The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-01-07
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THE COSMOPOLITAN contains the fol-
lowing articles, in addition to poems
and the editorial comments of Murat
Halstead and Edward Everett Hale :
The Peoples Palace in London"
Elizabeth Bisland; "The Literary
Development of California;" Gertrude
Franklin A horton; 'Some Hermiones
of the Past" Charles E. l.. Wingate {;
"The Transatlantic Trip" William II.
Rideing; Australia" Henry George
German Student Life" Hialmar
HjOrth Boyesen. The number is hand
somely illustrated, as usual.
THE LADIES' HOME JOURNAL has a
very remarkable list OF contributors, in
Guiding Henry M. Stanley, Dr. Oliver
Wendell Holmes, eX President Hayes,
Hon. John Wanamaker, Joseph Jeffer-
son, Hon. Hannibal Hamln, Madame
Albani, James Whitcomb Riley, Gen
eral Lew Wallace, George w. Childs,
DR.. T. De Witt Talmage, Mrs. A. D..
L. Whitney, Robert j. Burdette, Ed
ward Bellamy, Will Carleton, Charles
A. Dana, Sarah Orne Jewett, George
w. Gable, Julian Hawthorne, Mrs.
Lyman Abbott, Mrs. Margaret Bot
tome and nearly twenty others. These
contributors make the number one of
unusual interest.
THE ARENA has the first of a series
of articles by Alfred Russell Wallace,
the English scientist, on psychical phe-
nomefia. A portrait of Mr. Wallace is
the frontispiece. Professor N. S, Shaler
of Harvard University writes on 1.-THE
Nature of the Negro" and Rabbi
SCHNEIDER on the philosophy of emigra-
ton. Perhaps the most interesting
feature of the number is an exhaustive
explanation of tn theory of the single
tax by Hamlin Garland. A Symposium
on the new book, Is This Your Son
My Lord?" will be read with equal in
terest, however. The book, which is
published by the Arena Company, is
causing something of a sensation.
LIPPINCoTT's MAGAZINE contains a
complete novel by Rudyard Kipling
$" The Light that Failed " is this bril-,
liant aathor's first novel and fully justi.
| flies the expectations he has raised by
his remarkable short stories. 1t is the
| story of an artists life and love. Fran.
els Wilson, the well-known comedian
has very entertaining autObiograph.
ical paper called 81 Remember. -
''The State of Washington" an article
by Major Moses p. Handy, will surprise
the many who know little of this wonder
full section of the country. During the
preparation of the article NJ jor Handy
spent several weeks in the new state
hence his information and statistics
may be absolutely relied upon. The
poets represented in this number are
Eben L. ReXford, Charlotte Fiskt
Bates and Daniel l.. Dawson.
SCRIBNER's MAGAZINE for January
opens the fifth year and ninth volume
of periodical which, from its first is
sue, was popular success, and which
has continued to grow rapidly in public
favor. Its prospectus for 1891 contains
the names of IA number of contributors
who are unrivaled in their specia
felds-men like Henry NJ. Stanley,
James Bryce, Sir Edwin Arnold auC
Robert Louis Stevenson. The ISSUE
for January contains number of strik-
ing features first among them Henry
M. SANKEY'S article on the " Pigmies, ,
which is entirely distinct from his book
and written since its publication ex
pressly for the Magazine. Other fea
lures are Sir Edwin Arnold's secont
paper on Japan" with Robert Blum'i
remarkable illustrations; the first of q
two-part story by Frank II. Stockton
and practical articles on modern fire
apparatus, and the game of court ten
mis-