The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-12-07

all into whose hands IL falls. The volume
Is dedicated " to my father, Rev. w. p c.
Hamilton, AM, veteran who escaped
approximation by sudden translation"
RICHARD BRUCE; OR, THE LIFE THAT Now
Is, by Charles M. Sheldon: Congregational
Sunday-school and Publishing Society. Bns-
ton and Chicago; S1.50. An exceptionally
strong story, involving deep and careful
social study. The author pictures to us the
effect of great spiritual revival upon the
social life of Chicago. The more such books
are read and the more their suggestions are
practiced, the sooner will the millennium
| come.
MAJoRIBANKs, by Elvirton Wright. Con-
gregatlonal Sunday school and Publishing
| society, Boston and Chicago; S125. Read
ers OF Freshman and Senior" will expect
ms new book, by the same author, to be at
least least brilliantly original. They will not be
disappointed. The story deals with the
framing into strong and well.balanced
MANHOOD and womanhood of four very diff
terent young persons.
AT THE BEAUTIFUL GATE, and other songs
OF faith, by Lucy Larcom. Houghton Mil
mn ~ Co.. Boston and New York; S1.00 A
| DAINTY holiday book, bound in handsome
| style. Lucy Larcom's poems are too well
known TO need any special introduction
| Such OF her lyrics as are of an especialIV
serious and devotional character are brought
together in this little volume and will re-
| NyA'N SOAuihi lTOIn 0ef thousands
of readers.
CHATTERBox FOR 1892 SO; Estes e. Ian.
rat, Boston, 125. This name is a house,
hold word in every home in the land. and
the readers of the early volumes are now
| men and women, who know that no books
Will delight their children more, or instruct
tnem TO greater extent than these dear
old annual volumes, whose sales have lone
since mounted above the million mark
| Inc paper used this year is better than ever
before, and the illustrations appear to bet
| ter advantage.
THERE seems to be no limit to Colonel
hnoxs ability for writing history and de-
scrlption in the most agreeable manner.
The Boy Travellers in Central Europe. j"
Just published by Harper & Brothe rs, is the
latest of his books and il follows "the
boys as they wander among Paris cafes,
along the Seine, over sunny France to the
| Alps in Switzerland, and, in the manifest
way imaginable, through the central coun-
tries of Europe One can almost travel
with them by reading the book, it is so fully
illustrated
STUDIES OF THE MODEL LIFE. The var-
GUS aspects of Christ considered in series
Of essays, by Rev. Burdett Hart, d. ID =, mas
tor Emeritus Congregational church, Ne W
Haven, Conn. T.. B. Treat, publisher, 5
Cooper Union, New York The human
soul in its reaches after goodness, seeks a
pattern after which it can model. The only
peIleCI one is UndJ OF the Goodman. DIR
Hart has presented him in these studies
with breadth of view, a vividness of out
line, and beauty of expression that must
commend the Savior to every reader The
book throughout is strong in argument.
forceful in statement and elegant in style.
The SECOND ESSAY ON THE EARL OF
CHATHAM civilian PITT, by Lord Ma
caulay. American Book Company, SO6-SOS
Broadway, New York; twenty cents An
other in the series of English classics for
schools. The title of the book is a sufficie Mt
index to its contents. Other English clas-
sizes published by the same company are as
follows: The Sir Roger de Coverly Pa
pers," from the Spectator, by Addison
Steele and Budget, price twenty cents
Shakespeare's Julius Cesar" twenty
cents; selections from Irving's "Sketch
Book" twenty cents Scott's "Ivanhoe, -
fifty cents.
AT SHUTDOWN, by John Greenleaf Whit
tier; with designs by e. III Garrett Hough-
ton, Miff1in 81 Co., Boston and New York
$3.50. Beautifully bound in white aud
gold comes to us this welcome little vol
ume, and few daintier holiday books will
be printed this year. A small edition of
the book was privately printed two years
ago. and speedily exhausted among the
authors friends The demand for it has
since been so persistent that the poet, be.
fore his death, consented to its publication
in the present form A few poems written
since its previous issue are inserted in this
new edition.