The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1863-12-05

articles, ard Will De very sure, II tney nave once
read them in the magazine to secure them in
the inviting form in which the publisher presents
them to US. Dr. Holmes is one of the most en-.
tertaining, racy versatile writers of New Eng
land, and scarcely any author has been more
widely read. While some of his contributions to
the current literature of the day do not appeal to
the popular intellect and 10 the popular heart, De
has written many things which enlist the sympa-
thy of every one who reads at all " My Hunt af-
ter The Captain in this volume, is an instance
of this, and is one of the most captivating and
touching narratives which the Incidents OF the
war has furnished the materials for.
/ The THOUGHTS OF THE EMPEROR NJ AURELIUs
ANToNIUs. Translated by George Long. Bo8-
ton Iicknor & Fields.
/ We cannot better notice this book than by
copying the following from an exchange
The lovers of the classics owe the publishers
! debt of gratitude for tu,s IePIIut =! Mr.. Longs
excellent translation OF one of the nobest works
of antiquity. From the time of its first appear
ance in print (l550) to the present day, these
thoughts of the good Emperor Antoninus have
always found readers among the worlds best
men, and we trust always will, for no anci, nj, and
but few modern, trsatiseS on morals nre likely
to ennobIe their thc4g.ts and actions. The train
of meditation in wI.lch he indulged was akin to
the speculations of the Stocs, by the spirit rather
than the letter Of whose philosophy he lived, and
which made him wise aud good man, and IL
model ruler among the ther masters of the world.
An earnest and in some respef's profound think
er be grapped with the great problems OF time
and eternity, and life and death, which crowded
about him, ss they will about the few in every
age and if be did not always come off a victor
from the struggle, he wrestled mantully, and even
in defeat won an impeEshable crown. Consider
eng the age in which he lived, and the circum-
stances by which he was begirt, be deserves the
veueration of mankind. Obscure as his language
sometimes is, and valueess as some OF his specu-
lations are for US to-day, there is cosmcal
greatness 10 his thought as palpable as the uni
verse, from which, rather than any school of phil
osophy, it emanated-the secret OF the untathom-
able heavens, the great round earth, and the in
nermost hopes and fears Of the mysterious soul
of man. Besides his translation of the Thoughts
Of Antoninus,' Mr.. Long gives US we'll written
life of him, and a careful analysis of his philoso-
ply.
TALES OF A WAYsIDE I'm. By Henry Wads-
worth Longfellow. Boston: Ticknor Fields.
This origin OF this latest gift of Longfellows 5
poetic genius to the public, is thus pleasantly sug-
gested in letter to the New York Euening
Posi-
Longfeow entities the volume of poems just
issued. Tales of Wayside Inn and it COM
mences bv an old New England tavern or hostel
ry in the parlor of which small company is col
ected consisting of musician, student, Span
isA Jew, q theologian from Harvard College, and
poet Each Of these representative tave lers
and the landlord Of the inn beguile the evening
by narrative each being poem already pub
lshed in the Atlantic .NOnhly-and these being
, strung upon the description of the parsonage:
! and the place, together form the volume entitled
"The Wayside Inn" The poem commences
with these lines
4 ! % One Autumn night in Sudbury town,
Across the meadows and brown,
, The windows of the wayside iun
Cleaned red with Are light through the leaves &C. e.
( was at once struck with the resembl ance
: these lines bare to some sanzas Of the poet, /
4 w. Parsons, which appeared in volume pub
n lished in Boston, by Iicknor & Fields, in 1904
nearly ten years since. On turning TO the poem
of Mr.. Parsons find it entitled Fifth OF No
= yember at Howe's Tavern in Sudbury" Its com
). mencement is as follows:
One ffth ofNovember when meadows were brown,
n And the woods were all withered-in Sudbury town,
Four lads from the city, by special request
S At an old tavern met for whole day of rest"
e The similarity in locality and description tn
= name of the town, Sudbury" and the mead
IS ows brown identical in both poems, leaves NJ
&c room to doubt that the author of the Waysld
" Inn received his suggestion from the poem
TO- Parsons. That Longteow was actually one
IS the " four lads alluded to IN the latter poem
also apparent from the succeeding verses. III
81 seconu commences thus
. IS There was Henry and Austin and William and JOIN
And The glasses went round as Inc o ak wood went on
That " Henry - was Henry w. Longfellow
AZ clear as that . William was Thomas VdIid'
Parsons, and that the others were the ChristIa
names Of two other Boston gentlemen, well know
there as being intimate friends OF the poet at II
10 period referred to.
iS' Mr.. Parsons poem is too long to insert her
- hut if any of your literary readers want to kno
a.. how these gentlemen passed the memorable ey
nino at the " Inn in Sudbury town." and VIII
good things were said by the two poets and the
ter two friends, they had better procure the sma
er- voIome of poems by Thomas William Parson
70 nuhi.hed by Ticknor & Fields, as above me-
y toned. They will thus be inclined, | THINK
>, give Mr.. Persons the credit OF 'n'Aafng the ioe