Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-12-14

take n new lease of popular favor in the
cheaper form in which It is to be issued in i'm
itation Of the celebrated Leipzig editions.
large per cent. of the really good and
healthful literature for young people, which
has been published in recent years, has been is
sued from the house of Roberts Brothers. In
deed, we may unhestatingly say that any
book which bears their imprint is sure TO be
pure, healthful and helpful in tone. Their
young folks list for this season comprises
Tom; a Home Story" by George l.. Cha
ncy, author of Fred Grant & Co.. "Jnck
Changers Cousin" book for boys by Julia
A. Mathews; "a Great Emergency" by Mrs
Ewing (author of Jan of the WindmlD, and a
fourth volume Of Miss Alcotts "Aunt JOS
Scrap Bag"
book of real merit, and of engrossing in
terest for young people is "Adrift in the.Tce-
Fields" written by Capt. Charles W. Hail.
and published by Lee a. Shepard. Under the
guise of narrating the adventures and misad-
ventures Of party of English hunters adrift
in the ice fields of the Gulf of st. Lawrence
the author attempts very successfully, TO give
description of those frozen shores, to de-
scribe the habits of the animals which inhabit
them, and illustrate the social life OF our colo
NAL neighbors. An illustrated volume of
Baby Ballads" from the same publishers
will inevitably find its way into many baby
stockings on Christmas Eve. In this connec-
tion we may also mention the last issue in Al
gers Brave and Bold SERIES" published by
Loring of Boston. Its title is wait and
Hope" The volume is bright and racy, like
its predecessors These volumes, as well ms
those published by Roberts Brothers, are all
sold in Brattleboro by Cheney & Clapp.
Two new volumes in the unique "Cobweb
Series" published by Estes & Lauriat, Bos-
ton, are Jack" from the French OF Alphonse
Daudet. the author, by the way, of ''Sdonic. 4"
the first in the series. and Forbidden Fruit
from the German of Hackander. From the
same publishers We have "Our Common In
sects," volume of unusual value and inter.
est from the pen of A. S. Packard Jr In it
We have, with full illustrations a popular ac-
count of the more common insects of our
country, with special chapters on Bees, Moths
Flies, Mosquitoes, etc, and "a calendar giving
an account of the more common beneficial
and in furious insects, with their time of ap-
pcaramce and habits. Sold by J. Steen.
One of the most pleasant and instructive
volumes of the season is one "On Poetic In
depreciation of Nature" written by j. c..
Sharp, and published by Hurd Il Houghton
The work is the result of a series of lectures
year ago, and although meant mainly for the
young. will command the interest and atten-
tion of all lovers of the poetic in nature be-
cause of the keen analysis and fresh ilustra-
ton which it gives of the poetic spirit and po-
etic themes. The truth" says the author.
ION which especially wished to fix attention
is the relation which exists between Nature
and the sensitive and imaginative soul of man
and the result or creation which arises from
the meeting of these two" In carrying out
this idea he has traced the sources of poetry
and has made a study of the influences of Ma
ture AS they appear in Chaucer Shakespeare,
Milton, Wordsworth and many others His
theme is fruitful one, and he has illustrated
its bearings and relations in an original and
| entertaining manner. He has shown that po-
otry is not an end in itself. but merely key
to something else, n fact which the average
reader of it too frequently loses sight Of. For
sale by Cheney x Clapp.