The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-10-23

West who needs her help. The place
is rough, but kind hearts are found, and
the two years experience, while in
many ways sad, leaves, on the whole,
pleasant and profitable memory not
only for Lois, but for those who read
it. From the Congregational Sunday.
school and Publishing Society, Boston
and Chicago. Price, 81.
DEAR LITTLE MARCHIoNEss, vol
ume of sixty pages. Introduction by
Bishop Gailor of Tennessee. This is a
story of the yellow fever epidemic
which scourged the city of Memphis in
1878. The authors name does not APP
pear, but she ministered in person to
the sick and dying during that terrible
time. Bishop Gailor says: 1T is the
story of child's faith and love; and it
will appeal to those who, in passing
through dark waters, have found their
help and blessing in the unquestioning
trust of childhood" From T. Y. Crow
ell & Co., New York and Boston.
Price, in cloth, 81.
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KINGS AND CUPBEARERs, by Pro-
lessor George Huntington, contains 433
pages. 1t is story of college life.
Evidently one of the purposes of the
book is to convince its readers that the
cO-educational colleges in the West are
not all second.class institutions. But
the book is, after all, anything but a
special plea for a certain kind of col
lege, and its story is full of interest as
well as of inspiration for all its readers
to seek the best things. 1t is a story
which will not stay on the shelves of
the library, but one for which pros
pective readers will have to wait their
turn. From the Congregational Sun
day-school and Publishing Society, Bos.
ton and Chicago. Price, $3.50.
RUTH PRENTICE, by Marion Thorne,
contains 292 pages, and comes from
the press of the Congregational Sun
day-school and Publishing Society, Bos
ton and Chicago. Ruth Prentice had
been educated away from her home
which was poor farmhouse. The
home life had degenerated greatly
since Mrs. Prentice had died several
years before, while Ruth had spent the
time with an aunt in New York and
was now ready to enter college. The
position to which Ruth returned was q
hard one, but she responded nobly tC
her opportunity and wrought a great
change in her home and in the commu.
nifty. The story will inspire its read.
ers to faithfulness in the places where
they are called to serve. Price, 81 25.
THE GREEN GARNET, by Natalie
Rice. This book contains 800 pages
No one would imagine in reading this
book that it was the first which the
author has ever written. To be sure
she is by no means an inexperienced
writer, since her work has for severa
years been in great demand by various
periodicals published for young people
In the Green Garnet" Miss Rice has
shown the same close observation Of
and sympathy with young people which
have made her shorter stories success.
full. 1t is story of school life, and re-
lates how boy, coming newly into ar
unusually interesting circle of young
people, had the misfortune to be en-
gagged in several adventures which ap
peared to indicate that he was very
undesirable companion. Congrega
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Society, Boston and Chicago. Price
$3.50.
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