Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1865-05-09
Literary Notices.

1t is enough to commend this book to a N iIIio
readers, to say that it is, in style, briliancy, ant
pungency, like Gail Hamilton'I other writings
In it the author devote3 Characteristic paper t,
her critics, 10 which it ID no more than truth Il
say that the critics get the worst Of it. HeaI
her express her purpose to write as much as sh,
chooses to, aod give her reasons for it
But all else will forgive and forget, il you vii
not tell me to stop writing. That cannot and
will not do. You may llerate and reterate, that
the public will tire Of me am sorry for the
public, but It is strosg and will be easily rested
Sorry 2 No, am not am glad. sheuld like
70 pay back p,rt Of the WEAKNESS which The
public has lua cted On me 10 the shape Of lessons
lectures sermons speeches. customs, hIhlons
Why should il have the monopoly Of fstguing
Minorlties have their rights as well as msJlfities.
The spout Of a tea-kettle is not to be compared,
n point Of bulk, to the tea-kettle but it puts is q
claim for an eqlal depth Of water, and Natu re
acknowledges the clsm | cannot think of rein
ing 10 yet. | have bat Just started. And every
thing is 30 interesting. Nothing IS isolated
Nothing Is insignificant. Everything you touch
thrills. Ii seems 10 matter bat liLtie what you
look at only look long enough, and lie, ti life
springs up. You see that it has causes and oonse-
qusnces, dependencies, bearings, aud all manner
OF social interests and before you know u, you
have become involved IN those interests and are
one Of the family. For the time you stake all on
one issue, ana contend valiantly. IA soon as that
IS decided, and you stop to take breath moment
something else comes equ,ly interesting aud
seeming equally important, and again your lasce
Il IN rest. When IL comes 10 the QUGnltlt, OF
mons, there Is not much difference between one
thing and another. And you ask me to fold my
hands and sl sill Not !. promise to do the
best can, bu, shall oit. There are rows Of
blocks standing around the walls Of my studio,
waiting TO be ch,ssIled. They will not be Apol-
los,-but even Puck IS a ROBIN GoodieloE Hpce
10 one ight ere gump,, Of mora.
HsshsdoWy fi.l hAsh tafs,led tns eorh
Thst ts say -labJrsn could Dos end"
And sha. not confns myself 10 my sphere.
hate my sphere. ike everything that is cut.
side Of It,-or, better still, NY sphere rounds out
into undsfaed space. was born into the whole
world. am monarch Of al! survey. Wher-
syer see sympem, Of pie, thther shall my
aoge's trayei. Wnereyera windmill flaps, it shall
20 hard but will have till al it. shall not
wait til know Whist ! AN taking about II |
did, never should talk at all. lIisa WsIl-known
principle IN education4. science, hat the sutest
say to learn aay thing IS TO teach il. How fast
you'd Geology get on if its professors talked only
on faols, they feel about IN all directions for lheo-
Eies. Bj carefully noting, publishing comparing
discussing their uncertainties, they presently at
rive al a certainty IL race night advocate nine
years delay. lie vas building Tor himself mon
ument that should defy the rolling Years. lie
was setting 20 work 10 %, blood 10 compass M
mortality, and litle time more or ,rss, made no
difference. Apollo and B4cchls could aflfd %
xal,. Beautiful daughters Of beautiful moth,p
will exist 10 the wofla end, and their prai'es viii
always be 10 ordsr. But when, unm ndiul Of the
n,It generation, vhcs vii. have is books and lis
memories, though you are unread and iotgouer
mindful only OF this generation whca grosas aud
Havsila IN PAIN, you .ook on suffering mat you
yearn to sssuage, danger OF which you long 10
warn, sadness wheh you would lain dIpel, bur
dsns which you would strive, IhoogA ever 50 1t
tie, to lgnIeu, delay, even lot thinss so ds,rabls
a. comple,e knowledge aud perfect polish, becomes
not oniy sbiu d, but impos'IbD.. Better shoe,
into tie cavern, evoh II YOU do not know 10 wnst
precise part Of It ths dragon lies lied. Ihe
fash OF your powder may rsvei bis Whereabouts
TO q surer marksmsn. A Transient immortality Is
Of no importance 1t s OF imponano, that hearts
be purified, homes made hsppy Is tha. igRo
BILE Very well. But ths no0iest way to bsnef.
Poslerty Is to serve the presen, ago serve II
by don one best, indeed, but by doiog It nov,
not waiting sor some distant day vhen one may
do it b-tlsr. writer deserves no pardon for
careless or hurried sritlug. IA much time as be
has mental ability to spend on II, so much time he
should devote 10 IT, Bat then spec It on ID.
way. Shut It up for term Of YEAR,, ,nd you
will perbip, hav. manu.cripi that sayi b,gin
where It used to say commence, but in the mean
tims all the people whom you WISHED to save have
died Of a broken hearI,-sr hved with one, which
Is still worse. Besides, even for improvement, it
10 better TO publish your paper than TO kesp il in
the drawer There, all the amendments it can
receive will come from the few feeble advances in
knowledge which you may be 40 fortunate a. o
make, BuI print It aud every enc immeda,sl,
gives You especial attention and the benefit Of his
judgment. Hyou should happen to serve in the
night wing Of Orthodoxy, you will have the ines
umaele boon OF The freest criticism from the left
wing. And Il ID the religious ne .spapsr. for not
mnoing matters Between Jew and Gentle hos.
tlity is the normal oondlden Of things, and is car
ried on peaceaby enough but when Jew meets
Jew, then comes the tug OF war These people
obey TO the letter Apostolic injunction, and confess
your faults Que 10 another with a marvellous rel
ish, which must furnish to the unbeievlns world
lively commentary on the old text, Behold how
these Christians love ons snothel! When ,he,
own list OF yolr shortcomings is exhausted, ten
TO one they will take up the parable Of somebody
else and il little Johnny Horner sitting 10 The
corner Of his sanotum has not room in his crowd
ed columns for the whole pie 10 which his brother
Rorner has served you up, never fear but he viii
put IN his thumb and p.cS ou The plums to ehli.
ven the feast withal
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Tns AurocRAr OF rnE BREAkFAsr TABLE.
Every one his own Blswtll Blue and told.
Boston llcknor and Fields
Holme, says in the introduction to th, series
of papen,-whch all remember appeared in the
Atlantic Monthly SIX or eight years tgo,-lbst he
wrote in 1872 for the New Eogand Mgssins
two articles entitled " Ihe Autocrat OF the Break.
n'i Table, and that the rcyoeotions Of these
crude products Of hs uncombed literary boy
hood, suggested the thought that it would be
curious experiment to shake the zane bough again,
aud see il tbs rip, fruit we're better or worse
than the early windiaIs" Whatever NAV nave
been his own oriaon Of tho success Of this recept
effort OF nj, riper years. the public have voted he
"AutocTat great success. Holmes Is one oil
the most versatile aud ,prishtly writer's whose
iueabStlons have appeared in the Atlantic
and is an essayist Of much learning, and irel,
VII. Ills wit AMI genius are as sparkling a, III,