The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-03-09
The March Magazines.


by Mrs. Burton Harrison, who writes
of "When Fashion Graced the Bow
cry" Lillian Bell relates the amusing
experiences of her yachting voyage on
I'll Q English Channel, and "Cabinet
Members Wife" gets closer and closer
to Washington society. "In Fashion
able Siberia" Thomas G.. Allen, Jr.,
presents the bright, interesting side of
life in that boundless Asiatic province,
uprooting many erroneous ideas con-
corning it.
The March number of the American
Monthly Reuieto of Reuie,Ds is another
achievement in monthly journalism.
The topics treated in this magazine are
such as occupy much space in the daily
press, but the ReUjetD is able to treat
them deliberately and in more care
fully adjusted proportion. No other
illustrated monthly appearing on the
FIRST day of March will have 80 much as
reference to the De LONE letter, the
Maine disaster, or the lola trial in Par
is; but these great themes of the hour
are fully discussed in the Reuie,s's
pages. The Reuie,o's readers expect to
have them discussed there, so &C.
customed have they been to the essen
tial qualities of timeliness and COM
prehensiveness in the "busy mans
magazine"
THE success of recent fction-num-
bers has induced the editors of Godey's
Magazine to issue a special fiction
number for spring-time reading. The
March number is, therefore, rich in
stories. Among the general topics of
this number are the following that are
worthy of note: The end of George G.
Lays "Preliminary Period of the
Revolution;" "Mexican Milk Bearing
Plants" "The Guanajuato Catacombs,"
"Triumphs in Amateur Photography"
W., giving specimens of the work ex-
hibited at the recent exhibition in New
York; 1.-THE Story of the Negro Mas
sacre in 1872; "How Washington
Shared His Bed with Negro" and the
fourth article of the series on "Ameri-
can Concert Singers" Three excellent
poems appear in this issue, and several
bits or humorous verse. The depart
ments contain much that is pithy and
pointed, and the whole issue is charm.
ingly illustrated with pertinent pic
lures.
THE March number of the Century
opens with paper on "The Mammoth
Gave of Kentucky" written by John
r. Proctor, formerly state geologist of
Kentucky, and accompanied by many
striking illustrations by Castaigne.
John Sidney Webb describes "The
River Trip to the Klondike," with pic
lures redrawn from photographs. A
novel topic, with portraits, is presented
in a paper by Rupert Hughes on
"Women Composers" among which
several Americans are assigned high
rank. There are two new "Gallops' by
the Cent,lry'S new writer, David Gray,
and characteristic story of the Penn
sylvania Dutch, entitled "Ein Nix
Nutz," by John Luther Long, author
of MADAME Butterfly" Coles en-
cravings from Old English Masters are
from paintings by Richard Wilson, the
founder of landscape painting in Eng
land. The frontispiece of the number
is Bodini's portrait of Verdi.
THE complete novel in the March is-
sue of LippincottS is can American
Aspirant," by Jennie Billiard Water
bury 1t deals with the fortunes and
misfortunes of a spirited young lady
who studies music in Paris and hopes
to become prima donna. The moral
drawn by the author for such as con-
| template similar efforts is, Don't.
1.-THE Civil Authority" is a powerful
story of weakened sheriff, reso-
lutte captain, and a company of the Ma
tional Guard which attempted to de-
fend Jail against a mob. 1t is by
Henry Holcomb Bennett. "The Ar
cheology of Nursery Classics" is traced
by Agnes Carr Sage. F. Foster, in
Literary Nomenclature" deals chiefly
with the titles of novels. The poetry
of the number is by Mary E. Stickney,
M. S. Paden, Grace F. Pennypacker
Charles G. D. Roberts, and Clinton
! Scollard.
The March number of McClure's
Magazine might be characterized in q
sentence as literary and pictorial ex-
position of the heroic side Of real life.
A letter from Nils Strindberg, one OF
the two men who have gone no one
knows whittier with Andree, in the
bold endeavor to reach the North Pole
by balloon; Mr.. Walter Wellman's
predictions as to the probable fate OF
oho hhuioo PuiIyi horUerI T.. NAM
blen's account of his own adventures
as a locomotive engineer; and true
story of the ingenuity and bravery of q
Chicago fireman--all dealing with mat
tiers of fact, are still full of the very
stuff which the novelist (too often in
vain) beats his brains for. Charles A.
Dana's personal recollections of Grant,
Sherman, Gordon Granger, and Eight
ing Joe" Hooker, as he saw them in
the midst of the particularly "spectac,
ular military movements" of the bat.
tie OF Chattanooga; and of Secretary
Stanton, as Mr.. Dana worked with him
day and night in the War Department
still further emphasize the heroic
side of life.
IN EAST BRAINTREE.-East Brain
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