The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-08-29

new serial by susan Coolidge, q story Tor
girls who have their living to earn it is
called "a Little Knight of Labor"-one
of those stories that are enjoyed equally
by young and old. The Peppers serial
by Margaret Sidney, is full of good times
and exciting happenings, as is usual
with the Peppers household. An art Gle
that will be read with interest relates to
maria Mitchell at Vassar," and is writ
ten by one of her old pupils there is
good portrait of the famous woman as.
tronomer. Miss Risley Seward gives the
last of her Around the World Stories
perhaps the most entertaining of them
all it is entitled "My Dinner at Ken
sington Palace"-an amusing glimpse of
royalty. Madame de Meissner, in "The
Story of the Magic Flute" relates ro-
mantle incident in the young life of Mo-
Fart. Lieut. Loudon tells bright Indian
story, "The Race Between Mr.. Deer and
Mr.. Antelope" Mrs. Kate Upson Clark
has an amusing account of a mothers
experience with three boys and three
birds, entitled "Three Robins Mrs.
Hy. Sandman has bit of Canadian ex-
perience called "a Voyage ON a Raft"
An account of North Carolina outing,
illustrated from photographs, is entitled
Through Hickory Nut Gap" The
Daisy, Pattie Letter by Mrs, William
Claflin is of Importance to the girls. Mre.
Harriet Taylor Upton has a unique bit of
a story, Gypsy Juno The poems are
unusually good, among them 1.-The
Carven Name" by William H. Hayne,
1.-THE Little Ant that went to Jerusalem, "
by Rose Terre Cooke, September, by
Mrs. Wilton Stone, "The People that
were Disappointed with Their Noses" by
John Brownjohn, and 1.-THE Boston
Horse and the Electric Car" by L, j.
Gregg. Mrs. Whites Public School
Cookery concerns fish and eggs. The
Famous Stones story is about the "Aus-
trian Yellow" Prof. Starr has another
Geological Talk, this time about "a For
est of Bouquet Green's" The boys wi
enjoy the article about Swimming. u
The MEN and Things" pages are full of
bright anecdotes and worth while talks.
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The United States to-day boasts artists
who hold their own with the foreign
masters. 1t has come to be generally
recognized that American art must bt
reckoned with. The display of the rep
resentative examples of it at the Pari;
exhibition fully justifies, therefore, the
distinguished treatment of them in Hdr
per's Magazine for September. Theodore
Child has entitled his paper American
Artists at the Paris Exhibition i
really comprehends the whole subject Of
American art at the present time. Hi
criticism is not dogmatic, but the artists
themselves would be The first to call il
authoritative for 1t seeks to understand
the temperament and the point of view
of each-to evoke, to discriminate, tc
appreciate, to sympathize. The article
is accompanied by twenty engraving
rendering specimen paintings as perfect
ly as possible in black and white. Thi'
September number has other contents
which compel notice. Following Dear
Lichtenberger's article on 1.-The Relig
ious Movement in Germany" in the Aug
ust number, M. Edmond de Pressenst
throws light upon 1.-The Religious Move
ment of France" James Lane Aller
gives a study in institutional history, en-
titled Kentucky Fairs" with ilIustra
phase of English life in London Noel
Parliaments," illustrated by Harry Fur
Miss and the Rev. John F. Hurst, D. d.
an account of "The Oldest and Smalles
Sect in the World" visited by him il
their home. Theodore Child and T. d.
Thulstrup, writer and artist, continue
their Russian series with impressions o
life in "Holy Moscow" A new English
poet, Nina F. Layard, contributes ~
Legend of the Sky Watchers" a poem
touched with the modern spirit ant
Alfred Parsons furnishes Two illustra
tons of WORDSWORTH sonnet, ITO th
Cuckoo" OF the two American seria
stories "a Little Journey in the World,
by Charles Dudley Warner. is continued
and Jupiter Lights" by Constance Fen
more Woolson, is concluded. The mex
century as time and this country as
field for fiction are taken by Lynde Pal
mer for short story called 1.-The Pen
dragon trial." Joe Gilfillan, an origins
idleT, gives his name to the title of shor
story by John Elliott Curran. The var
ETY. of interest aroused by the coDtribu
tions to this number lie sustained by tn
Editorial Departments.