Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1860-06-02
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

THE LADIES READER designed for the use Of Ladies
Schools and Family Reading Circles Comprising
choice selections from Standard Authors, In Pros'
and Poetry; with the essential Rule OF Elocution
simplifcd and arranged for strictly practical use
by JOHN S. Hows. pp 1875. Philadelphia: +. II
Butler; Boston, Brown & Targord. Bratteboro, W
FELTON,.
In quite too many of the School Readers that have
been in most general use during the last twenty-five
years the selections although excellent IN themselves
are not well suited for the place assigned them They
arc beyoud the comprehension and understanding ola
majority of those for whose benefit they were com
piled and into whose hands they fall. Sometimes this
is the fault Of the subcct sometimes Of the manner
in which 1t is treated and not unfrequenty Of both-
Extracts from ethical and didactic discourses. fng
ments Of oratons aud the lectures moral and pOlt
cal economy, may be ems Of the FIRST water in their
place but they are rs much out Of order in Standard
School Readers rs diamonds and costly stones would
be in the dress of children. Nature should be the
great instructor of youth, and with the right training
she is always the most acceptable teacher as her or
namcnts are the oftenest sought and most dearly
priced by healthy young minds.
We have carefully examined the series of articles
which are here brought together for the first time
and we do not not find one that would strike out.
lucy Ne DulH NltUCUNf Uuu Instructive tHc tNp p'-
sentals which should always govern in such selections.
The Rules seem to be very plain and easy ofcompre-
tension The typographical execution is all that could
be desired in such work. We commend 1t to the
careful examination of teachers and parents.
PoLlTIcAL DEBATES between Hon. Abraham Lin
coin and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, in the celebrated
campaign of 1865, in Illinois Including the preceding
speeches of each, Mt Chicago, Springfield etc; Also
the two great speeches of Mr. Lincoln in Ohio in
1859, carefully prepared by the reporters Of each
party and publihed Mt the times of their delivery.
Columbus, Toilet, Foster & Company. For sale in
Boston by Brown & Taggard; Bratteboro by W.
FELTON,. Price &c cents.
II any doubts the ability of Mr. Lincoln to dis
political subject in clear and ineligible man
ner, invite Inn to read the speeches in this book
Mr. Lincoln so successfully combatted the obnoxious
principles sp,ciously advocated by Mr. Douglas,
that the Republicans have published the speeches on
both sides in full and will use them as n campnigi,
document. The democrats are not sufficiently CON
WINGED of the ability of their champion to meet Mr.
Lincoln to pursue like course We advise every
Republican and every Democrat to buy and read the
book
A DISCOURSE on the Life Character and Genius OF
Washington irving, Delivered before the New Ork
Historical Society, Mt the Academy Of Music in
York, on the 80 Of April, 1860. BY William Cullen
Bryant PIP 46. New York: G. p Putnam. Brat
tleboro, W. FELTON,.
perusal of this genial tribute of the Poe, to the
Historian and Essayst has drawn from friend the
article on Irving on the first page
Tabs FROM THE BIBLE. For the young. Nv vii
liam NJ. Thayer. PIP. 262. Boston: j. L. Tilton s,
Co. Brattleboro, W. FELTON,.
Our juvenile friends will find in this volume series
of Scripture events narrated in clear and entertain
ing manner. The main facts are all found in the BIZ
bic, but they are linked together by an imaginative
detail pearls sometimes strung in order to rem
der the general effect more pleasing. Story Of the
Creation; Adam. the First Man; Cain, the First Bad
Boy; The First City; Enoch or the Man who never
Died; the Three Bright Brothers; Noahs Ark, or the
First Ship; The Deluge, or the Great Storm and
Flood; The Beautiful Rainbow; Shen, Ham, and ia
phet, the Three Fathers of Mankind; The Tower Of
Babel; Abram as n Boy and Young Man; The Strange
Command to Abram; The First War; these are the
titles Of the several chapters and indicate the range
and variety of the subjects presented.