The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-04-13


ished in Lee & Shepard's "Good Com
readable story, rather like the title.
THE OAK-A POPULAR INTRODUCE
TGoN TO FOREST BOTANY, by II. Mar
shall Ward. Published by ID. Appleton
& Co., New York. Uniform with other.
volumes in the "Modern Science Sc
ries."
MY STUDY-FIRE, by Hamilton Wright
Mabie. Published by Dodd, Mead &
Co., New York. A good book to read
seated before your own study fire.
There is hardly dull page between its
covers.
IT HAPPENED YESTERDAY, by Fred
erick Marshall. Published in Apple
toms Town and Country Library. A
story which shows subtle and literary
art, 1t arrests and holds the readers
attention.
THE UNSEEN FRIEND, by Lucy Lar
com. Published by Houghton, Miffliu
& Co., Boston and New York. A
book that is characterized by whole
some Christian sentiment and deep re-
ligious feeling.
NOT ON CALvARY-A LAYMAN's
PLEA OF MEDIATION IN THE TEMPTA-
TIoN IN THE WILDERNESS. Pub
ished by G. r. Dillingham; & Co.,
New York. Price, thirty-fve cents.
A little book that commands attention.
MARK HOPKINS, by Franklin Carter,
President of Williams College. Pub
ished by Houghton, Mifllin & Co.,
Boston and New York. This is an ex-
cellent biography of Mark Hopkins, the
eminent teacher and religious leader,
written by his pupil, friend and col
league.
Nor ALL IN VAIN, by Ada Cam
bridge. Published in Appleton's Town
and Country Library. A novel of
finely-sustained interest and sympa-
thetic quality. My GUARDIAN, by the
same author, is charming story of the
fen country, in England, where the
author was born.
INFANTRY DRILL REGULATIONS. D.
Appleton & Co., New York. A system
of drill regulations drawn up by a board
of officers appointed for that purpose,
and approved by the president, and
published for the information and gov
eminent of the army and for the OBJ.
servance of the militia of the United
States.
THE Doc IN HEALTH AND IN DIS
EASE, by DR.. Wesley Mills. Published
by d. Appleton e. Co., New York. A
book adapted for both the veterinarian
to whom the medical care of dogs is
usually confded, and the general
reader whose interest may be limited
to that involved in the ownership of a
single animal. The volume is freely
illustrated, and contain portraits of va
rious dogs of high degree.
NEW FRAGMENTS, by John Tyndall.
FRS. Published by d. Appleton &
Co., New York. Among the subjects
treated in the five hundred pages are
1.-The Sabbath" Life in the Alps"
1.-The Rainbow and the Congeners,"
"Common Water" and " Atoms, Mole.
cules and Ether-waves." In addition
to the popular treatment of scientific
themes, the author devotes several
chapters to biographical studies of the
utmost interest.
THE HORsE-A STUDY IN NATURAL
History. Published by d. Appleton
& Co., New York. Second in the
Modern Science Series" published to
provide brief untechnical treatises for
the educated layman who has neither
time nor inclination to become special
ist, but who feels the need of informing
himself on the present status of the va
rious branches of science. The author
of 1.-THE Horse" is William II. Flower
C.B., director of the British Natural
History Museum.
ELINE WERE, translated from the
Dutch of Louis Conperus by j. II.
Grein. d. Appleton & Co., New York
publishers. This admirable story OF
modern life in the Hague introduces
American readers to new field of lit.
erature, and is one in the d" Holland
Fiction Series" which Appleton & Co.
have inaugurated, and in which they
feel that they are opening a field OF
literary interest as fresh as were the
fields of Russian and Spanish fiction q
dozen years ago.
NEW ELEMENTARY ALGEBRA, by
Charles Davies, LID. American Book
Company, New York. Cloth, 294 pages
Price, ninety cents. Davies algebra
has long enjoyed great popularity, due
unquestionably to the admirable division
and arrangement of the subject, the
concise yet lucid explanations, and the
exceptionally thorough and simple treat
ment of equations. The newly-revised
edition, while retaining all the merits
of the old edition, shows marked adj.
vances over the original work.
THE STORY OF THE TOKEN, AS BE
LONGING TO THE SACRAMENT OF THE
LORDS SUPPER, by Robert Shells
Published by John Ireland, 1897 Broad
way, New York. Says the author
1.-THE Token was once visible symbo
of that which, like master-key, opened
the gates of salvation to the faithful
communicates of the church. Time
honored as the custom was, it will soou
| he foruOttan I would foip hopa thot