The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-06-05
Literary Notes.

The HISTORY OF THE CENTENNIAL CELE-
BRATIoN, a pamphlet of 100 pages, with eight
pages of illustrations, issued by the NeW
York Tribune, is now ready for delivery. 1t
contains complete account of the three
days ceremonies and parades in New York
city, the ball and the banquet, and includes
the orations and discourses of Chauncey M.
Depew, President Harrison, Grover Cleve-
land, Bishop Potter and other speakers, and
lists of guests This is the best souv enir of
the celebration in print for every one who
took part and every one who saw the cele-
bration-and, very particularly, for every
one who did not see it. Retail price, twenty
five cents a copy.
MEssRs. HoUGHToN, MIFFLIN & COMPANY
announce that they have begun, under the
title Riverside Library for Young Peo-
pie" series of books designed especially
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volume. The issues for the spring of 1889
are: The War for Independence, by John
Fiske; George Washington, an Historical
Biography, by Horace f. Scudder; Birds
through an Opera-gass, by Florence A.
Merriam Up and Down the Brooks, by
Mary L. Bamford. Other books are in
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THE STORY OF VERMONT, by John L.
Heaton, being the fourth in the series of the
Story of the States, edited by Eldridge S.
Brooks One volume Svo, fully illustrated
Boston: ID. Lothrop Company. Price Sl.50
OF all the states of the American Union few
have had a more varied or more notable
career than that of Vermont. Amid its ver-
dant hills grew up some of the sturdiest of
the farmers, the fighters and the citizens of
the young republic, while the state has the
claim of having been the first, outside the
original thirteen, admitted to the American
Union after forty years struggle for its
rights without parallel in the history OF the
country. Upon its soil the greatest of mod
ern reforms-the crusades against slavery
and intemperance-practic had birth,
and its soldiers had the proud prominence
Of being the most reliable fighters in the
leaderess war of 1912 and of turning the
tide of battle on the hotly-contested field of
Gettysburg. Not for forty years has a
history of the state been published, and Mr.
Heaton has practically had a new field in
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scientiously and well few readers of his en-
tertaining story will deny. He has pre-
sented, not only for Vermonters but for
Americans a connected, practical and enter
tanning story of the early times of the state,
adding to this an account of the more re-
cent events that have escaped public at
tention, and has included in his record, as
far as possible in the space at his command
the growth of arts and learning the devel-
opment of industry and the evolution of
laws, customs and institutions to meet the
needs Of a gracious, temperate and valiant
people. His volume should be at once ac-
| ceptable and absorbing to the people of YER
mont; more than this, it is a volume that
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voted and patriotic endeavor. Mr.. Heaton's
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Ii is full of practical purpose, lighted with
the touch of the romancer and the skill of
the humorist. Mr.. Bridgman's illustrations
are fitting accompaniment to the text, and
will supplement the interest of this excel
lent and most acceptable addition to the
best phases of American history.