The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1863-10-10
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FREEDOM AND WAR. Discourses on Topics sug-
gested by the times, by Henry Ward Beecher
Boston, Ticknor & Fields, 1868, PIP. 445.
The reading public-and in New England
this includes everybody old enough to read
will be obliged to Messrs Ticknor & Fields Tor
publishing these Discusses of Mr.. Beecher
The author is go well known, and his style is 60
familiar to all, that it would be space wasted
for us to attempt any critical review Of the
book. 1t is enough to recommend it to our
readers, to say that these Discourses weredeliver
ed by Mr.. Beecher from time to time, between
October 1859, aud February of the present
year, and in all 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, SO char
acteristc Of the Preacher in Plymouth Church.
There are eighteen Discourses 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, Its Dangers and
Duties Energy of Administration Demanded I;
Modes and Duties Of Emancipation The
Church's Duty to Slavery The Beginning of
Freedom The Success of American Democracy;
Christianity in Government Speaking Evil Of
Diguites; National Injustice and Penalty;
The Ground aud Forms Of Government; Our
Good Progress and Prospects,; Libsrty under
Laws; The Southern Babylon.
GALA DAYS, by Gail Hamilton, (author of Coun-
try Living and Country Thinking Boston,
Ticknor g. Fields, 1868, PIP. 436.
This is collection of articles which first ap-
peared in the Atlantic Monthly, written by this
now widely known and justly popular authoress.
1t contains five articles, viz: Gala Days A
Gall to my Countrywomen A Spasm of Sense
Camilla Concert Cheri; Side-Glances at
Harvard Classic Success in Life E.; Happiest
Days.
Gail Hamilton is one of the most vvacious,
sparkling, racy, dashing writers of these times
She is u cordial hater of oil kinds of Shams
and in the sharpness of her wit shows no mercy
to Pretences of any sort. AS is natural to such |
writer's, she occasionally runs into some extrav-
agances of ideas or expression, but these are
pardonable faults in an authoress who has
given us so many living thoughts, clothed in
most attractive style. OF course every person |
who pretends to know anything of the current
literature of the day, reads all that Gail Ham
ilton writes but we commend this book to
those even who sometimes make virtue Of de- !
nying that anything worthy to be read is pro.
duced by the magazine writers of the present
time Though they may-lIke the old topper
who, for 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
iraught from the sparkling and refreshing
founta in Of Gala Days
In addition to the literary merits of Gala
Days, the publishers have done their work ex.
,ellently 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 lis con-
tents
SECRETARY OF Civil AND MILITARY AFFAIRs.-
Samuel Williams, Esq, who has been appoint
ed by Governor SMITH Secretary of Civil and
Military Affairs, has held the same Office for two
years under Governor HoLBRooK. During that
time he has proved himself eminently qualified
Tor the laborious, and often responsible duties of
'he Office, and his reappontment by Governor