Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-12-26
0Alexis, the Runaway, or Ahoat In the
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counsel, aud would afford much amuse'
ment and instructive reading TO our
young folks during the holidays
For sale by Sawyer & Dunn
Dickens WorIs.-The advent OF Charles
Dickens the popular novelist, TO our
shores, has given new impetus to
readers OF his works. Not to have read
Dickens now Is to be out OF the world
In order to further the disposition OF the
public, Appleton & Co, are bringing out
q cheap edition in pamphlet form to be
sold for twenty-five cents. Oliver Twist
is already published. The price places
1t within reach OF every one. Let works
OF this sort supPlaut the trash cast over
the country under the title Of dime
novels.
futile & Co. have for sale all the edi.
tions OF Dickens works, both bound and
pamphlet They have also large lot OF
holiday books.
CHRISTMAS STORIES. - By Charles
Dickens. New York. D. Appleton s.
Co. Price % cents.
This edition OF Christmas Stories by
Dickens, in pamphlet form, is tastefully
brought out by the enterprising House
of Appleton & Co. Its contents consists
of five stories we'll adapted to Christmas
times, and are entitled "a Christmas
Carol in prose, being Ghost Story Of
Christmas" "The Chimes Goblin
Story OF some bells that rang an old
year out and new year in" The Cricket
on the Hearth Fairy Tale OF Home. "
"The Battle Of Life. Love Story"
"The Haunted man and the Ghosts Bar.
gain" Every lover of Dickens as s
writer should not fail to procure these
tales, and they would carry amusement
and profit into every household on
Christmas day. These stories are In
wide demand and the edition will be ex-
hausted at an early day, For sale by
futile g. Co.
The Diary Of HjHinr, by Belle Otis.
New York Hurd 81 Houghton. Price
$3.50.
A pleasant volume OF 100 pages, con.
tanning the journal OF the trials of a
milliner. The 'Darist" processes to be
a woman who, left widow, desires an
independent profession, and accordingly
undertakes trade in millinery. She jots
down in her journal what she sees. and
being 3 woman Of philosophic bent,
makes her observations OF human ma
ture serve as the text for extended dis
course. The interest OF the book rests
in part upon the odd pulpit set up
the counter of q millineri upon the
preacher herself "a philosophic mil
liner and upon the congregation-wo.
men OF all sorts, trying on bonnets and
buying ribbons. There is an original
ity certainly in such new out look up
on the world. There is considerable
skill shown in the keen bearing OF poor
human nature, and exhibitions of human
weakness in shopping but as sort of
compensation the writer grimly suggests
that the wickedness Is not one side Of
the counter after all. 1t is stated that
the scenes and reflections were actually
recorded st the moment on odd bits of
ribbon paper and the like, and that the
diary is verltable one.
For sale by futile & Co. and SAWYER
& Dunn.
The Philosophy of Eating. By Prot. Albert
J, Bellows of Boston, late Professor of
Chemistry and Philosophy. New
York: Hurd & Houshton 342 pages.
Price $500.
This is an excellent book and if it
could have q studious reading in every
family in the land, the race would be
healthier and happier. 1t is not one of
those severe treatises, which forbid
everything palatable in the shape Of
food, but is 4 scientific and sensible
work, intended to tell US what we should
eat and drink. The author first gives an
analysis Of the human system, shows
the elements Of which it is composed.
and the necessity Of a constant supply
of each. Then he analyses the articles
OF food used in this country, classfles
them in relation to their fitness for dif.
ferent classes, as for active workers in
open air, for persons Of sedentary occu.
pations, for brain workers, &c, dis.
cusses modes of cookery, and, in fine,
shows the economy health and happi.
ness to be derived from scientific eating.
Just such information as this is much
needed in this country, and those who
care anything about their health will
find it an interesting as we'll as profit.
able book. II comes to US through Lee
g. Shepard Of Boston, and is for sale by
Sawyer g. Dunn and futile s. Co,
LAWS OF VERMONT, a. Id. 1867.
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