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

EVERYBODY is delighted with the new
musical entertainment provided by the neat
little cantata called " A Garden of Singing
Flowers" Young people wishing to get up
simple entertainment for an evenings
pleasure will find the words and music of
this new piece very amusing and entertain
ing. Only nine PERSONS are required in the
programme. A rtain or screen is painted
to represent age and garden; and in
the center or heart of each flower in this
pretty garden appears the face only of
singer, who is stationed behind the curtain
The Gardener conducts the performance,
which is very amusing. Full instructions
are given in the book, which is published by
Oliver Ditson Co., Boston, Mass, and which
will be sent by them to any address on re-
ceipt of the price, forty cents.
THOSE who have read of the BLOODHOUND
only in sensational stories Of the days of
American slavery will learn the real traits
of that little-known animal with surprise
IN reading an illustrated article on the dog
In the June Century. The article is written
by the chief expert Oh the subject IL Eng
land the gentleman whose od-hounss
were used by the detectives in some recent
famous murder cases in London. Mrs. Van
Rensselaer,, the well-known art critic has
written careful study Of the career and art
Of Corot the modern painter, about whose
work there has perhaps been more discus
sion and difference OF opinion than any
other. This article will appear in the June
Century. The illustrations have been long
time in preparation and are all engraved
from the originals by Elbridge Kingsley.
MEssRs. HoUGHToN, MIFFLIN & COMPANY
announce that they have begun, under the
title Riverside Library for Young Peo-
ple," series of books designed especially
for boys and girls who are laying the founda-
ton of private libraries. The books to be
included in the series will not be ephemeral
publications, to be read hastily and quickly
forgotten. Both the authors and the subjects
treated indicate that they will be books to
last The great subjects of history, biogra-
ply, mechanics, travel, natural history,
adventure and kindred themes will form
the principal portion of the library. Fic-
ton will not necessarily be excluded, but
it will not form the main feature. The books
will be illustrated whenever the subject
treated needs illustration; history and
travel will be accompanied by maps history
and biography by portraits, but the aim will
be to make the Accomplishments to the text
real additions The compactness and low
price of the books forbid profuse illustra-
tion. The books will be uniform in size,
containing from 200 to $50 pages each, will
be strongly and attractively bound in cloth
and sold at the price of seventy-five cents
volume. The issues for the spring of 1889
are: The War for Independence, by John
Fiske; George Washington, an Historical
Biography, by Horace E. Scudder; Birds
through an Opera-glass, by Florence A.
Merriam Up and Down the Brooks, by
Mary E. Bamford. Other books are in
preparation and will be announced from
time to time,
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, Syo, fully illustrated.
Boston: ID. Lothrop Company Price Sl.50.
OF all the states OF the American Union few
have had more varied or a more notable
career than that of Vermont. Amid its YER
! 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-pra practically had BIRTH
and its soldiers had the proud pre-emnence
| of being the most reliable fighters in the
leaderless 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 new field in
which to labor. That he has labored coz
scientiously and well few readers of his en-
tertaining story will deny. He has pre-
scented, not only for Vermonters but for
u
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 gracious, temperate and valiant
people. His volume should be at once &C.
ceptabe and absorbing to the people of Yer
mont; more than this, it is a volume that
should attract the attention OF all lovers
of every phase Of our nations story and
every admirer of sturdy, persistent, de-
voted and patriotic endeavor. Mr.. Heaton's
style is manly, unaffected, simple and direct
1t 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.