The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1872-05-28
Lee and Shepard.

There are in Boston but two firms, that
are very extensive publishers Of miscel-
lancous literature. OF the two, that of
Lee 4 Shepard is the less known, which
is one reason for making it the subject Of
a profitable newspaper article. There
are other firms well worthy Of special
mention, some whose every book is meant
to be fit for Sabbath reading. Others
there are, who publish much, that we
would consider theologically false, and
some things absolutely poisonous to the
Imagination.
Lee Il Shepard have not SO costly ven
lures, as some others. Fit be--as [ con-
jecture-that they have not much money
in Dean Affords costly Testament Greek
$50 English S16.) Summers works, of
which four SO volumes are now out, ap-
pears to be the greatest. Dalls Alaska
$3.50 would come next; it is perhaps
the most important book of North Amer
lean travel of this decade. Next to these
| would mention, as of national impor-
tance Martyria, by Lieut.. Col. A. G.
Hamlin, nephew Of the Vicc-President.
His examination Of Andersonville will do
more to perpetuatc the infamy Of Seces-
sion, than any other testimony | could
conceive. Other special works are too
numerous to mention. Their sets are nu-
merous. One of these grapples with the
family question, Why not? and Is it l? ?
by DR.. Storer.- Serpents in the Doves
nest and Wonen's Rights, by DR.. Todd
Byiord on Domestic Life Fulton on Fe-
male Franchise. Rev. Asa Bullard has
twelve small books for children, the Sun
ny Bank Stories. Rosa Abbott has six
books, Sophie May about dozen, Mrs.
and Miss Samuels ten, and many 9TH
ers that | count in all 6S sets, mostly in
boxes. OF these will mention:
The Time Masters, 3 volumes Mozart
and Mendelssohn Handel and Haydn /;
Bach and Beethoven, (the ALTERATION was
accidentally were prepared uader DR..
Tourjee's direction, weaving in musical
criticism with six biographies The in
formation they contain can not be easily
Balnercu any Wnerc else.
Rev. Elijah Kellog, Congregational
is., has now out eleven volumes, mostly
sea and shore stories Of the coast Of Maine,
at the close Of the last century. They
are vigorous boy stories, healthy and in
structive, and especially stimulative to
maniulness.
But the writer for Lee & Shepard is
Mr.. William 7. Adams, who has, unfor-
tunatcly, it seems to me chosen for him
self a poorer name, Olicer Optic. They
publish his Olirer Optics Magazine, an
interesting juvenile monthly, They have
published fifty-6vc of his volumes, mostly
at S1.25 each, some at $3.50 twelve at
As. They too are highly spiced with ad-
venture to suit correct adult taste, but
children devour them nsatiably. l like
his Young America Abroad the best it
contains travels in most of the countries
Of Europe. The travellers being school
of exceptionally ungovernable boys in
vessels under strict naval discipline. As
Mr.. Adams has been twice abroad for
materials, the success Of these twelve vol
umes (l6 mo.) is well deserved
The newest set of Lee X Shepard is
the Album Library; four elegant quar-
tos, for very young children. at s rs
each. The Chidren's Album has about
200 full page illustrations the Children's S
Sunday Album more than $50. OFF to
Sea, has its illustrations colored the
other is the True Robinson Cruses.
Now to all these, add English and Lat
in classics, French and Spanish books,va.
rious text books, a considerable selection
of quite unexceptionable and six
music books, and you have some idea oi
the publications of Boston house oi
which some of your readers have been
entirely ignorant. To these add the lit
erary publications Of the Appletons, and
the costly and indispensable works oi
Lippincott, Gazetteer, Biographical Die
tionary, Dispensatory, Chambers Ency
clopedia, and general stock of books on
sale from $4,000 downward, and you
would think one such firm might suffice
for u city.
A respectable Sabbath school library
might be selected from these books; bu
from the labor of sorting them out, few
of them are so used, | do not notice {
single regular novel in their list, nor any
thing theologicaly erroneous or excep
tionable. This l could say of few mis-
cellaneous houses, if Of any other.
Yours, IF.m,
These relate to New Englands i'm
pending curse On this same subjec
are also two other works only, that
have seen. One is from the French will
details so atrocious, and in execution 81
l'renchy. as to be unfit to be seen.
know not the name of book author o
publisher. Conjugal Sins, by Prof. A
X. Gardner. of New York, is publishe,
! by J. A. Redfeld; it is work tha
ought to be thoroughly studied by ever
couple that is about to enter on an,
scheme 20 outwit their Creator and de
feat His first great command.