The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-09-05
CURRENT LITERATURE.
The September Magazines.

| HE rdpluly-lnCreaSlDg circulation OF
Romance shows that lovers of good
short stories appreciate the reduction
OF its price, and that they recognize its
constantly improving literary quality.
The September number offers ten adj
mirable stories for a dime. Its special
feature is group of three stories of
journalism. Romance is issued by Ro-
nance Publishing Company, lClinton
Hall, Astor Place, New York, and
copy is sent for ten cents.
A UNIQUE feature of the September
number of the North American Review
is the leading article entitled "The Late
Lord Chief Justice of England, Some
"Reminiscences" by the new Lord
Chief Justice, the Right Hon. Lord
Russell of Killowen, better known as
Sir Charles Russell, who relates many
interesting incidents in the life of his
distinguished predecessor, including
some amusing anecdotes of their joint
visit to the United States in 1888.
SCRIBNER's MAGAZINE for Septem-
Der has notable list of contributors,
including F. Marion Crawford, Thomas
Nelson Page, Carl Lumholtz, Octave
Thanet, Mrs. James T. Fields and
Harriet Prescott Spofford. Marion
Crawford writes Of Bar Harbor from
the point of view of one who has seen
most of the summer resorts of the
world, and has spent considerable time
at Bar Harbor viewing it as an out
slider. G. 5. Reinhart, who has made
many sketching tours in that region, fur
uishes the illustration. This group of
articles will be concluded in the Octo-
Der number with an article on Lenox
by George A. Hubbard, author of The
Governor"
THE "Open Letters department of
The Century, the aim of which is to
treat suggestively public, social, and
other questions, contains, in the Sep
TENDER number, communications on
abandoned farms, an instance of organ
lied public spirit, the causes of apathy
in municipal politics, ways of dealing
with the tramp, and latest college gym
nasium methods, the last being a con-
tribution from Professor E. l.. Rich
ards OF Yale, with special reference to
the development of the Yale gymna-
SUM, in which are fully set forth the
methods of gymnasium training quite
apart from their relation to the athletic
field Articles in "Topics of the
Time relate to the senate, Home
Rule for Cities" the Memory of
George William Curtis" and the pub
lie services of Rev. DR.. Charles Park
hurst
PROFESSOR JAMES SULLY of Univer-
sity College, London, heads the list of
contributors to the September Popular
Science Monthly with the second of his
studies of childhood, dealing with "The
Imaginative Side of Play" He shows
by means of many incidents how
strong is the power of "making be-
lieve" that enters so largely into chill
dren's plays. An enterprise of enor-
nous possibilities is described in an il
Illustrated article by Ernest A. LIE Sueur
under the title Commercial Power
Development at Niagara" There is a
sketch, with portrait, of one of the
earliest American botanists, the Luz
theran pastor, DR.. G.. II. z. Mullen
berg. In the Editors Table, "Social
Disturbances" and Endowment of Re-
search" are discussed. New York. d.
Appleton & Company. Fifty cents a
number, So year.
THE Atlantic'S supply of fiction in
September is somewhat more than
usually large. Besides Mrs. Deland's
Philip and his Wife," now within one
month of conclusion, there are three
stories" Tante Cat'riuette," by Kate
Chopin, the writer who is coming into
deserved prominence through her pic
lures of Louisiana life; For their
Brethren's Sake" powerful tale of a
Derbyshire town, during the great
plague, by Grace Howard PIERCE: and
Mrs. Catherwood's "The Kidnapped
Bride" the last of series of early
French American stories. Beyond
these things there are literary and
philosophical papers, poems, and re-
views; and of distinct contemporary
value is Professor Kuno Francke's pa
per, "The New Storm and Stress in
Germany" describing among other re-
cent works the renal kable book, "Calig-
! ula," in which the emperor is keenly
satirizsd. Houghton, Mifflin & Co.,
Boston.
The literary passions of literary
man are always interesting and they
are peculiarly so when an author of
such renown as William Dean Howells
tells of them. The tenth installment of
Mr.. Howells' literary biography under
the title of My Literary Passions
appears in the September Ladies' Home
Journal. Next in interest to Mr.. How
! ellis contribution comes apage devoted
to The Daughters in the Home" by
Mrs. Burton Kingsland, Mrs. Hamilton
Mott and the editor of the Journal. A
particularly helpful article in response
; to the question, " What Are Building
Societies?" is contributed by Mr.. Addi-
. son B. Burk, so widely known as an
authority upon the subject. Altogether
this September issue, with its artistic
= cover by w. 7. Smedley, is an idea
magazine which every woman will dc
we'll to have. Published by The Cur
tbs Publishing Company of Philadel'
phia, for ten cents per number and one
dollar per yaer.
! THE very first article in the Septem.
;, Der number of Harper's sets the blood
tingling, at least in the veins of 9
. sportsman who has ridden to hounds
!. 1t is by Casper w. Whitney on Fol
lowing the Hounds in England" 1t il