The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-11-12
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November Magazines.

NONtmDtI MHSHIlUtSs
THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW has a SYM
postum on What Congress Has Done" to
which three republicans and three demo
Gratis contribute. Representatives McKin-
ley. Lodge, Dalzell Fitch, McAdoo and
Clements are the writers on this interesting
subject Robert Smalls, formerly a repre-
sentative in congress from South Carolina,
and now collector at Beaufort, S. c., dis
cusses from personal experience " Election
Methods in the South -; and A. w. Schaffer,
chief federal supervisor Of elections i'm
North Carolina, has an article on "a South
ern Republican on the Lodge Bill" which
is of special interest as setting forth serious
objections to the bill entertained by south
ern republicans.
THE complete novel in HppincoHs Maya.
zine is contributed by Mrs Jeanie Gwynne
Bethany, the clever author of 1.-THE House
of Rimmon." The story is entitled "A
Laggard in Love" and the scene is laid in
England, principally in what is known as
the " Black Country" Junius Henri Browne
contributes a clever and appreciative article
upon BaIzac's women, entitled Heroines
of the Human Comedy" A sketch of Bal
zac, who is altogether too little known in
this country, and a description of his pc
culiar methods of work, is weaved into this
very entertaining paper. Some excellent
poems are contributed by Charles Washing
ton Coleman, Charles ID. Bell, Mrs. Il. w.
THE FORUM contains three articles that
treat of three phases of agricultural de-
preston One is by Mr.. G.. Wood Davis,
the Kansan student of our agricultural de-
velopment who, under the title of "The
Probabilities OF Agriculture writes a reply
to the recent article by Prince Kropotkin on
THE Possibilities of Agriculture" Mr..
Davis shows by a review of the crops of the
world that approximately the limit of pro-
duction has been reached. In another arti-
Gle Daniel r.. Goodloe of Washington pre-
sents the startling statistics, as nearly
complete as they have been made, of the
farm mortgages in all the most important
western states, which show that the indie
pendent small farmer in these states is
gradually becoming extinct; and in the
third article Rev. DR.. Washington GLADDEN.
reviews the organizations of farmers, re-
cites their motives, and points out the valu-
able part of their work and influence.
THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY is above
even the high average of that standard pub
LEGATION. Herbert Spencer opens the num-
Der with an essay on the " Origin of Music"
in which he discusses the opposing views of
Darwin and others. The address of Profess
sOr T. {. Mendenhall, as president of the
American Association for the Advancement
OF Science, appears in this number. 1t is
devoted to pointing out ways by which sci
entitiC men may become more useful and
better appreciated, its title being The Re-
dIlOnS Ol Men OF science 10 the General
Public" In Some Lessons from Barbar-
ism" Miss Elaine Goodale sets forth some
of the virtues of the Indians, gathered from
her experience as teacher and inspector in
the Indian schools Under the title School
Life in Relation to Growth and Health, :"
Professor AXel Key of Stockholm urges that
the studies of children should never be al
lowed to interfere with sleep and recupeIa-
ton.
THE ARENA is brainy without being too
heavy. The table of contents displays a va
riety of attractive subjects prepared by
scholarly minds. Probably the most strik-
ing paper is ON 1.-THE Future American
Drama, completed hy Mr.. Boucicault
few days before his death. The ven
cradle divine, Cyrus A. Bartol, whose
strong vet benign face forms the fronts-
piece of this issue, writes on Sex in
Mind, striking paper displaying all the
mental VigOr which, for so many decades,
made DR.. Barto one of the ablest representa-
tives of New England thought. Profess
sor n S. Shaler contributes an able philO-
sophica paper on the African element in
America. Rev. Minot j. Savage, in
Glance at the Good Old Times" gives a
striking contrast between the past and the
present. The departments ON Notes on
Living Problems" contain excellent con-
tributonS by Frances +. Willard, Gen.
Marcus j. Wright and Rev. Forrest A.
March
THE New ENGLAND MAGAZINE opens with
a sketch of Charles Bultinch the architect
of Boston in the early part of the century,
written by Ashton Il. Willard. The arti-
cles in this number, however, which will
provoke most discussion are two on the
southern question, one by Rev. A. ID, Mayo
on " The Third Estate of the South" de
failing the remarkable growth in the South
of new democracy, permeated by liVin-
ideas, and destined rapidly To become the
controlling power; the other by Professor
Charles III. Levermore of the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, discussing the
dreadful mockery of law still prevailing in
great sections of the South, especially as
Witnessed by himself during a recent resi-
dence in North Carolina. Edward Everett
Hale contributes "A stirring article entitled
THE Professor of America" sharply crit
icising much in our present college methods
and urging that we ought to have every
where special professors to teach young
men adequately the new things which
America stands for in the world.
THE CENTURY MAGAZINE celebrates its
twentieth anniversary with the November
number,-a number which is intended to
eXtmplify the best that an illustrated mag
aZine of our day can do for its innumerahle
readers. In the editorial on the event the
editor claims for the century, sane and
| earnest Amercauism,' an Americanism
" that deems the best of the Old World none
too good for the New" The fiction Of the
number has as its most striking cOntribu-
ton the beginning of the first long story
written by the artst-author, f. Hopkinson
Smith. 1t is entitled Colonel Carter Of
Cartersville," and is accompanied by
number of pictures by Kemble. Mrs, Anna
Eichberg King has story of old New York,
with dozen designs by George Wharton
Edwards, aud Frank Pope Humphrey has
ghost story entitled 1.-The Courageous Ac-
ton of Lucia Richmond" The frontspece
is an engraving of photograph of Lincoln
and his SON Tad" accompanied by an ar
ticle by Colonel John Hay, ON " Life in the
White House in the Time of Lincoln"
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