The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-12-09
Current Yiterature.
December Magazines.

SOMETHING of real value is an article in
Demoresfs Family Magazine, describing ex-
plictly how to set a table for a course din
ner, and telling thousand and one 4" little"
things essential to the success of such an
entertainment. Numerous illustrations,
showing modern dinner table beautifully
decorated, diagram of how to set it, and
each course separately, help to make the
subject clear. The magazine is of interest
to all women, and extremely useful to mex
perienced housekeepers. Published by w.
Jennings Demorest, 10 East Fourteenth
street, New York; SEA year.
LIPPIScoTT's MAGAZINE is a special South
ern number; all the contributions are from
well-known Southern authors. The com
plete novel is by 7. G. De Leon, and is a
stirring tale of the civil war, entitled A
Fair Blockade-runner." Some of the most
daring blockade-runners during the war
were Southern women. Thomas Nelson
Page discusses Literature in the South
Since the War; Colonel John r. Fellows
justifes the killing of the members of the
Malta at New Orleans; Francis Courtenay
Baylor contributes an article ION House.
furnishing; and there are stories and
poems.
THIS months number of the Ladies' Home
Journal is a model issue. Mamie Dickens,
the favorite daughter of the great novelist,
contributes her best story; Amelia e. Barr
writes delightfully."- on When 1 was a
| Girl" Mrs. Burton Harrison treats at
length "Social Life in New York -; "The
Girl who Loves to Sing " is told how to train
! her voice, build it up, and preserve it, by
number OF eminent singers, and there is
a great deal more bright and readable mat
! ter. 1t is remarkable how such valuable
magazine can be sold for 81 year. Pub
lished by the Curtis Publishing Company
Philadelphia.
THERE is a rich mine of intellectual pleas
ure in Hdrper's Magazine. A superbly illus
trated article on "The Annunciation, by
Henry Van Dyke; comments by Andrew
Lang on Shakespeare's comedy, "Measure
| for Measure" beautifully illustrated by
Edward A. Abbey; and " A Walk in Tudor
Town" in company with John Starr, the
famous antiquary, written by Walter Be-
SAINT, are some of the leading papers. An
article which will provoke considerable dis
cussion is contributed by Mark Twain, and
is entitled "Mental Telegraph" The fic-
ton includes excellent stories by Richard
Harding Davis, f. d. Milet, NJ. e. NJ.
Davis, and others. The departments all
have Christmas flavor.
THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY opens with the
second part of Henry James Chaperon,"
one of the old but clever stories with which
Mr.. James is fond of quizzing the public.
This is followed by a paper Ito be first of a
series of such artcles) on " Joseph Severn
and His Correspondents" the most inte-
resting letter being from John Ruskin
Professor A. V. G.. Allen writes sympathet-
ically of The Transition of New England
Theology" and Lafcadio Hearn continues
his Japanese sketches in a paper in The
Most Ancient Shrine of Japan" most
valuable essay is that on " Rio hard Third "
by the late James Russell Lowell A serial,
"Don Orsino," by f. Marion Crawford is
to begin in the January number.
TEN illustrated articles make up the
Christmas number of Scribner'S Magazine;
following the precedent of previous Christ
mas issues there is an abundance of short
fiction. There is poetic legend of the first
Christmas tree, entitled "The Oak of Gels
of the Franco-Prussian war, A Charge for
France" by John Heard, Jr.; an artists
story of "Espero Gorgoni, Gondolier," by
F. Hopkinton Smith; charming short
story by George A. Hubbard, A Fresh
water Romance u" and notable instalment
story, "The Wrecker." The most richly.
illustrated article in the number is "Atloat
on the Nile" by Mr.. and Mrs e. Fl. Bash
field, which describes voyage in dahabee
yeh from Cairo to the Cataract.
THE New ENGLAND MAGAZINE for Decem
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white cover, with gilt lettering 1t is par
ticularly well illustrated, and all the arti
cles are interesting, without being slavishy
Christmasy. The stories are better thar
those in some of the bigger magazines
which run to names and names only; anC
one by Herbert d. Ward called Only al
Incident" is as true and pathetic as any
. thing by Gogol or Tolstoi. 1t is an analyst:
. of emotions under the influence of peculiar
= circumstances. A number of new artists
ora tnhipn, q nhapnal for THAR talapt N tIi,
progressive magazine, and they are making
1t the equal of any magazine on the news
stands in this respect. Walter Blackburn
Harte'S latest article on" Canadian Journal
lists and Journalism" will be widely rea'
and create much discussion.
ONE of the very best magazines for PEG
pie who indulge in the luxury of thinking
is the Populdr Science Monthly, published a
So year by ID. Appleton x Co., New
York. There is hardly a question OF the da,
upon which science does not throw light
hardly problem of human interest who's
solution can not be best approached by tn
method of scientific research. The P0puld
Science Monthly is now publishing series o
profusely illustrated articles on the develop
ment of American industries since the tim
of Columbus. The opening papers of tn
series, describing The Iron and Steel Indus
- tries, by w. f. Durfee, and The Evolution O
the Wool Manufacture, by S. n. ID. North
will be followed by The Development o
the Cotton Manufacture, by Edward Atkin
son, and The History of Glass Making, b.
Professor G. Hanford Henderson.
The spirit of Christmas pervades the De
cember Century, and both directly and in
directly touches ON the Christian celebrs
ton. The frontispiece is a reproduction c
"The Holy Family" by Du Mond. Rela
ing to the season are four stories: 9TH
Christmas Shadrach" by Frank r.. Stock
tom "a Christmas Fantasy, with a Moral,
by Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Wulfy;
Wait" by Miss Vida ID. Scudder; and " Til
Rapture of Hetty," by Mrs. Mary Halloc
Foote The Mozart centenary is the occi
sion of paper by Mrs. Amelia Gere M
y son, entitled, Mozart-After a Hundre
= Years." which is fully illustrated, and al
peals to very wide and general interest
music, it being the first of "A number of a
ticles of high character on music TO appea
in the Century during the coming yea
T. Other good things, "too numerous to mel