The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-09-18
Magazines.

THE publishers of So Nicholas announce
that that popular childrens magazine is to
be enlarged, beginning with the new vol
ume, which opens with November, 1889,
and that new and clearer type will be
adopted. -Four important serial stories by
four well known American authors will be
given during the coming year.
ScRIBNERs MAGAZINE has for its leading
article in the September number a sketch Of
Alexandra Dumas, with portrait drawn
Trumbull Ladd of Yale discusses "The
Plan of the Fitting School in American
Education" Safety in Railroad Travel "
is a particularly timely and valuable paper,
very completely illustrated, in which the
various causes of railroad accidents are
discussed.
MARION HARLAND's Home Maker has in
the September number great variety of
interesting reading matter. After Antie-
tam" is a sketch of incidents following the
battle. An exquisite " Fantasy" by Frank
Dempster Sherman is illustrated. Another
poem is "The Nations Flower" by S. II.
Ludlum in which the praises of golden rod
are sung, Serial and independent stories,
| sketches poems, the usual household, chill
drens and art departments are all excellent
and amply illustrated.
THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY for Sep
TENDER publishes chapters from the work of
Hon. David A. Wells in " Recent Economic
| in serial form in the magazine during
| 1887 and 1885, Since then the author has
revised the papers and added new material.
This new material is given in part in the
| September number. Mr. Wells discussions
of economic questions are always valuable.
| Two especially interesting papers are those
on The Ethical View OF Protection" by
Huntington Smith, and Huxley and Pas
teur on the Prevention of Hydrophobia."
THE FORUM for September has an article
on The Lost Leader" by Thomas Hughes
in which he urges Americans not to follow
Gladstone in his home rule tendencies
| The writer asserts that Mr. Gladstone has
lost the confidence of English liberals
g." Can Our Social Ills be Remedied ?' by
Washington GLADDEN.; "The Spells Of
Office" by Professor Goodwin Smith ;
Henry Georges Mistakes" by Thomas
G. Shearman; :" The Outlook for Industrial
| Peace" by Professor A. I. Hadley; " Facts
About Fruits" by Charles F. Beach, Jr. 4;
and Remaining the Public Schools" by
Rev. DIR. j. II. Kendrick, are other very
readable articles.
SHORT stories will be feature of Hdrper'S
| Magazine for October. Edward Belamy,
Annie Trumbull Slosson, Margaret j. Pres
ton and Mrs. Lucy c. Lille will each con-
tribute one. Edward Bellamy's article is
called " With the Eyes Shut" and the au-
| thor takes his readers even farther into the
future than he did in Looking Backward"
| The series of Russian articles prepared by
Theodore Child with the cooperation of I.
de Thulstrup in the matter of illustration,
will be continued in the October number
with one entitled The Fair of Mimi Nov
| gorod." Both the article and the illustra-
lions, in the variety of types and scenes
| portrayed bear out the Vicomte de Vogue s
definition of this annual fair as a micro
cosm of Russian life
| PROFESSOR JOHN A. PAINE, who wrote
| an article on Pharaoh the Oppressor, and
| his Daughter which attracted wide at
tenton when it appeared in The Century
| two years ago, contributes to the September
| number of the same magazine fully Illus
trated paper on The Pharaoh of the Exodus,
and His Son. He endeavors, by search
among the monuments, to fix the identity
of this famous king, and to clear up the
| mystery of the shifting of his tirst-born son.
The American artist, Mr.. Theodore Wores,
whose studies OF japanese life and land
scape have recently attracted wide attention
in New York and London, has also a paper
on An American Artist in Japan for which
"a number of his oil paintings have been en-
graved. Mr. Wores describes many Japan
ese traits of character which might be
copied to advantage by nations which are
generally considered more highly civilized
An utter absence of sham" he says, " a
perfect freedom from all affectation, consti.
tutes one of their most admirable qualities
They show no false or veneered front to the
world, the beauty of their homes lies more
in the interior finish than in snowy out
side, and the lining of their gowns is otter
| of more expensive and finer material thar
the outer stuff"