The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-11-01
CURRENT LITERATURE.
The November Magazines.

in India, and now he takes his turn at
interesting the readers to-day. An ele-
plant story by Mr.. Kiping, which will
appear in the Dece mber ST. Nicholas, |
is said to be one Of his strongest effolts.
Two articles in the present number
of the Atlantic Monthly will be Of par
tcular interest to teachers. These are
Horace E. Scudder's School Libra
ries," and Ernest Harris "Spectacled
Schoolboys." The general reader will
be interested in reading Nicolay Grew
stadt's Courts OF Cancellation in
America" with a description of the
law establishing them in North Da-
kota. Among other articles may be
mentioned Bradford Torrey's " Along
the Hllsborough;" Sir Edward Stra-
chey's Talk at a Country House,"
Owen Wister's Catholicity in Musical
Taste" and the final part of William
p. Apihorp's Two Modern Classicists
in Music" Fiction is represented by
Mary II. Catherwood's {" The BEAUFORT
Loup Garou," and further instalments
of &" His Vanished Star" and "The
Man from Aidone." The Book Re
views are particularly interesting, and
the Contributors Club furnishes the
usual amount of entertaining reading.
THE beau ideal of an American girl
and the pride OF his family and friends
is a military or naval cadet; but there
is a substantial basis for the estimation
in which he is held. Not everyone can
enter our National Academies, and
every one who does has 10 work hard
to keep up his reputation. "The
Naval Cadet at Work and at Play" a
prize article written by a naval cadet,
published in DemvreSt's Family Maya
zine, tells all about the life OF the cadets
at our Naval Academy at Annapolis
their duties, their trials, and their
which is embelli>hed with numerous
and handsome illustrations, is quite
equal to visit to the Academy itself.
The numerous departments are full to
overlooking with timely matter; and
the pictures are numerous and lovely.
Decidedly, it is an excellent number of
an excellent magazine which costs only
50 a year, and is published by w.
Jennings Demorest, 16 East 18th street,
New York.
PAUL BOURGET, the well-known
French novelist, who is visiting Chicago
to collect material for romance of
American life, has prepared for the
Forum paper on the new moral drift
in French literature. M. Bourget, al
though himself a leading spirit in the
new movement, will in this paper
strongly defend the merits of Emile
lola and the naturalistic school. DR.
Won Hoist, the eminent German his
torian, who has lately taken up his
residence in this country, furnishes a
slashing criticism of the senate filibus-
tiers. DR.. Won Hoist, who is outspoken
in his condemnation of the silver mems
tactics, it is understood is convinced
the necessity for immediate revision of
the senate rules and for immediate pro-
test by the p, ople in mass-meetings all
over the country, if the senate is not to
become source of grave public peril.
Louis Honore Frechetle, the "poet
laureate" of Canada, contributes to
the Forum a presentation of French
Canadian sentiment with regard to an
nexation or independence. Mr.. FIRE.
Ghetto is one of the most capable leaders
of the younger French element in
Canada, and his views should be of un.
usual interest and Importance.
GEOLOGY, electricity, education, ny
giene, philosophy, mathematics, and
meteorology are all represented in the
Popular Science Monthly, education
leading in number of titles. Henry l..
Clapp contributes thoughtful essay on
1.-THE Scientific Method with Children
in which he maintains that schemes Of
scientific teaching constructed for COL
lege students are useless for children, as
they do not take account of the child's
standpoint nor of his way of thinking.
The opening article of the number is a
fully illustrated paper on "The Con-
servation of Our Oyster Supply" by
Robert F. Walsh. The writer shows
that an oyster famine is threatening us,
and describes the modes of restocking
depleted beds that are coming into use
both here and abroad. The first half
of the lecture on Evolution and
Ethics" delivered by Professor Huxley
at the SheldOnian Theater, Oxford, is
printed in this number. Charles M,
Lungren's illustrated account of " Eec-
tricity at the Worlds Fair" is con-
Guided this month, electric welding,
cooking, heating and the telautograph
being described in this number. The
Worlds Fair and the Congress of Evolu-
tionists are made subjects of editorial
comment.
THE current number of Harper S
Magazine completes the eighty seventh
volume in a manner worthy the long
life and high character of that period
zeal. The opening article is the second
in Mr.. Edwin Lord Weeks's descrip-
ton of his journey from the Black Sea
to the Persian Gulf by Caravan, and
the frontispiece illustrates an interest
ing family group set in characteristic
Persian landscape. Mr.. Rein w. Me-
Adam turns the light upon the Indian
Territory in an illustrated article en-
titled "An Indian Commonwealth, -
and Richard Harding Davis continues
his studies of English life in an ami
mated sketch of London in the Sea-
son." with illustrations by w. Hather-
ell. Mr.. Frederick II. Coudert con-
tributes timely paper on " Arbtra-
tion," Col. II. A. Dodge writes of Sri
ders in Turkey" and Daniel Roberts