The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-07-11
CURRENT LITERATURE,
The July Magazines.

In the mountains or at the seashore
one needs something suggestive for dis
cussion to while away the evenings
over cigar quite as much as one needs
light literature, and the July Arena
is just the the thing to slip into ones
satchel at this season, for it is brimful
of independent views of all the oues-
tons in the popular mind ut this time.
The Arena is always suggestive, and its
literary excellence and independence
makes it the most interesting as well as
the most valuable review published on
either side of the Atlantic.
THE public has learned Lowell's es.
innate of Mr.. Howells through the de-
lightful volumes of letters edited by the
friend of both, Professor Charles Eliot
Norton. Mr.. Howell's first impressions
of Lowell are given in his delightful
First Visit to New England" now
being publishe ed in Horper's Magazine.
In the July number the novelist de-
scribes dinner at Parker's in Boston,
at which Lowell's guests were DIR.
Holmes, James T. Fields, and the fu-
ture chroncler of the event. There
are six good short stories, although no
announcement is made that this is a
fiction number.
ROMANCE, the monthly magazine of
complete stories, which has won so
enviable a reputation, is brought within
reach of far larger public than hereto
fore by the reduction of its price from
% to 10 cents. Everybody loves good
stories, but they are VIGOROUSLY hard to
find. The editor of Romance knows
how to find them, and people who have
not bought it because of its high price
can now get for dime the best monthly
collection of stories ever offered. I'm
der the same management as hereto
fore, the new ten cent Romance is is
sued by Romance Publishing Company,
Clinton Hall, Aston Place, New York,
Subscriptions 81 year.
IN the Popular Science Monthly for
July, A Colonial Weather Service /"
is described by Alexander Meade of
! the weather bureau in Washington.
Two full-page pictures illustrating mod
ern meteo! illogical methods accom-
pany the text. The story of the intro
duction of incubation for smallpox into
England is told by Mrs. H. NJ. Punk
EFT, under the title Lady Mary Wort
ley Montagu and Modern Bacteriology."
Jerner's modification of the operation
is also described. 1t is significant that
Lady Montagu accomplished her great
service to humanity in spite of many
obstacles, at a time when women
pressed fewer "rights" than now, and
without the aid of 1.-The ballot.n
THE July number of the North Anleri-
can ReuieW will be found equal to any of
those which have preceded it, both in
the variety and timeliness of its con-
tents and in the celebrity and authori-
tative character of its contributors.
The opening article is by ex.Speaker
Reed, who discusses "The Present
Administration of National Affairs -
in manner which is certain to attract
considerable attention. The political
relations of France and England in
Egypt" are treated in a trenchant pa
per by Madame Adam. The Notes
and Comments include three very read
able papers" The Prospects of Mex.
ico," by Walter M. O'Dwyer; "The
Dangers of Vaccination" by William
B. Hidden, M. D.; and els Country
Life Lonely?" by G. H. Crandall.
THE RerieW ofRerie,0s for July finds
cause for rejoicing in the reports which
it is receiving from all parts of the
country concerning the steady diminu-
ton in the numbers of unemployed. II
will be remembered that the Review
canvassed the situation thoroughly in
the early winter, and placed before its
readers returns from nearly all the
large cities showing the number of men
out of work and the measures inaugu-
rated for their relief. Supplementary
information has been received which
enables the Reuie,o to state that almost
everywhere such relief work has cease
because the necessity for it has disap-
peared. The editor comments on this
improved condition of affairs and adds
some interesting reflections on the pass.
ing of Coxeyism. In this connection
the status of the populist party in con-
gress is discussed.