Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1872-06-12
Watphman Sc Journal.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE y, 1872.
Books and Magazines.

PaSsits. By Mrs. A. d. !. Whitney. Boston James
Il Osgood Co.
A novel from Mrs Whitney would need little
introduction In that field Of literature she has
descrycdy taken a high rank and obtained Sc
cure place Asa poet she is less known, as
indeed, she has made less pretension, and we sus.
pect she will not acquire 50 broad a fame in verse
Several Of those poems have real merit, as all OF
them are excellent in tone and easy in vesifcaton
A high moral sentiment pcryados them, and po-
etie beauty is not wanting. They are published
in very tasty little volume. For sale at phn-
ney's
Tns Ng1arn srDg OF Nsp YoeK, or, the Vice, Crime
and Poverty o. The Great Metropolis. By ElWafd
Crapsoy. New York sheldon & co.
The author spent four years in acquiring the
information, which is compressed into this vol
ume. 1t is a very full picture Of the lower phases
Of metropolitan life 1t treats Of professional
criminals, casual criminals harbor thieves, swind-
ers, paupers, outcasts, prostitutes. and the va
ried classes which make up the lower strata Of
society, Concerning these topics there is gathered
here a vast array Of facts which shed flood Of
light upon the dark ways Of the metropolis. For
sale at Phinneys,
Tne RgiGyNG BELLE Mrs Ann s. stephcns' new so
ccty Novel is In press aud will be published In a few
days by r. b. Peterson Brothers, Philadelphia, Pa
Il j. said 10 be the best book that this popular
authoross has ever written. The Reigning
Belle " will be issued in a large duodectno vol.
ume, uniform with Mrs. stephens seventeen 9TH
er works. and will be for sale at all the bookstores
at the low price Of sl.7j in CLOTH or 81 so in
paper cover or copies will be sent by mail, to
any place, postpaid, by tae ps5lis'ers, on re-
ceipt nf the price Of the work in letter to them.
# may be procured at Phinnoy's.
We suspect that few of those who have re.
ceived the weekly numbers Of APPLIES OF GoLD
would think Of their forming an elegant volume
when collected twice year. The publishers, II
o. Houghton Co., Of the Riverside Press, who
issue them for the American Tract S)ciety, Bos-
ton, have sent Us the first twenty-six number.
hound in a neat cover, and we have been surpris-
ed to sec what very pretty reading book it
mikes. When the year ends the subscribers will
have a volume Of over two hundred pages with
more than a hundred cuts. many Of them cover
ing a full page, and with interesting and appro-
pirate literary contents. Besides this, each vol
ume contains four full-page chromatic pictures
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fifty cents but il is done We think APrLEs or
GoLp cannot fail to make its wayinto many thou
sands Of families and gladden. all the little folks
who see it.
Tus LfrF or AnHAHAu LrxcoL~ By Ward H. Lamon
James X. Osssod, Co. Boston, Mass.
This volume is really valuable, as giving the
full life compiled from every reliable source. Il
would seem that the author had resolved to tel
the whole story Of the great mans life, with all
its strange details and adhered 70 his resolution
wherever it might lead him. Perhaps the painful
story Of Lincoln's married life will never be NOR
eiEectually told than Col Lnmon tells it,-truth
fully and plainly, yet with profound sympath!
for both the victims of an unhappy wedock
The same may be said of his analysis Of Lincoln
moral nature, where he shows that his friend wa
full of ambition and by no means so frank as hi
reputation runs, yet withal great and magnani
nous. and acting as the greatest men always do
from an inward sense Of supernal inspiration anC
guidance. In these qualities, as in the coarse
ness Of his mind and conversation, and the decI
melancholy which 50 often possessed him, and al
ways made the background of his life, there is
startling resemblance to that greatest Of Anglo
Saxon statesmen, Oliver Cromwell. With less o
the martial and august qualities than Cromwell
Lincoln had also less duplicity, and far less re
/ ligious feryor though the inference of Lamor
that he was destitute Of religious feeling is con
tradcted by all that we know Of his later life
The volume Is minute in every detail and circum
stance, and cannot fail to throw light upoI
many dark and disputed passages Of his life. /
will meet with deseryedly large sale. Wilder
has it.
ALBERT LloSEL. By the late Lord Broughau
forms the 376th volume Of IIarpers deseryedly
popular Library of Select Novels"
This novel was written in 1874, hut for private
reasons of the author was not published Aside
from the curiosity which would naturally attacl
to the novel under the circumstances, it is really
work Of no little merit, and we think invite
and deserves wide reading. Wilder has it.