Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-05-09
BOOKS AND MAGAZINES.

A series of sketches entitled Gap
tains of Industry" is begun in the
May Cosmopolitan, which possess both
romance and business interest for clerk
and capitalist equally, for manufac-
turer, farmer and merchant. Each
character is treated by noted writer
familiar with his subject.
OF fiction the May Everybody's con
tains "a Touch down." another of
Miss Eleanor Hoyt's whimsical stories
"The Baptism of the Buzzards" by
( Fred. Walworth, new writer of I'M
usual power: several new chapters of
Danny the charming serial by AL
fred Olivant; Belshazzar'' draws near
to an exciting close. There are addi-
tional passages of delicate comedy in
Tangled up in Beulah Land, " and a
fanciful story of school life by John
Ten Eyck Tompkins.
The frontispiece of the May Vermont
er is view of the new Warner science
hall at Middlebury college. Other IL
Illustrations include several beautiful
bits of Vermont scenery and cuts of
Fletcher ID. Proctor, Judge RoweH and
Seneca Haselton, the newly appointed
supreme court judge. "a Journey Out
West in Stage Coach Days." by ".
W. Chandler in an amusing and enjoy
able article, as is also the Expert
ences of District School Master"
Mrs. X. W. Barlow contributes a paper
on Lieut.. Philip Stafford, "a Hero of
the Westminster Massacre.
In the May McClure's we have Miss
Stones own account of her capture
and imprisonment by the brigands,
nrtr'c Af
America recorded by the one Ameri-
authoritatiye--Adm iral Bob Evans.
George W. Smalley contributes paper
on English Statesmen and Rulers:
Frank II. Spearman has a detective
story, "a Night With Whispering
Smith and Clara Morris bit of his
torical fiction, Sarah Siddons' Tryst -
Several other short stories are of uni
formly high order of merit and interest.
The May number of The Smart Set
opens with a novelette, by Edgar Faw-
cett, entitled THE Fulgarians - In
this story pawenues of immense wealth
are made real before the reader. and
lovable as we'll. Among the short
stories of this number are: THE Vic
Tins of Kitty, ""Through the Mist of
SuSl lcIOn. IHt Marriage Mer- Z
chant, -" A Gentleman by Profession"
" Adela, - "The Day of the Wedding"
1.-THE Wife of Shimadzu. " THE I'm /
sephine Dodge Daskam. ''The Statue |
in recent verse.
The opening article of Success for
May is by Rebecca Harding Davis and
is entitled The Return to the Soil. "
1t is strong plea to those who are
obliged to live in the city. to seek
some communion with nature, in OIL
der to find new life and new interest
in the world. Israel Zangwill in
What Have the Hebrews Accom-
plished?" has clearly defined the dis
tinctive qualities that have made
powerful race; Ellen Terry, the great
English actress, gives some we'll earned
ldyice to stage-struck girls in IAN
American Girl Possibilities as an Ac-
.ress' and Charles Dana Gibson tells
he budding illustrator how best to
follow the road that will bring him
William NJ. Salter opens the May At
antic with paper, Second Thoughts I
IN the Treatment of Anarchy He I
points out the unexpected strength of
Inarchism in this country, and some {
If the elements of its growth. together
With other facts which should be con
idered in reference to its treatment. 6
Taylor sketches trout fishing |.
n the Farce Islands as A Night with a.
he Mouse's Brother, and T. S. Perry !
an ably written and instruc- ID,
i've paper on the late John Fiske. Fic- :
ion includes the closing chapters of !
ieorge W. Cables Bylow Hill, Kat :
ina Trask's My Lady's Garden, and {
ennette Lees Three Chances Poetry /
5 furnished by Mary Messer, Richard
burton, Grace Richardson and others.
Charles Majors second book, Doro- n
by Vernon of Haddon Hall. following c
is great success. When Knighthood O
Vas in Flower, is no disappointment. v
ut worthy and fitting successor. [,
me of the most romantic spots in one . a
the most romantic periods of En- G.
lish history is taken by the author as k
he background for love story of pure :
me and enthralling interest. 1t is a
,mance of much delicacy. variety, r
rength and grace, in which are re-
ealed the history of four lovers who
Y their purely human attributes are
stinct types, and he gives them
tting just across the Scottish border
England. when Mary Stuart. fvinr II
ON the north, threw herself on Queen
lizabeth's protection, May 10. 156s.
he illustrations by Howard Christy.
II the story in another form of art.
lite as eloquently as does Mr.. Majors
xt. and the frontispiece, a tinted
'rtrait of Dorothy in her riding hab-
shows a form of singular grace and
face full of intelligence and express
On. Published by the Macmillan
mpany, New York. Sold in Brattle
no by Clapp & Jones.
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