The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-03-25
LITERARY NOTES.

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England, S1.25 (reduced from $500,
Gibbons Rome, $500 (reduced from
SO. COY, Rollins Ancient History, S1.75;
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Carger) England, Mommsen's Rome,
Masson's Guizots France, Carlyle's
French Revolution, Schiller's Thirty
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| The Cultivation of Taste, Poetry, The
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The volume is remarkable rich in strik-
ing quotations from the worlds most
famous authors and thinkers, from
Aristotle to Emerson, including such
names as Addison, Bacon, Burns, Cato,
Carlyle, Disraeli, Fenelon, Gibbon,
Hugo, Keats, Lamb, Locke, Luther,
Milton, Petrarch, Ruskin, Shakespeare,
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Springfield, Mass }, Number Eighteen,
has second article by DR.. G. H.. Hep
worth, one of the committee for the
distributions of the New York Herald
relief fund, on Ireland and Irishmen in
which he relates his personal expert
ences among the famine stricken peo-
pie and expresses his views as to the
, situation in decided language. An &C.
count of Sargent S. Prentiss is given,
the man who attained such wonderful
proficiency in cloquence by his twenty
ninth year as to rank with Webster and
/, Clay as an orator. There is sketch OF
modern travel in Egypt. Mrs. l.. W.
Champney has cleverly done satire on
,, ephemeral literary regulations, entitled
"The Story OF Lion" A bit of fiction
true to life is the quantity weird New
England story, "On the Edge of the
World. A story of which the scene is
laid in Spain is ga Girl of Cadiz."
There is an installmeht of Rose and
the Doctor, "Ellen W. Olney's charm
ing and powerful serial" as one of the
/, papers calls'it; Octave Thanet has Col
!. loquy in which the methods of practic
= ing charity are discussed; there is pa
: per OH the New Testament and Creeds
= and several articles under Discussion
: and Suggestion, one of which deprecatel
the opposition manifested by some o
!, the southern Bourbon papers to thu
: views regarding the condition and needs
of the South, recently exprossed by Sen
ator Brown, of Georgia, and others.
! The Sunday Magazine for April. The
i present number ovsrflows with reading
h matter to suit all classes, and which
/ cannot fail to prove instructive, enter
It tanning and profitable4 s.sHowthe Poo
S Folks Live" by the Editor, is deeply
}, interesting, and the twelve illustration
Il serve to intensity the interest. "Memor
les of Egypt" by S. X. Hunt, "Easte
d and the days before it," "Good Frida!
:, in Munich" "The Great South Ameri
II can Struggle" etc., are among the par
J. ticularly notable articles. In the depart
e ment of fiction are continuation of TIN
h admirable serial "Out of the World,
by Mrs. O'Reilly; ga Ghost Story" b,
Rev. j. Hyatt Smith; "For the Comm!
of the King" an Easter Story, by Heller
W. Pierson, etc. There are several ex
cellent and instructive essays; sketehe
N of Rev. John s. Macintosh, ID. d.
b Bishops Atkinson and Kerr, Rev. DR.
le Hoge, etc., etc. The poems are quit
le numerous, and of great merit. ANON
n the peculiarly interesting features al
,r "The home Pulpit" 'sHard places il
e the Bible," by Rev. DIR. Deems, "Wit
% Smile in II, ;" "The lnvalid's Portion
?. and Thoughts for the afflicted, ""Tcm
IS perance Talk" international Sunda
,e School Lessons" editors Portfolio,
Il etc. ,etc. The miscellany is UNUSUAL
At abundant. There are 1913 quarto page
1t and over 400 illustrations, and singl
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n Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly. Tn
le April number abounds in highly attrat
N tive features. prominent among ther
D. being the first instalment ola new seris
IF novel by the popular writer Frank lie
v Benedict, il. is. Untitled "A Late Remorse
r. and promises to be of intense interest
Ne There is an article ON "Thomas Carlyle,
10 by A. ii. Guernsey, with eleven illus
n. trations; "a Journey Through the Dis
" NAL Swamp" by Alfred Trumble, fou
" illustrations; sThe Charitable Side Q
e New York-What it Does for til
Ii Young" eleven illustrations; "Cricke
10 as Played in England" by N. Robinson
81 eight illustrations; "Glimpses of tn
n Rhine," .by Lady Blsnche Murphy, thir
II teen illustrations; ETC., etc. The de
rs partment of fiction contains, beside
Il Mr.. Benedicts novel, several brilliau
le stories and sketches by popularwriters
r. Among the poems are Gin the Bastille
$780," by Eta w. Pierce; "After Man,
., Years." by ii. Wellington Vrooman
/ "The Fairy Revel," "An April Song,
Is "The Rose" etc., ETC., most of then
o tastefully illustrated. Professor Dun
can has a most interesting article OIL
II Earthquakes" with twelve illustra
n tons, and Janet 4. Runtz.Rees one OIL
d George Eliot" with eight iliustra
e tons. The miscellaneous articles affor,
:. both entertainment and instruction
i There are 1928 quarto pages in the mum
n Der and over 100 illustrations, togethe