The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-03-21
New Publications.

OUR LITTLE ONES AND THE NURSERY for
March has a picture on every page, and
beside just such reading as little ones from
four to ten like the best. With such issues
as this last our Little ones will surely hold
its popularity. Russell Publishing Com
pany, Boston.
Books RECEIVED: From Lee & Shepard,
Boston, Britons and Muscovites.' By
Curtis Guild. Price 50. "Chips from a
Teachers Workshop" By l.. r. Klemm,
Ph.D. "The Flower People" BY Mrs.
Horace Mann. Price fifty-five cents. All
for sale by ID. f. Long.
THE UNLAID GHOST. New York: d. APP
pleton & Co. This is a highly imaginative
story, based upon the Platonic theory of the
transmigration of the soul "Poppaea,"
the guilty wife of the Emperor Nero, pays
the penalty of her misdeeds in the sorrows
of Hortense. The story is romantic and
highly wrought. For sale by ID. f. Long,
Montpelier.
GEOLOGICAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. BY Sir
j. w. Dawson. New York: ID. Appleton &
Co. Any work of this character from the
hand of Principal Dawson may be accepted
as true and sound in its teachings. The OBJ
jeCt of the work is to give, in connected
form, a summary of the development OF the
vegetable kingdom in geological time. The
volume is copiousy illustrated.
THE ART OF INVESTING. By New
York broker. New York: ID. Appleton &
Co. For sale by ID. +. Long, Montpelier
A millionaire once remarked that it cost him
more anxious care to keep the money he
had made than to make it, because, as he
said, " so many persons are trying to take
it from me-" This book shows how difficult
it is to get money so invested as to receive
"a profit on it and how the wings grow that
take it away. The chapter on Speculation
is very instructive and the whole book is
useful.
THE CENTURY for March contains several
features of particular interest. a narrative
paper of thrilling detail is Captain Frank
+, Moran's account of the planning mis-
haps and finally successful execution of
Colonel Rose tunnel at Libby Prison. The
article is illustrated. Theodore Roosevelt
writes of the daily life Of ranchman; Mrs.
Van Rensselaer, on " Salisbury Cathedral
Albert NJ. Bagley on Some Pupils of List"
and NJ. KEENAN, continues his revelations
in regard to Russian state prisons. The
Lincoln history deals with the call to arms
in 1861 and the story of Sumter. All of the
foregoing papers are illustrated.
THE AMERICAN MAGAZINE for March
shows a growing Improvement in the matter
of illustrations some in this number being
admirable examples of the engraver's art
In the general excellence and wide variety
of the reading matter it is difficult 10 select
! articles for special mention. However
what do the Anarchists Want?" by u. l..
! White; The Harmonic Community, by
II. ID. Mason; "The Last Wampum Coin
age" by Charles l.. Norton, and An
American Palace of Delight" by Joel Ben
ton, furnish in attractive style most inter.
esting and curious information. The stories
| and DIES criptive articles of this number are
above the average.
MEMOIRS OF AN ARABIAN Princess. An
Autobiography. By Emily Ruett, nee
! Princess of Oman and Zanzibar New York
ID. Appleton & Co. For sale by ID. f. Long
Montpelier. This is a translation from the
! German. The writer, an Arabian princess,
| born in Zanzibar and brought up in palace
after the death of her father and mother
married young German merchant and
came to Hamburg. She gives graphic &C
count of her life, of eastern customs, the
position of woman, with striking family
events, revolutions and changes in her cir
cumstances and the incidents attending
her marriage and after-life. The volume is
both interesting and instructive.
How DEACON TUBMAN AND PARsoN WHIT
NEY KEPT NEW YEARS, AND OTHER STORIES
BY w. II. III. Murray. illustrated. st
Johnsbury; Caledonia County Publishing
Co. For sale by ID. #. Long. PIP. 1876. Price
Sl.25. The leading story of this volume
shows how Dea. Tubman got Parson Whit
ney away from his books among the young
of his parish making him feel twenty years
younger than he had been feeling of late
The closing part of this story reminds on'
of the closing of Mr. Murray's lecture OF
Deacons," which will be remembered b,
many of our older readers. Mr.. Mrrra,
delineates with skilled hand, and al
though one may sometimes object To- tn,
subject of the sketch, there is no question
as to the masterliness and finish OF the pro