The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1873-12-23
Five Grand Books.
EVERETT, Mass. |

e7lce Of Country Gentlemen. W. &.
Five Grand Books.
EvERETr, Mass. 1873.
DfAg REGISTER My purpose is now
to tell yoa Of a few costly but important
books, suitable for grand, useful presents
and for libraries that have some purchas-
ing ability. | begin with McCintock
& Strong's Cyclopmda. Bible Dction.
aries are now very common, much more
SO than commentaries on the Bible. This
is the best Of them, or will bc when fn-
ishcd. | have now five volumes the
last, of 95s large pages, extends from
Kaab to McVickar. [ estimate the
whole at eight or nine such volumes. 1t
contains notices of Denominations, Theo.
logians, Saints of the Romish calendar,
eminent Mohammedans! religious utensils
and ceremonies. 1t carries this one de.
partmcnt-the most important Of litera-
ture-tar beyond what others are laid
before us in any works that are found
outside Of our largest libraries. OF sim.
pie biblical knowledge it aims to sweep
in absolutely every thing known to man.
Every minister who can afford it should
secure this and give away any lesser
work Of his that it superscdes. And the
theological student must strain a point
and "get the best" at first.
Harper's Pictorial History of the Re.
belion is an enormous folio of 1856 pag.
es. 1t is SO protusely illustrated that
even cursory examination of the pic.
lures is a good evenings work. Besides
sceuOs and battles there are 337 portraits.
And the maps aud plans are of much
greater value than all the other ilustra.
tions. For without plans no battle is
different from any other Even false
Bunker.hili, exactly like Chipman's hill,
is better than to have one imagine that
the battle was fought on two sides of
swalo like that of Monmouth, or in
thickct of knolls like Flatbush. But
with correct plans one may know more
of battle than the majors and captains
did who commanded in it. And men and
women in whose day aud land the most
terrific battles in. earth's history we're
fought, ought to understand them. And
if there Is another work that is sufficient
for this do not know it. l look upon
this as a splendid monument to the
"bravs boys that went to their countrys
CALI And if Linus Evarts and others
can have no marble over their bones, let
such monument as this are perennius
be multiplied as much as possible.
Lippincott's biographical Dictionary
is another of those royal works the pos.
session of which makes one rich. 1t is
an excellent thing to own Hole d Wheel.
er, that costs not much more than a
dollar, and gives but line to name
generally; 2345 large pages are sufficient
for almost every biographical inquiry
that would naturally arise. 1t is finding
its way to every high school and every
decent library, and ought to be in every
editors sanctum. Webster's largest die
tionsry is about the size of this, its pages
are larger, hut only three-fourths as
many.
4 Woodward Gates Encyclopedia of
Chronology, published by Lee d Sbep.
ard, has cost more labor, perhaps, than
any other single volume have, though
it has only l4s7 pages. But it contains
moro facts than there are lines ip it and
it is quite possible that each ten limos
have OF an average, cost days work Of
q learned and dilligent scholar. The
, labor and ingenuity employed to pack
all this away so close aud yet SO easy to
E find, is amazing Still harder was the
, task Of keeping out useless dates and the
names Of obsclre men or rather unim.
, portant men. Beau Brummel, for in.
. stance, though he may have did Wales
: afterwards George IV) to ring the bell
i for him, earned no place here, The
. world has seen but few such men.
lie Manot's Botany, edited by Hooker,
!, is also published by Lee & Shepard
4 A. have only borrowed this book for
:, review, and have returned it, | cannot
p tell you so exactly about it as l would
i like. 1t treats OF great many thousand
q plants, giving some idea of the structure
IS of each. 1t has probably the bes
collection of botanical cngravings svel
published. IT. field is the world, and it,
appearance marks an era in science
N The translation is incomparably superi
IS or to the original French
Y These five works are, each IL IFS way
r. without an equal among Americas books
j. and there are few single volumes 10 b.
of compared with the last four, though tner,
IT may be many smaller works as perfect
D. though By no means so costly.
,e In closing | feel impelled to meptior
o. three small illustrated quartos that glad
e den our center.table. The engraving
IN are on wood but in the highest style 0
ID art. In no other form can the burchas
IN er more surely get his moneys worth.
e. Bittersweet, DR.. Hollsnd's poem. pub
in lshcd BY Scribner, is, in my judgment
ID one OF the very best ever written. Bu
re none except Cslvinists would value it a
4. | do. Bryart's Song of the Sower
r. and STORY Of the Fountain" are illus
he traIed by the artists of the Appleton
a and more richly than Bittersweet bu
h. ttey lack the earn that the Thank,
ng giving story lends to the Yankee bool
re Bu' very dear ar, tho three to US
m Yours Truly.
en- |. F. II.
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