Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-05-10
New Publications.

new PuDllcaIIOnS-
GOLDEN HoCRs-a magazine for SoFs and
girls-has, as usual, very valuable list of
articles, and the illustrations are fine. We
would like every one of our little readers to
work out this problem which we find in the
. Editors gossip: little girl once said
to her father, . Papa, if you will give me
one penny to-day, and double it every day
for thirty days-(that is. give me one penny
to-day, two tomorrow, four the next day,
and so On)-I will promise never to ask you
for another cent as long as live, and will
put the money in the savings bank. .
- Well, said the father, = will 10 it,
What did he pay her at the end of the thirty
days
/ We have received from Lee y Shepard,
through George W Wilder, who deals ex-
tensively in all the valuable publications Of
the day, Prof. j. b. Monroe's new work en-
titled Public and Parlor Readings. These
Readings comprise humorous selections from
+ the very best authors, as glance at the table
Of contents will show We have from Lover
q" Father Pills Collection Tom Hood s
/ Lost Heir and More Hullahbaloo,' some
of Mark Twain and Bret Harte's very best
things some excellent selections from
Dickens, Douglas Jerrold, ard our own
SAKE. and Holmes and Gail Hamilton, and
Fanny Fern, and perhaps twenty writer's be
side To those taking up elocution a
study this book viii prove particularly val
liable, as it furnishes in convenient compass
pretty much all the highest examples Of wit
in cur language, 1t is published in the at
tractiYe style for which this house isso justly
famed
Tow BURKE Of Ours" by Charles
Lever All who have read the humorous
autobiography Of Charles O. Malley will not
fail to buy this book, and It our testimony
is anything, we confess to a keeuer apprecia-
ton OF Levers wit in the second reading
than in the first. 1t is published in pam
phlet form by Peterson Il Brothers, Phila-
delphia, and is for sale by Wilder and
Phinney.
" DESK AND DEBT, Upward and Onward
Series, by Oliver Optic
Still they come. and We fully believe We
speak for every child IN the land when we
express the hope that Oliver Optic will keep
on writing just as long as he can charm
with his wonderful pen as be does now, and
We heartily wish the little folks could appro-
ciate the industry which has been to them
the means Of such continual delight This
is from Lee \ Shepard. and is for sale by Mr..
Wilder
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Since the " late onrleasautucss in
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NATURE AND ART N tbs Old WoRLp.-
Rev. J. ) Lee of Lawrence University
Canton y Y. who is well known as a