The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-09-12
CURRENT LITERATURE.
The September Magazines.


II readers of Blue and Graz, old and
young, have been pleased with former
issues of this magazine of sterling
American patriotism, they will certainly
be charmed with the September num-
! Der, which not only contains an unusual
variety of interesting papers, but is
! Handsomely illustrated--no less than
pearing in this special Antietam
number The short stories and dialect
tales are specially interesting, and the
leading paper, "Antietam-Sharpsburg,"
by Colonel A. II. Nickerson Gu. S. A.,
retired) is noteworthy for its intelli-
gent criticism Of both Mcclellan and
Lee and their subordinates. The Pa
triotic Youths Department is becoming
most valuable feature of Blue and
Gray, giving it a stronghold on the al.
fections of boys and young men whose
training is such as to awaken patriotic
desires and love for the old flag. The
Current Publishing Company, Phila-
delpha.
THE ReUie,O of ReUie,cs for September
might well be called an international
politics number, the word politics being
used ia its broadcast sense. Every line
of this whole compact issue is up to date
and directly pertinent to the great prob
lems that concern the world at the pres
ent moment. The most elaborate arti.
Gle is entitled " Political Japan and Its
Leaders," by Mr.. G. Meriwether. The
writer is a Johns Hopkins graduate
who spent some years as "a professor in
a government institution in Japan, and
! who has written the present article with
reference to all those conditions which
have brought Japan TO domestic and
foreign crisis, the result of which is the
existing war with China. Mr.. Meri-
wether gives us clear accounts of the
most significant party and military lead
ers. Under the title Of "The Work of
the Fifty-third Congress-" the ReUie,0
furnishes record of the legislation of
the past year, and devotes several pages
of fine print to the actual tariff sched-
ules, placing the Mckinley rates and
the new rates side by side. This is a
service that will be particularly appre-
ciated during the pending campaigns.
Mr.. W. b. Shaw of the Revie,0 staff has
also compiled for this number sum-
mary account of the important laws that
have been enacted by the fifteen state
legislatures which have been in session
within the past six or eight months.
DIR. Albert Shaw, editor-in-chief of the
ReUielU, presents an article on the new
Hawaiian constitution, evidently pre-
pared from a close study of the COM
plete document. He points out many
interesting features, and regards the
work of the Hawaiian convention as
evincing high order of craftsmanship.
THE September number of The Fo.
rum (Which begins its eighteenth vol
ume) opens with an instructive article
on The Lessons of Recent Civil Dis
ORDERS" by the Hon. Thomas M.
Cooley, in which he analyses the chief
recent civil disorders, especially the
late strike, setting it in its proper lega
and constitutional light. Mr.. Edward
Atkinson writes on "Present Indus
trial Problems in the Light of History,
in which he attempts to place current
problems in their proper relation tt
large movements. Rev. DR.. j. H. Bar
rows, who was chairman of the Parlia
ment of Religions held last year in Chi
cago, sums up the "Results Of the Parla
ment of Reli gions," and quotes opinions
of it by eminent ecclesiastics, scholars
and statesmen the world over, anC
shows its wide-reaching results. DR.. G
F. Shrady writes on "The Pay of Ply
sicians and Surgeons" telling wha
fees doctors receive in this country anG
other countries, contrasting them with
the fees earned In the other profes
siops. Professor Francis G. Peabod,
of Harvard gives the results of a re
search showing 1.-The Proportion o
College-Trained Preachers that were
turned out by twenty-seven leading
American colleges in the last twenty
five years, and draws hopeful conclu
sions therefrom. Frederic Harrison
the eminent English critic, continues
his studies of the great Victorian wri
tiers with brilliant article on Macsu
lays Place in Literature" summing VI
Macaulay as "glorified journalist ,
and not great historian. Purushotan
, Rao Telang, a high-caste Brahmin o
/ Bombay, shrewd observer and grea
scholar, contributes an article OF
, Home-Life in India-Child.M Marriage
. and Widows" in which he wildly de-
scribes the marriage ceremonies, ant
social customs generally, among the
Hindus at the present day, contrasting
: them with those of our own country
l DR.. j. M. Rice writes on Bleaching b,
Travel-a School Excursion from Indi
ana to Virginia.