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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-05-12

EVERY publisher should speak well
of the town he lives in. When moth
ing good can be said of it, it's time to
move.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-05-12

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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-05-12

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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-05-12

THE thing that makes you glad shows
your character.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-05-12

REMEMBER THE NAME DOAN'S AND
TAKE NO OTHER.
The times., 1897-06-20
A Real SpeIIhiIcer.

I'm not a success as Il collector" adj
mitted the big, gcod-natuIed butcher who
was tai alkiug with several otheIs about the
difficulty of getting what was coming 10
them. Il hire a man TO GO TIE dunning the
year around and wouldn't take bis job with
ten acres on Woodward avenue thrown in.
I'VE had one customer who ian up tig
hill and was always going to settle just
"a few DAYS. Ny collector made this report
till got tired and out of humor. Here
was man always ordering the choicest
cuts of meat, having all kinds of game n
season, and sending back wbat didn Jplease
him, yet never pa wing me cent. 1t looks
to me as though you didn't understand
your business sa q to The collector one
day when he came in with little money and
with nothing from this particular custom-
er. IN go and see that man myself, and
he'll be glad to settle tefoIe get through
with him.
II went ! was shown into a Ioom As
pretty as picture, and was met by as
handsome an old glay-hairecman as ever
you clapped your ewes or. He shook my
hand warmly and made such tow as YOU
don't often see these days. He was de-
lighted To meet me, and made ne sit down
in n chair easy as feather Led. Then
we had cigars, and wine that no poor man
can afford to drink He talked better than
any book / ever read, and was in a cold
sweat because i didn't know how to get
away without offending him. Theli l in
vented story about cranky partner who
insisted on this bill being paid. and raInbled
Off into long apology. You never saw
man nicer about anything. He would have
the money within a few days and was
sorIier than he could tell if had been DIS
commoded. ] reCeipted the bill, Ia d it on
the table and told the old gen tleman TO pay
when he could
"AsI was leaving, here came one of those
professional collectors who are as cold
Hooded o fish. Hepitched into nay host
hot blocks, while the latter Just stood and
looked with Il stem d'gnity tha would have
paralyzed me. Refole I knew Just what
was doing / had pa d the b'll and told the
fellow TO get out before I'thlew him ont.
Pm no good at all as a collector."-De-
troit Free Press.
The times., 1897-06-20

Beneath the rule oflazy housekecper
Richly the spider hangs his house in air.
The sleek rat travels by the wainSsOt read,
And mice hold Tevel where mylady trod
Theivy taps and patters So tse pane.
Beseeching shelter from ,ae wsa,t and lain
In the egreatchamecrw W aesc Lori Julian lay
A month a-dylnS, what Seoald here hold
sway,
Except the ieath-watoh that once ucked
for him.
lay in. day out, TIN sislast day grew dim,
The dustis thick upon the spinet's lid.
No hands release the songs beneath it hid
Since il danced my lady and her love,
To tunesof" Bobbing joan and " II and-and-
Glove
Their ghosts come here, but here they dance
no more,
And sorrdlessIy their feet fall On the floor:
Here, amid ghosts from older centuries,
They meet and greet with shadow Y courte-
sizes.
The little hand that felt King Monmouth's
lip
A Saxon grasps In ghostly fellowship;
Dark Norman dame and Saxon lady fair
Alike have gaflanded their flowing hair.
And wear DER tiusky plaits of flaxen tress,
The purple flower that's love in idienesa.
Pail Mall Gazette. Z
The times., 1897-06-20
The District School.

