The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-07-06
The July Magazines,

down almost to the present moment.
Only four OF Presidents have had
to conduct a war; and how President
Mckinley conducts one is here related
with a most interesting wealth of de-
tail. The illustrations of the article
consist of typical wartime scenes in
the White House and departments,
drawn from life, and a number of ex-
cellent portraits from recent special
photographs. Stephen Bonsal, who
was himself a participant in it, tells the
story of 1.-THE First Fight on Cuban
Soil' in u war with Spain, and his
article is Interestingly illustrated from
photographs taken by himself.
In view of our present relations
with Spain, an article in the July Har-
per's by Miss Lucia Purdy on "The
Ethics of a Corrida," giving a non
partisan view of bull-fights and bull
fighters, is a courageous piece of jour-
nalism, Miss Purdy is an American
girl, who, somewhat against her will,
was taken to a bull. fight, and became
acquainted with Senior Guerra, the
King of Spanish Matadores. Her &C
count of the transition of her feelings
from those of the ordinary Anglo Sax
on 10 a more intimate understanding
of the skill and courage required of a
matador, is Interestingly and we'll pre-
sented. In one significant passage che
relates the horror a Spaniard expresses
after hearing of the brutality and ex-
cesses of the American game of foot
ball.
The complete novel in the July
issue of LippincotE's is "Harold Brad.
ley, Play wright" by Edward S. Van
Zile. This dramatist is no hack, but a
man of marked ability, culture, and
character; the rehearsals of his play
bring to the front a brilliant though
previously obscure actress, who proves
to be also an original and charming
parsonage. The scene is in New York,
and the story is Mr.. Van Z,le's best
work thus far. ga Limit of Wealth.
by Frank II. Sweet, deals with a re-
turned Klondiker Of modest views.
Mary Agnes Tlncker's San Evening
in Rome" introduces the Able List.
"Their Great Crisis" as recounted by
Nathaniel Stephenson, is that of three
young lawyers. The poetry of the
number is by Jenny Terrill Ruprecht,
Mary Kent Davey, Grace Shoup, Car
RE Blake Morgan, and Madison Ca
vein.
THE July Century opens with a story
miral," by Winston Churchill, author
of The Celebrity" This deals with
a hlibustering expedition and is full of
romance. 1t is illustrated by B. West
Clinedinst. There are two articles on
Confederate Commerce Destroyers."
Colonel John Taylor Wood, command
er OF the vessel, tells of "The ITALIA
hassee's Dash into New York Waters"
while G.. Terry SinclAir describes 1.-The
Eventful Cruise of the Florida" Ste
phen Bonsal, late of the American Le-
CATION at Madrid, writes of "Holy Week
in Seville" with illustrations by Joseph
Pencil. Cornelia Dearth, in IAN
Artistic Treasure from Spain," de.
scribes the recovery of a fine antique
bust at Elche, a Photographic repro
duction of which accompanies the ar
ticle.
THE wal leads the July number of
Scribner'S Magazine. No one saw its
beginnings under more favorable cir
cumstances than Richard Harding Da-
Nic' Il lLCcPOhuChL VI lAG 1lODuOn
Times he was accorded every privil age,
and was for weeks on the flagship
"New York" His account. of 1.-THE
First Bombardment" is the graphic
picture OF what an eyewitness saw
when the ''Buen Ventura" was taken
and Matanzas was bombarded. His
p%re-eminent faculty of making real TO
the imagination what he has seen was
never afforded a better opportunity.
How it feels to be on a great warship
in action is made vivid. Snapshot
photographs by Mr.. Davis add to the
sense of reality. 1.-The ship seemed to
work and to fight by herself" he says,
''you heard no human voice of COM
mand."
THE ReuieU of ReuieuS continues
strong on war topics. In the July
number the editor reviews the whole
campaign up to the landing of our
troops for the advance on Santiago,
tenant Hobson's exploit had in the
general scheme; DR.. William Hayes
Ward treats of Hobson's career as that
of the typical young American student.
Mr.. Edwin Emerson, Jr., the brilliant
young newspaper correspondent, gives
notes of his adventurous journeyings
in Porto Rico last month; and DR.. Max
West, the statistician and economist,
summarizes "Our New War Taxes" in
An interesting article. international
Cartoon Comments or Our War with
Spain" and the "Record of Current
Events" also cover the situation up to
date.
THE President on horseback rides
spiritedly across the cover of the July
Ladies Home Journal under his new
flag, and his chief characteristics are
detailed in an illustrated anecdotal BIZ
ography, contributed by his nearest and
most intimate friends. Very timely,
also, is "The Presidents March," com
posed by Victor Herbert and designed
TO be played as a compliment to the
head of the nation whenever he APP
pears in public. At this time much in
terest will be taken in the original
Declaration of Independence, now
guarded from public gaze, which, with
the original draft of the treasured
document ia phOtOuranhipalU rapro-