The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-04-05
CURRENT LITERATURE.
The ApriI Magazines.

tents being from the Italian. The |
most famous Italian authors are repre-
scented in this collection, and the selec-
tons embrace powerful war story, an
almshouse sketch, tale of King Hum
| berts kindness, two sparkling love
stories, and thrilling incidents, legends
and adventures.
THE Revje,o Of Revie,Cs is unusually
profuse in its illustrations. Perhaps
none of its other illustrated articles
will attract more attention than one
upon the question of dress reform from
the standpoint of the Worlds Fair.
The Woman's National Council is pro-
posing to inaugurate q movement for
short and comfortable walking dresses,
and the RerieU Of Revie,DS publishes a
number of very interesting portraits of
well-known ladies as photographed in
their dress reform street gowns, several
of the photographs being specially
taken for this number.
LIPPINCoTT's is mainly devoted TO
Columbus and the Exposition. The
complete novel Columbus in Love-"
is by Geo. Alfred Townsend {" Gath y,
and narrates fully and feeIingly the
great discoveries relations with Bea-
triX Enriquez. The novel is fully illus
trated. William Igleheart tells " What
the Publicity Department did for the
Columbian Exposition" A portrait of
Major Moses p. Handy accompanies
this article. The Columbian pa.
pers include one by Edgar Saltus on
"Sappho y; an instalment of M. Croft
toms IS Men of the Day." covering J.
A. Froude, Gounod, DR.. Farrar, Gen
eral Howard, and Congressman Hol
man; and an illustrated tale by Annie
Flint, Abraham's Mother" which is
the second in the series of Lippincott's
Notable Stories.
THE Ne,o England Magazine contains
variety of good things, among others
two valuable political papers on topics
of vital interest. The number opens
with Phillips Brooks historical sermon
on Trinity Church, which now for the
first time reaches wide audience. 1t
is finely illustrated with portraits of all
the pastors of the church back to pre-
revolutionary days, and with reproduc-
tons of the magnificent stained win
dows of the present edifice and
sketches of the exterior and interior.
This is supplemented by the descrip-
ton of Trinity, written by II. II.
Richardson, the great American archi-
tect. Benjamin Kimball gives an ac-
count of the work of the Boston Cam
era Club, which will attract all inter-
ested in the development of photogra-
ply as an art.
, SCRIBNER's MAGAZINE opens artisti-
! cally with rich group of illustrations
, by Robert Blum, who has recently re-
turned from two years residence in
Japan. He has written several papers
detailing in the most entertaining way
his experiences while in that country
and each of these will be fully illus
i trated from the remarkable collection
y of sketches and pictures which are the
t. fruit of his study in that country. This
. paper is called can Artist in Japan"
and is taken up with the vivid first i'm
pressions which that country makes on
an artistic temperament. The fiction
Z, of the number includes another in
n stalment of Mrs. Francis H Jdgson Bur.
4 nett's serial, "The One l Knew the
/. Best of ALL" which tells how she came
u to write her first story when she was
d seven years old, and of the encouraging
\, reception which her mother gave to it
ID Viola Roseboro' contributes striking
short story entitled ''The Glimpse OF
an Artist" and George l. Putnam has
pathetic little sketch entitled In
Rented Rooms"
THE Forum embraces an importan
t. discussion by eminent experts of the
;; new political era begun with Presiden
ct Cleveland's inauguration. In "Th(
ID Great Democratic Opportunity" Presi
rs dent Seth Low of Columbia College
t. frankly discusses the present demo
n cratic ascendancy and the obligation o
Is Mr.. Cleveland and his party TO voters
Oswald Ottendorfer points to financia
danger from disagreement between Mr.
= Cleveland and congress; and Senate
Henry Cabot Lodge, in g Outlook anC
Duty of the Republican Party" care
fully estimates the significance of tn,
astonishing republican reverse and de
fines the party's right attitude in thu
present crisis. This unusually full
p lumber of the Forum contains als
d. Church Union a Necessity: Tn
y, Maine Experiment IAN earnest argu
ne ment by President Dewitt Hyde o
"a Z, Bowdoin College for inter.denomina
x. tional union as the sole hope of savin
~ ~ the country churches, with an accoun
Of of the Maine movement in this direC
nd ton.
~ THE North American Reuie,o con
= tains, as usual, a number of importan
, articles on the leading topics of tn
day. The opening paper, entite
"Charges at the Worlds Fair" is b
or the director general, who seeks to col
no rect the apprehension that systemati
ld extortion will be practiced in Chicag
i, during the exposition. This is followe
I'D I'D by an able article from the pen of d.
it William A. Hammond, who gives a
interesting account of the wonderfr
nd advances made in " Brain Surgery
~ during the last fifty years. The literar
c. feature of the number is furnished b
George Manvile Fem, the novels
who discusses the A" Art of Mystery i
Fiction" In the symposium entitle
4. How Shall the Pension List Be RI
vised2" significant and authoritativ
expressions of opinion are to be foun
p from Representative r. p. G. Wilso
Of Miooa,,ri hai Of ho hnn