Here where the bloom-fringed winding high
ways meet
The old white schoolhouse stands,
With greensward worn and pathed byrest-
less feet,
That throng which, as times waves roll
and retreat,
Changes, but ne'er disbands.
Through open windows comes the old re-
frain,
OF schooltime's routine rule,
Heart tones awake that long have dormant
lain,
And for moment I'm child again,
And only late for school.
The leafy boughs, once far be yond my reach,
Move gently round my brow,
The equal dstanced trees of old games
preach,
Calling my pla ymatesi in whispered speech,
Who are so scattered nowl
A rude throng flocking o er the worn door
sill,
Then srorned, now held so dear,
We lightly drank from learning's crystal
And the first charm of UNDERSTANDINGS
thrill
Our hearts encountered here
O. little school, thou mother of US all!
To thee the heart returns
AS weary feet w hen evening shadows fall,
Leaving days cares that threaten and ap-
pail,
Haste when homes nearth fire burnsI
Boston Journal
The times., 1897-06-20
SOCIAL SCIENCE.

SOCIAL SCIENCE.
| F. A. Walker, International Hmetallisn
| cen. =
Herbert Spencer, The Principles of So
cioiogy (39)
E. L. Godkin, Problems of Modern Denoc-
racy f4e).
M. P. Folett, The Speaker of the Hous'
of Representatives (48).
AMERICAN HISTORY.
Edward Eggleston, Beginners of Ma
tion I'D.
L. b Andrews, History of the Last Quar-
ter Century in the United States 90
j. G. Bourinot, story of Canada (43).
NATURAL SCIENCE.
Mrs. F. T. Dana. Plants and Their Chill
dren (30l.
E. A. Martin, Story Of Piece of Goa
t45).
POETRY.
Kipling, Seven Seas ts)
Eugene Field, Songs and Other Verse t24l
ESSAYS AND HISTORY OF LITERA-
TURE
George Saintsbury History Of Nineteenth
Century Literature ,21l
Hamilton W. Mabie, Books and Litera.
ture s(4D.
CUSTOM, FOLKLORE, ETC
G. NJ. Skinner, Myths and Legends OF
Our Land t6l.
USEFUL ARTS.
N. s. Shaler, American Highways Q2).
MUSIC.
IT. E Krehbiel, How to Listen to Muse
(9).
SPORTS
u. G. Beard, Outdoor Games for Al Sea-
sons 90.
RELIGION.
Andrew d. White, History of the Warfare
of Science with Theology In Christendorn
f29).
Lyman Abbott, Christianity and Social
Problems 1927.
John Watson, Mind OF the Master ,3Sl.
FOREIGN HISTORY.
Poultney Eigelow, History OF the Ger
man Struggle for Liberty t491.
BOOKS OF REFERENCE
n. r. Peck, Harper's Dictionary OF class:-
cal Literature and Antiquities t2Si.
The number following each book title
represents its rank in the series as whole.
Barrie sentimental Tommy" which Leads
the list, receives 1872 out OF possible 200
votes "a remarkable tribute to the Scotch
novelist.
A. an estimate by trained judges OF the
besS literary work, this list VIII repay care
full study. The New York Times, in IN
analysis of the list, says the list affords,
on what will Fem TO most persons fair
authority, compilation Of the fifty books
out OF the years large product that are
best worth having. And it does more,
since, by giving the volumes in The order
OF the votes they received, it measures
proportionate values-not, to be sure, as an
individual might measure them for him
self, but by the larger standard of what
is by experts adjudged to be the public
need and tas.e.
The times., 1897-06-20
A Quakerish Rctort.

A certain clergyman who was more
busted III the pleasures of the chase than
in experimenting the souls of his flock
one day. meeting with little sport, pro-
posed to entertain his companions at the
expense OF an inoffensive Quaker, whom
he bad very often ridiculed and who was
then approaching them. He rode up to
him briskly, saying: obadiah. have you
seen the hare?' "Why, hast thou lost
him, nejghbor?" said the Quaker. Lost
him Yes, indeed!"I Then replied he.
''if / were the hare 1 would run where
/ am sure thou couldst never find me-
"Where the deuce is that?" asked the
clustering man. "Why, neighbor," an
swered the other, II would run into thy
study. Answers.
The times., 1897-06-20

