The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-07-05
CURRENT LITERATURE.
The July Magazines.


ozine, periodical that has been ex-
ceptionally fortunate aud successful. |
Each number has steadily gained in |
attractiveness and value, and this latest |
issue, while very bright and entertain
ing for summer reading, has still sufli- |
cient solidity to recommend it to read |
ers in search of the practical and USE
full, and to those who most enjoy |
significant thought and enlarged views |
expressed in graceful and polished |
sentences.
THE Fiction in the Arena is very
notable feature. "The Confessions of
a Suicide" by the well-known author
and critic, COulson Karnahan, is one of
the most weird, and in peculiar way
| powerful, creation of recent years.
Those looking for something out of the
ordinary should peruse this extraordi
nary paper. "The Charities of Dive"
is entirely different, and in it Mr.. Car
man in a most interesting way deals
some telling blows against present day
injustice. Who Broke Up De Meet
ing" by Miss Will Allen Dromgoole,
lightens the number, it being charm
iugly humorous sketch in negro dialect.
The Arena for July is the most up-to.
times review of the month.
ALTHOUGH comparatively unknown
in America, Nathaniel Sichel, the
painter of the picture which forms the
frontispiece of The Magazine Of Art,
has commanded a certain section of the
popular taste in Germany by his rep
reservations of Oriental "types of
beauty" An Egyptian Slave y" may
be taken as fair example of the large
number of works he has painted of this
character-which, indeed, he was prac-
tically the first of German artists to in
troduce to the notice of his country
men. The editor of the magazine
writes the leading article, which is on
the Royal Academy Exhibition, which
he criticises severely as a "portrait
academy" There is seasonable SON.
net by Mr.. Swinburne and long &C
count with illustrations of the Meis-
sonier Exhibition recently held in
London. The notes are full and inter-
esting
IT is surprising that Charles Egbert
Craddock, whose new serial, " His
Vanished STAR" begins in this number
of the atlantic Monthly, can continue
to write about Tennessee Mountain life,
and also continue to be intensely inter-
esting; and yet that is precisely what
she does in this new novel. She has
never written with greater mastery than
now. There are a good many GOOD
things in the number, among them some
to be specially looked at for in stance,
Isabel Hapgood's paper on " Passports,
Police and Post-office in Russia"
Problems of Presumptive Proof" a
protest against the sentimental SYM
patty shown to criminals convicted on
what is loosely termed "merely cir
cumstantial evidence" showing that
circumstantial evidence is sometimes
the only evidence available, and that
there are grave perils in direct evidence,
by James w. Clark. Houghton, Mifflin
IL Co., Boston.
SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE contains a
striking article in the Mems Occupa-
tions series by w. Clark Russell on
"The Life of The Merchant Sailor"
giving graphic account of forecastle
life in a modern sailing vessel, show
ing how little it has changed since the
7 old days when Dana wrote his "Two
Years Before the Mast" The abund-
ant illustrations are by Frank Bran
gwyn, an English marine artist, whose
work is new to American magazines.
A. H. Nickerson, who was an officer in
the federal army, describes 1.-TWO Wis
its to Gettysburg" His article con-
, tans one of the most realistic descrip.
, tons in war literature of the sensations
of wounded man on the field of battle
J and during his long journey to recov-
; cry. The abundant fiction of the num-
, Der includes the beginning of novel
, cite by Harold Frederic, which de-
scribes the trials of Copperhead "
| in northern New York during critical
r period of the war.
= THE FORUM is the most timely and
3 readable number published this year.
4: The startling revelations of national
pension abuses are continued in articles
] on "The Grand Army as Pension
. Agency" by Colonel G. Mex. Leoser,
! a civil war veteran, who supports his
Y assertions by actual citations from the
a army's history " prospects of the
. Worlds Fair" are eXpertly discussed
| by Franklin H. Head. "Au Actors
l Memory of Edwin Booth " is brilliant
. and fascinating paper by John Malone
. formerly a leading member of Mr..
+, Booths company. Julia Ward Howe,
author of the " Battle Hymn of the Re-
/ public" presents unique suggestions as
r to How the Fourth of July Should be
8 Celebrated -; and sonnet on "The
y Fourth of july" by Charles Leonard
/, Moore, is the first poem ever printed in
: this review. DR.. Lyman Abbott
e Henry Ward Beecher's Plymouth
:, Church successor, Eliminates pending
b, theological perplexities by a mastery
b article, "What are a Christian Preach
J, er's Functions?" John Bassett Moore
s professor of diplomacy at Columbia
d College, ends this notable number with
n "The Russian EXtradition Treaty: g
l., Reply to Protests" in which he under.
n takes to prove that the treaty is not sc
t dangerous as it has been represented.
y THE chief feature Of the Century, and
J. one of interest in connection with the
: extradition treaty with Russia, is a con
I tinuation Of the discussion of the in.
J, ternal affairs of the czar's empire. A