Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-01-16
Literary Notices.

The NORM AMERICAN REviEw, No. CCXIV.,
for January, 1867 edited by Prof James
Russell Lowell, and Charles Eliot Norton,
Eq.
Contents Captain John Smith, by Ii. b.
Adams; Language and Dialects, by Prof
W. d. Whitney Daniel Webster, James
Parton The Sources of CHI Nile, by Prof. ID
q. Gilman The Work of the Sanitary Com
mission, by g. E Norton; The Office and the
Influence of Clothes, by Prof. p. Evans Gov
Winthrop in New England. by G. g. Smith
The Tyranny of the Majority, by E. l.. God
kin Critical Notices,
Tlcknor 4 Fields Publishers, l2i fremont
Boston.
We shall notice this number more at length
next week
1nK NORTH BRITISH REVIEW reprinted by
the Leonard Scott Publishing Co., New York,
for December is at hand. This number dis
cusses " Conclaves 4" The Relation OF the
Food of Man TO his Muscular Power !" THE
Irish Church Establishment 1" =. The Emper-
or Frederick the Second - 81 Professor Con-
ingtons Eueid; ;" {" Empedocles 2" The
Loss of Calais; :" and &" Submarine Tele-
graphy."
EVERY SATURDAY for January 10, has
varied anG interesting table of contents.
The stories of The Village on the Clif,'
% Silcote of Silcotes,' and I" Black Sheep"
continued. London Society, The Cornhill
Magazine, Chamberss journal, MacmiIlan's
| 10 nd
popular foreign publications, are represented
in this number.
Oliver Optics Magazine, - Our Bo5s and
Girls" for the week ending Jan 10, is
entertaining number. :. The Starry Flag :"
is continued and :. The Hydropathio Ghost :"
is concluded. There are other short stories.
dialogues, the exercise for defamation, puz-
zles, enigmas. REFUSES, &c.
NORTHERN LIGHTS 4" i. the title of new
weekly magazine edited by Edmund Kirke
and Julia Ward Howe, and including on its
brilliant staff of writers, Ludlow, NJ es
o Reilly, Fred W. Shelton, Oliver Optic
Edmund S. Rand, Jr.. Rose Terry, Louisa NJ
Alcott, E. Faxton, Rev. Petroleum V. Nasty
! Orpheus c. Kerr, and other well known names
in popular magazine and newspaper literature
We print in this nu nher OF the FIREMAN
Rev. MIR. Nasby's contribution to the first
number of " -N'orthsrn Lights, " in which be
tells a very exciting story with very sensi
bic moral . onto y it.
Northern Lights aims to furn ish read
| ing for a class who want something a little
more literary than a newspaper, and not quite
30 solid as a regularly got up magazine, and
the first two numbers have made decided hit.
Ii sells rapidly and the orders ahead already
ensure its success. 1t is published In New
York by the American News Company, and
Lee and Shepard are the Boston agents. The
number for January 10Th has articles by Julia
Ward Rowe, FItz Hugh Ludlow, William
! Writ Skies, and others.
:" The NURSERY is the title of a new mag
azne published by A Williams, Boston. and
by the American News Company, New York.
Ii lie to be issued monthly. and will furnish
reading for the youngest readers, those who
have just mastered enough of the language
to begin to read for their own amusemen t.
The publishers call it the infants magazine,
and it will be a source of Infinite amusemen,
and pleasure to the wondering little eyes
which are just beginning to find meaning
in printed rs and pictures. 1t is. of c,urse
beautifully illustrated, being in fact picture
book as we'll as a magazine. Sud for Is cents
q copy, or 81 50 per year; three copies for
$500, five copies for 5000, twenty copies for
1923 90, and 40 ex ra copy to the gstser up Of
the club
Ticknor & Fields will publish soon " Poems
Grave and Gay" by George Arnold. The
volume is uniform With {" Sea Drift" and
com pris the poems that have been gathered
since the publication of that WORK. William
Winter furnishes.a genial and tender L" Intro
ductory Note"
Tlcknor s. Fields also announce " Six Hun
in which the author undertakes to show how
family may live, even in these times, on SIX
hundred dollars year.
Whittier has at last published his " Tent
en- the Beach" IL is posm uniform with
{" Snow B und."
T
"a new volume of Sketches by Graos Green
wood " Greece, Ancient and Mcdern,'' by
the late Professor FELTON, for March, Re
Igious Poems" by Harriet Bsecher Stowe
8 Famous Americans of Recent Times" by
James Parton for April, May Day." and
other pieces, by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Par
toms book is q republication of his recent
Reriew and elsewhere. Ticknor & Fields
have purchased the plates of all of Parton's
books, and will coon Issue new editions of all
OF them. They have in preparation y COM
plete edition of the works of Dickens. 1t il
to b, uniform with their Diamon1 Tennyson.
One volume will be Issued monthly, until the
cries is complete. There will be two editions