Occasionally a written-out editor ia kes
ink and discusses f.ction, its standaid d and
how 1t may he raised. It's about as
haosneyed toric as presents itself in the
whole gamut Of literary discussion. The
controversy over the exclusion of certain
works of fiction from the Carnegie IL
brary, at Allegheny, Pa, has revived the
controversy, But it has stirred up one
good practical article from a WI te, in the
Literary News.
This writer has this to say: Slowly but
surely fiction in the form of novels has
made for itself place in literature, and
literature has been recognized as an art
TO be studied, as music, painting, sculpture
and architecture are studied. 1t has now
been conceded that the finest essence Of
literary ability is to be fom d In our novels
and no enc can now lay claim to a liberal
education who hasnotread Thackeray, Dick
ems, Scott, Reade, Kingsley and George
Eliot, not to speak of the living noveIsts
whose masterpieces do not yield in rank
even TO those Of the greatest masters
Critically considered, the writing of nov
els now is what the writing of PLAYS was
in the age Of Elizabeth, and while there is
not much prospect for another Shakespeare
or another ben Jonson, there is no reason
why the noble art which they created and
developed should be beIittled as 1t is. since
It's chief object, which was to hold the mir
ror up To nature, remains, aud always must
remain, what it was. The aim Of the Vic
torian novelist should not be less than the
aim of the EliZabethan dramatist which
was to delineate the hearts and souls, the
emotions and conduct, of men and women
The drama was the novel in action the
novel is the drama in narration
''The modern novel has had to optgrow
the ,iisrepute into which it had fallen.
1t is not so very long ago when to read
novel was thought frivolous waste of
time, and to read the bulk of the novels now
published would still be frivolous waste
OF time But in fictitious foIm our great
writer's are Low teaching history, biogra-
ply, social science, psychology and all
that makes for human progress and happi-
ness, and there is need that the Inc should
be sharply drawn between the novels that
waste time and enervate the reader and
the novels that teach, Inspire and strength
en-.
''The question SO often discussed whether
purpose has place in fiction does not enter
here. The fact is established that all the
problems Of our day are brought before us
in the form of fiction, and 1t has become
necessary to seek direction and study the
aim, the cause and the effect Of the novels
We are reading
MANY have begun to realize this. For
two seasons the study OF fiction has been
a course in the curriculum of Yale Uni
versfty Under the direction of a competent
professor such study is full of possibilities,
and it is with regret that we notice that
II is to be given up. Taste In fiction needs
tiatning- 1t can be cultivated only by
reading and rereading the works OF the
great masters. Such training win deter
The times., 1897-06-20

| HE then mentioned the word ''deca-
dence" TO Mr. lie Gallienue very cautiously
Decadence' is anything but a recent
term, he promptly replied for the simple
| reason that what one man calls 'deca-
| dence' another would call renaissance
But, really, the term is one of those silly
catch-words which get invented every now
and again for innovators whom the public
| do notfancy. A man is generally described!
as decadent when he Possesses extreme
sensibility TO the subtler forms of art
and endeavors to give new life to old
material by new and strange methods;
but, when you remember sknt the term
is applied by Max Nordau to great poets
like Rosetti, and to all the work of the
preraphaelite school-in fact to anv work
which indicates nervous intensity in ex.
cess of that possessed by a cabbace-it
will he seen what value the term possesses,
and now little need there is to he afraid of
it, 1 think that downright decadent art
results from the consdera ton of any
human object in isolation from the great
order of the world, and the effect of such
art is dehumanizing But, then, / think
that many so-called Christian ideas are
dccadent from the same cause; while
notions mark the return to letter ideals
ofhumanlife Anything which runs counter
to the natural instincts of huma nity. to the
degree OF conventional Christianity is de-
cadence"
ana then, turning TO the question of sex
In art, Mr. lie Gallienne poin ted out that the
greatest, the most spiritual art had been
the work of men in whom the passion of
love, the delight in woman had been the
strongest and keenest; Dante, Shakespeare.
Goethe, Shelley, Keats, Burns, even Milton
himself, who, Mr.. LIE Gallienne added for
mulated theory of marriage which en-
titles him to be called the Grant Allen of
his day. And now aquestion, Mr.. LIE CALI
enne, which was considered up to date a
few decades ago. Have you ever met the
new woman" Mr.. LIE Gallienne smiled. as
sented and added: But / have always
found her to be very much the old Eve On
better acquaintance. The new woman busi
ness is only one of those thousand devices
by which the eternal feminine pulsues the
eternal masculine The position occupied
by the woman at the present moment is an
invldious one. Marriage still remains her
great Profession. She gives herself. body
and soul, in exchange for house and .at
home days When she has become eoonom-
'cally independent Of man, the relations be-
tween men and women will lose their
main tragic factor. So-called .decadence'
and excess generally" said Mr. LIE CALI
enne, barking back moment to the former
question are reall the form which healthy
Instincts are compelled to take by the hypo.
critical restrictions of our social life. It
is the Puritan not the impurtan, who is re-
sponsible for Piccadilly Circus.'' And this
characteristic utterance was Mr.. LIE CALI
enne's final remark on the great question
of sex.
The times., 1897-06-20

