Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-05-15
BOOKS AND MAGAZINES.

The Monarch and Other Poems Is the
title Of volume OF verse, most beau
tifully printed and bound in New YORK
but whose contents are the inspiration
of local scenes and memories. me az
thor is John ii. Flagg, "a native. OF VII
mington, the son Of Gen. Stephen D..
Flaeg and formerly clerk Of the Yer
mont legislature, secretary OF the sen
ate and since until his health failed,
counsel for the Standard Oil company
Some OF the poems are tributes to YER
mont and her noted sons and show a
deep loyalty and admiration for the ola
Green Mountain state. "Clark and the
Oregon" and "To Justin II. MorrlIi'
are notable among those tributes. The
volume contains as frontispiece fine
portrait OF the author.
The Atlantic for May has a most in
teresting table Of contents. Emerson
as a Religious Influence by George a.
Gordon is the opening paper and 1t IS
followed by The Evolution OF the
Trained Nurse by Mary Moss; The
Book and the Place by Martha Baker
Dunn The Mulatto Factor in the Race
Problem, by Alfred Holt Stone and
The st. Louis Congress Of Arts and
Sciences by Hugo Munsterberg. Poems
are contributed by Frank Dempster
Sherman, Madison Cawein and Anna
Hampstead Branch. Fiction is repre-
sented by Harriet Prescott Spofford's
A Sacrifice: The Bee Sermons by Ar
thur Z. McFarlane; The Two Apples
by James Edmund Dunning and by an
instalment of Arthur Sherburne Har-
dy's novel, His Daughter First.
Ainslee's opens with novel by Ed
ward S. Van Zile, entitled Midsum-
mer Madness. Justus Miles Forman,
the author of Journeys End" has
picture of a woman's devotion. Talbot
pearance. "In her canoe" by Min
ma C. Smith, and "The April man"
by Mrs. c. N. Williamson, are two love
stories The woman question and the
labor question are united in play,
"Union and Mr.. Thomson" by Car
olne Duer and Henry Wise Miller
In 1.-THE Case of Private Rafferty,"
by Chauncey G.. Hotchkiss, there is
an interesting account OF a soldiers
victory not won in war. James Hun
ekers story, "The hall Of the missing
footsteps" will appeal to lovers Of
oriental mysteries, and two fine bits OF
humor are my neighbours pride, " by
Charles Battell LOOMS, and while
the auto waits" by James L. Bliss
Herman Bernstein, E. Nesbit, Bliss
Carman, Arthur Stringer, Edgar Sal
tus and several other writers contrib
ute to the 100 pages of this months is
sue.
The leading article in the April
June Forum is review of American
politics by Henry Litchfield West. A.
Maurice Low discusses foreign affairs
with special reference to the revival of
the Eastern Question and to the inter
nal and external politics OF Germany.
Alexander ID. Noyes treats of the events
and tendencies in the world of finance.
Recent progress in applied science, es-
pecially in engineering, is described by
Henry Harrison Suplee. Literature is
represented by review of Sidney Lees
Life of Queen Victoria by Prof. W. B.
Trent. Joseph Sohn sets forth the
Lessons Of the operate Season. A pa
per on the Educational Outlook is con
tributed by Ossian H. Lang and DR..
j. NJ. Rice offers discussion based
on his Investigations in public schools,
and training in teaching. Special ar
Value of Human Life by Prof Ru-
Permanent Tariff Commission, "by AL
Discourse on Submarine Navigation, +"
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retired.
The May McClure's is printed in
new type, and is notable for the guam
tty and number of its illustrations
Jules Guerin's two full page views of
Pittsburg by night and by day, ad-
mirably illustrate Lincoln Stetfen's
paper on 'Pittsburg: A City
Ashamed a companion piece of his
St. Louis and Minneapolis papers.
Then there are some very telling draw
ngs by Henri Lanos. reproduced in
tint to illustrate Prof. Simon New
combs capital story, 1.-THE End of the
World. " Ernest Poole's WAITS of the
Street." is lavishly illustrated by
many types of street urchins, drawn by
Shoonover. George Varian illustrates
Miss Tarbell's Standard Oil" paper,
and Corwin X Linson story by Mary
E. wilkins, The Happy Day, story
of French peasant family who went
up to Paris one dismal, rainy Ascen-
sion Day to view the great exposition.
Garth Jones, the English artist, gives
an excellent specimen of his hand
work in line of his illustrations for
Herminie Templeton' S Irish Story, the
Banshee's Halloween. This is by far
the best appearing number of Nc
Clure's ever issued.
Nineteen stories and articles and 1l2
illustrations form the contents of the
May Cosmopolitan. j. Henniker Hea-
ton, NJ p, contributes an article on
the British Parcel Post timely, in
view of the plan to introduce into this
country the system of carrying parcels
in the mail. The possibilities of scien-
tific corn culture are explained in an
instructive paper, by A. d. Shamel, of
the Illinois Experiment Station. Sir
Edwin Arnold has an entertaining es-
say on the tying of knots, with many
practical illustrations. John Brisben
Walker, who has made 20 years study
of taxation, offers "A Method of Equit-
able Taxation. ~ Three interesting
haracters-Gustavus Franklin Swift,
Clement Acton Griscom and George
Gould-are sketched as Captains of
Industry. Among other features ap.
paar ar omapceS If tho Worl5., Craa+