Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1864-06-07

! HnlCu says " Dflnk ye all 81 It.
raB MAINE WooDs by Henry D. Thoreau
Author Of "A Week on tue Concord anu
! Msrrlnac Rivers, " Excurai1ns," etc etc
Boston Iickncr & Fields. | Vol. l0mo
lbs.
This book contains throe papers: The first
Ktaadn, appeared first in the Union Maps
zIue," New YoIk, in lS4S; he second, d" CLe
suncook, came out in the" Atlantic Monthly
IN 1858; aud the last, " Tho Allegssh ace
East Branch" " Is now Tor tho frst time printed
ThOreau was an enthusiastic lover Of Nature
and devoted himself almost with a slDgIe af c
ton to IA lite among the mountain', and lakes
and rivers, and grand old forests.
This book contains the record Of the weeks
he spent IN the Maine Woods. The article.
are written in graceful, slmple style. Iht
author wandered in the WOODS, MT as q sports
man, bat because VI his unoeaslng yearnlng ioi
the pure, simple, and ever fresh truths Of Ma
ture. Tie snsms, the heartlessness, the deoeits
the hypocrlcles, the unrolenIing strit,s oi til,
contentious and snowy world, made him almos
cynic, but away from the haunis Of men be
iounl
tongues In trees, book, In ghs runalns brooks,
ssrmoLs In slon.s, aud good Ia everything"
We eanrot give our leaders better idea oi
his book than BY shs following concluding por.
ton OF the paper On " Kssadn
What is most striking in the Maine wilder
meas Is the eJntlnuousnese OF The torest, with
lswer open Intervals or glades ,bsD you imsg.
med, Except The ies burnt lands, ,he narrow
intervals Un tue lvers, the bare tops oi the high
mountains, aud the lakes and streams, tue Tor.
est is uninterrupted. lt Ii even more grim ana
Wild than you had anucipat0, damp and In
snoate wilderness, Ia the spring every where
wet and miry. Tue aspect Of the country, In
deed, Is universally stern and savage, excepting
the distant views vi the forest lr4m hills, auu
the lake prospects,, which are mild and civilized
IN n degree. The lakes are something which
you are unprepared Tor they lie up go high,
exposed to the night, and the forest is diminish
ed 10 ine fringe On their edges, with here and
there little llue mountain, ike amethyst je =.
els sci around rome jewel ot the hrst water, -
~ anterior, 80 superior 10 all the changes that
are 10 take place Un their shores even now civil
and refined, and fair rs they can ever be- These
are not the artificial iores.s OF an Eoslish king
"a royal preserve merely nelc prevail no
forest laws but those ot nature. The auorlgines
have never been dIspossesseI, nor nature als-
fOrested.
IL lisa country full OF evergreen trees, OF mos
~ silver bichts shd watery nap,es, tie gfouuu
II .fk ..sA
suewn with damp and moss grown roeks,--a
country diversified with innumersble lakes and
fapid streams, peopled with trout and various
species If suenei, with salmon, shad, and pick
ertl and other hshes The forest resJundinq ~
rare intervals With the Dole Of the chlckadet,
the blue jay, and the woUdf ecker, the scream OF
the hsh-hswk and the eagle, The laugh oil the
loon, and the whistle Oi ducks along lne solitary
streams at night, with the hootlnH OF Owls
and howling oi wolves IN sumnei, swarmlng
with myrlads OF blacx hlss anu mosquitoes, more
formidable than wolves 10 the whl.e man. sucn
10 The hume oil tue mouse, the bear, the carib ~,
the wolf, tho beaver, and tho Indian. Who
shall describe tn lnexpressible tenderness anu
immortal lie Vi the grIn forest, where Nature,
tho sgh 1t be mld-winter, Is ever in her sprlug,
where this mOssgtown and oecaylng trees are
noi old, but seem 10 enjoy perpetual youth
aud blssul, innocent Nature, Ike 4 serene in-
liant, Is toO happy % naks NOISE, excep, by =
few linking, hsplng bl,os and trleklips riils Z
What place 10 live, what place to die anu
be buried IN Tne,e certainly men would live
forever, and laugh at death and the grave.
There they could nave no such thoughts as are
sssOcialcd with the village gravsy ard that
make grave out Of one oi ihoss moist ever
green hunmocks
Die and be buried Who will,
mean TO 1--we here sill
NJ nature grows ever more young,
TIE primitive pines smosE
am reminded by my journey how exceeding
ly nov this country still Is. You have cnly to
travel for few days into the interior anu back
par's oi many OF the old States to come to that
very America which sho Northmen, aud CABOT,
md (iOspuld and smith and RaIsiyh visitad