The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-06-07
CURRENT LITERATURE.
The June Magazines.


THE Reuie,o of Reviews for the month
OF June is number which nobody who
intends to go to the Worlds Fair at
any time can well afford to be without. |
1t sent as its special representative to |
Chicago, in May, Mr.. Ernest Knaufft,
well-known art teacher of New York, |
who is also writer upon art subjects |
and who is known throughout the |
country as the very successful and SYM
pathic director of the art studies at
Chautauqua from summer to summer.
MIR. Knaufft has prepared for the Re
Uielo Of ReUielDS an extended and dis
eliminating article telling in straight
forward way what are the merits and
striking features of each portion of the
art exhibits. The Reuie10 of Reviee0S
succeeds each month is securing the
verdict indispensable " from great
number of its exchanges and from
thousands of its readers, and this June
number, so entertaining on the one
hand and so full of convenient refer
ence compilation on the other, certainly
merits that verdict of indispensable "
as well as any of its predecessors.
AMONG out-of-door papers in Serb
ner's Magazine Ernest E. Thompson's
contribution to this number, entitled
"The Birds that We See," is note
worthy. Mr.. Thompson is a skillful
artist as well as an ornithologist, and
his text is fully illustrated from his own
drawings, which are very admirable
representations of our common birds.
Among the deliberately illustrated arti-
cles in the number is Robert Blum's
third and concluding paper giving his
impressions of Japan, with very rich
selection from his wonderful sketches
of japanese life. The fiction in this issue
is abundant and unusually attractive. 1t
includes the first instalment of Robert
Grants "Opinions of Philosopher"
a sequel to his clever satire, "The Re-
Elections of Married Man." which has
proved such success as a serial and in
book form. This instalment is illus
trated by w. 7. Smedlev. There are
also short stories by T. r. Sullivan and
William Henry Bishop, and the con-
Guiding chapters of Mrs. Burnett's
serial " The One [ Knew the Best of
ALL" The number includes poems by
J II. &. Bunner, Edith NJ. Thompson, E.
S. Martin, and others.
A. CONAN DoYLE's historical ro-
4 nance, 1.-THE Refugees,"i is brilliantly
> concluded in this number of Hdrper'S
which contains, also, the first chapters
of new novel of English life by Will
\ lam Black, called "The Handsome
D Humes," and the sixth iustalment OF
Miss Constance Fenimore Woolson's
d American serial, Horace Chase"
J The number also includes new Eng
\ land tale of humorous interest, called
u 'Pogit Way" The author is Grace
n Livingston Furniss, and w. L. Smed
= ley has illustrated the story with eleven
u drawings. "The Editors Study" con
u trlbuted by Charles Dudley Warner
- discusses agreeably the lecture as ar
= institution in France and in the United
\ States. "The Editors Drawer" con
tains short story by Thomas Nelson
Page, called " He Would Have Gotten 6
Lawyer -; humorous sketch by John
Kendrick Bangs; verses and a drawing
by Oliver Heriord; illustrations by
Albert E. Sterner and Frank o. Small
and other attractions.
RoDoLFo LANCIANI's new paper
called New Facts Concerning thu
Pantheon" which opens the jun
number of the Atlantic Monthly, is an
other instance of this writer's power il
presenting in living and entertaining
way a subject which has great possibili
ties of dryness. A paper which SHOULD
be read in connection with this is Mr.
j. Irving Manatt's "reminiscences o
DR.. Schliemann." This article, writer
by one who knew DR.. Schliemann well
gives an intimate account of the HON,
life of the great archeologist, of hi
family, and of his personal characters
tics. One of the papers which will b.
looked at with mole than ordinar,
interest is that by Justin Winsor, libra
rian of Harvard University, in which h.
writes about "The Future of Loca
t Libraries" A Thoughtful article OIL
1.-The Educational Trend of the North
! west" by d. l.. Kiehle, notes the pro
gressive steps which have lately BEEF
: taken in respect to education in thi
, part of the country. Professor G. q
Whitman of Chicago University has
well-cOnsidered paper A Marine Oh
= servatory the Prime Need of American
- Biology" and makes, as might be sup
= posed, strong plea for its establish
3 ment.
4 THE articles in the Forum are un
y usually valuable and interesting. Judg
= Thomas NJ. Cooley, the eminent juris
y recital of "Grave Obstacles to Ha
% waiian Annexation" and the Rev
" Gilbert Reid, a missionary to China
2 personally known to the Chinese prim
!. minister, writes on "China's Views o
Chinese Exclusion" Mr.. Paderewsk
in America" an enthusiastic "appre
. citation" by Henry 7. Finck, the EN-
nent musical critic, precedes two strik
4 ing articles on the pension scandal, on
, by Congressman John Dewitt Warner
"Half Million Dollars a Day fo
I Pensions" the other by Lieutenau
!. Allen r. Foote, who quotes from tn
i original documents in the Farnhar
n Post controversy, on 1.-THE Decisiv
Breach in the Grand Army" DR..
M. Rice's final summary of his conclu
n sions based on personal observation G
our public schools is perhaps the mos
valuable of his series of suggestive es
|. says. Frederic Harrison, the distin