i handy, complete, accurate and, in
many other ways, valuable addition 10
the list OF lexicons is the GRIMM " ebster
German English and English German Die
tiodary- ii is named aIter the Grimm
Brothers, who stand in the same relation
to the German language as does Noah
webster To the EDgllsh language In large
part it is founded upon their works, forming
a co"eson- The new system OF German
orthography is used; co. 900 words are
defined ia both languages. There is more
over given collection of conversation and
correspondence, forms, irregular verbs,
tables of weights and measures, and MANY
other features of value to all classes In
limp cloth, the price is only 20 cents; in
stir silk cloth, with red edges and double
index, so cents; and in morocco, full gilt,
81 Chicago: Laird & Lee. Washing
ton: Brentano)
The times., 1897-06-20

Tie muse of Ellis Stevens has graceful
stride. The word stride is used ad
visedly, for not In ether does it float or
Take wing on airyimagcry, but marches out
with martial step, eloquent, puissant aud
moving. This is the impression left by
reading his Romance of Arenfels" 1t is
legend of the Rhine, bold and rugged as
tic knight Of its story, yet sweet and po~.ti-
cal as the lady fair for whom his heart
sighed II Is breath of the fresh spirit
Of romantic poetry, as sung by Scott and
Byron, free from faddisIn, and Unburdeaed
by the immoral morality OF decadency.
There are many other shorter poems IN
this same small volume. Several are lik..
the first ballads of Rhine legends, and they
are all very sweet to the ear and he fancy
The rest are sonnets, quatrains or mere
songs. The quatrains he calls Musings"
One OF the pretty pictures is given in The
Sun and the Sea-
The summers sun, enamored. kissed the
sea;
And all the myriad ripples, gladly bright,
Smiled upward at him in sweet content,
Shiinnefing love response OF light for
light.
Then from the sky verge gathered all the
winds,
Till the cloud sornbred sun outshone no
more,
And the FAD sea, with heaving breast, be-
rnoaned
It's loneliness along the sounding shore
With anguish gloomed and tossed in mad
despair,
1t sought him wildly, with pale, plead
ing crest
Hoarse calling and disconsolate, till he
came
And calmed again its beating heart to
rest.
New York: G. p. Putnam's Sons Wash
ington: Brentano1
The times., 1897-06-20

