The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-07-03
CURRENT LITERATURE,
The July Magazines,

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Magazine appears in a cover by Lin
coin, and presents a most attractive ap-
pearance among the magazines of the
month. The table of contents, as
usual, offers many and varied articles,
and cannot fail to interest every mem
Der of the family. The reproduction
of the famous pictures of the "Battle
of Getty sburg" is appropriate for the
anniversary of this stirring event which
changed the history of our country.
THE July number of Scribner's Mag
dztne contains several articles that are
particularly adapted to the season, ques-
tions that interest people in early sum-
mer., The leading article is Life at
the Athletic Ciubs,"' by Duncan Ed
wards, who was famous college ath-
lete and has retained keen interest in
every form of athletic sport. His arti-
Gle has the advantage of being written
by one who has personal knowledge
of the clubs which he describes, in
many large cities.
THE July Forum contains striking ar
ticle by DR.. Max Nordau, author of "De-
generation," on "Society's Protection
against Degenerates"-th first contri-
button that he has made to an Ameri.
can publication. Judge George f.
Edmunds and Edward b. Whitney,
assistant Encouragement, discuss re-
spectively the "Salutary Results and
the Political Dangers of the Income
Tax Decision" Mr.. Whitney's article
shows that the decision may not by any
means be the end OF the matter.
THE Atlantic Monthly for July con-
tains the first of DR.. John Fiske's
promised historical papers. The sub
ject treated in this issue is "The
Eizsbelhan a Kings" Such pctur-
esque historical characters as Raleigh,
Drake, and others of their time,
become doubly attractive when de.
scribed by 50 charming a writer as Mr..
Fiske. Another series which promises
delightful reading describes " An Arch
itects Vacation" Robert S. Pea
body, the well-known Boston architect,
Is the author, and the first paper treats
of rural England.
A NUMBER of extracts from an anus
ing Japanese Life of General Grant
are printed in the July Century. The
book was written and circulated soon
after General Grants tour around the
world, but has become very rare. The
author has the highest admiration
for the soldier and statesman-this
Heaven bestow wed wise man "-and
he expresses it with true Oriental
mpressiveness. He pictures General
Grant at the head of his troops,
shooting a glittering light from the
midst of his eyeball, lifting up his
sword, raising his great voice like a
peal of thunder" The illustrations are
characteristic.
Two articles by Herbert Spencer are
published in the July Popular Science
Monthly. One is devoted to the
on professional Institutions "; the
other is an occasional article under the
title "Mr. Balfour's Dialectics," in
which he discusses some of the claims
concerning things supernatural made in
Balfour's foundations of Belief" DR..
Andrew ID. White has an article on ''Be-
ginnings of Scientific Criticism" 1t
tells how the first few scholars to turn
scientific investigation upon the Hebrew
Scriptures were suppressed as they
arose, and how wider and wider accept
ance has been won for their results by
the increasing number of their success
sors.
THE safeguards of marriage are
treated of by DR.. Parkhurst in the July
Ladies' Home Journal in way that
will strike many as particularly direct
and to the point. Never, perhaps, has
the marriage question been 50 well
dealt with. Tha romantic life of the
widow of Octave Feuillet is charmingly
treated by Madame Blanc, under her
pseudonym of 1.-The Benizou," while
Hezekiah Butterworlh tells THE Story
of Brook Farm" that unique New
England experiment which is unknown
TO large part of the present generation
Amusing Children in Summer" is the
title Of a page devoted t. outdoor and
indoor summer parties for chi dren,
aud serves to add attractlventss to an
issue which goes out to lis hundreds o
thousand, of aders in dainty cover
exquisteh illustrated by w. l.. Taylor.
The Ladies' Home Journal is published
by The Curtis Publishing Company, OF
Pniladelph a, for ten cents per number
and one dollar per year.