The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-02-03
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February Magazines.

considered by those who knew Charles
Dickens best to be the novelist's fa-
vorite daughter. To none of his chill
dren, perhaps, was Dickens more affec-
tionately attached, and the "pet daugh-
ter VI saw much of her father under all
circumstances. Miss Dickens has been
persuaded to write of him whom she
knew so well, and during 1892 there
will be published in The Ladies' Home
Journal of Philadelphia a series of ar
ticles by Miss Dickens under the at
tractive title of My Father as | Re-
call Him." She will tell in this series
everything she remembers of her
father; how he educated his children !;
his family life and his personal habits ;
how he wrote his famous books; his
love of flowers and animals; how
Christmas was spent in the Dickens
households; how the novelist romped
with his children; the famous people
who came to the Dickens home, and
his last years and closing days. In the
February number of this favorite pub
LEGATION unique experiment is tried.
The entire number has been contrib
uted in prose, fiction aid verse by the
daughters of famous parentage, as a
proof that genius is often hereditary.
The work of thirty of these "daugh-
tiers is represented. They comprise the
daughters of Thackeray, Hawthorne,
Dickens, James Fenimore Cooper,
Horace Greeley, Mr.. Gladstone, Presi-
dent Harrison, William Dean Howells,
Senator ingalls,, Dean Bradley of West
minister, Julia Ward Howe, General
Sherman, Jefferson Davis and nearly
score of others. Each article, poem or
story printed in this number has been
especially written for it, and the whole
is successful result of an idea never
before attempted in magazine.
THE always perplexing labor question
receives first attention in The Popular
Science Monthly. In an article entitled
Personal Liberty, by Edward Atkinson
and Edward L. Cabot, are given the de-
clslon of the courts concerning restric-
lions on hours and modes of labor, reg
ulation of the method of payment, etc.
In The Story of Strange Land, Pfes-
dent Jordan of Stanford University
tells now the hot springs aud lava cliffs
of Yellowstone Park were formed, and
bow fishes have come into its lakes and
streams. The delightful story is made
still more attractive by several full page
pictures. Mr.. Carroll d. Wright treats
of Urban Population, in his series of
Lessons from the Census, and sets forth
result in regard to the slum popula-
ton of cities that contradict the &C.
cepted belief of this subject. Mr..
Daniel Spillane has an interesting, full
illustrated article on The Piano-forte,
giving the history of its development
out of the harp, and telling how this
country has reached its high position in
piano. making. There are numerous
other papers of exceptional merit. d.
Appleton 81 Co., New York: S. year.
THE contents of North AmericanIRe
rie,D are unusually varied. In addition
to the first of the four articles by Mr..
Gladstone on the OIympian Religion,
are the following contributions: Tam
many Hall and the Democracy, by Hon.
Richard Croker; How to Attack the
Tariff, by Hon. William M. Springer,
Chairman of the Ways and Means Com
NIT ee; A Claim for American Lilera-
ture, by Clark Russell; Can Our Ma
tional Banks be made Safer? by Ed
ward S. Lacey, Comptroller of the Cur
rency; Fires on Trans Atlantic Steam
ers, by Earl de la War;, who has re-
Gently been active in the House of
Lords in his efforts to prevent imper-
feet stowage of cotton; The Duty and
Destiny of England in Asia, by Sir
Edwin Arnold; A Perilous Business
and the Remedy, by Henry Cabot
Lodge-the business referred to being
the occupation of trainmen; A Year of
Railway Accidents, by Colonel H. G.
Prout, editor of the Railroad Gazette;
The Opera, by Edmund G. Stanton,
Director of the Metropolitan Opera
House; and Lotteries and Gambling.
by Anthony Comstock.
THE February Arena will be read
with interest by thoughtful people. It's
papers are all readable, many of them
very strong. Briefly, the table of con-
tents is as follows: Frontispiece, Her
bert Spencer, very fine portrait of
the great philosopher. Herbert Spen-
GERS Life and Work, by W. H. Hud-
son, for many years Mr.. Spencer's pri-
vate secretary; Danger Ahead,
thoughtful discussion o. the electoral
college problem, by Robert S. Taylor
The Railroad Problem, by ex- Governor
Lionel A. Sheldon; The Solidarity of
the Race, by Henry Wood; Hypnot-
Ism ana It's relation to Psychical Re-
search, b. .. Flower; Inspiration and
Heresy, by 7. Cameron, b. G. L.; The
Sub-Treasury Plan, by G. C. Pos st, au.
thor of " Driven from Sea to Sea-"
The Atonement, by Rev. Burt Estes
Howard; The Last American Monarch,
by James Realf, Jr. "a Spoil of OF
tice," part second of Mr.'Hamlin Gar
lands great novel of the modern West.
DO you speak French? If you do not,
there certainly have been times when
you wished that you could; and if you
are anxious to learn to read and speak
French, you should have the splendid
article, French Without Master"
by Professor A. de Rougemont of Chau-
tauqua University, published in Dem
QreSps Family Magazine for February.
With the deflnite and practical instruc-
tons given in it one cannot fail to &C.
qulre an accurate knowledge of French
in an astonishingly short time. But