The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-01-31
CURRENT LITERATURE.
The February Magazines.

WITH many other innovations and
improvements, GOdey'S Magazine APP
pears in a new and most attractive
cover. In every respect this number
is the most attractive ever issued by
the Cooley Publishing Company. 1t
has choice and varied contents, the
opening article, How to Make Money
in Wall Street," being from the pen of
Henry Clews. There are the opening
chapters of novel, "This Man and
This Woman" by Margaret Lee, with
illustrations by Paul Nimmo Moran;
short story, "The Worlds GAIN" by
Henry Milford Steele; GA Tragedy
Pro Tenn" short story, by James Clar.
ence Harvey; :" A Begging Letter."
farce, by Anna Robson Brown, with
short sketches, numerous ilu trations,
and poems.
THE complete novel in Lippincott's
is 1.-THE Picture of Las Cruces" by
Christian Reid. The scene is laid in
Mexico, and i,fly in the ancient
house of noble family, where an
American artist undergoes a curious
experience. CDR. Pennington's Coun-
try Practice" by Butler Munroe, is a
lively and amusing story. "Dick," by |
George Grantham Balm, tells of an
office-boy whose unobtrusive virtues
wrought reform among editors and
reporters. ga House that Jack Built"
by Philo Andrews Tucker, is a quaint
sketch with moral. In Talks with
the Trade" the question, Have
Young Writers a Chance?" is dis
cussed. The poetry of the number is
by Martha T. Tyler, Mary Mcneil
Scott, Mary B. Dodge, Lillian Corbett
Barnes, and Frank Dempster Sherman.
AN impartial review of the whole
Hawaiian controversy appears in The
Forum. 1t is written by Mr.. James
Schouler of Boston, who as student of
international law has gone over the
whole matter especially for The
Forum-to make it plain, without any
partisan purpose to serve. 1t contains
sharp Protectionist criticism of the
Wilson bill by Mr.. Albert Clarke, Sec
rotary of the Home Market Club of
Boston. He calls it \" The Wilson Tariff
for Deficit Only" An authoritative
calculation appears of the present and
the probable production of gold to
answer the inquiry Is the Supply of
Gold Sufficient" by Mr.. j. E. Fraen-
KEEL, special student of the subject.
Mrs. Josephine Shaw Lowell and DIR.
Lyman Abbott write of methods of re-
lief for the mployed-articies that
grow out of their long experience in
studying and working out plans that
will not defeat the main purpose of
charity.
THIS number of Scribner'S Magazine
opens with one of the richest articles it
has ever printed-a charming study of
the work Of Edward Burne-J ones, by
Mr.. Cosmo Monkhouse, the dis
tinguished English critic. Twenty of
Mr.. Burne-Jones' most striking de-
signs and pictures are reproduced by
his permission and that of their owners.
A number of sketches are here repro
duced for the first time, and the whole
series, with the accompanying text,
gives an Interpretation of the exquisite
quality of this imaginative artist such
as has never been published in pop
ular article. The fiction includes sec
ond installment of George w. Cables
strong novel of the New South, "John
March, Southerner"; and short stories
by Mary Tappan Wright, Robert
Howard Russell and George L. Putnam
(author of " In Blue Uniformly. There
are poems by Mrs. Fields, Arthur Sher-
burne Hardy, M. L. Van Worst, and a
short essay by Ferris Lockwood.
AN article in The Century by John
&. Nicolay, President Lincoln's private
secretary, on the Gettysburgh Address,
is accompanied by a fac-simile of the
original manuscript there printed for
the first time. This article will prob
ably settle various disputed points
about the writing, delivery and correct
text of this famous address. There is
an article on "The Tramp at Home"
by the young man who writes under
the name of Josiah Flypt," and who
has already contributed several articles
on tramp life to The Century. In the
present paper he describes his own ex-
periences with tramps during a ten
days. trip from New York to Buffalo
and return, at an expenditure of one
dollar. The article will be especially
interesting reading to the people living
on the line of the New York Central
railroad, who will here learn that tramps
have high regard for the cities of
Syracuse, Utica, Rome, etc. The Cen
trail road is said to be very easy one to
beat" and tramps can be sure Of
three meals day and comfortable
place to sleep anywhere along its line.
THE well-known weekly, ToUn Topics,
famed for the brightness and boldness
of its writings, begins 1894 more
breezy publication then ever, and with
a most interesting new feature added.
1t will, hereafter with each number,
issue, as loose supplement, portrait,
drawn from life by its own special
artists, of some man particularly dis
tinguished at the moment in his walk of
life. These portraits will not be re-
productions of photographs or an ordi-
nary portrait for which the subject has
posed, but will be an exact and ife-like
picture of the man in his natural or
characteristic attitude. The first of the
series was the portrait Of the great
editor, Charles A. Dana, at his desk
reading the morning paper. The sec
ond that of Ward McAllister, New
York's society leader, as he may be
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