The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-11-14
CURRENT LITERATURE.
Tho November Magazines.

EACH new number OF The Blue and Groy
seems to be little better than lis prede-
cessors. Among the very entertaining
tces in he November number are " Our
Inland Waterways" " The Philadelphia
Brigade's Monument at Antietam," aud
How North Carolina Went into the War"
Published by the Current Publishing Com
pany, Phlla ielphia. Ten cents per copy.
THE November number of Romance opens
vita a seasoudbe and thrilling story of a
riot in China. The special feature Of the
issue is a group OF three stories of the home,
one of which is appro riate to Thanksgiving
/ Dav. The motto of Romance at It's reduced
| price is " Ten Stories for hi ne" and the
ten furnished in this number are all written
expressly for the magazine or are original
/ tr inslations Romance is now only 81 a
/ year, aud a sample copy of a recent issue
! will be forwarded for three wo cent stamps
sent to Romance Publishing Company,
/ Clinton Hall, Aston Place, New York.
THERE are in the November Forum four
notable articles embodyiug the results of
special investigation into important and OF
perfume topics. One is remarkably clear
and compact argument by exSrnitjr
George f Edmunds, perhaps our foremost
constitutional authority, Should
United ates Senators Be Elected by the
Prople?" to show that in spite OF the
present cutlery the method adopted by the
fathers is letter than any method that has
been proposed. Ex-senator Eimunds
! shows how large proportion Of men who
have been members of the senate have been
first members of The house-in other words,
men who had shown that they were really
the popular choice.
THE CENTURY for November signalizes
the ening Of its twenty fifth ear by the
beginning OF one of its most important en-
terprises, the Life of Napoleon" by viii.
liam NJ Sloane, professor of history at
Princeton College. The fronIspiece Of the
magazine Is an engraving of Greuz3'S por-
RAFT of Bonaparte as lieuJena of artillery
Mr.. Charles Dudley Warner contributes an
article on Professor Sloane and his wor (.
Mrs. Rose hawthorn, Lathrop contributes
to the number a series OF letters by her
father and mother, Ma hsniel and Sophia
Hawthorne, and by Herman Melville and
others, which set forth incidents OF the life
of the Hawthor les in Lenox, with the d.
bellishme 1t of a hiths unengrave por-
trait OF III iwthorne made from life by
| Leutze.
THE ReUic,o Of Reute,os for November N
its editorial depar ment, has so ne suggest
i've paragraphs hearing on the present at
tempts at municipal housec Gaming" in the
great cities OF New York, Chicago and San
Francisco, and takes the occasi IN TO em-
phasize certain lessons 10 be learned from
European municipal experience. In speak
ing OF Gl4sgOw's system OF street cars,
owned and operated by the municipality,
was not undertaken by the city until the
municipal govern had been tested with
many arge enterprises which it had shown
It's fitness to control and operate su cess
fully; it is now managing It's street ar SER
vice, says the ReUie,0, as su cessfully as the
best Of our American cities manage their
fire departments.
THK ever pressing problem, How can re-
forms be effected in the government OF
American cilies2 is ably considered by Mr..
&c NJ irwin in the November Atlantic
Monthly, In paper entitled "rammauy
Points the Way" wherein he urges tina
the same agencies efficient organization
and leadership (Which have assisted Tam
many to do evil might be equally helpful in
good cause. Fiction Is attracIively pre-
scented in he first instsllment of striking
two.part story, "rrumpeter," by Mary Hal.
lock Foote, and Rosa; "A Story of Sicilan
Customs, '..by Or. Giuseppe Pilre of Pa ermo.
The poen of the Month are Indian Sum
mer," by John Vai CO Oh ney, and THE
Kitten" by Marion q 'uthouy Smith, and
the departme Of reviews /, az full and
varied as usual, as may also be said Of the
entertaining Contributors Club Houghton.
Mifiiin & Co., Boston.