The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1841-11-25
Nem Fork Correspondence.
New YoRK, Nov. 80, lS41
Literature, Fetes. &c, &C.

dependent Of the valuable and beautiful works they
are constantly importing from Europe their pres
are teeming with interesting standard productions
got up in style that is not surpassed in England
Among the works just issued by this house illus
trated octave edition of the life of Napoleon 1t is
translation from the popular French work of Lar
deche, and Is embellished with five hundred designs
and twenty original portraits of Napoeons Generals
and others Of eminence The first volume is now
only issued the second is soon to follow. The cos
tune of this book is rich and elegant in the
and aside from the thanks due to the Messrs Apple.
ton for giving us in English work greatly needed
Notwithstanding much has been written Napo-
eon they deserve all praise for the which they
have displayed not only in this but their other late is
sues. word or two upon this life it is peculiar
book. All other lives Of Buonaparte consist of the
language and thoughts Of his biogrophers this is
life Of Napoleon, leritten BY himsef.-that is is
history composed of his letters and bulletins, arranged
chronoogically and merely connected together by
thread sufficient to make uniform and harmonious
whole The book is therefore almost entirely Napo-
Icons writing is this that gives its peculiar fea
ture, and the ground which its author challenges
for it the favor Of the public. Every ten twenty
lines is illustrated by spirited engraving. The
ner of the work is aDecdotca and not incident Of
interest in his life is passed over The illusions to
| battle often very brief the and not his acts
being put forth the most prominently. To Lodi is
given but single paragraph, and Marengos achieved
| in half page. This will be the most read Of Napo-
Icons lives One Of the extraordinary circum-
stances connected with Buonapare's life, is that he
, embraced Christianity and died sincere Christian.
The British and French Bible Society have recently
published this fact, and promise to give to the
world further testimony upon topic interesting to
the Christian world.
"ARTHus CARRYL," novel, is the title Of strange,
crazy book just issued finely printed from the press Of
D. Appleton & Co. It is poem by the author of
The Vision Of Rubeta !" il is in the Chiids Harold
vein, and of which it is palpsble imitation, yet
aboundng with many fresh thoughts and original
IDEAS well novel ways of treating old The
book besides contains poeca epistes to Milton Pope,
Juvenal, and lastly, to the Deri! II issPrinked with
parodies sonnets and odes and spiced with epigrams
Some of these witty, some extravagant, some
foolish, and the parodied from Horace and Joe
Miller in There 10 neat epigram on Park
| Benjamin, and would be clever, were it original
and barbarous cuts at poor Colonel Webb and Col.
StoLe Cooper, and Keeses American poets and his
own reviewers of Rubeta. The Rubeta published year
or more ago remarkable for lis wholesale satire
and unlimited abuse Of every thing and every body.
1t was marked by talent wit learning and industry
1t had, however no object-produced permanent
effect and after making brief noise, forgotten
and might never have REQUIRED to mems minds again
but for this second Preparation, Arthur Carrylis
similar production and destined to briefer existence
Its chief (contingent feature is, that the author has
never been discovered; and in this he defes disco
very. He is now likely to be challenged to appear
The authorship has been attributed to John quincy
Adams, but mistakenly; for, in the first place, Mr..
| Adams is sane, while the author Of Rubeta is not
and in the second place, Mr. Adams possesses too
pure TASTE and mind too chase TO be the author of
several pieces of amatory rbadry and others of coarse
satire that embeish its pages. The author, whoever
he may be, has money to throw away, for he prints
and publishes at his own cost has great and varied
learning, and yields caustc pen. Much learning
has made him mad, and his madness takes the diosyn
cracy of book making, When the veil which
happily hides this "great unknown" from the public
eye is lifted, it will be by his oton hand Till then,
we will leave him with two of his own lines:
Howeer this bard in brain
Was quite ass and took much pains TO show it,,
Besides the pictorial Napoleon" Appleton has is
sued beautifully illustrated edition Of Robinson Cru
soc, that immortal work, which finely nculcates
perseverance, under all vcissi,udes, and elegant
copy of the Vicar of Wakefield, with 200 fine illus
trations He has published also beautiful series of
English Classics in petite size and is issuing month
ly an interesting standard volume to his valuable
"Tales for the People and their children" work in
| ~ lilo IN be
useful as it is entertaining and instructive. We are
sorry see however, but two American writers Mrs.
Griffith and Mrs EIs) in the series. We trust
these liberal publishers not going 10 keep up the
bad custom of instructlng American children and
youth altogether through the pens and minds of Eng
lish writers
The Harpers are giving all their attention to their
Family Library, and will publish nothing else.
The monopoly of the Estate Printing" has been
windfalI to these enterprsing publishers They had
already become Independent by industry and skilful
of their business, and this acquisition to
Il cir regular trade will enrich them. They find il SO
profitable, they won't look at any thing else now er
cept new work from Stephens, some famous late
English publication, which they get for the eI
pense of single copy. They have foresworn novels,
partly il is thought from matter Of conscience, vide
the circulating libraries they have been filling the last
fifteen years partly, they themselves say, because
the church, of which, Of one denomination and ano
ther all members and one or two of them, we be
lieve deacons have taken in hand and rated them
for aiding and abet,ing immortality But the tue
reason is that they find more profitable to conine
themselves 10 the School and Family Library
publisher to take their place in publishing light teIs
ture is very much needed here.
There is an interesting series of illustrated sketches
in course Of publication here in octave pamphlet num-