Today is one of the British periodi-
Gals which nave limited circulation In
this country. Yet it has capital con-
trhutors One OF them tells some re-
peatahle stories of Richard lie GaIlienne,
and his life story is "a romantic one.
After receiving a good education at
the Liverpool College he was article,l to n
firm of chartered accountants. ut is
easy enough to write a book said Mr.
lie Gallienne on one occasion; 1.-The diff
Guilty is 10 balance them.'' The writer
was told that the clerks in the accountants
officer were very good fellows. and in
Mr.. lie Gallienne's words, he would
rather spend an evening with them at anv
tine than with most of the literary men,
that he knows. OF course, he wrote
verss-orr rs he put IT, in the intervals
OF much sgrreptitious verse writing, ''I
would occasionally do little work. =
and. from the margins of various ledgers,
he presently collected volume for pn-
vate circulation, entitled: my Ladies'
Eonnets y
Most OF US are acquainted with MT lie
Gallienne's various volumes Of poetry, as
well as with his fine Prose Fancies'' and
'The Religion OF Literary Man, but it
is believed that he looks upon his ne W book
as being In many ways his best work The
writer does not reveal the exact locality of
the chambers where he interviewed MI
GalIienne. for his house and merry wood
lands are to be found at Haslemere, atthe
very top of Mount Parnassus, and In the
very center of London
This interview opened up with the first
question, which was to the effect that he
should be glad to knowif he had anything
TO say by way of appeasing the Noncon.
The times., 1897-06-20

A striking article from the uen of Miss
Isabel McDougall appears in the Critic OF
June .. 1t is entitled AN AngIo-Ameri-
can Club and deals with Sir Walter BE.
SAINTS suggestion of the establishment of
such club in London, with branches in
the principal cities of the United States
Tie proposition is discussed not Saly by
the writer herself, but by q score of emf
nent persons with whom she has commuui-
cated-S:r Henry Irving, Prof Charles Eliot
Norton, Col T. W. Higginson, Dr. Weir
Mitchell, Theodore Roosevelt, Heary George,
Daniel Chester French, Henry b Fuller. the
Rev. DR.. Parkhurst, Hamiin Garland. Stan
ford White, Charles W. Warner, Chauncey
~. Depew and others
The times., 1897-06-20
natures OF its respective owners, is now
the treasure Of o London booklover.

work will be published shortly in Eng
land which is certain to prove OF the
greatest interest 10 artiquarians. MI Mar
tin Rule some time ago discovered in the
library OF Corpus Christi College, Cam
bridge, what purports to be the missal
brought by st. Augustine to England
with annotations by Pope Gregory the
Great By the sanction of the head of
the college, Mr.. Rule is having it printed
with the addition OF a scholarly preface
and notes from his own pen. This missal
contains the first written liturgy ever
brought to England, and is in all proba
bility one OF the earliest published any
where.
The times., 1897-06-20

The International Studio for June is full
OF rare and beautiful art features. This Is
the most Beautiful OF all ma gaines in pic
torial establishment and the extrinslcs Of
superb booknaking. The features this
month are a sketch on the work Of Byam
Shaw; another on the work of Ethel Reed;
rarely Interesting article on some French
iilustrated theater programs, the Cosmo-
politan Studio Talks and other features
The pictorial supplements are an auto
Gthograph by Joseph Penncil: "Hylas and
the Nympho,' by Waterhouse, and RE
flects,' by Valottou.
The times., 1897-06-20

III 1909 rcan Swift bought a second
hand Elzevir, printed in Amsterdam, In
1850 This volume the Dean gave to his
friend, the Rev. Daniel Jackson, the Vicar
of Suntry, and the date of the present was
171h. Jackson's friend was James Grattan,
and in time his distinguished son Henry
Grattan. fell heir to the book. The pre-
Gous volume, enriched with the four sig
The times., 1897-06-20

