The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-03-10
CURRENT LITERATURE.

the new management and editorship.
The company has been reurRanized on n
solid financial basis, and the current
number of the magazine comes in
form and substance well calculated to
win public favor, and following its we'll
established policy OF liberalism and re-
form.
THERE is nothing that Rich lrd Hard
ing Davis describes with more skill
than a gorgeous pageant, and "The
Banderum of Hungary" which leads
the March Scribner's, is one of the
brightest exhibitions Of his pictorial
ability. The celebration at Budapest,
last June, of the thousandth year of the
existence of Hungary as a kingdom
passed almost unnoticed, and this is the
first magazine account of unique
spectacle.
THE North American ReUiew for
March contains the second and con-
Guiding portion of M. Georges Clemen-
ceau's important paper on " The French
Navy" 1t is an actual representation
Of naval affairs as they exist in France
to-day, depicting the claims of the
Young Navy" against the hackneyed
and impotent Admiralty. M. Clemen-
ceau pertinenly asks whether France
is to be satisfied with a navy inferior in
number and speed to that of her pow
ertul rival.
The editor of the ReUieW Of ReUieWs
comments in the March number on the
| Spanish program of reforms in Cuba,
the United States Senate's attitude
toward the al btration treaty with Eng
land, the immigration bill, the proposed
international monetary conference.
President-elect McKinley's cabinet Sc
lections, the recent Senatorial elections,
the New York Trust investigation, the
famine situation in India, the affair of
the Greeks in Crete, the foreign policy
of Russia, the position of England,
France, and the other great powers.
and many other matters of current in
terest.
THE timeiness and energy of the
Atlantic Monthly are shown by the an
nouncement that its March number
contains a review of Mr.. Cleveland's
two administrations by Woodrow Will
son. Mr.. Wilson Of course writes from
the point of view OF non-partisan stu
dent of public affairs in their larger as
poets. After reviewing the principal
events with which Mr.. Cleveland has
had to do, he undertakes to assign him
his historical place among our presi-
dents. According to Mr.. Wilson's es-
innate, Mr.. Cleveland is the most ro-
bust personality that has entered our
political life since Lincoln.
THE Preachers Magazine for March,
with table of contents of great ex-
cellency, is at hand. A sermon, by
Rev. W. L. Watkinson, on the "Sym-
patty of Christ" is choice produc-
ton. "With Both Hands is the title
of Rev. Mark Guy Pearce's superior
paper. "The Parable Of the Sower,"
by Rev. A. H. Walker, is a delightful
study. The Homiletical matter is very
rich and full. Other articles, outlines
and illustrations, add charm to this
number. Every preacher ought to
study this magazine. Fifteen cents
copy, $3.50 per year. Wilbur B.
Ketcham, publisher, 2 Cooper Union,
New York.
THE frontispiece of McClure's Nag
dzine for March is a fine portrait of
Mark Twain painted by Charles Noel
Flagg, and never before reproduced.
1t introduces an extremely interesting
number. There is the opening INSTALL
ment of new novel by Robert Louis
Stevenson, the last novel we shall ever
have from that most charming of ro-
mancers. There is paper of personal
impressions on one of the greatest of
illustrative artists, Daniel Verge, by
his intimate friend, August Jaccaci,
with numerous drawings by Verge,
most of them never before published.
And there is paper from Conan Doyle
relating his own personal adventures in
the Arctic Seas as young surgeon on
board of Greenland whaler.
The leading feature of Harper's for
, March is "The Awakening of q Ma
, tion," the second of series of richly
/ illustrated papers, by Charles F. Lum-
mis-, on the Mexico of to-day. The
paper deals mainly with the religious,
charitable and political institutions.
The Astronomical Progress of the
Century," an illustrated article by DR..
Henry Smith Williams, traces the de-
velopment Of our modern knowledge
and theories of the universe. In 1.-THE
Last of Great Black Nation" Poult-
ney Bigelow describes English rule
among the Basutos, and narrates the
life of Moshesh, their national hero.
Besides the sixth instalment of The
Martian," by George du Maurier, the
number contains three complete stories,
the Editors Study" and the Edit
or's Drawer"
The first article of notable series
describing the official, social and do
nestle sides of life in the White House
is one of score or more admirable fes-
lures which makes up the March La
dies Home Journal 1t is by ex-Presi.
dent Harrison, and presents a vivid,
interesting pen picture of "a Day with
the President at His Desk" detailing
the wearisome routine of our Chief Ex-
ecutive's daily life. Another article
with bearing in the same direction
recalls "When Lincoln was First Inau-
gurated." 1t tells the incidents of Mr..
Lincoln's memorial trip to Washington
and his Inauguration, the apprehension
for his safety, and the excited condition
: of the country at that time. The picto-
rial features of the March Journal are
admirable, especially the cover, which
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