The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-09-04
CURRENT LITERATURE.
The September Magazines.

| inal drawings it uses, and in its fashion
| department, which makes it so attrac-
tive to the women of the family. Two
artists in particular who have become
familiar through Godey's are G. T. Les
ter and V. w. Newman. Each has an
admirable piece of work in this issue.
The question whether a child is nat
urally moral or immoral is taken I'D bv
Professor James Sully in the Popular
Science Monthly. This article is de-
voted to " Primitive Egoisn and Altru-
ism," and shows that many of child's
acts that seem perverse or cruel are ex-
planned when we try to look at things
from the child's personal standpoint.
THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY contains
the first installment of three-part
story, by Charles Egbert Craddock, en-
titled 1.-THE Mystery of Witch-Face
Mountain" The second of DIR. John
Fiske's historical papers has for sub
ject, John Smith in Virginia." in
which he reopens vigorously the dis
cussion in regard to this interesting
character.
The FORUM is, in many respects,
one OF the most noteworthy numbers
ever issued. The leader is contributed
by the Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, presi-
dent of the board of police commits
sioners, New York, who writes in his
usual vigorous style on "The Enforce
ment of Law" setting forth clearly
and unequivocally his position with re-
gard to the enforcement of the excise
law in New York, which he is deter
mined to enforce without fear or favor.
The success of a magazine serial
dealing with contemporary American
affairs has been abundantly demon
strated by the wide and permanent in
terest that has been aroused by Presi-
dent Andrews History of the Last
Quarter Century in the United States"
now running in Scribners Magazine.
The great variety of the topics 80
dramatically treated makes each INSTALL
ment of new interest to old readers and
also attracts the attention of ne wer
circles. This is we'll illustrated by the
splendid installment which leads this
number of Scribner's.
FICTION and travel are the strong
points of the Cosmopolitan, which, by
the way, illustrates better than any pre-
vious number the perfection of it's
plant for printing magazine of the
highest class. Conan Doyle, H. II.
Boyesen and Clark Russell are among
the story-tellers. Thomas Moran again
contributes series of the most exqui-
site landscapes of western scenery,
twelve in number, illustrating an article
by Colonel John A. Cockerill on mod
ern Utah" And it may be said that
no more northumberland number
of the Cosmopolitan has ever been
given to the public.
THE complete novel in Lippincott's
is ga Case in Equity" by Francis
Lynde. The scene is " boom " town
in the South, with the adjoining coun-
try, to which young Northerner went
in search of health, and found it and
some other things. "Morning Mists"
is one of Julien Gordon's strongest
tales, though it has very mature hero
inc and very young hero Charles
Newton Hood tells How the La Rue
Stakes Were Lost" in way highly cred
liable to the losers. The poetry of the
number is by Susie M. Best, Carrie
Blake Morgan, Clarence Hawkes. and
Charles G. D. Roberts.
EDWIN LORD WEEKS, the painter,
well known to the readers of Harper's
Magazine as the writer of delightful
articles of travel to which he contrib
utes the illustrations, is the writer of
a paper on "Indian Art and Architec-
ture," published in this number. Ac-
cording to Mr.. Weeks, the art impulse
is still strong in India, and not even the
commercial Philstine is able to crush
it. Flourishing art schools exist in La
hore and Bombay, and although their
efforts are devoted chiefly to artistic
manufactures and to decoration, yet it
seem probable that the school archi-
lecture which produced the Tai Mahal
will not be allowed to die out.
THE Smithsonian Institution at Wash
ington has awarded its prize of $4,000
to Lord Rayleigh and Professor RAM
say of London, Eng, for their discov-
stituent of the atmosphere. This re-
markAble discovery is the subject of a
tifteen-page article in the present num-
Der of Current History Second quarter,
1880, giving in detail the history of the
Investigations, and the chemical, phys
icsl and spectroscopic properties of ar
gon so far as known, and illustrated with
photographs of the discoveries, cuts of
apparatus, and photographs of spectra.
In addition, the magazine (264 pages)
SlNOo u lONlCW VI lOplCb dU5OIUlHS
mems attention in all parts of the
world.
IN the current issue of The Ladies'
Home Journal Professor Charles H.
Parkhurst, DID,, discusses wisely and
well the subject of Compulsion in
Child Training" His article is ably
supplemented by Edward W. Bok's ex-
cellent editorial on "Our Schools and
Our Teachers" THE Woman Who
Paints Cats " is the striking title of
full psge devoted to Madame Henriette
Ronner, the celebrated cat-painter,
several copies of her most celebrated
pictures being given. This attractive
issue, which goes out with a cover es-
peciallv designed by Mr.. G. d. Gibson,
is worth ten times its price of ten cents.
The Ladies Home Journal is published
by the Curtis Publishing Company,
Philadelphia, Pa, for ten cents per
number and 81 per year.