Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1890-11-07
THE MAGAZINES.
some Of the Many Things of Inierc-i
in Current Issues.

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| Monthly for November is Frank r Stock
tons new serial. "The house of Martha, 90
with which the number begins The in
stallment is full of that delightfully."- dry,
whimsical humor which has made this an
thor a famous and universal favorite Not
less notable is the concluding paper in DR.
| Holiness series, cover the teacups,' in
which, for few moments he steps before
the curtain and speaks in his own person.
a paper Of unusual timeliness, considering
the recent action Of the Swiss educational
authorities, in declaring William Tell to be
| only mythical character, not TO be recog-
| nized hereafter in the school Of instruction
is Mr.. McCrackans "The legend of vii.
liam Tell, in which the story is traced to
its early beginning.
The November Forum opens with pa.
per by President Francis A. Walker on
Democracy and Wealth. " in which he re
| plies with strong and incisive force to Rev.
| DR. Lyman Abbott's recent article on "Iu
dustrial Democracy The number is no.
table for its three papers on different phases
Of agricultural depression The first Of
| these is by e. Wood Davis Of Kansas, who
reaches the unexpected conclusion that the
approximate limit Of the farm production
of the country has been reached, and that
we shall soon have to import food supplies
into the United States. Daniel r. Goodloe
! presents startling statistics showing the
vast amount Of the farm mortgages Of the
West, as fitting complement to the other
two articles Rev. DR.. Washington Glad
den reviews the organizations of farmers.
| recites their motives, and points out the
valuable part of their working influence
Rev. A. j. Mayo's discussion Of The prog
ress Of the negro, is a paper calculated to
carry with it unusual strength and convic-
ton because its author has been for %
years a close student Of this problem. and
for half Of this time has been engaged in
actual work in the interest Of education in
the South Senator Cullom, who took an
important part in the work of admitting
the six new states into the Union presents
in an article full of timely interest and in
struction, the record of their development
and explains their industrial and social con
dition
To those who have watched the constant
growth in excellence of the Cosmopolitan
magazine during the past two years it is no
surprise to learn that it has shown a cor
responding growth in the popular fancy.
In January, 1889, the first number issued
under the management of Mr.. John Bris-
ben Walker after his purchase of the Cos
mopolitan, there were printed 5000 cop
les. In January, 1890, the edition had ris-
en- to %, 600 copies, and ten months later it
had come up to 50, 600 copies, while it is
confidently expected that by January next
it will top the 100, 600 mark, bringing it
within the list of the three leading illus
trated magazines of the world Few mag
azines have ever taken the public fancy to
such an extent in 80 short time, and it is
entirely safe to predict that this growth
will prove TO be permanent.
There has been a great demand for the
October Arena in religious circles owing to
the paper which appears in this issue from
the pen Of Prof Sheridan p Wait on "The
Symbolic Characters Of the Old Testament. ''
The interest which this paper has created
indicates that the spirit Of inquiry is per
meating every religious body. One of the
ablest critical reviews that has appeared of
late is that in the same issue on Cardinal
Newman and the Catholic Reaction in
England written by Prof. j. 7. Bixby.
Sallie JOY White, in her series of articles
on Business Openings for Girls in Wide
| Awake, writes of piano and Organ Tun-
| ing in the November number.
Good Housekeeping, the admirable do
nestle economy magazine, published by
/ Clark W Bryan q Co, is to he enlarged
with the January number and issued
monthly instead of fortnightly. The mum.
Der of pages will be doubled, and the pub
lication will be in magazine FORM more ac.
| ceptable to the reader and more conven
lent for mailing A special feature of the
year 1871 will he a series of papers by Miss
] Pa rlpa antitlaI g.fpay .l
! Kitchen
'Our Italy is the suggestive title of al
article on southern California which Charlie,
Dudley Warner contributes to the Novem
Der number of Harper's Magazine Italy,
he says, is the land of the imagination
but the sensation on first beholdng it from
the northern heights, aside from its associa
tions of romance and poetry, can be repeat
ed in our own land by whoever will eros
the burning desert of Colorado or the saw
age wastes of the Mojave wilderness o.
stone and sage-brush, and come suddenly
as he must come by train, into the bloom o
southern California Mr.. Warmers arti
Gle, which is the first of series of paper
on this unique and delightful corner of ou
country, is enriched with many illustration
from photographs and from drawings b,
distinguished artists.
An interesting article in the Novembe
Scribner is The Training of a Nurse" b,
Mrs Frederick Rhinelander Jones, VIII
gives an account of the education for wha
has been called the new profession 70
women Mrs. Jones has incorporated il
her article the sketches written by severa
pupils of the New York city training
school, describing their actual experience
. Hnrtngr a tKrptna1 4 r =.
hospital. The paper will give definite an
explicit information on a subject abOu
which much that has been written is vagu
and sentimental
The November Century is magnificen
number. 1t contains nearly hundred il
lustrations, and several of the most mpoI
tant serial fetures of the new volume ar
begun. Gen John Bidwell opens "Th
Gold Hunters" papers with an account c
the experiences of the first emigrant tra
to cross the Rockies in lS4l--seven year
before the gold discoveries AN America
in Tibet also begins, and F, Hopkinso
Smith contributes the first chapters of hi
novelette,, "Col. Carter os Cartersville,
illustrated by Kemble. John Hav describe
The White House in the Time of Lincoln,
with many new anecdotes, and Mr. L
i'AhN hAfNo a li aNbiNdl dNNOuHl VI II
Printing of the Century"
Many readers have welcomed with plea
ure the excellent portrait of Rev Dr. c.
rus 4. Bartol, for so many years a stron
and unique figure in the Boston theologic
and literary world, which forms the frol
tispiece for the November number of Il
Arena. This forms an introduction TO ii
. venerable divine's paper on Sex in Mind
Another Boston divine of the greatest prom
inence is heard from in Rev NJ j. Sa,
ages "Glance at the good old times, -
which, with mingled pathos and fine hi
NOR, he gives a striking contrast betwee
the past and the present. One of the mo
valuable and interesting features of tn
number is a symposium on "Destitution
Boston to which Edward Hamilton, Re
2 Edward Everett Hale, Rabbi Solomc
SCHNEIDER, Rev a. p, Clifford, and Re
w. d. P. Bliss are the contributors. 1t
evident that the underlined purpose of ii
Arena is TO make itself strong NOR
force on broad and fearless grounds, al
in this direction its influence is grown
steadily
A curiosity in the shape of part
. Whittiers poem, "The Hero in the 81
, bossed type used by the blind is bound
the November Wide Awake, with the ar
. Gle about DR.. Howe, famous for givil
eyes, ears and a voice to the blind, de
and dumb Laura Bridgman, and the re
hero of Whittier's poem
Peterson for November is especially ri
in illustrations, beginning with two beau
full pictures, "a Reverie" and "Thanksgi
ing Morning The opening article, q
medieval city" ," is interesting as a roman
and capitally illustrated Mrs. Rebec
Harding Davis contributes one of her be
stories. The article on house plants will
welcomed by all flower lovers. The fashi
aud household department are full of info
nation. Next year Peterson will reach
tiftieth anniversary, and the publishers a
nounce a large increase of pages, more
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