The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-04-26
CURRENT LITERATURE.

REGINALD DE KovEN's new waltz, which
one hears played on so many pianos nova
days, has proved 30 popular with young
women that a second edition of the April
Ladies' Home Journal, containing the music,
has been found necessary the first edition
OF the magazine consisting of 100000 copies
THE unique title Of book just issued by
the d. Lothrop Company, Boston, is only
a Flock of Women" A hasty perusal of
the volume shows its author, Mrs. A. NJ.
Diaz, to be possessed of a wholesome fancy
and pleasing style, and the book appeals
strongly to those most interested in all that
is best and highest for women. 1t is safe to
say that the work will be widely read out
side of flocks of women" In every chap
ter are found bright thoughts, tersely and
sharply expressed, which would make pal
atable even a less interesting book on this
theme.
/" THE DIVINITY OF CHRIST " is the title
of book just issued by Houghton Mifilin
& Co., Boston. 1t is written by the author
of Progressive Orthodoxy" and is a clear
exposition of the origin and reasonableness
OF the belief of the Christian church. AT
the present time many thoughtful persons
are unusually attracted to questions con-
corning the divinity of Christ. In this vol
ume theoretical or speculative questions
that arise in an endeavor to construct
theological dogma respecting The person Of
Christ are not discussed, but an effort is
troubled in their Christian faith.
THE April arena contains strong paper
by HaInlin Garland on 1.-The Future of
Fiction" DR.. Alfred Russell Wallace
writes on The Wage-W orker and How He
May Be Delivered from the Social Quag-
mire." W. d. McCrackan discusses How
the Initiative and Referendum May Be In
troduced into Our Government" Eva
Mcdonald Valesh appears in striking ipa-
per on The Tenement House Problem in
New York" Rev. George Lorimer writes
on " Authority in Christianity" and Mr.
Flower discusses at length "Tbe Burning
and Lynchng of Negroes in the South. !"
Other papers of interest in this number are
by B. f. Underwood, Katherine Coolidge,
Chester A Reed, Helen e. Starrett and
Allan Forman.
In " The Interpretation of Nature" by
Prof. n. S. Shaler, strong appeal is made
to the large number of those who are dis
turbed by an apparent hostility or lack Of
! harmony between science and religion
| They are constrained to believe what seem
to them the established results of scientific
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religious faith. New vistas of thought are
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which will be new to the majority of read
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immortality, and serious minds will give
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! pleted the forty ninth year of the continuous
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| The volume covers the months of January,
February and March, and its table of con-
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PROMPTED by the success of the LAND
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Cam bridge, Mr.. Frank Bolles gives US
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winter life in the White Mountains. The
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The reader of Mr.. Bolles' delightful book
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the peak of Mt. Chocorua, forced TO help il
bringing down dead bear from noun
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in search OF lost trail through the Sand
witch range, shown the marves of autumn
coloring in the Northern forests, and finally
given a Christmas dinner in a snow bank a
the foot of Mount Passaconaway. Jus
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