Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-12-08
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will seek that class Of works which combine
literary merit with their other attractions.
1t is just as easy to get an excellent book,
prose or poetry, printed on toned paper and
finely boupd,as it is to purchase gilt-odged,
morocco-bound volume whose contents are Of
no special value Our personal fancy would
be volume of the Art Journal, published
in monthly parts by the Appletons Of New
York, or if We could afford from thirty to
forty dollars, Picturesque America, by the
same publishers. The fathers aud mothers
10 our rural homes do not think enough Of
works of art as parts Of their home comforts
or adornments.
That works Of fiction Of the highest order
have readers is shown by the fact that Messrs.
Harper are to publish fifty cent edition of
"Daniel Deronda," to meet the demand for
that work among those of limited means.
The book Of travels which the noble EN-.
peror Of Brazil is writing will be ready for
American readers 10 about two months.
Blanchard Jerrolds life of Napoleon
Third has reached third volume which
will soon be ready. Three volumes are
more than that debauching tyrant deserves
unless they are volumes of such brilliancy,
penetration and impartial justice as charac-
terizes Lanfrey's biography of the elder Ma
poleon. We have had enough of the Alb
bott class of biographies of tyrants!
That charming work, Henry Crabb Rob-
insop's Diary, is to be Issued in a single
l2mo volume by .Hurd & Houghton. That's
the book, young man, for winter evening or
stormy day, if you enjoy the quiet humor,
wit and genius Of such man as Robinson,
and if you do not love such books, cultivate
an affection for them, as we'll as an affection
for the farmers auburn-haircd daughter:
she will love you none the less, and you will
be more worthy Of her affection. If you
can't quite come up to the charming DIARY"
there is still something in store for you, for
John Habberton, the author of that inimita-
BILE book, "Helen's Babies" has another
nearly ready for an impatient public entitled
"The Barton Experiment You have not
read Helen's Babies WE'LL then, you are
to be pitisd get it at once, and having read
the first pages, we will trust the rest.
Lovers of the cream of good books will
purchase Selections from Macaulay's Works,
in press by the Harpers.
NJ. d. Conway, that rare American gen.
ius living in London, is to publish work on
Christianity. We should think it would be
be very much like the Prince of Denmark
with Hamlet's part omitted.
We can get some idea of how many i'm
portant events sometimes gather around one
great man, when we bear in mind that p ro-
fessor Masson's Life of Milton and His
Times" has reached the fifth volume heavy
octave, and it is in press by Macmillan &
Co., London and New York.
That irrepressible DR.. William Smith,
who has issued more dictionaries than all the
Johnsons, Websters and w orcesters COM
bined, has just announced another, a Diction-
ary of Christian Biography, Literature,
Sects and Doctrines from the time of the
apostles to the age of Charlemagne. 1t will
be volume of rare value to minister, q
Sunday school or public library of any kind,
as DR.. Smith has one literary virtue-relia-
bility.
The subscribers to Zel's popular encyclo-
peda may rest assured that the remaining
parts are coming, and that very soon. We
may comfort ourselves with the thought that
delay means enhanced value. That work
has laid at our elbows for four years, and
has been IN constant use and we hope hun
dreds of Vermont homes will be made better
for its presence.
Il, Steiger, "a Frankfort Street, New
York, sends US "map of Turkey and
Greece" drawn by j. Schedler 19x24 inch
es in size. The authors name is guarantee
for reliable and excellent work, while by in-
cuding the whole of European Turkey, Ser.
via, Herzegovina and Montenegro, as well as
the provinces of Asia Minor bordering on
the Kgean sea. OF course enough of Rus
sia and Hungary are included to show then
relative positions Being iu several colors
the eye at once recognizes each country, to-
gethor with its comparative size and position
All the railroads, and towns of any size OF
Importance are indicated, making map o
great utility, at aAy time, but especially Sc
now that the worlds attention is drawn
thither 10 note the progress Of Turkeys fall
The map is not only excellent, but sold fol
20 cents, though another aud superior edi
tion is issued at 70 cents.
Report of the Connecticut Board of Ag
riculture for 1896, by t. S. Gold, Secret
airy, has been laid on our table. 1t is
substantial volume of AIS pages very mucl
in the style Of the public documents ISSUED
by the government office in Washington
The contents have attracted us most as the,
show that Mr.. Gold and his fellow laborer
are doing work of great utility for tn
Nutmeg state. The volume is made up of
series of papers read at the various meeting:
aud the substance of the valuable hint
CLEANED from the public discussions are her
published, followed by valuable tables o
varies kinds The papers are on such topic
as these "Fences and Fence Materials,
Common Roads" by civil engineer, fnel
illustrated, Rural Architecture, "Law 0
Roads aud Boundaries" "Water supply an