The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-08-06
Current Giterature.
August Magazines.


thorough investigation of the greatest
yields in the most densely settled sec
tons of Europe. 1t is not matter of
the future, but an accomplished fact,
that by agricultural methods already in
use the portion of the earth that is
now under cultivation can be made to
sustain perhaps ten times as many peo-
pie as are now alive, not only with bet.
ter food, but at lower cost than now.
Prince Kropotkn makes a suggestion
that 100 acres be set apart for this pur-
pose as part of the Chicago exposi-
ton, and by this he feels sure that an
object lesson could be taught to farm
ers of the United States which would
enable them to begin forthwith a reign
of plenty. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, in
an essay on the decollete in modern
life, points out the decay of delicacy
not only in our social life, but in our
art, in our literature, and even in our
politics. Senator William E. Chand-
Ter explains the provisions of the pend
ing bills for national control of con-
gressional elections, and makes an ar
gument in favor of such control. The
Rev. DR.. Lyman Abbott, in an essay
on Industrial Democracy" gives his
reasons, purely from Christian point
of view, for believing that the wages
system must soon yield to system of
cooperation, and in part also of state
control.
THE CENTURY contains another
installment of "The Anglomaniacs, :"
which grows steadily in interest. In
the new chapter of Mrs. Barr's striking
novel, "Friend Olivia" the heroine
sets sail for America with her father,
who goes in search of religious freedom
and converts. The short story of the
number, "The Emancipation of Joseph
Peloubet," by John Elliott Curran, il
PRODUCES Frenchman who turns his
back in disgust on the second empire,
starts a newspaper in New York which
advocates emancipation of the slaves,
and collapses, and who then returns to
his trade of baking until the breaking
out of the war, when he enlists, and
his ideals are realized and his life is
sacrificed. Other features of the num-
Der are w. J. Stillman's paper on the
Italian Old Masters" with three full
page engravings by Cole; an entertain
ing account by Gustave Kobbe of "The
Perils and Romance of Whaling" and
the second part of Harriet w. Preston's
Provencal Pilgrimage" illustrated
by Pennell. Besides the poems in
Bric.a-Brac," the number contains a
charming poem on Shakespeare by
Thomas Bailey Aldrich, entitled
Guilielmus Rex" and poems by Har-
riet Prescott Spofford, Frank Dempster
Sherman, Edith Thomas, Bliss Carman
and Charles G.. D. Roberts.
THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY
opens with an extended article by Ed
ward Atkinson, entitled common
Sense Applied to the Tariff Question.
One year ago small army was at work
cleansing and rebuilding the houses
and caring for the inhabitants of the
desolated Johnstown region. DR.. G.. G..
Golf, president of the Pennsylvania
state board of health, contributes to the
Monthly some of the experience that he
gained in this task in an article on
Sanitary Work in Great Disasters" A
curious lot of beliefs about future pun
ishment has been put together by
Frederick A. Fernald, under the title
Ancient and Modern Ideas of He'll"
President David Starr Jordan con-
cludes his essay on Evolution and the
Distribution of Animals " in this num-
Der. There is an illustrated paper by
Bernard Hollander of London on
"Centers of location in the Brain"
showing how the experiments of modem
psychologists support some of the OBJ
servations of the early phrenologists.
Under the tite, " A Queer Pet" Miss
E. w. Bellamy describes the doings of
praying mantis, or DEVILS riding
horse. There are a sketch and por-
trait of Rudolph Koenig, celebrated
inventor of scientific instruments. In
the EDITORS Table," Mr.. Spencer's
place in philosophy is discussed, and
the miscellany department is well filled.
THE COSMOPOLITAN opens with an
article on " National Guard Camps of
instruction by William R. Hamilton,
U. S. A. Miss Elizabeth Bisland con-
tributes the fifth of her sketches of i" A
Flying Trip Around the World"
" Public Baths for the Poor" is by j.
B. Walker. The two most entertain
ing things in the number are an article
on hypnotism by Professor Donate,
onI =, ,tnr,, ant;tla1 WIZ, Tho D;ebn,,