Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-08-28
NEW BOOKS.

Recent Additions 60 the Free Library,
The purchase of books by the trustees of
the Brooks memorial fund, has been com
pleted. They have been catalogued and
are ready for use at the library. All of
them are standard works and many of
them valuable for reference. They cover
wide field, for among them are found
books representing the classes of philoso-
ply, religion, sociology, science, useful and
fine arts, literature, history and biography.
We do not propose to name the complete
list but desire to call attention to some of
the more important works that came to
our notice. Among these were the National
cyclopedia of American biography II vol
umes; Memoirs Of Duchesse de Gontaut
Guerneys of Earham, by A. j. c. Hare;
Life of Townsend Harris, our first envoy to
japan: John Sherman's recollections of
forty years in the House, Senate and Cabi-
net; Samuel j. Tiden's life, by John Bige-
low; an indeXed atlas of the world in two
volumes, published by Rand, McNally d
Co., the most complete work of its kind
we ever saw; Standard dictionary, two
volumes; Harper's book of facts; Vermont
statutes Baldwin's hand-books of psy-
chology, treating of the senses, intellect,
feeling, will, mental development, etc.
the American Congress, history of ma
tional legislation and political events from
1874 to 1895, by j. w. Moore; George 7.
Curtis's Constitutional history of the
United States; Universities of Europe in
the middle ages, three volumes; also a
work on American universities.
In science can be found several works on
astronomy by Flammarion, Giberne and
others. Works on electricity are repre-
I'd
Among the works we nc ticed Intellectual
rise in electricity, by Park Benjamin;
Practical electricity, by Ayrton; Kapp's
Electric transmission of energy; Electro
magnetism, by D. c. Jackson; and Alter
nate current transformer, by Fleming;
Moses and ferns, by Campbell; Haeckers
History of creation; Churches and castles
of medieval France; Victorian age of
English literature, by Mrs. Oliphant; Lit
erary history of the English people, by
Jusserand; Coleridge's letters; Canterbury
tales, edited by Pollard; Saga library, four
volumes, dealing with early Scandinavian
history, literature and legends, we doubt
not will interest many readers.
To those interested in the geography and
history of the world all we need to do to
awaken their interest is to say that we saw
among the books, Maspero's Dawn of civil
ization; Makers of modern Rome, by Mrs.
Oliphant; Our western archipelago, by
Henry NJ. Field; From far Formosa, by
Mackay; Justin Winsor's History of the
Mississippi basin during the struggle be-
tween England and France, from 1897 to
1853; an illustrated history of our Civil
war entitled Camp fire and battlefelds, by
r. johnson; n. 5. Shaler's United States
of America, two volumes, study of the
American commonwealth its natural re-
sources, people, industries. ETC., and last,
but not least in interest, History of Deer.
field, Mass, a special study of the Indian
wars in the Connecticut valley during our
early history, by George Sheldon. The
list as a whole We consider a valuable ac-
QUESTION to our library.