Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1859-02-10

caihoe refer 10 feelings, Tor that would make
bad grammar. In his notice OF Wordsworth,
the compiler says, Wordsworth's OlUn style
ana manner ioe'e SO peculiar, and so unlike that
thosel OF the poetry that was popular at that
period, that ne was obliged to create the taste,
&c. Comment is unnecessary.
AS companion to this notice, we quote the
PREDATORY remarks to the sixty-third lesson
" One OF the victims of the fearful tragedy OF
the burning Of the steamer Lexington, &c.
On page twenty-thlrd
On the cross beam under the Old Sou tn Bell"
The other beams were probably good-natured
Page one hundred and ninety-eight
On the peH side he rested t,''
probably because the other side was sick. Or
the two hundred and nineteenth page we fine
drdp 6r'dge" and " drawbridge.' Page two
hundred and forty-seventh
&C From the lofty cider tree"
in contradiction to the lowly younger tree.
Page two hundred and lorty-eight
G. lis pretty baby treat''
| Which Is pretty, the baby or the baby-treat
On the one hundred and ninety-eighth page
81 the husband of this gifted peH
! Shall drink before his wife,
| happy man henceforth is he"
1t is not every well that has husband
Hencsforth would be gamer if written thence
forth.
Page three hundred and eighty-ninth
If you give way, OF
hedge aside from the direct lorcthought.
Hedge should be cdge, as the reader viii plain
ly see.
On the one hundred and thirty second page
speaking of Scott, the compiler says, " His debt
materially diminished before his death, hav,
since been entirely discharged. In this portion
of his life, Scotts character Shines" &c. In
the portion since his dtaih.
The seventeenth lesson treats Of the habits anC
ways of hogs, and g the loves and sorrows" o.
"pglings y As it is especially intended fol
the cultivation Of II = correct literary taste,
We make few extracts
d" With one curl in their tQils, and with thei
noses almost touching the ground, the pigs tro
on, granting 10 themselves and 10 their com
radeS.''
GA little bareheadcd, barefooted, stunted ia
| of ach1." Then comes the cruelty practice
upon erfing pigs, then the gorging" and Fl
nally the death scene, where the pig &C scream
struggles against the blue apron-scream
fainter and iainter-turns up the whites of hi
little eyes-and dies "
The twenty-frst lesson-conssts almost who'll,
Of expressions like these; 'sOh, Vulcan
what a glow y "squashinq blow," 'sweter
ing fountains, " s,oinking crowd, -" pitch SIX,
high, " sobbing sweethearts, in a row." to g,
plump plunging down amid the assembly o
whales "ghastly grinning shark" "6ach
BROWSING ocean calves'n :" he lies huber anch
orage for sudden stationed miles," The mean.
ing of the last quotation IS somewhat obscure
Such is Hillard's First Class Reader Not
withstanding the publishers announcement tina
it is " the best Notwithstanding the compi
ler's boast that " pains have been taken to ex
cludc from the book everything which was evel
doubtful in regard to moral SENTIMENT OF whcl
could offend the INCEST sense Of decorum,' gam
that " exclusive reference has been had to tn
moral and iatel|ectudt training of the young pei
sons for whom Il work is intended, we hav
shown that it abounds in cursing, swearing an
car using; in indricacy, indeccncy, and pre-
family in irreverencc, sacrilego, and Mariola
try in carelessness, ignorance, and vanity i
grammatical plumbers that would disgrace
schoo-boy; and in pieces whose literary mer
can he am reciated only at the shambles or in
pot-house. Is it to be wondered at that teacl
cas- should dislike the book ON other grounc
than itS want Of adaptation to the school-room
or that some teacher should compile Read(
free from these faults, and the publishers clail
for it that it is 50?
We shall treat our readers, at some futul
time, to other extracts from Hillard's te,
books.