The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-06-03
CURRENT LITERATURE.
The June Magazines.

DIR. ALBERT SHAW gives his i'm
pressio ms Of st Louis; This Year
Convention City," in the ReuieD of
Reyieps. With all due concessions to
Chicago, DIR. Shaw succeeds in making
out strong case for the Missouri town
Among other iuteret ting facts, he
shows that ST. Louis is now more thor
oughly under republican control than
any other of our larger cities, not even
excepting Philadelphia. His article is
copiously illustrated. There is an ex
cellent view of the convention hall,
with diagram of seating arrange me nts
THE fact that the republican CONVEX
ton is to be held in St. Louis this
month directs special attention to that
city and W Il make particularly timely
the article on the city government of
ST. Louis which DR.. Albert Shaw, the
author of " Municipal Governments in
Great Britain" ETC., has contributed to
the Century. 1t is one OF several ar
iices which DR.. Shaw is writing for
this magazine on the government of
American cit es. The same number
contains an article by Joseph B. Bishop
on Humor and Pathos of Presiden.
tial Conventions"
AN article of great contemporary in
terest in Scr,bner'S is Henry Norman's
vivid picture OF the present condition
of affairs in the most crucial point in all
European poitics-the Balkan Pc
ninsula, where half dozen little Princi-
paities are the buffer between The
great powers of Europe. A few months
ago Mr.. Norman made visit TO this
re gion, and this article is the first pre-
sentation of the impressions then gath
cred of Roumania, Seivia, Bosnia, Her
zegOvina, Bulgaria, and Montenegro.
Abundant illustrations of the pictur-
esque countries visited are made from
Mr.. Norman's own photographs,
THE ATLANTIC begins with another
installment of the letters of Dante Ga
britl Rossetti edited by George Birk-
beck Hill The installment contains
the letters for 1865. Striking features
in this issue are an article upon 1.-The
Politician and the Public School," by
Mr.. G. L. Jones, superintendent of
schools, Cleve land, Ohio, and Re-
striction of immigration" by President
Francis A. Walker. The book reviews
include review of John T. Morse's
"Life and Letters of Oliver Wendell
Holiness" and reviews of recent publ
cations on history and art. Poems and
usual departments complete the issue.
THE complete novel in Lippincotts
is "From Clue to Climax" by Will N.
Harden. 1t is a tale Of murder and
bypnotism, in which an extremely able
detective and a physician of the new
school join forces to clear the innocent
and run the guilty to earth. /" A Fe.-
low-F Feeling" is by Edith Brewer, per-
haps the only author who can write
readable stories about the coal region.
Edith Dickson writes on the " Youth.
full Reading of Literary Men," Will
liam Trowbridge Larned makes some
remarks After Seeing Poor Play"
Woman in Business " is discussed by
Mary E. j. Kelley. A second article
on General and Mrs. Washington by
Anne Holingsworth Wharton, deals
with their official life. Like its prede-
cessor, it is abundantly illustrated
The poetry of the number is by Car
lotta Perry, Grace F. Pennypacker and
Charles G, d. Roberts.
MCCLURE's MAGAZINE contains a
little battle study by Stephen Crane
that, in its way, is more dramatic and
striking than even "The Red Badge of
Courage" the novel by Mr.. Crane
which is now attracting so much atten-
ton both in America and England. 1t
shows, unmistakably, the hand of
genius. Another bit of most distin-
guished fiction in the same number is
Rudyard Kipling's In the Rukh -
one of KILLINGS earlier stories, but $50
one of his best, relating how that ever
entertaining orphan of the jungle,
Mowgli, made acquaintance with white
men and became lover. Add to these
Cy Warman's marvellous true tale of
"The Locomotive that Lost Hers elf"
and an installment of Anthony Hopes
Phroso" fairly bursting with love
and adventure, and certainly, on the
McClure's would be hard to approach
THE ARENA opens its sixteenth vol
ume, appearing in new dress, and
being printed by Skinner, Bartlett &
Co. 1t is an unusually strong number,
opening with brilliant paper by Rev.
Samuel Barrows, d D., the distin-
guished editor of the Christian Register
of Boston, on " The First Pagan Critic
of Christian Faith and His Anticipa-
ton of M dern Thought" Students
of the higher metaphysical thought OF
our time will be deeply interested in
Horatio w. Dresser's paper entitled
"The Mental Cure in its Relation to
Modern Thought" Will Allen Drom-
goole continues the powerful serial of
"Tennessee Life" and Mrs. Calvin
Kryder Reifsnider's "Psychical Ro-
NANCE" which opened a few months
since, is prefaced by digest of the
prece ding chapters, 1t is also pre-
fusely illustrated with exceptionally
fine drawings. These are by no means
the u quota of the strong attractions
of this brilliant number of Americas
great progressive, reformative and lit
eral review.
HARPER's MAGAZINE opens with
GA Visit to Athens" vivid descrip.
tive sketch by the RI. Rev. William
Croswell Doane. The illustrations, by
Guy Rose indicate DiCturef Ouely the