Song and Fable is the title given by
barton O. Aylesworth to a little colIec-
tlen OF original poems, supplemented by
some few fables The verses have the
form and sentiment which could have been
impaired only by man who is poet in
heart and mind. They are all the cry
or protest against the existant The
author Is evidently sympathetic in his un-
derstanding of the smoldeTing tragedies
OF present social conditions, and his heart
Ii wrung with pity for the underiings An
other characteristic of the author reflected
in the mirror ofhis lines is . hatred Of what
is artificial and ready and consuming
affection for nature. Here is his tribute
to Ibsen.
Thou hast the cleaving sense of a child
TO odiscernbctween the right and the wrong
Sone prophetic intuition, strong
With cohscience-power and unbe;,uiled,
Withholds thine eyes from smaller ills,
But reveals the larger, deadlier sin
Love of slaves, and british taste within
The bounds of eustom-sin that kills
The gasping child of Liberty
While 1t Yet cropping for the breast,
Mouth acurve with hunger's prayer-the
test
OF every mortars right to be.
Cry out; and slay, with ponderous pen
Flamed with fire dramatic, ancient use.
Rid the heart of vicious masters. Loose
Tie shackels! Give us natures menI''
(Des Moines. Ia: The Kenyon Press)
The times., 1897-06-20

The famous collection of books owned by
the late historian and novelist, Gustav
Freytag, has been presented to the public
library OF Frankfort Itincludes no fewer
than 1885 volumes on the history of civ
ilization in Germany from the fifteenth
century to tiiepresentday the result of dec
AIDES of expert collecting. 1t is consid
cred the most valuable addition ever made
to the Frankfort library in the hundred
years of its existence, and a special cat
alogue is to be printed Freytag divided
his collectionintot twenty-four depa artments.
under the heads OF supent titions. miracles
robbers. popular medicine and diseases
money and prices, customs and fashions,
festivities. schools, military matters, the
church, songs, Thirty Years war, etc
The times., 1897-06-20


money and prices, customs and fashions,
festivities. schools, military matters, the
church, songs, Thirty Years war, etc
In the middle of January the New York
State Library, at Albany, issued u list of
$50 of the leading hooks published during
1896. This list was submitted to 500
librarians, with a request for an ex-
preston of opinion respecting the fifty
which would be the most valuable for O.
villagelibrary. Thelists thus marked We're
to he returned by March 1. About 200
librarians complied with the request and
the fifty books mentioned the greatest
number of times, divided into groups, and
the title in these groups numbered in the
order Of Importance indicated by their
respective votes are as follows:
FICTION.
Ralrie, Sentimental a Tommy "a.
Mrs. Ward, Sir George Tressady (2,
Gilbert Parker, Seats of the NJ ghty l3)
Hopkinson Smith, Tom Grogan l5l
Kate Douglas Wiggin, Main L'sa 1O)
John Watson. Kate Carnegie t1e).
s. o. Jewett, Country of the Pointed
Firs uSl.
Stimson, King Noanett U9l.
Clemens, Personal Recollections Of Joan
Of Arc t20).
Felix Gras, Reds of the Midi t22l.
Robert L. Stevenson, Weir of Ee1miston
(23).
Frank R. Stockton, Mrs. Cliffs Yacht
(25).
JUVENILE.
E. s. Brooks, Century Book of Famous
Americans (13l
Andrew Lang, nimal Story Book (15t
Nora Perry, Three Little Daughters OF
the Revolution (26l
w. J. Rolfe, Shakespeare, The Boy(37).
E O. White, Little Girl of Long Ago (42).
Crockett, Sweetheart Travellers t47l
g. A. Henty, At Agincourt (5O)
BIOGRAPHY.
Morse, Life and Letters of Oliver Wendell
Holmes ~
Barrie, Margaret Ogilvy (7l
F. G. Lowell, Joan OF Arc (33).
Woodrow Wilson George eWashington(34l
r. L. Ford, The rrue George Washing
ton (44E
DESCRIPTION AND TRAVEL .
R. L. Stevenson, In the South Seas {31).
Mrs. Earl. Colonial Days In Old New
York (3bl.
R. Fl. Davis, Three Gnngos IN Venezuela
and Central America 1881.
Lafcadio Hearn, Kokoro (4Oh
The times., 1897-06-20
The Haunted House.

CHARLES B. LEWIS.