The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-02-28
CURRENT LITERATURE.
The March Magazines.

March number contains five: "The
buckley Lady," a love-slory of colonial
New England, by Miss Mary Z. Will
kins; A Pirtie Carree,'' a history of
yachting cruise in the Mediterranean,
by w. E. Norris; "An Undivined
Tragedy" a romantic tale OF English
country life, by Laurence Alma Tad
ema, daughter of the well-known
painter; C. AT a Private View" a
sketch of New York life, by Brander
Matthews; and "Cache Cache" a story
of the French r .volu ion, by William
McLennan.
Miss ANNA l.. BICKNELL, an Amer.
can lady, who was instructor of the
children of one of the ladies of the I'm.
perial household, contributes an article
to the Century on The Tuleries un-
der the Second Empire" Mss Bick-
nell was an Inmate OF the palace at the
time of the downfall of the emperor.
she describes the Tulleries as a most
uncomfortable habitation, with no con-
veniences of modern lite, lis sanitary ar
engagements and drainage very bad, while
in parts of the palace The air was abso-
lutely pestilential. A careful watch was
kept on the inmates, and they were sub
jected to military discipline. No par
GELS could be removed without authori-
cation, and any one who was out after
midnight was reported the next morn
ing.
THE current number of The Forum
contains the sharpest and, it is be-
lieved, the most helpful discussio of
the income tax that has anywhere APP
peared. Hon. Uriel S. Hal, m ember
of congress from Missouri, who had
made himself great authority on this
subject, writes in favor of it; and Mr..
David A. Wells against it. The same
number of The Forum contains the first
of a series of articles on different sys-
TENS of Socialism or Communism that
are favored by different groups of agi-
tators in the United States; Mr.. Ed
ward Bellamy explains defni tely the
programme of the National lists, and
Professor William G. Sunni err of Yale
University criticses this programme,
showing its impracticability. Another
striking article that appears in this
number is searching inquiry into the
causes of railroad failures in 1898, by
Mr.. Simon Sterne.
THE latest number of Worthinqton's
home magazine is one of the best ever
published; bright, fresh and full of en-
tertaining articles, with fine press work
and specially prepared illustrations that
add greatly to the charm and value of
its pages. With so large and excellent
a corps of contributors the descriptive
articles, essays, stories and poems must
needs be as varied in literary style as
they are in choice of subjects, and all
are worthy of the attention of those
who enjoy the wholesome, clean, en-
tertaining and instructive reading. The
leading motive of the publishers of
Worthington's Magazine is to make it
one that every intelligent man will wish
to read himself, and to have his wife
and children, his parents and his kins-
folk and acquaintances, read. In other
words, it is intended for the family and
for the whole family, not one being
neg ected or forgotten in its monthly
distribution of good things.
THE personality of famous man can
at times be brought delightfully."- close
to us, and this is particularly true of
the picture we get of Nathaniel Haw-
thorne in his youngest daughters de-
scription of my Fathers Literary
Methods " in the Ladies' Home Jour-
mai. Three exquisitely illustrated fash
ion pages, "The Art of Dressing the
Bride" The Early Spring Bonnets,"
and "The Early Spring Gowns" are
given by Mrs. Mallon, and Miss
Hooper contributes two equally valu-
able ones on "Coors and Materials for
Spring." and "The First Spring Sew
ing" H. H. Battles writes of d" The
Etiquette of Flowers" and Eben E.
Rexford gives much valuable advice
on Making and Caring for Lawn"
while Miss Scovil gives much practical
counsel on What to Do in Emer-
gencies." The cover of this March
issue, typical of Phillips Brooks doves,
which always lowered round Trinity
church, and do still, the work of Henry
this magazine thing of real beauty.
Mr.. APPLETON MORGAN opens the
Popular Science Monthly with a severe
arraignment of prohibition under the
title abolish All Prohibitive Liquor
Laws" He denounces these laws as
Intellectual aud inexpedient and as
standing in the way of better remedies
for intemperance. "The Origin of
Ri hit hapdedness is treated by Pro-
lessor j. Mark B Baldwin, who gives the
results OF experiments upon his infant
daughter. John G. Rothermel gives a
popular account of what has been dis
covered concerning /" Fossil Man." de-
scribing, with illustrations, the Mean
derthal, Spy, Gro Magnon, and other
famous skeletons. The first of a series
of papers on 1.-THE Ice Age and its
Work." by the distinguished scientist
Alfred Russell Wallace, appears in this
number. Oher articles are 1.-The
Founder of the First Scientific Journal"
by Jacques Boyer, and sketch, with
portrait, of Jean Martin Charcot, the
French physician who has made the
hospital of La Salpetriere the great
Mecca for students OF hysteria, hypno-
tism. and other nervous phenomena. In
the Editors Table the evil of partisan
appointments to public office, the de-
moralizing effect of sensational and
trivial journalism, and the scientific
blunders of imaginative writers are
considered. New York: ID. Appleton