Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1848-05-19
The Bookstore.

Messrs EDwARps and SMITH have made THE
BOOKSTORE point of special attractiveness.
Their shelves are groaning under BY far the
largest and most judiciously selected assortment
Of standard works, in all the departments of Ii
terature, Science, Education, Morals and the
Arts, that has ever been brought in to Burling.
tonic say nothing Of the endless variety of
light and polite reading, whose gaudy external
trappings and cheap price for admittance attract
the eye Of the thousands of careless and story
loving readers to the butterfly entertainment
within. From the massive and solid learning
and argument of the Fathers" down to "Little
Rcd Riding Hood" we believe the gradations
and the assortment are quite regular and perfect;
so that all classes Of " the reading public" may
crafty their tastes or propensities without any
other "lct or hindrance" than that which pro.
ceeds from the will or the means.
The editions of the Standard Works to be
found at the Bookstore, are, with now and then
an exception, unusually good well printed
and substantially and handsomely bound for
Library preservation: while the price at which
they are afforded, in these days of active COM
petition in all the departments of business,
enables man of no more than moderate means
to provide himself with that which, more than
any other one tling,marks him mana choice
Library. Perhaps nothing more pontedy indi-
Gates the amelioration, the beneficial progress
and improvement, of the age, about which so
much is written. than the fact that the demand
for really valuable and instructive works--works
of approved excelence-is sufficiently large to
enable publishers to supply them at the exceed
ingly low prices for which they can now be OBJ
tanned. The circumstance marks the American
people as not wholly given up to the worship of
"Mammon and Te-radc," as the Doctor hath it /;
but devoting, after all, a tocrabe share of their
leisure hours at least, to the pursuit of that CHI.
err" gain" which elevates while it expands their
nobler powers, and teaches them better how to
appreciate as well as how to preserve the rich
blessings with which they are surrounded.
We are emphatically reading people; and
though less scrupuous, perhaps, about the quaii.
" of what we read than is desirable, vet the adj.
vantages of such a national proclivity, must " in
the long run" greatly overbalance any injuries
that are to be apprehended from its abuse. The
sober thinkers and readers must always govern
and direct "the main chances" after all, what.
ever tumut and change may temporarily spring
from the bubbling brains of the enthusiast or the
fanatic. There is an authority in Truth and So
berness, that intimidates and finally represses
Tue AIRY ie'ty Vi Error.--So uont be alarmed =
there is always"a good time coming" Buy as
many books as you can read, and read all YOU
buy, and If you find yourself, in the end, none
the wiser for it, we'll risk all the harm vou will
be likely to do in the world! All we care to
say in the way of advice, just now, is don't buy
" Wuthering Heights" to read on SUNDAYS. mol
Cooper's last novel to read at ai-you will i'm
prove your time better, in the latter case, b,
chewing spruce gum or whiting
In order to preserve some sort OF easy connec
ton between the commencement and close Of
this article, we again commend to public favor
and patronage the well-fled Bookstore of Messr
EDWARDS & SMITH, or, Gas Trbuaton wal
called "Tribby, for shorty EDWARD SMITH