The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-11-06
CURRENT LITERATURE.
The November Magazines.

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THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY contains.
among other features, three short
stories of exceptional quality: "In
Apparition of Gran'ther Hill" by Row
land E. Robinson, and "The Face of
DEATH" by L. Dougall. There is also
serial, " The Seats of the Mighty" and
Charles Egbert Craddock's "The Mys-
terry of Witch-Face Mountain - is con-
cluded.
GoDEY's MAGAZINE makes point of
having at least one article of weigbty
Importance each month. This number
contains timely and suggestive dis.
cussion of The Vatican and the Peace
of Europe" by Jesse Albert Locke.
A narrative that will provoke much ar
gument is Cleveland Moffetts impartial
description of "The Miracles of Saint
Anne" "Camera Caprices " describes
and illustrates many of the Illusions
possible in photography and is as anus
ing as it is instructive. The true char
acters of those picturesque putocrats,
Hettie Green and Russell Sage, are por-
trayed entertainingly, and what Lee j.
Vance tells about "The Gold Fields of
the South " will be a surprise to many.
LADIES HOME JOURNAL. - 1.-THE
Holiday Dance at Worrosquoyacke " is
the title of Mrs. Burton Harrison's lat
est and best short story-a two-part
novelette-which opens most delight
fully in this number. 1t deals with
New York fashionables-frst at the
Horse Show and subsequently, in Vir-
ginia, the personages and environments
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forts. The story is concluded in the
December Journal and is artisticallv H.
Illustrated by w. L. Taylor. This num-
Der is especially engaging in its illus.
tratons and bright in every line, ex-
actly adapted to the Thanksgiving sea-
sons diversion of all members Of the
household.
SCRIBNER's MAGAzINE.-A timely
and unusually novel and attractive feat
ure is series of Thanksgiving Fancies,
ten full-page illustrations by well-known
artists. In the same number Mr.. Royal
Cortissoz's article, Landmarks of
Manhattan" deals with the growth of
some of the great New York giants of
business architecture, and apprecia-
lively also with the splendid group of
buildings to be erected on Morningside
of st. John the Divine, Columbia Col
lege and St. Luke's Hospital. The il
Illustrations are especially fine. The
illustrations of the number are even
more profuse than they have usually
been of late, and the contributing art
lists are among the best.
THE CENTURY.-The frOntispiece of
this number is a reminder of the en-.
courage nent the magazine has given
in the twenty-five years of its existence
to the fine arts. This picture is a fig
ure from Titian's " Sacred and Profane
Love, "and is engraved by Mr. Timothy
Cole, who has gained worldwide fame
by his contributions to The Century of
wood engravings of the old Italian and
Flemish Masters. A full-pag illustra-
ton, "The Missionsry's Story" is the
first of series of reproductions of some
of Jehan Georges Vibert's famous
paintings. The descriptive text is sup
piled by the artist himself, and this is
introduced by an photographed
sketch in which the artist assumes to
be discussing his personality with his
"gOod conscience"
THE FORUM presents an unusually
interesting and diversified table of con-
tents. The leading article Is dis
cussion of the third-term question by
Professor John Bach McMaster, the
historian, entitled "The Third-Term
Tradition" Mr.. McMaster cites the well
known historical presidents against a
presidential third-term, and thinks
there is no reason to believe that the
old-time antipathy to third.term is
one whit less strong than it ever was.
Other articles are Woman's Position
in Pagan Times" by the late Professor
Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen, g The Cen
tenary of John Keats" by Montgomery
Schuyler and an important and instruc-
tive article entitled Cooperation
Among Farmers" by Edward F.
Adams of California, who describes in
his paper a notable CO operative move.
ment among the deciduous fruit grow
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