The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-04-11
CURRENT LITERATURE.
The April Magazines.

The current issue of Worthington's
fully sustains the reputation gained by
previous numbers of this always bright
and attractive magazine. 1t has won a
leading place among its many rivals
and is rapidly gaining popular apprecia-
ton. Its distinctively American tone
should make it factor in American
education, an influence in American
home life, where it is eminently fitted
to enter, being as fresh and clean as it
is enjoyable and attractive.
EVERYBODY is interested in knowing
how our new cruisers would behave in
light. The answer is given in Hdr-
per's, in which Lieutenant S. A. Staun-
ton of the United States Navy describes
" A Battle-Ship in Action" The scene
is a supposed encounter between an
American cruiser of the best type and
aforelgn vessel of the same class. The
duel ends in favor of the American, but
the description is thrilling account of
battle won after hard and doub full
contest.
BLUE AND GRAY is a title which
smacks of battlefelds and gunpowder.
For this reason, no doubt, MANY people
imagine that the popular magazine
of publications devoted to the rehash-
ing of threadbare stories of blood and
carnage. AS matter of fact it is moth
ing of the sort. Blue and Gray is de-
voted to pure Americanism, and the de-
velopment of higher grade of national
| patriotism. So far from being a maya.
zine for the old veterans alone, its
special purpose is to interest and edu-
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tains to high order of American citi-
zenship.
"THE PROGRESS OF THE WORLD"
in the Review of ReuieDs contains
timely discussion of the question why
the English game ofpolitics is more ex-
citing than the American game. This
question is suggested anew by the res
ignation iof Mr.. Gladstone and the in
tense interest aroused by that episode
among Americans, to the partial neg
lect of Washington politics. Other
topics covered in progress of the
World" are, the Seigniorage bill, fill
clustering in congress, the outlook for
bimetallism, the Wilson bill in the SEN
ate, Louisiana and free sugar, the SER
vices of the late DR.. Poole of Chicago,
the death of Louis Kossuth, and many
matters of international interest.
THE complete novel in Lippincott's
is /" The Flying Halcyon," by Colonel
Richard Henry Savage, author of 1" NV
Official Wife, 1t deals with treasure
hunting and the rescue of a political
prisoner in Sonora, and has three dash
ing naval heroes, with heroines to
match. Chief Justice Abraham For
nander tells about Hawaiian Tradi-
TONS" H. G. Walsh explains an in
teresting experiment in "Co-operative
Housekeeping" now being made at
Brookline, Mass, and George j. Var
ney writes learnedly of Storage-Bat-
terry Cars" The poetry of the num-
Der, besides thoughtful and beautiful
Easter hymn by M. S. Paden, comes
from Celia A. Hayward and Charles
Calvin Ziegler.
EDWARD BELLAMY tells a singu-
larly interesting story in his account of
" How | Wrote Looking Backward,'"
in the Ladies' Home Journal, and adds
to the interest by describing how the
idea of nationalism first occurred to
him. Not less personally interesting is
Mr.. William Dean Howells in the fifth
article of his literary autobiography,
"My Literary Passions" Edward w.
Box answers the peculiar questions of
"Four Uncertain Young Women -;
while all through the other articles runs
that peculiarly readable and popular
quality which makes this magazine so
eagerly sought for and widely read.
The Journal is published by the Curtis
Publishing Company of Philadelphia,
for one dollar per year, or ten cents per
copy.
AMONG the writers of articles in
The Popular Science Monthly are the
well-known names of Andrew D.
White, Herbert Spencer, Alfred r.
Wallace, James D. Dana, and Joseph
LIE Conte. This number contains also
the second portion of Alfred r. Wal
lace's paper on ''The Ice Age and it's
Work" The system of aerial teleg-
raphy invented by Claude Chappe is
described by Walter Lodian in fully
illustrated article entitled :" A Century
of the Telegraph in France Mr..
Horace 7. Martin contributes an illus
trated account of " The Beaver Eater"
otherwise known as "child of the
devil" and there are other articles on
I" Incidents of Cambodian Life and the
Origin of Art" The subject of the
usual Sketch and Portrait is Rev. l..
ID. Won Schweiniz, one of the earliest
botanists to study American fungi.
Two timely topics, I" The Unemployed
aud Why Beneticence Should not be
Enforced," are discuss ed in the Edi-
tors Table.