Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-06-09
BOOKS AND MAGAZINES.

The June number of Scribner's Is very
strong in short stories. William Alien White,
the Kansas editor, whose "Boyvi'le Storfes"-
are so well known, writes n tale of Western
Political life with which his editorial duties
have brought him in close contact. He calls
it "a Victory for the People, and gives the
inside history of the appoint nent of a United
States senator by the governor, a kind of
politics which is Just now very much in eyi-
dence. The illustrations are by W. Il. Leigh.
Mr.. White will contribute a number of West
ern political stories to forthcoming issues of
the magazine.
The signs of the times on the industrial ana
business horizon are outlined in the June
number of the American Monthly Review of
Reviews, In the department of 1.-THE Pro
gress of the World" the editor discusses the
new era of prosperity, the restored wages of
labor, the tendency toward the consolidation
of capital, railroad amalgamation, the rela.
ton of modern monopolies to the heaping up
of great fortunes, the value of franchises and
proposed tax reforms and other conditions
and problems of the day in the business
world. Mr. Byron W. Holt contributes an
article on "Trusts-The Rush to Industrial
Monopoly" in which he sets forth the facts
in connection with the recent startling devel.
opment of the transforming mania, as it Is
beginning to be called.
The June Ladies' Home journal reaches
the top notch of excellence in both its pic
tOrlal and literary features 1t opens with a
page drawing of Longfellow's "Evangeline,"
and gives n group of pictures showing some
"Fetes of College Girls" An interesting
description is given of "The Creole Girl of
| New Orleans, and housekeeping ON an
/ Ocean Steamship" is graphically portrayed.
GLOW a Young Man Can Work His Way
| Through College" has practical value for
every poor boy ambitious for higher educa-
ton, and "Telling the Character from Hand
writing" is interesting and entertaining.
| Bishop, priest, rabbi and minister contribute
! to n symposium on "What is the Good of
Going to church," and the Rev. Newell
Dwight Hills, ID. D., discusses "Pains that
| Polish Perfection"
The historical novel is IA popular form of
literature in these days. OF late this sugar
coating of instructive matter has had a ten
dency to seek out scotland in the time OF the
border wars and the France of the 18th
century. But that America contains ample
material for such booksIs patent. Right here
in Vermont early history can be drawn upon
for many incidents which with hut slight
additions of a fictitious character will make a
very readable tale. such q story is "a Hero
| of TicOndcroga" by RawlRnd u. Robinson.
Mr.. Robinson has taken incidents of the
stirring times of the New Hampshire Grants
troubles and the breaking ont of the war OF
the Revolution ana woven them into story
which gives very luminous insight INTO the
daily life of those brave pioneers who gave
the name of Green Mountain Boys "A signit
canoe that struck terror TO the enemies oi
their country. The story centres about the
life of boy who guides the Green Mountain
Boys in their capture of Fort Tconderoga
Many OF the names familiar to readers OF
Nermonrs early history appear in the text
The descriptive portions of the book mdicat,
Mr.. Robinson's wide knowledge and clos,
study of the phases of nature In Vermont
The book is published by Hobart Stanley q
Co. OF Burlington.
The June number of Education, edited ant
Unpublished by Messrs. Kasson n Palmer, Bos
ton, contains a sketch Of NIiddlbury cOlleg,
by Prof. G. b. Wright, in which he says al
will be seen from this brief record that in th'
support of the infant institution the citizen
of Middlebury We're most open handed. Fo
n number OF years their contributions fun
nished the entire support Of the tutors
; samuel Miller sustained in part for a TIM
the professorship In mathematics ana natura
philosophy. The gifts of Painter end Storr
, and Chapman, says its latest chronicler, Gr
woven into the very history Of the college
The community, indeed, exhausted its lii
crafty on the college to such an extent tina
the Addison County Grammar school was no
= adequately endowed, the citizens Tegardn
the college as the more important object TO
their funds. This interest, so conspicuous
manifested, is to be explained in part by hi
Z fact the college early became in one sens
the social center of the community; tn
younger citizens were trained in many case
in the college; and all were early taught I
I consider 1t a duty that the institution shout
: be sustained"