The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-05-17
CURRENT LITERATURE.
The May Magazines.

The personal interest of the May
number of the Century is strong and
varied. 1t includes paper of " Recol-
lections of Lord Tennyson " by John
Addington Symonds, the English art
critic, with interesting anecdotes of
discussions between the Laureate and
Mr.. Gladstone; paper on "Joseph
Bonaparte in Bordentown by Marion
Crawford, with a portrait of the King
of Spain-being the second of group
Bonapartes; paper by Don G. Seitz
on Relics of Artemus Ward" with
hitherto unpublished portrait of Ward
at the age of twenty, and facsimile of
his appointment as "Speaker of Pieces
to the Territory of Nevada "; and a
biographical sketch and portrait of
John Muir, the Sierra and Alaska ex-
plorer, by John SWEET, superintendent
of schools in San Francisco. There is
also the second of Mrs. O.iphant's his
torical papers on the reign of Queen
Anne, the subject this month being
1.-THE Queen and the Duchess" with
graphic word-pictures of the queen. the
great Marlborough and his wife. The
paper is fully illustrated by portraits,
and by pictures of Hampton Court, st.
James, Palace, Windsor Terrace, Blen-
helm, ETC., chiefly by Mr.. Pennell. An
unpartizan paper of current interest is
can Inside View of the Pension Blu
reau," by A. B. Casselman, an en-
ploye of the Bureau, who makes some
interesting revelations of the condition
of pension affairs, and some suggestions
of reform based on his own experience
of the office. The fiction of the num-
Der comprises the last part of Mrs. Bur-
ton Harrison's New York society novel,
"Sweet Bells Out of Tune" with pic
ture by Gibson; the sixth part of VOL
colt Balestier's benefits Forgot ~;
"The Chevalier de Resseguer," short
story by Thomas Bailey Aldrich, with
a picture by Howard Pyle; the first in
stalment of a humorous two. part story
by William Henry Bishop, entitled
Writing to Rosina," with pictures by
H. S. Watson and Herbert Denman;
and a short story by M. Frances Swami
Williams, entitled "Mr. Gadsbury's
Brother" with pictures by Kemble.
THE May Forum contains unique
articles by eminent writers on three
topics of vitality absorbing interest
Monsignor Satolli's mission to Amer
lea, the Toledo labor decisions and the
Russian Extradition Treaty. In "The
Pope in Washingto on" Bishop John II.
Vincent recites the dangers which the
Protestant clergy apprehend from the
extension to this country of the per-
sonal Papal power; Leonard Woolsey
Bacon, in &" An American Viceroy from
the Vatican" discusses from liberal
standpoint the effect on American in
situations of Pope Leo's attitude toward
the United States; and DIR. James F.
Loughlin, chancellor of the archdiocese
of Philadelphia and associate editor
of the American Catholic ReUie,o, in
" Rome, True Ally of the Republic"
defines and defends the Catholic atti-
tude. Aldace F. Walker, chairman OF
the Western Traffic Association Com
missioners, analyses exhaustively the
recent important labor rulings in fed
eral courts by Judges Kicks, Taft, Bill
ings and Speer, maintaining that the
boycolting by law is clearly illegal, and
Colonel Carroll d. Wright, United
States Commissioner of Labor, writes
conclusively on " Compulsory Arbitra-
ton an Impossible Remedy" George
KEENAN,, the Siberian traveller, dis.
sects in mastery fashion the pending
Russian extradition treaty and adduces
weighty arguments in favor of its abro-
cation,