The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-09-28
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TABLE Book AND TEST PROBLEMS
IN MATHEMATICS, by j. X. Ellwood,
A. NJ, principal of the Colfax school,
Pittsburg, Penn. Published by the
American Book Company, New York,
Cincinnati and Chicago. Price, 81.
This excellent work is designed to as
sist the teacher in keeping the preco-
cious students of their classes busy. 1t
contains great variety of test prob
lens in arithmetic, algebra and trigo-
nometry, and some of them involve
calculus. There are also number of
problems that cannot be easily CLASH
fed. The book will be very useful to
teachers of mathematics.
NEIGHBoRs IN Boston SQUARE, by
Alice Eddy Curtiss. Published by the
Congregational Sunday-school and Pub
fishing Society, Boston and Chicago.
Price, $780, A thrillingly tender story
of hard life filled with comfort by the
presence of God. Its heroine is little
die shaker, loveable and intensely 'oy-
ing She is burdened with abundance
of comparatively improbable work, the
care of an almost imbecile aunt and of
headstrong young sister Her earnest
but somewhat tactless endeavors to pro-
tect the latter only urge the young girl
to contract most foolish marriage,
which not long after results in her death.
A truly self-sacrifcing life it is that is
pictured in the little dressmaker.
Miss MALCOLM's Ten, by Margaret
E. Winslow. Published by the Congre-
gational Sunday.School and Publishing
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$50. The story is one for Kings
Daughters, and the purpose is to illus
trate various forms of spurious service
to the King, and to point the way to the
heart-life of which all acceptable service
must be an outgrowth. The story deals
with ten young girls of varying abili-
ties, ambitions and social surroundings.
By good fortune they have come under
the influence of Miss Malcolm, de-
voted young Christian of wealth and
leisure. Various natural touches, like
Lulu Emerson's taste of life in high
society, and Patience Deventur's ex-
perience in the Montrose household, are
both interesting and valuable.
IN THE VULTURE's NEST, by Mil
dred Fairfax. Published by the Con-
gregational Sunday-school and Publish
ing Society. Boston and Chicago.
Price, S1.50. This is historical tale
which depicts with great vividness and
power the heartless worldliness that
prevailed in the French court during
the reign of Charles TX, when Cath
crime de Medici really governed king
and nation. The heroine of the story,
Antoinette de Bourlemont, is young
girl who, having been brought up un-
der the direction and influence of Cath
crime, is nevertheless of true, loving
and loyal spirit. So innocent is she of
any guile that she never understands
the true character of her royal friend
until her eyes are opened by the mas
sacre of St. Bartholomew. The book
is strong picture of an intensely thrill
ing period.
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF COTTON
MATHER, by Rev. Abijah p. Marvin.
Published by the Congregational Sun.
day-school and Publishing Society, Bos-
ton and Chicago. Price, $3.50 This
is painstaking work. The author de.
voted number of the last years of his
life to collating and sitting the material
relating to Cotton Mather, rejecting all
that is not based upon fairly good author.
ity. Mr. Marvin's care in this respect
was such that the reader may feel that
in this volume he has the actual facts
before him. Both sides of the matter
are given, where a controversy exists
The reader, by Mr. Marvin's aid, will gel
true representation of all the occur
rences affecting the reputation of the
subject of the volume and thorough &C
quaintance with one of the most famous
of New England divines two centuries
ago. To know Cotton Mather is tC
know the foremost man of his time.