The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-06-29
Current Giterature.
July Magazines.

ROMANCE, the monthly magazine of com
plete stories, has seventeen numbers this
month, and among the names Of contribute
ors are those of Edmond About and AL
phonse Daudet.
THE QUIvER is an interesting number
a Lincolnshire Lass " is continued and is
followed by an illustrated paper called " An
Old-world Corner" which describes the
quaint Dutch town of Marker. "Only a
Child is the story of a boy who felt and
suffered with all the intensity of a man.
Sundays with the Young " is especially
adapted for Sunday reading. The serial,
Through Devious Ways" Is concluded in
this number and ends happily.
CAssELL's FAMILY MAGAZINE contains
serial by the popular story writer, Arabela
M. Hopkinson. The" Chit. Chat on Dress"
containing suggestive illustrated letters
from the two centers of fashion-Paris and
London-is unusually full. Then still APP
pealing to the women readers, is an article
on " Swedish Embroidery" with lucid in
structions for making. There are stories
long and short, music, poetry and Gath
erer full of scientific information.
LIPPINcoTT's MAGAZINE has contributions
from the pens of NJ. G. McCleland, Max
de Lipman, Edgar Saltus Rose Hawthorne
Lathrop Harrison S. Morris, Molly Elliot
Seawell and others. The complete novel,
white Heron" is by Miss McClelland.
1t is mountain story, opening with
charming legend of the Cherokee Indians.
In the athletic Series' w. p. Stephens
has an illustrated article on Canoe Life"
The short story is by Molly Elliot Seawell
The poetry of the number is contributed by
Edgar Saltus, Rose Hawthorne Lathrop,
Flavel Scott Mines, and Harrison S. Morris.
THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW has arti-
Giles on -" Railway Safety Appliances" by
Colonel II, S, Hail es, president of the
American Railway Association; What
Shall the Ratio Be?" by Senator Stewart of
Nevada, Representative w. II. Springer of
| Illinois, Senator II. G. ansbrough of North
Dakota, Representative Bland of Missouri
and Representative Dalzell of Pennsyl-
vania; Lynch Law in the South" by
Frederick Douglass, "Organzed Labor in
the Presidential Campaign" by Samuel
Gompers president of the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor.
THE MAGAZINE OF ART has good variety,
both in illustration and text. The frontis-
piece is an etching by j. Dobie, from the
painting "Circe" by j. w. Warehouse,
A. r. a. The opening article of the num-
Der is Mr. Heinemann's second paper on
" The Royal Academy" which is fully il
lustrated, two of the illustrations showing
Sir John Everett Mllais in a somewhat new
line of painting. An interesting paper on
The Pupil of the Eye as a Factor in Elk.
preston" is contributed by Samuel Wilks
MD. Following this Claude Phillips dis.
cusses Bastien.Lepage, and gives some char.
acteristic examples of his beautiful work.
THi CENTURY, in its article on the archi-
It ctural problems of the Worlds Fair, will
treat of the agricultural building and the
great structure for manufactures and lib
eral arts Professor Charles Waldstein
head of the American School of Archie
olo y at Athens, describes " The Finding Of
the Tomb of Aristotle" The attribution o.
this grave to the famous Greek philosopher
is not proved beyond doubt, but Professor
Waldstein marshals an imposing array o
facts to support his theory. Frederick Vii
Tiers, the war-correspondent, has written al
account of the mission of Mason Bey t
King John of Abyssinia which was under
taken at the time Gordon was shut up il
Khartoum. The article is very fully Illus
trated. A. W. Harris director of the gov
ment experiment stations in the department
of agriculture, has paper on " What tn,
Government is Doing for the Farmer" il
which he discusses the more important re
cent acts of congress bearing upon the agri
cultural development of the United States