Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1858-06-12
Literary Gossin.


in our modern Athens and learn the novelties in store
for them the coming season?
II So let tell them. The Of the largest firm
Mcssrs Phillips, Sampson 4 Co., is not unknown, we
dare say, to every your readers 1t has become,
IN our New England, a household word.
The thousands of readers Of the "Atlantc Monthly"
rs they arise delighted and refreshed from the dainty
FEAST generously spread between its modest covers
see In bright little letters its outside that III. to the
energy perseverance and observation-disclosures of this
house that they indebted for such giant among
the monthly periodicals Of our land, for such treas
ure OF good things The school-boy bending ploddng
ly his Reader and Spccr, shuts the cover, only
to read upon IT, unconscious Of its full meaning "Sar
gents Series Of Readers, published by Phillips, Samp
son & Co., Boston" The weary minds that have rev
ced amid the gems and truths Of that charming book
"Bcechcr's Life Thoughts they lay it beside them.
to mas;cae such solid food carccssy let the eye fall
upon from the press Of Phillips sampson & CO..
But we have said "Lilc Thoughts" and that il the
word "go" to our Pegasus. We must tell your read
ers about this beautiful book, though its enormous
sale Of 1000 in month"; during these hard times. !.
more OF praise than render IT, We have read
and rc-rcad it, there Is something so original in the
language, something fascinating in the style, such
glorious thought. dishcd up so mcily, that really
glory in its pages. This is wholesale lauda,ion,
but the testimony If host checrcd and delighted by
It's almost inspired words. We appeal to the happy
testimony Of those that have read it, # praise is
wrongtully bestowed. Reader, have you read it?-
| II not go right on pilgrimage TO Feton's and you
will never rcgrc, the dollar which purchased such
mine Of intellectual wealth.
But are our friends 1icknor s. Fields idle? Sec
that beautiful ~ mo- work Of "rrelawncy's Rccolcc
tions Of Shelley aud Byron and that neat looking
book, which has been made culver Tor Douglas Jcr
rods.witty arrows. Ii seeing does not satisfy you,
that they have brought out two noteworthy books,
and you prefer to walk by faith than by sight why
there is no harm, tand reader let tell you great
deal OF good in purchasing them and from n careful
peulsal, see how YOU are informed as to who Byron
really was, hat he was, how he looked, spakc, &c
yes, all the minur Of an every day HE frankly, but
how npartialy We dare not say, given by bosom
iriend aud Shelly too: here see the gifted poet
We haye wanted to see him. While the critical cudrcl
falls numerically poor Treawueys shoulders for
drawing the curtain aside reader Ike advice and
sec ii he deserves it.
douglas lerrold. TO M Engli-hman this name is the
key note Of wittclsm, bon-nots, and Il host Of good
thing. He hur- hi sarcastic thunacrbol;- with an
the freedom Of Jupiter. But we think detec,
wide difference in English and American wit: il We
were seated at iovh English ,ide-board We might
frequently plead guilty to not knowing where the
laugh came in. and vice with our English friends,
rs we can testify from experience. lis therefore
lily eNpainahe why Of our critics raise the cry
OF dull poin'les-, &c. but reader tell YOU there j.
fun enough therr in things Mes-r-. Could x
Lincoln with whose name IS associated the rcculcc-
ton Of many charming book, such llu sh Miller
old Red Sandstone, lby the way new edition i.
Just ready with over one hundred additional pagts Of
new mattcr.l Testimony Of the Rocks, Bayucs' Chris
tim Life, the Grcyson Letters. &c. given a. Bayncs
Essays, 2nd series Now Baync is Young man, whose
brain is rs lively rs if filed with crickeis, and the
thoughts there produced compare well with sparks
| from heavier iorgc- He is what we :ca quick
thinker right TO the point every line requiring only
be read 10 snap some happy thought right before
You. 'Tis not like following hunter leap
ing dangerously from rock to rock. fearful every mo-
ineut YOU may loose your guide; he carries you
right along smoothly and easily that when he ends
you not weary His works are those, when once
read lay Apprcca,ive reader g. right the shelf
labelled SEQ L- .--a-'' -, -----i-.
few minute, ago. ahnni the Atlantic hut lis not re-
spectacle To dismiss 20 good guest sunmarily w.
The 'Autocnt will accuse u Of borrowing his
auncling process il We do Reader, turn 20 your
June number what not got ONE not Il reader Of the
! AtlantcY Don't let July dawn on YOU without hav-
! ing formed It's permanent acquaintance See how
/ Thorcau hops you about among the lakes and hills
away down East, where he tells Won what happy
time no had. Irowbriigc IA name redoent Of Jack
woodism) gets on pretty poem called Canlatricc
and, by the way. Emerson did no, write those happy
verses in prcyou, number, called beauty Trow-
bridges pen indiied them DR.. Hedge, the Christian
Examiners able Editor, wakes profoundly phosopi-
cal and tells Us all about Leibnitz. We have lust
| given It Il second reading. loo-Loo, 10y Mr.. Child
is capital; nice ending to a too shor, story. Charles
c. Norton leads rs farther into the Catacombs Of
Rome; for ourselves, have not asked how far ii,
to the end don't rs long as the road leads over
such smooth ways. You have heard Of "Eben Jack
SON the Yankee Story, in previous number by Ns.
Rose Terry. Her "Me,empsycho,is" in the present
number IS in different view, and far happier
mood, rs can be imagined. Such a strange jauntling
together OF mirh and sadness, to make the quantest
thing ever written, we have never
Then that beautiful paper Crawford could come
in such form, from no other pen than Tuckeman',
and how elegantly DIR Palmer tells of "Asrvadan,
the Brahmin = what dainty Eastern gem; and in
"What are We going to make" the commencement of
series Of scientific papers, valuable addition to the
aHeAll Nhteu courses 10 we sec the thoughts OF lll
EUR Wright?
But the "Autocrat' we will let him sing his own |
praises They use to say of him that it required
great mental effort for him to refrain from being as
funny as he could aud that he wisely considered
the limits of expansion when he inflated his readers
with laughter; but is he torinentcd with any such |
feelings of fear in regard to being brilliant as he
nj" lis the universal voice of the Atlantic read
ers, that his sayings are the of each number,
ana altogether forming the most interesting papers, !
ever contributed to Magazine, since the DAYS of
Christopher North. Whoever it is that docs the poll
tics for the Atlantic may safely be rated as too many
guns for our present administrations niquity. Mr. |
James Buchanan, has herein our opinion. But the
genial appreciatyc discerning book notices OF the
"Atlantc's scrvener, rise in judgment upon the fee
bier efforts of stars of lesser magnitude" They prove
quite distinctive feature at the board But reader,
heed our advice, and introduce your perctpirs tsce
Websters unabridsed) to the July number of the At
lantic. Occasionally yours. d.
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