The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-12-17

well-matched; and the spirit Of the book is
throughout devotional and healthful For
sale by Phinney.
OTHER Folks AT HOME: A TRIP THROUGH
EUROPE. Boston: Estes & Lauriat. This
is really clever device for introducing
geography into the unsuspeCting mind of
little learners under the guse Of a story.
a page of bright pictures, illustrating scenes
Oh travel, has also map of the country
Inc text is largely in rhyme and consists Of
letters from and about the different coun-
tries. For sale by Phinney.
PAGoDA SHADOWS by Adele NJ. Fielde.
W: q. Corthell fremont Temple Boston.
nrlce one dollar. A book of studies from
lie in China, with ar introduction by
Joseph Cook. 1t is very interesting in ali
its details. Miss Fielde, who has resided
III Chlna ten years as missionary, is fa-
miiar with Chinese character, and many of
these autobiographies and stories are exact
translations of verbal variations given to
the author in the Swallow dialect. The
thirty-four chapters contain sixteen new
illustrations.
THREE VAssAR GIRLS IN SOUTH AMERICA,
by Lizzie W. Champney Boston: Estes 81
Lauriat. This follows in the footsteps of
two similar works by the same author.
winch in previous years found ready read
ers.. The illustrations of this book are by
Champ, and other distinguished artists,
ana the TRIP described is through the south
the Madeira rivers, across the Andes noun
tains and up the Pacific coast to Panama
The narrative is too full in some parts and
too scanty in others, but it is bright and
readable. Price $1.50. For sale by Phinney.
ESTES Il LAURIAT issue a very pretty Holt
day memento in the shape of heart. en-
titled, The Garden Of the Heart. 1t is indeed
a garden from which may be culled the
choicest thoughts-gems that speak from
the heart to the heartily such gifted writers
as F. II. Havergal, Rose Porter and Lowell.
The cover is beautifully ornamented, frinped
with silk and suspended on gilt rod with
silk cord. Price S1.25. From the same pub
fishers we have Our Little Ones, by Oliver
Optic, profusely illustrated and full of easy
and attractive stories for very small people
Mothers VINO are so often perplexed by the
clamoring of the youthful brood for mental
food will find in this book the needed store.
For sale by Phinney.
AN APPEAL TO CESAR, by Albion w
Tourgee, author of "A FOOLS Grand"
etc. New York: Fords, Howard & Hubert
Price one dollar. The author prepared
TINS volume in fulfillment of pledge made
to President Garfield. 1t treats of hard
facts, and calls attention to the swift strides
OF the black race to numerical prepon-
derance in the South, with tabulated statis-
tics, showing at the same time an imminent
and to many an unsupported, peril The
remedy for ignorance, which is the occasion
of this peril, is knowledge, and so the author
advocates the education of the colored peo-
pie. There is wisdom in this suggestion.
and the thought of the best minds in the
country is turning more and more to this
consideration.
UNDER the title of The Occident, with pre-
ludes on current events, Messrs. Houghton,
Mifflin & Co, of Boston have just issued in
handsome volume, uniform with previous
ones, Joseph Cooks Boston Monday Lee
lures OF the past season. The principal sub
JectS OF the lectures are on the chief questions
now in discussion between Christianity, on
the one hand, and philosophy and physical
science on the other. Few men have the
power of expressing their thoughts and
theories so clearly and forcibly. His lee
lures are the ripe results of the latest and
best researches, and they are full of vigor
and eloquence. The present volume is es-
pecially rich in the views presented Of the
religious thought of the eastern world, and
the differences and deductions growing out
of the remarkable tour he made of the
world, extending through two years and
seventy-seven days. For sale by Phinney.