q Co., New York, offer to send a
specimen copy to any address, with a view to
subscription, for IL cents.
The sales of the Midwinter SCRIBSER were
SO large, aud the advance orders for the
March number of that magazine have been
so great, that the publishers have been COM
PEELED to order second edition of the latter
issue before publication day. This number
Ito be issued on the goth inst.) will contain
''The Tile Club Ahoat" with ~ ilustra-
tions by members of the club, descriptive of
their very jolly excursion last summer up the
Hudson, in a canal boat also a paper on
"Cham, the French cGricaturist of "Chari-
vari, " with reproductions of his best work
another installment of Roe's Success with
Small Fruits" with more Of the beautiful
fruit illustrations which have distinguished
this series the second part of Eugene
Schuylers Peter the Great, with eighteen
illustrations by Charlemagne (present paint
er to the Court of Russia, n. de Dmitrief
and others The Wards of the United
States Government" oh. H." on the Indian
question: an interesting paper, Two Views
of Napoleon" comparing the Memoirs OF
Nine de RGmusat and Prince Metternich
fiction by Gable and Mrs. Burnett extracts
from Henry j.. Raymond's unpublished jour
nal, giving interviews with Chase, Stanton
Seward, and others, in 1868, and somethin 8
about schemes of French intervention in that
yenr Burroughs Notes of Walker" &c.
The Departments it is promised, will be un.
usually readable.