Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-03-27

his portraits. He is therefore, never tedious.
never wearies his readers patience, and if he
does not convince his judgment, at least
holds his attention. He is said to be the
best writer of biography in America, and if
popularity is a test of merit this is undoubt-
eddy true.
The volume is handsomely printed and
bound.
Religious Poems.
The volume of Mrs Harriet Beecher Stoves
. Religious Poems,'' just issued by Ticknor
4 Fields, is presented to the public in very
attractive form, elegantly printed and bound
and handsomely illustrated, the frontispiece
having a charming view of Mrs. Stoves resi-
dence at Hartford 1t contains twenty nine
poems, seven being under the title of :. Hours
of the Night and four on - Pressed Flow
ers from Italy All but one or two have
been given to the public before in newspapers
or magazines.
Mrs. Stoves poetry is not equal to her
prose No woman in the United States has
shown more power as prose writer than
Mrs. Stowe, and perhaps no one book written
/ by American has produced so great effect,
SO touched the heart of the people, as - IN
! Gle Toms Cabin" 1t by no means follows,
however, that the best prose writer Will be
the best poet; and in this volume Mrs. Stowe
/ does not carry herself in the realm of poetry
/ SO conqueringly as she has done in the walks
of prose. We copy from the volume
''oNLY YEAR.
one wear ago-a ringing voice.
\ clear blue eve,
/ And clustering curls of sunny hair,
Too fair to die
Only ycar-no voice. smile,
No glance of eve,
No clustering curls of golden hair,
Fair but to die
One year ago-what loves what schemes
Far into life
What joyous hopes with high resolves,
What generous strife
The silent picture the wall,
The burial stone,
OF all that beauty. life and Joy.
Remain alone
/ One Vear-one vear-one little year.
And SO much gone
And vet the even flow of life
Moves calmly on.
The graves grow green, the flowers bloom fair
Above that head;
No sorrowing tint of leaf spray
SAYS he is dead
No pause or hush of merry birds
That sing above,
Tells us how coldlv sleeps below
The form we love.
" here hast thou been this year, beloved?
What hast thou seen?
What visions fair, what glorious life,
Where thou hast been?
The veil the veil so thin, so strong,
Twixt us and thee;
The mystic veil. when shall it fall.
That may see?
Not dead but sleeping, not even gone
But present still,
And waiting for the coming hour
of Gods sweet will.
Lord of the living and the dead
Our Saviour dear
We lay in silence at Thy feet
This sad, sad year
THE cRocrs.
Beneath the sunny autumn sky
With gold leaves dropping round,
We sought, my little friend and l..
The consecrated ground,
Where calm beneath the holy cross,
ershadowed by sweet skies,
Sleeps TRANQUILITY that youthful form.
Those blue unclouded eyes
Around the soft, green swelling mound
We seooped the earth away,
And buried deep the crocus bulbs
Against the coming day,
g These roots are dry, and brown and sere
Why plant them here?' he said,
10 leave them, all the winter long,
So desolate and dead
:. Dear child, within each sere dead form
There sleeps living flower,
And angel-like it shall arise
In Springs returning hour
All. deeper down-cold, dark, and chill
We buried our hearts flower,
But angcl-like shall he arise
In Springs immortal hour.
In blue and yellow from its grave
Springs up the crocus fair,
And God shall raise those bright blue eyes.
Those sunny waves of hair.
Not for fading Summers morn,
Not for a fleeting hour,
But for an endless age of bliss.
Shall rise our hearts dear flower.
The volume may be obtained at the book
store of G. w. WILDER.
HARpER's MAGAZINE for April contains the
continuation of the travels of the Dodge
Club in Italy, clever article humorously
Illustrated. The continuation of Abbott's
: Heroic Deeds of Heroic Men - is devoted
o Benjamin III. Porter of New York .sVir-
,inians in Texas is continued 1.-The
shaded Stream is a pleasant picture in l
erse, with an appropriate illustration. An
ther illustrated article dwells at some length ,
pom the duty and uses of Christian t
enforcing the text Thou
halt love thy neighbor as thyself'' There y
a very readable sketch of Davy Crockett's 7
Tour and several short sto- s
les. Altogether this number is a good one v
OLIVER OPrIc's "OuR BOYS AND GIRLS" I
FINISHES entertainment, am usement and in j,
ruction from week to week t. the boys and
iris all over the country. 10