The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-04-18
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OUR LITTLE ONES for April takes on an
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OUR LITTLE MEN AND WOMEN for April
is full as ever of Joyous and interesting
stories for the Youngsters with an album
dance of bright and pleasing pictures. Many
little man and many little woman are
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of this charming magazine. Published by
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THE next number of the Springfield
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A KISS FOR Blow. BY Henry C. Wright.
Boston: Lee & Shepard For Sale by ID.
f. Long. The various chapters contain the
most touching stories, illustrating the bless
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The volume contains two hundred four
pages of the most valuable and interesting
reading. No children's library should be
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Elementary reading in schools.
FIRST STEPS WITH AMERICAN AND BRITISH
AUTHORS, being practical guide for stu
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Shepard, Boston. This book is intended to
serve as the basis of regular course of
English literature. Enough material, sup
! plemented by large amount of illustrative
matter is furnished for a methodical intro
ducton to our best authors.
THE SEVEN LITTLE SISTERS WHO LIVE on
THE ROUND BALL THAT FLOATS IN THE AIR.
| New edition. BY Jane Andrews. With an
introduction containing sketch of the life
| and work of the author by Louisa Parsons
Hopkins. Price 81. This book published
by Lee & Shepard Boston, is a classic for
| the home and school, and introduces chill
dren to real geography, which will teach
! them that in other lands there are children
! like themselves, living happy, useful, in
| teresting lives.
Field describes Gibraltar very picturesquely
! and gives an account of the siege by France
! and Spain Delicately beautiful and grace
| full illustrations accompany Professor Will
lam p. p. Longfellow's first paper on " The
! Greek Vase" The concluding paper on the
" Campaign of Waterloo, " by John c. Ropes,
! is of intense interest. Where shall We
! Spend our Summer" by General A. w.
| Greedy, and 1.-THE Center of the Republic"
! by Professor James Baldwin, are able and
interesting. New York: Charles Scribner's
| Sons.
THE NATIONAL UPRISING is the subject
treated in the Lincoln series in the Century
! for April. /" From Dan to Beersheba, -" Bird
| Music, the Bluebird and the Robin" and
I" The Works of Elisha Mulford,' are three
strong papers on widely different themes.
| Henry James writes of Robert Louis Ste
| - TbaoInra RnnSavalt Iasoribas q
" Round-Up;" George KEENAN, gives the
f." Russian Penal Code" Franklin Leonard
| Pope makes an entertaining and instructive
article on the American " Inventors of the
| Telegraph" The illustrations are unsur-
passed. New York: The Century Company.
WIDE AWAKE for April has charming
frontispiece by w l.. Taylor, representing a
young girl in white with large bouquet of
Easter lilies Emile Poulsson adds an
Easter text in verse, History and fiction,
science and poetry are well represented in
the contents. Two stories give advice to
young girls in society, 1.-TWO Girls-Two
Parties,' by Susan Coolidge, and "Three
Cousins of Mabel's," by Mrs. Sherwood.
Young readers hear of Indian children and
of those from foreign lands and find in the
whole magazine means of delightful educa-
ton and pleasure. ID. Lothrop Company
publishers, Boston.
The COSMOPOLITAN, with its new brown
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The serial novel :" Miss Lon" assures for
the magazine large class of readers. The
contributors of the current number are
Henry T. Finck. Julian Hawthorne. Pro-
| lessor w. G. Sumner, Olive Thorne Miller.
Count Tolstoi. Dora Read Goodale, William
Henry Bishop and others. Mr., Finck's
article upon German Opera in New York 3"
! is illustrated with portraits and scenes from
the operas. Published by the COSMOPOLITAN