The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-05-04
CURRENT LITERATURE.
The May Magazines.
Happy Homes.

AMBASSADOR ANDREW D. WHITE
has written for the May Century an ar
ticle entitled GA Statesman of Russia"
This is character sketch OF the most
influential parsonage in Russia, Pro-
curator-G General Pobedonostzeff, of the
Holy Synod, who has been called "the
arch-persecutor," and ''the Torque-
mazda of the nineteenth century," Am
bassador White will also tell about an
other picturesque character, Father
Ivan, the miracle-worker.
AMONG the notable features of the
May Ladies Home Journal are an il.
Illustrated article ON Joseph Jefferson
at home, "After. Dinner Stories,"
page of brightly told anecdotes of
prominent personages, and Rudyard
Kipling's famous Jubilee hymn, Gre
cessional," set to music by Reginald de
Koven. ga Cabinet Members Wife"
gives further interesting glimpses of
Washington social-official life, and an
other view "Inside of Hundred
Homes" is afforded. There are arti-
cles on woman's attire and various
household topics. By the Curtis Pub
fishing Company. One dollar per year;
ten cents per copy.
AT moment when war and all its
appliances and aspects have an espe-
cial interest, no doubt the first thing
tnrned to in McCMre's Magazine for
May will be Rudyard Kipling's poem
on the torpedo. In recent statement
by Lieutenant G. E. Armstrong that
"the torpedo has brought into the navy
fresh zest, a new romance, and posi-
bilities more brilliant than were exist
ent before its ADOPTION" Mr.. Kipling
has found an idea of just the sort he
loves, and developed thereon a poem
in his nOblest manner-majestic in
movement, felicitous and dramatic in
description, and mystical and deep
searching in sentiment. 1t is truly
great in its individual expressions, and
greater yet in its complete effect and
impression.
COLLEGES for women in this coun-
try are now old enough to have GUS
toms and traditions, and distinct un-
dergraduate life, after the manner of
mems colleges. The first serious at
tempt to represent this life in magazine
articles is begun in the May Scribner's,
with Undergraduate Life at Welles-
ley" by Able Carter Goodloe. The
article has nothing to do with scholas-
tic ideals or the problems of higher
education; it pictures the life as one
who has lived it sees it. Miss Good
loe's skill as writer was amply attested
stories. She exhibits here humor and
a keen appreciation of the social side of
the life at Wellesley-particularly as it
is lived by "the large majority who take
college sanely, and work when they
work and play when it is time to play"
Her picturesque account of "Float
Day" "Tree Day." the "Barn Swal-
lows" etc., is supplemented with
series of brilliant illustrations by the
Misses Cowles, Peixotto, Gilbert, and
Rosenmeyer.
THE complete novel in the May issue
of LippincOtt'S is ''The Uncalled," by
the colored poet, Paul Laurence Dun
bar. Though understood to be his first
essay in extended fiction, it is an ex-
tremely strong, thoroughly readable
story. The scene is laid mainly in
small Ohio town; the hero is youth
of the humblest origin, who is forced
into the ministry and works his way out
of it. "No. S7,6l7 Colt" by George
Bridges Rodney, recounts the expe-
riences of a small party of Americans
in Cuba during former instruction.
Theodore Gallagher describes one
phase of very wild Western town in
"The Election at Cayote." Both are
stirring tales. The ways of "The Indian
''Afoot," and his extraordinary abilities
as pedestrian, are set forth by William
rrowbridge Lsrned. BY "The Sacred
Marvin Dana means the rose.
''People-in Law" form the subject of a
little essay by Alan Cameron. Frank
G. Carpenter deals with "The Book
Loves of Statesmen"-i. e., some of
them. The Literature of Japan" is
briefly discussed by Joslin Y. Smith.