The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-01-06
Current giteratmre.
January Magazines.

attracts the reader of the North Ameri-
can Reuie,o. The joint title is "Mr.
Speaker" aud the articles discuss what
constitutes quorum and the rights of
the minority in the house of repre- senta-
tives. These are followed by a discus.
sion of the general question of the
quorum from the Spanish point of view,
by the late Manuel Alonzo Martinez,
recently president of The Spanish
chamber of deputies. "The Pardoning
Power" by Governor Hill of New
York, is the governors first magazine
aruc,, q, and will command general at
tenliou. The closing feature of The
ReUiei0 is symposium on 1.-THE Best
Book of the Year." which includes
contributions from Sir Edwin Arnold,
Gail Hamilton, Agnes Reppier, Amelia
E Barr, Professor Briggs, Julien Cor
don, and DR.. William A. Hammond.
In reply to Madam Adams recent arti-
Gle, Andrew Lang writes on French
Novels and French Life" Lady Henry
Somerset has word to say about the
slums of London as contrasted with
those of New York. Fast railway
travel is described by Theodore Voor-
hees, the general superintendent of the
New York Central railroad, under the
title NINETY Miles in Eighty-nine
Minutes" Charles H. Cramp writes
of'' The First Cost of Ships " from the
point of view of the practical ship
builder.
OVER 700, 900 women in this country
alone now buy and read each month
The Ladies' Home Journal, and study
of the January number, just to hand,
shows at once why the Journal is so
popular. 1t is in complete touch with
woman's best needs, and covers
everything in her life. No magazine
covers its special field so thoroughly,
and in such fresh and capable man.
ner. Mrs. Burton Harrison, for exapl-
pie, is selected to write of Social Life
in New York "-than which there could
have been no better choice. "Wine
on Fashionable Tables" whether its
use is increasing or decreasing, is dis
cussed by such royal entertainers and
diners-out as Chauncey M. Depew, ex-
President Hayes, Madame Romero,
Mrs. ex-Secretary Whitney, George W.
Childs and others. A very pretty page
of "Sofa Cushions " is illustrated and
described; Palmer Cox's funny little
brownies are seen in a ludicrous
sleigh-ride, while Robert j. Burdette
begins his work as a Journal editor
with his new department, From a
New Inkstand." Rider Haggard,
Canon Farrar, the Countess of Aber-
deem, Charles Dickens and a score of
famous English celebrities send New
Years greetings to American women.
The Journal is only one dollar per year,
and is fully worth it. Published by the
Curtis Publishing Company of Phila-
delphia.
THE January number of The Forum
contains two timely and interesting
articles on the Louisiana Lottery. In
view of the ill-health of the pope and
the discussion of the possibility of his re-
moval from Rome, Professor Geffcken,
the distinguished German author,
writes on "The Pope and the Future
of the Papacy." Mr.. Courtenay De
Kalb, an American who has lived long
in Brazil, explains the late crisis there
and its causes. This number of The
Forum contains also a review of the
trial of DR.. Briggs for heresy, together
with statement of other notable
heresy trials in the United States, by
the Rev. DR.. Philip Schaff, of Union
Theological Seminary; and following
this is an article by Dr. Briggs himself
on theological education and how it
should be extended and improved.
There is review of the secret ballot in
thirty-three states, with an analysis of
the laws passed in each, by Mr.. Joseph
B. Bishop. A notable contribution is
a Christmas sermon, by Bishop Henry
@. Potter of New York, one of the
most learned and eloquent of American
preachers, who explains the meaning to
modern life, of Christ as the Light of
the World,
IN the Arena, Hamlin Garand's
much-talked-of novel of the modern
West opens brilliantly. The publishers
of The Arena claim that this will be
the great American novel;" and GER
tainly it bids fair to be by far the
strongest work that has ever come from
the pen of the brilliant novelist of
the West" though this is saying much,
as those who have read " Main Travelled
Roads" and "Jason Edwards " will
admit. This issue also contains strong
papers by Alfred Russell Wallace on
Human Progress Past and Future y;
Professor A. N. Jannaris, Phi. D., of
the University of Greece, Athens, on
Mohammedan Marriage and Life -;
Law D; Ex-Governor Lionel A. Sheldon,
on Louisiana and the Levees"; d. G.
Watts, on Walt Whitman Charles
Schroeder, on "What is Buddhism?"
and several other able papers. The
Arena fully maintains its brilliant repu-
tation and should be in the homes of all
thoughtful people.
THE January number of Lippincotrs
Magazine is marked by several new
features, the first of sundry stories and
sketches illustrating journalistic life
and labors; the first of series of arti-
cles on athletic subjects; an editorial
department headed AS it Seems"
containing briet essays and comments
on various topics of the times, literary
and other, and notices of several recent
books, given in the form of dialogue.
The complete novel, "The Passing OF
Major Kilgore," is by an experienced