Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1863-10-13

FREEDOM AND WAR. Discourses on Topics sug-
gested by the times, by Henry Ward Beecher.
Boston, Ticknor & Fields, 1863, PIP, 445.
The reading public--and in Now England
this includes everybody old enough to read
will DO obliged to Messrs. Ticknor & Fields for
publishing these Dscourses Of Mr.. Beecher'
The author is so well known and bis style is 30
familiar to all, that it would be space wasted
for US to attempt any critical review OF the
book 1t lie enough to recommend 1t to our
readers, to say that these Dscourses weredeliyer-
ed by Mr.. Beechor from time to time, between
October 1852 and February of the present
year, and in oil Of them, topics more or less re
lated to Slavery and the Great Rebellion, are
discussed with that plainness Of speech and
fearlessness in the utterance Of truth 30 char
acteristic of the Preacher in Plymouth Church
There are eighteen Discourscs in the book on
the following subjects The Nations Duty to
Slavery Against Compromise OF Principle ;
Our Blameworthiness The Battle set in Array;
The National Flag The Camp, It's Dangers aud
Duties Energy of Administration Demanded {;
Modes and Duties Of Emancipation; The
Church's Duty 10 Slavery The Beginning Of
Freedom The Success Of American Democracy;
Christianity in Government; Speaking Evil of
Dignities National Injustice and Penalty
The Ground and Forms of Government, Our
Good Progress and Prospects Lbery under
Laws The Southern Babylon
GALA DAYS, by Gail Hamilton, (author of Coun-
try Living and County Thinking). Boston,
Ticknor g. Fields, 1863, PIP. 436.
This is collection Of articles which first APP
peared in the Atlantic Monthly, written by this
now widely known and justly popular authoress,
1t contains five articles, viz Gala Days; A
Call to my Countrywomen A Spasm Of Sense (;
Camilla Concert Cheri; Side-Glauces at
Harvard Class-Day Success in Life Happiest
Days.
Gail Hamilton is one Of the most vyacious,
sparkling, racy, dashing writer's of these times.
She is cordial hater Of all kinds Of Shams,
and in the sharpness of her wit shows no mercy
to Pretences OF any sort. As is natural to such
writers, she occasionally runs into some extrav-
agancee Of ideas or expression, but these arc
pardonable faults in an authoress who has
given US SO many living thoughts, clothed 10 a
most attractive style. OF course every person
who pretends to know anything Of the current
literature Of the day reads all that Gail Ham
| ilon writes but we commend this book to
those even who sometimes make q virtue of de-
nyiog that anythiHg worthy to be rad is pro.
duced by the magazine writer's Of the present
time. Though they may-hke the old topper
who, for a steady drink, preferred rum-adhere
with the devotion Of first love to the staid and
severely decorous style Of earlier writers. they
will yet, we assure them, agreeably diversity
their literary beverages, by taking an occasional
draught from the sparkling and refreshing
fountain of Gala Days.
In addition to the literary merits OF Gala
Days, the publishers have done their work ex-
cellently we'll. The book is printed on tinted
paper, in the best style of typography, and is
as fair and inviting in its dress as in It's con-
tents.