The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-06-06
CURRENT LITERATURE.
The June Magazines.

The June Magazines.
CURRENT HISTORY for the first quar-.
ter of 1894 more than sustains the past
reputation of this remarkable work as a
comprehensive, able, and interesting
resume of the worlds doings. 1t con-
tains 265 pages of reading matter,
which convey the reader on a flying
trip around the world, giving him in
clear perspective bird's-eye view of
the important events of the day in all
civilized countries, stopping long
enough at points to enable him to get
thorough understanding of all the salient
conviction that he has been brought into
closer touch than ever before with the
the great life of the world, and is better
equipped to read even his daily paper
and to form an intelligent estimate on
the important topics on which every
live citizen should be well posted. The
work is admirably clear and philosophic
in its presentation of facts, beautifully
printed and illustrated, free from po-
litical or sectarian bias, accurate in it's
statements, and is endorsed by scholars
and public men at home and abroad as
an eminently valuable addition to any
library.
The North AMERICAN REVIEW
opens with an able article by the Sec
rotary of agriculture, Hon. j. Sterling
Morton, entitled " Protection and the
Proletariat." The industrial army -
movement forms the subject of three
valuable papers, which are bracketed
together under the caption of "The
Menace of CoXeyism." Two articles
on Woman Suffrage in Practice, !"
written respectively by the governors
of Colorado and Nebraska, possess a
special value at the present time.
"The Political Outlook in England " is
dealt with from the conservative point
of view by Sir Ellis Ashmead- Bartlett,
M. P. Bishop Doane of Albany writes
on " The New York State University"
and w. II. Mallock discusses Fashion
and Intellect" in most entertaining
manner What Should a Doctor Be
Paid?' is question which is answered
in most suggestive paper by DR.. w.
A. Hammond.
IN The Forum for June, Mr.. Morton,
the secretary of agriculture, writes on
al LuOlo, dlldClCo, anu ulIOWo, "
show that that the agricultural unrest
is caused less by agricultural distress
than by political and economic falla-
cies by which certain noisy proportion
of farmers have been led away from
their burrows. The May Forum con.
tanned an argument in favor of the tax
alton of church property, particularly
the property of the Catholic church. In
the June number, the Right Reverend
j. M. Farley, vicar-general of the Cath
olic diocese of New York, presents ar
guments to show why church property
should be exempt from taxation. Along
with this is an article by Mr.. E NJ
Winston of the Chicago bar on "The
Threatening Conflict with Romanism."
AS BELTS the season, the June At.
lantic has restless air about it. A
record of summer spent in the Sell
lies by DR.. j. w. White, the eminent
Philadelphia physician, is followed by
shipwreck.suggesting poem, "The
Gravedigger," by Bliss Carman; Mrs.
Cavazza gives bright account of the
marionette theatre in Sicily; Professor
Manatt completes his excursion " Be-
hind Hymettus," and Mr.. Frank Bolles
continues his wanderings in the
Provinces. The fiction, besides Mrs.
Deland's notable novel, is contained in
one of Mrs. Wiggin's graphic stories,
"The Nooning Tree" Houghton,
Mifflin & Co., Boston.
ARCHIBALD FORBES, the veteran
war correspondent, writes remarkable
short paper on "The Future of the
Wounded in War;" in Scribner's, in
which he predicts that the great ad-
vance in the manufacture of deadly
weapons and also the increase in the
size of armies will make it impossible,
in the next great war, to give anything
like the attention to the wounded which
has heretofore prevailed; and that war,
instead of being more humane, will be
more cruel-so cruel, indeed, that the
nations of the world will be forced by
stern experience to devise other means
of settling their disputes. William
Henry Bishops short serial of Monte
Carlo life is concluded in this number
with striking situation. This install
ment of Mr.. Cables serial establishes
young John March in business in Sue2
and complexities the plot of that dra-
matte story. Mary Tappan Wright
contributes short story entitled " A
Portion of the Tempest" that will fur.
nish endless speculation as to the iden-
tity of the real heroine of the tale.