Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-12-09

volume, and great many facts and dates
are given that no person can expect to re-
member, and for verifying which anybody
would be glad to have just such a book al
his elbow. The title of the work gives an
idea of its contents, although there is much
information in it which is not suggested by
the title page. 1t is just such a volume as
every one who cares to have any knowledge
ought to have; and any one, however well
posted, would find it at times very useful.
SYDNEY ADRIANCE, OR TRYING THE WORLD.
By Amanda NJ. Douglas, author of " In
Trust g Stephen Dane,'' - Claudia, -
etc.
Those who have read the previous works
of this author will not be disappointed in
this. It is somewhat sensational, like al
the authors novels, and maintains the read
ers interest through all its $50 pages. Those
who have abundance of leisure and toiH read
novels, may as well spend their time over
this as over any they will be likely to read
But there many better novels, rs there
are doubtless many poorer; or perhaps it
would be more strictly accurate to say that
there arc many people who prefer different
style of novel writing from that of Miss
/ Douglas, and there are many people who
enjoy her writings. There is difference of
/ tastes among novel readers, and Miss Douglas
suits good many people.
/ For sale by WILDER.
The Mimic STAGE series of Dramas, Come
( dies, Burlesques, and Farces, for Public
/ Exhibitions and Private Theatricals &; By
/ George NJ. Baker, author of I" Amateur
| Dramas" &c. Boston, Lee & Shepard
Publishers.
! The volume i. one of 900 pages, and the
/ plays are ten in number; and, like former
volume by the same author, contains piece.
| specially prepared for occasional exhibitions
such as fairs, benefits and temperance ex-
hibitions and are especially adapted to par
lor exhibitions and winter evening amuse-
ments, in which scenery and other stage
properties are not convenient or required.
Private theatricals have become quite
common, and this volume will furnish those
who engage in this entertaining pastime,
with great deal of material. For sale by
/ WILDER.
RURAL PoEMs By William Barnes, Boston
Roberts Brothers, Publishers.
The illustrations by Winslow Homer and
Hammatt Billings are full of grace and spir-
it and the poems are of common life by at
imaginative and sensitive man, whose style
is replete with charming attractions. The
London Pal Nal Gazette gives US this criti
cism upon these poems
The vale and the village are his world, and
he makes familiar with every lane and
I copse and hill he laughs with the beauty IT
every farm house. and knows the story ot
every cottager's family. His language, di-
rect and simple, aided by the ingenious struc-
ture of the verse, lends itself admirably tc
the scenes which he delineates. 1t is the
honely, healthy language of his native
countryside, only purified and clarified by
good taste and feeling, like brook water
coming to one over beds of golden gravel.
This beautiful volume is appropriate tC
the gift season, and is sold by WILDER
"THg GATES AyAR. This is the title
of volume written by Elizabeth s. Phelps
and printed by Fields, Osgood Il Co. 1t il
a most pleasant and readable, really delight
ful book, written in the form Of a diary, ye
full of dialogue and incident. and showing
an appreciation Of character, and a skill in
delineating them or rather making the char
acters delineate themselves, quite rare ever
among the best writer's. The object of the
writer is to correct some common notions
about heaven but the lesson she woulC
teach is made a thousand times more at
tractive. and more easily reached by be-
method of treatment, than any dissertation
or disduisition or sermon could possibly be
and there is no irreycrance in it to one VIII,
reads it with a reverent spirit.
The book can be had at WILDKR's.
SCHOOL LYRIos.-Harper & Brothers hav
published Il small volume of sacred hymn
for devotional exercises in schools. Thos
selected are standard and unsectarian il
5 character There are nearly 800 in this col
: lection S NJ. Capron, Of Hartford. Ct.
the compiler, and in the preface he expresse
the hope that this volume may contribute t
| the greater usefulness and the better enjoy
| ment of the hoar Of school devotion.
HUsrER AND TRAPPER Orange Judd
: Co, Of New York, have timely issue Of
small illustrated volume, giving hunters an
trappers instruction how most successfully
=, to prosecute their pursuit of game, especiall
8 the game valuable for its fur. The wor
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e this book.
, LIrrELL's LIVING ACE, No 1879, for tn
? week ending Saturday, Dec. 5th. contain
the Suppressed Sex, Westminster ReUiec
Cromwell and the Cavaliers, CdsseUs Mage
h zine Run to Earth, Spectator The Countr
G House on the Rhine, part III, by Bertho
a Auerbah, author of % On the Heights etc
translated for the Liring Age, from ID
,. Presse The Pyramids and the Bible, Spect
t tor A House of Religion, Saturday Rerie,t
r Clarissa, Saint Pauis Children Abroad, Spe
J fator Reyerdy johnson at Liverpool, Sdtu
day Revie,c, True Danger of Tobacco, Spe
fator Precious Jewels, CasseWs Magazine
; besides short articles and poetry.
The new subscribers, remitting to the pu
3 fishers for the year 1869, the LIVING AGE
IS sent from the beginning of Auerbach's r.
IT. mance No Io77l to January next free