The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-02-23

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namely, that while she exhibited
some faults and weaknesses in the con.
duct Of her long and eventful reign
however, occasioned by the senti.
ment Of the times in which she lived,-
was still a woman Of remarkable
natural endowmcnts, Of powerful intellect,
Of good judgment, of great courage, and
sterling virtues-in short, a worthy
ruler Off mighty nation, and one Of the
that England or any other country
had. Some of the moro noteworthy
incidents of her life were portrayed by
speaker, and the matters of chief i'm.
.portance occurring during her reign were
touched upon in a manner that held the
attention and interest of the audience to
the close.
SOMETHING FOR THE CnILDREN.-One
Of the greatest pleasures which St. Mich
olas brings to its readers. is certainly the
monthly chapters of Miss Alcott's story.
This time we catch a delightful glimpse
of the Eight Cousins" at home and in
the very midst of the confusion and riot
produced by the return Of their sailor
uncle. Just rs interesting also, is the
sight of Rose in her new fancy costu nc
and the peep with her into that curious
room never before explored, where she
makes a great discovery.
But Rose is not tho only character in
tho March number who meets with a re-
markablc surprise, for in Mr.. Trowbrdge's
serial the Young Surveyor is as complete
ly astonishcd by finding his stolen horse
when and where he does. If ever there
was an ingenious horse-thicf, the fellow
who captured 'Snowfoot" was he. 1t is
II proof of his cunning, that Jack, after
all his efforts to find the missing animal
and after his search has been at last sc
strangely rewarded, is not yet tout OF
the woods" and seems to be threatened
with another unexpected adventure.
Almost all boys and girls like nara.
tives OF wars and battles. and they will
fed p story Of this sort in the poem call.
ed 1.-The War of the Rats and Mice
which is every whit as thrilling in its way
as the deeds Of any favorite hero from
Richard Cnur.de-Lion to Jack the Gil
ant-Killer. The illustrations by Stephens
arc admirable one Of them. a true "bat
tlo-pieco," representing a tournamcn'
both exciting and novel.
AS for the rest of the number. VIC have
several excellent stories by Frank Il
Stockton, Amelia LaForge and others
sketches Of travel and science with illus
trations, an article by w. II. Riding or
the Naval Academy at Annapolis, {
French story, two delightful poems by
Lucy Larcom and Mary Il. Bradley. ant
besides other good things--thc ire.
prcssihle Jack. in-thc-P Pulpit, whose fur
and jokes are always full Of wisdom.
ATLANTIC MoNTHLY.-The Atlantic
Monthly is the leading literary magazine
Of America. 1t was established in 1851
and at once took rank as a first class lit
erary magazine and the foremost of it,
rank. 1t is now in its thirty-ftth vol
ume. It's list of contributors embraces
James Russell Lowell, VIM. Cullen Bry.
ant, II. w. Longfellow, Mark Twain
Bayard Taylor, Charles Dudley Warner,
Robert Dale Owen, Francis Parkman
John Fisk, DIR. Brown Sequard. w. d.
nowells, Henry James Jr Whittier
Trowbridgc, Holmes. Aldrich, Miss
Phelps, Celia Thaxter.
Contents of March number Historical
Portraits Lately Exhibited in Paris, by
w. j. IIoppin Penna's Daughter, a
Cornish Legend, by Rose Terry Cooke
Brother Christopher, by 4. S. Thayer
Fancy's Masquerade, by Kate Hilllar1
Old Times on the Mississippi, III, the
Continued Pcrplcxitics IF "Cub" Pilot
ing, by Mark Twain IIilda, by Johr
Vance Cheney; Origin of the Name
America, By Jules Maroon; Delay, by
Louisa Bushnell Kodcrick Hudson, Ill
Rome, by Henry James, Jr.; by the
Dead, by Albert Laighton Taxation
without Jurisdiction Unconstitutional, by
David A. Wells; After the Tornado, by
Paul II. Haync The Virginia Campaign
Of John Brown, III. the Disclosure of hi
Plans in 1858. by f. b. Sanborn For.
ceytho Wilson, John James Piatt Asa,
thor's Vengeance, or, the Mountain.Tak
en- Maid, by Iiijalmar Hijoith Boyesen
A State Survey for Massachusetts,. by n.
S. Shaler Beyond Recall, by Mary Il
Bradley Recent Literature /; Art Mu.
sic Education III. o. IIoughtop & Co.,
Publishers, Boston.
ScRIDNER's MONTHLY FOR MARCH
Some one in New York writes as follows
of Scribncr for March
81 suppose that after this March nun.
Der of Major Powcll's Colorado papers is
published the public will wake up to the
extraordinary interest Of the series, both
in story and illustration, and will be look.
ing up the back numbers. A more splcn.
did feat has seldom been described SO
modcstly and well, by the hero himself.
In fact the public seem to DO looking up
the back numbers of this volume ofScrib-
ner already, for the publishers are re-
printing some, and expect to be compell-
cd to reprint all the issues since the be-
ginning of the volume in November"
DR.. Hollands 'Story of S~evenoaks''
may have something to do with this IN.
usual demand. This reaches its third in.
stallment in the March number, and the
villiaa of the play is taken from the quiet
OF Sevcnoaks to the more turbid and con-
genial atmosphere OF the metropolis,
where it seems likely that he will run a
course not altogether unprecedented in
the history of successful "vulgarians."
Jules Verne's story has disappointed
a good many people, who did not know it
was written for young people. The cdi.
tors, by the way, have taken it in hand,
and are "~condensing it" into much moro
than its original interest. Jules Verne
condenses much better than Emerson.
Among the contributions is another
Il. II. d. sketch, the Poetess of Clap
n.a-y