The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-01-04
CURRENT LITERATURE.
January Magazines.

THE complete novel in Lippincott'S
Mdguzine is called " A Pacific EucOun-
ter" by Mary L. Stickney, and is a
pleasant tale of emotional adventures,
matrimonial aspirations, and m%isunder-
standings which occur on the ship
Southern Cross" on the voyage from
Panama to San Francisco. NJ. Crofton,
in Men of the Dav,' describes Emile
Il ,la, Thomas A. Edison, and George
DuMaurier. A notable short story by
S. L. Bacon, ACROSS Dug Gap" bio
graphical sketches, and a capital paper
on foils and fencing, make up an attrac-
tive number.
THE New England Magazine begins
the year promisingly. M. Betham-
Edwards, a cousin of the famous
Psychologist and novelist, contributes a
cosby article on the childhood and
early life of Amelia b. Edwards.
Helen Campbell begins her new serial,
John Ballantyne, American" Other
papers of great interest are, "Reminis-
cences of James Parton" the historian,
by Rev. Julius H. Ward; "Tne Oldest
Epi copal Church in New England"
Alice Morse Earle; Modern Archi-
lecture" Barr Ferree; "The Home in
the Tenement House, Lucy Tue
Ames; L" In the Cd South Slate," Lee
G.. Hardy; "Wnittier's Prose Writ
ings," Erwin d Mead.
JULIAN RALPH is to contribute to
Hdrper'S Mbgaziae a series of papers
on the present condition aud recent de-
velopment of some portions of the
South. The first paper appears this
month The Old Way to Dixie" an
interes ing account of a steamboat voy.
age down the Mississippi. "Proleta-
rian Paris" by Theodore Child, has an
added and melancholy interest in view
of the recent death of the gifted writer.
Ia Why we left Russia" Pcaitrey
Bigelow relates the story of the Grief tut
eventful visit of himself an Frederic
Remington to the CT IRIS dominjons last
summer. Edward F. W.ite contri-
butes a comprehensive and important
article on - Pensions: the Law and its
Administration" This number Of the
magazine is particularly strong in ic-
ton.
A MAGAZINE which makes its initial
appearance this month is WorthingtOn's
Illustrated Magazine, published by A.
ID. WorLhinglou & Co., Hartford,
Conn; price $3.50 a year, or twenty
five cents a copy. The publishers state
that its whole idea is centered in the
home; every detail, from leading arti-
Giles down to a rhyme for the child too
young to read for itself, will be pre-.
pared with reference to home and fam
lily life. Among the special features
for 1893 is a series of papers by Mary
A. Llvermore; articles of travel, by
Rev. Francis E. Clark, ID; and
papers by Helen Campbell and Olive
Thorne Miller. Number n of Wor-
%thington's contains many excellent
papers, among them ga Night at the
Lick Observatory" and" A Sultara's
Tomb" by Sir Edwin Arnold.
THE Atlantic Monthly is an admirable
number, and more than ful6lls the prom
ises of the magazine for 1898. Among
the solid papers are a considt ration OF
George William Curtis in his relation to
, civil service reform, an article which no
reader interested in either the man
or the measure can afford to neglect; a
paper by Harriet Waters Preston and
Louise Dodge ON Cola di Rene; John
Fiske's interesting study of Edward
Augustus Freeman and his place among
HlolOllldl WlltClo, Il . Evans Il6Iu-
i|niscences of Frobel; " and an impor-
tant paper by Sir Edward Strachey on
"Shakespeare in Loves Labour's LOST
A new serial by Mrs. Catherwood,
+ "Old Kaskaskia," is begun, and scarcely
less interesting or romantic than fiction
is Francis Pdrkman's able paper or
"The Feudal Chiefs of Acadia"
r SCRIBNER's MAGAZINE begins its
| thirteenth volume aud seventh year
4: for which many important features are
announced, some of them making theil
first appearance in this number. The
admirable table of contents comprises
the following papers: The Peary Re
lief Expedition" by Angelo Heilprin
chief of the expedition; persona
Recollections of Mr.. Lincoln" by the
Marquis de Chambrun; "The Poor il
Naples" by Jessie White Va. Mario
t IAN Old Love. Letter" by NJ lrgare
Crosby; "The One l Knew the Best o
= All: A Memory of the Mind of a Child
: by Frances Hodgson Burnett; I'm
n pressions Of a Decorator in Rome," by
j Frederic Crowninshield; "The Wan
c behring's of Cochiti," by Charles F
Lummis; clos Caraquenos," by F. j
Stimson; Historic Moments: Tn,
It Fall of Sebastopol," by William How