Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1865-07-25
The ATLANTIC MONTHLY comes to our table

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instructive and entertaining as the Atlantic always
is, it seems to US each succeeding issue is an
improvement on its predecessor. Ga our first
page we republish from this number a beautiful
poetic gem entitled "The Willow" the author
ship Of which we can hardly think ourself mis-
taken in a%scribing to Mrs. Il. A.. Akers-the
" Florence Percy" of our youthful years. There
is woven about it that exquisite beauty and quiet
grace, commlngIed with all that touching pa
thos, which, in years long since numbered with
the past, so charmed and thrilled the residents O.
a quiet village near the banks of the Connecticut,
as week after week the local paper Of the place
favored its readers with Just such beautiful poems
as the one here alluded to, while the gifted daugh-
ter of song walked unreservedly in our midst, and
daily mingled with US in the common duties of
life, and yet for nearly a twelve- month succ. IS
fully put at naught all attempts to discover the
real name OF the poetess who, under the nom de
I plume Of " Florence Percy y sang so sweetly and
50 charmingly. The very reading Of this poem
in the atlantic wildly recalls many a delightful
"reminiscences, and, Ike the dimly remembered
passages of a pleasant dream, cherished memo
ries of the olden time come trooping up In our
mind so we are constrained to say thatif " Flor
ence Percy " did nc write "The Willow some
body who is an especial hvorite Ct the muses.
did. Bat We are wandering from our notice of
the Atlantic. The table of contents in this issue
is as follows.
Among the Honey-Makers Countess Laura
Strategy of the Fireslde Around Mull. II. John
Bright and the English Radicals Needle and
Garden. VIII. The Willow My Second Cap
ture Doctor Johns. VII Letter to a Silent
Friend The Chimney Corner. VIII Peace ;
Reconstruction and Negro Suffrage Reviews and
Literary Ne ices.
Iicknor & Fields, Publishers, Boston. Terms
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HAKPER's NEW MONTHLY MAGAzINE.- The
number for August is but Just received, and We
have had only time to glance over it but a friend
at our elbow who has read it, pronounces it ai
fdt-more interesting even than usual, and that
is not slight praise. Below we give the table Of
contents
After the War A Trip TO Bodie Bluff and the
Head Sea of the West 10 the Witness Box
Heroic Deeds of Heroic Men TX The Pursuit
and Capture Of Morgan BY the Apple Tree
Rscolleetions of Sheridan JuliaL Nevada Ac-
counts Balanced Brains Hugh Miller and &c.
ology Armada e -Four years ulder Fire at
Charleston A Nice Time Midsummer Noon
A Ballad Of the Hours; Our Mutual Friend
Influence of Climate Upon National Character
Monthly Record Of Current Events Literary
Notices; Editors Easy Chair; L .itor's Drawer.
Terms, 81 90 per year for a single copy six
copies for $50. Published by Harper & Brothers,
New York.
The LADY's FEIENp. Tho August number Of
this Magazine has a pretty steel engraving, en-
titled L" Grandpa's Darling and The other en-.
cravings and illustrations Of beauty and fash
ion will please all it's subscribers. The double
foshion plate has a beautiful " counterfeit pre-
sentiment " of that which most Of our young
lady readers, sooner or later in their lives, will
be pleased to wear. Can any one guess what it
ie? Simply an elegant bridal dress The lit
srary contents Of this number are as varied and
interesting as ever. Terms $500 per year.
Deacon 4 Peterson, Publishers, Philadelphia.
GoDEY's LIDY's Book for August has an ex-
quislte steel plate engraving, entitled &" The
Fair Haymakers,' aspirited wood engraving Of
The Thorny Path, a double fashion plate and
several fashion eugravings from the celebrated
houses Of A. T.. Stewart 4 Co and g.. Brodie.
The literary contents afford pleasant and profita-
BILE reading, and Cooley for August will be pro-
nounced au fat by all the ladies. Published by
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year for a single copy $40 for four copies.
NV MUsIo.-From Oliver Ditson x Co., the
enterprising Music Publishers of Boston, we
have received the following new musical gems
just published by them Berceuse Cradle Song
for the piano O)u!d | be near my Boy, song
ssd chorus Ann Maria, a song for the times i,
My Mother did so before me, a song by Bernard
Covert Oh my heart goes pit-a.pat, a song
and duet introduced in the Maid Queen by Mr..
and Mrs. Gomersal. The above, and almost all
other pieces OF music, may be obtained of Geo.
w. Wilder, at the Freeman Bookstore.
OUR YouNG FOLKS for August, is as attractive
as it is possible for editors and publishers to make
it-too attractive our juveniles think, inasmuch as
the elder members Of the household insist upon
having the first reading Of the number; a fact
sadly at variance with their notions Of the eternal
fitness of things besides being slightly trying to
their good nature and patience, Published by
Toknor & Fields, Boston, at 81 per year for a
single copy ten copies for SIS.
TRANSACTIONS OF TIE VERMONT MEDICAL
SOCIETY at is annual session held at Montpelier,
Oct. 10Th and Goth, is the title Of an interesting
and neat pamphlet sent US by the Secretary of
the Society. 1t was printed at the Standard
office, Woodstock, and contains an address de-
ivered by DR., Stevens in 1858, e., report on Spot
ted Fever by DR.. Woodward, on Cerebro- Spinal
Meningitis by Dr. Butler, on Diseases of the
Brain by DR.. Upham, on Epidemic Diseases in
Franklin County by DR.. Fassett, on Diphlheria
by DR.. Pond, aud a list Of Surgeons employed in
Vermont regiments.
GEN. SHERMAN's PoLITlCs.-The Democratic