The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1888-07-05
THE CENTURY FOR JULY.

The July Century has for a frontis-
piece portrait of Pasteur and his
granddaughter by the celebrated French
painter, Bonnat. This picture is printed
IN connection with time article on
disease Germs, and How to Combat
Them, fOOt-uote to which article gives
a brief sketch of Pasteur's interesting
career.
The opening illustrated article is in
Mr.. Edward l.. Wilson's series connect
ed with the International Sunday School
lessons, and is on Sinai and the Wilder
ness. This article is profusely illustrat-
ed with pictures of the scenes of Bible
events.
Appropriate to the Gettysburg re-
union are the poems by Northern and
Southern soldier; Colonel Higginson and
Will II. Thompson. Colonel Higgin-
sons poem does not refer directly TO
Gettysburg, but MIR, Thotnpson's is a
tribute by an ex Confedcral to the
bravery of the Union as well as the Con.
federate troops. Mr.. George L, Kllmer
of the Grand Army, In an article en-
titled A Note of Peace, gives carefully
prepared account of the reunion of the
Blue ard the Gray. A curious story by
Brander Matthews, entitled On the Bat
tie field, also has relation to Gettys-
burg,
A supplementary paper in the War
Series deals with he career OF the Con-
federate ram Albemarle and the courage
Gus exploits of her commander, Captain
Cooke, and those of her opponents,
Commander Flusser. Admiral Roe and
Lieutenant Cushing, the chief interest
1 "a l,lt 1hHI
tive by Cushing, describing his heroic
| action in the blowing up of the ram by
means Of "a torpedo.
| The Two great illustrated serials of the
Century, the life Of Lincoln, and Ken
mans Siberian Papers, are continued in
this number. Mr. Kennan describes the
Steppes of the Irish. Those who sup
pose that Siberia is land of ice and
desolaiiOn will he surprised at his de
scription of the flowery country through
which the route of the expo ultion lay.
The illustrations are very numerous and
novel.
In the installment of the Lincoln his
tory the relations between Lincoln and
Mcclellan are described, and an as
tonishng incident relating to a call by
President Lincoln upon General Nc
Clellan is here authoritatively described
for the first time. Under the heads of
European Neutrality, and The Trent
Affair, MIR. McClellans part in these
matters is fully set forth, There are
portraits of Charles Francis Adams,
Rear Admiral Wilkes, John Slidell and
j. NJ. Mason.
Rev. DR.. Buckley of The Christian
Advocate has in this number another OF
the series he is writing on various
superstitious and psychologist phenom-
ena. The present essay is on Dreams,
Nightmare and SOmnambulism.
Mrs. van Rennsselaer's cathedral ar
ticle is this month on the Lichfield Ca
thedral. Pencils illustrations as usual
accompany the text. An English paper
remarked recently upon the strange fact
that England had to look to America for
the best descriptions and illustrations OF
its own cathedral.
The last installment but one of DR..
Eggleston's novel, the Graysons. in
which Abraham Lincoln is one of the
principal characters, is given in this
number-the young Lincoln coming to
the rescue with novel and effective de-
vice.
The editorial Topics of the Time, are
entitled, A Lay Sermon to the Clergy,
Selishness and Self-Interest, A New
Branch of an Old Profession (namely
the teaching of manual training), and
The Independence of Literature.
The Open Letters are on The Ethics
of Copyright by DIR. GLADDEN., The Story
of the First News Message ever sent by
Telegraph, The Postal Service, The
Prohibition of Railway Pools, Matthew
Arnold and Franklin, Mary Magdalene,
'We-uns and You-uns and Lincoln and
Secession.
In Bric-a-brac is a poem by James
Whitcomb Riley entitled Gladness.