The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-04-15
CURRENT LITERATURE.
The April Magazines.

commanding the United States corps of
engineers, Vice-president Webb OF the
New York Central, and John Jacob
Aston, compose The Cosmopolitan Mag
azine's board of judges to decide the
merits of the horseless carriages which
will be entered in the May trials, for
which The Cosmopolitan offers $4,000
in prizes. This committee is undoubt-
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ever consented to act upon the occasion
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Atlantic.
UNDER the head of L" English Re-
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representative Englishmen as Lord
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William Watson, George Meredith,
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Durham, Cardinal Vaughan, John E.
Millais, G. F. Watts, Alma Tadema,
Wilson Barrett, II. M. Stanley, and
Henry Norman. These letters were
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