The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-14
New Publications.


New Publications.
THE ENGLISH ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE is
full of choice matter. There are charming
illustrated papers on Modern Falconry
and Charles Kingsley and Eversley," and
some exquisite engravings accompanying
"Days with Sir Roger de Coverley" Per-
haps the most striking feature is the article
con Handwriting" in which Mr.. A. w.
Mackenzie submits specimens of the cali
graphy of some representatives of politics,
| literature, art and the drama, arranged
according to their respective callngs.
ST. NICHOLAS maintains its reputation for
healthy and entertaining literature and pic
| torial attractiveness. Boys will find cap
tivating charm in the first chapters of Mr..
j. T. Trow BRIDGES new serial " The Kelp
! Gatherers," and in the two winsomely illus
trated articles, " The Boys Paradise and
| /" A Boys Camp" and readers young and
old will find interesting information in Mr.
| Frank StocktOns pictorial description of
"Queen Paris" and in Mr.. Horace Scud-
der's continued chapters of his story of
George Washington"
SPUN FROM FACT by Pansy. Boston, ID.
Lothrop e. Co. Price, S1.50. Anything that
! Pansy writes is sure of readers, no matter
! what her subject or whom she addresses
Her style is natural and easy, and she al
ways has some definite object in view,
| which she never loses sight of, and which
always serves to point moral or illustrate
some useful lesson The present story
turns upon the extraordinary physical and
| spiritual phenomena which has excited so
much attention within the past few years,
and which is popularity referred to as the
" faith " or prayer cure.
ROBERTS BROTHERS, Boston, have begun
the publication of series of stories illus
tratng New England colonial life. The
first of the series is entitled Constance of
Acadia" and will be found of great inter-
est. If the reception of this work warrants
it, there will be issued in the autumn
" Agatha " daughter of Elder Brewster),
which will be followed at no distant date by
the Story of Indian Missions in New England,
and King Philips War; by " Agawam
date in the seventeenth century,; by a tale
of the Huguenot immigration; by an Illus
tration of the period of Whitefeld, Jonathan
Edwards and the French War; and a ro-
nance of the era of Otis and Samuel Adams.
SOME three or four years ago Mr.. Andrew
Carnegie published for private circulation
small edition of volume entitled " An
American Four-in-Hand in Great Britain"
1t was a fresh and vivaciouS narrative of
| what must have been a most charming holt
day trip. Mr. Carnegie, with a party of
his friends, drove four-in-hand coach from
Brighton to Inverness, a distance of over
eight hundred miles, and tells in an inimit-
able manner the experiences of the party on
the road His friends who were privileged to
read this delightful volume of course told
their friends in turn of it, and the book soon
came into demand-a demand which Mr..
Carnegie has at last consented to supply,
and through his publishers, Charles Serb
ner's Sons, his most readable story is now
given to the general public.
The DWELLINGS OF THE LONDON Poor :"
| are made the subject of a suggestive article
in the July number of CdSseWS Fdmdy Maya
zine, based upon information from we'll
| known worker among them. "The Garden
| in lima ~ iS fnll of nrnptipo1 hints m hos
an ideally pretty illustration. The legend
of GA Danish Hero ~ is given, with music
for it. A Family Doctor writes Of cell
mate" A. u. S. of "The American Office
seeker" and Edward Bradbury of " Beauty
in Unlikely Places" taking Ruskin to task
for his foolish objection to pretty railway
stations. There are helpful suggestions
about Dress and the Dnner-table, and
"The Gatherer teens with discoveries and
inventions. The fiction consists of a " Will
Temptation " and Harlowe's Helpmate."
John Stuart Blackie contributes some good
verses on Atheism and all the illustra-
tons are pretty.
In the July century the illustrated papers
are an article on " Cross Country Riding in
America" by Theodore Roosevelt and
Henry Cabot Lodge, the former drawing
from his experience in riding to hounds on
Long Island, and the latter describing the
older hunt at Genesco, Livingston county,
n. Y, and that of the Myopia Club in Essex
county, Mass. an account by Mrs. E. s..
Starr of the training and use of carrier
pigeons; " A Day in Surrey with William
Norris" the English poet and artist, by
Emma Lazarus, and Mrs. Schuyler Van
Renssaeler's third paper on American
Country Dwellings," c. o. Buell. contrib
utes an anecdotal paper on Frank r. Stock
ton, which is accompanied by portrait.
Three of the war papers deal with the cap
ture of New Orleans; Commodore Albert
Kuntz treats of incidents of the occupation,
Marion A. Baker, then the mayors private
secretary, deals with the same subject from
a confederate point OF view, and Captain
Beverly Kennon, who commanded the con-
federate steamer Governor Moore, gives
description of the fighting and the loss of
his ship.
THE July number of the Magazine Of Art
contains an admirable paper by w. Holm
den on " Art in Greece" which is a study
of the conditions that made Greek art the
marvel that it is. In interesting contrast
with this is the article on " Current Art,
showing both in its text and in its illustra-
tons the great change in the aim, as well as
in the execution, of art. New Rabelals, ,
meaning not new Rabelais, but the old
Rabelais newly and most ingeniously Illus
trated, by NJ. A. Robida is the subject of an
| appreciative paper by W. f. ii. There is
an exquisite full-page picture of Doves,
! from the painting by Alfred Seifert, one OF
tne uONeS DtlilS II ioNc-iihc Ih"ioDii, 4Nioh'
olas Sobl<o writes of 4" Basil Perof," one Of
the prominent realistic painters of Russia
the country which first gave birth to realists
, in both art and literature. Basil Champneys
pleads eloquently with the text and picture
for the preservation OF" Old Charterhouse.'
An article on Some East Indian Wood
carving has illustrations of wonderful
capitals and lattices. The poetry is by Miss
Robinson and Robert Louis Stevenson. Ma
, ture vies with art in the Magazine in an in
1 teresting paper on " The st. John River,
The 4" Romance of Art in this number is
Y by Il. Mabel Robinson and treats of :" Hol
0 bein's London" The " Chronicle OF Art
gives good record for last month Case
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f in advance.