The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-08-01
CURRENT LITERATURE.
The August Magazines.

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THAT veteran journalist, George W.
| Smalley, long the London correspondent
of the New York Tribune, contributes
to the August Hdrper's Mdqdzine an
article entitled " Chapters in Journal
ISM" 1t is addressed to newspaper
men, and includes an interesting dis
closure regarding the battle of Antie-
tam, "reminiscences of the Austro.
Prussian and Franco-German wars,
and the account of the establishment
of the first London Office of New
York newspaper.
SCRIBNER's MAGAZINE for August is
fiction number, as has been the Gus
tom for seven years. 1t contains six
| complete short stories, by II. G. Bum
ner, T. r. Sullivan, William H. Shell
ton, w. Orally Hewitt, Octave Uzanne,
and Harrison Robertson, the author of
one of the most famous stories ever
published in Scribner'S, GLOW the
Derby Was Won" All these stories
are distinguished by an individuality
and delicate fancy that make them of
unusual quality, even for the high
standard of short fiction in American
magazines.
AN article of great interest in the
August Arena is on 1.-The Value of
Hypnotism as a Means of Surgical
An@sthesia," by James r.. Cooke, NJ.
d., in which he gives an account of
some of his experiences as a physician
in the use of hypnotism as a substitute
for morphine, chloroform and other
opiates. He claims from his practice
that hypnotism can and will supply the
place now held in medicine and surgery
by morphine, ETC., in at least from
seventy-fve to eighty per cent of all the
cases in which these drugs are used.
Incidentally he combats the popular
idea that hypnotism is some sort of
magic or jugglery of trance mediums
and such people.
The complete novel in the August
number of LippincottS is " Sweetheart
Manette," by Maurice Thompson. The
scene is laid at Bay St. Louis, on the
Gulf of Mexico, and the charming hero
inc has quartette of lovers, and eX-
periences no little difficulty in deciding
between them. Mrs. M. E. w. Sher-
wood supplies interesting "reminiscences
of Washington Before the War;"
Mary Elizabeth Blake writes on Mus
Giles and Morals" George Grantham
Balm on Newspaper Faking,' and
Will Clemens on Chinese Shops" and
their peculiar signs. The poetry is
by Margaret Gilman George, Dora Read
Goodale, Fannie Bent Dillingham;, and
Professor John B. Tabb.
How girls were courted in the old
Puritan days, and the difficulties, now
unknown, to marriage are delightfully."-
described by Alice Morse Earle in the
LADIES' Home Journal, which article is
put next to snake story by Max O'Rell,
reminiscent of his life in the bush of
Australia, and which he calls "My
First Snake" Julia Bond Valentines
charming story, 1.-THE Whistling Girl"
is the subject of two most exquisite
illustrations by Irving r. Wiles. AL
together this issue, with its pretty sum-
mer cover by Alice Barber Stephens, is
particularly dainty issue, and no
woman can afford to be without it.
Sold by The Curtis Publishing Company
of Philadelphia for ten cents per num-
Der and one dollar per year.
AS usual, the publishers of The Cen
tury have given especial care to the
August issue, the midsummer holiday
number of the magazine. 1t will be
particularly strong in its fiction, its
sketches and familiar essays, and in its
pictures. There will be striking story,
cod Bias Vision," by the new South
ern writer, Virginia Frazer Boyle, and
still newer writer, Lucy S. Furman,
goes to the same section of the country
for inspiration for Brother Rolly's
Drawback" There are two engravings
by Timothy Cole, one a portrait of Poe
in connection with the printing of some
of his newly-discovered letters. A
sketch is given of the American dis
cOverer of anesthesia, accompanied by
portraits and letter from Oliver Wen
dell Holmes. Professor Eugene Lamb
Richards of Yale writes a paper on
Walking as a Pastime," full, of vaca-
ton hints.
IN the opening article of The Popu-
lar Science Monthly for August, Profess
sor John Dewey Of Michigan attacks
one of the educational problems of the
day, under the title "The Chaos in
Moral Training" The recollections of
class in ethics as to the moral teaching
received from their parents furnish the
material upon which he comments in
this essay. An especially timely paper
is one on Human Aggregation and
Crime" by M. G. Tarde, which is a
general study of the phenomena of mob
violence. Professor E. S. Morse gives
some suggestions upon "The Distribu-
ton of Government Publications"
There are two articles of especial inter
est to engineers-One being an illus
trated description of the tunnel under
the ST. Clair River, by j. Jones Bell
which he entities "The Story of a
Great Work." while the other is A
Proposition for an Artificial Isthmus u
between Scotland and Ireland, which is
set forth by E. A. LeSueur. New York
d. Appleton & Co. Fifty cents mum
Der, So year.