The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-08-27
Our Book Table.

We have received from those enterisng book sellers
Harper Brothers, of New York, those incessan and
tasteful caterers for the literary appetite of the public
several and beautifully executed works Just issued
from their press Our friend F. Taylor of this city will
receive our thanks for their sale delivery We have no
question that duplicate copies may be obtained his
ect and extensive bookstore. Among these are
The two parts of Vantty Fair-a nouei withota a
herO"-presenng ''pen and pencil sketches of English
society,"" by w. NJ Thackeray He has been called the
modern Fielding This production is, of course in the
comic and buresque ORDER full of amusing incidents in
English society, and illustrated by variety of comic
cuts Gentlemen and ladies both, who destined re
man IN Washington during the dog days. without any
relaxation from visit to watering places the springs
have right to themselves their leisure mo-
ments by comic descripions-and such one is Thacke
rays PANTY Far"
"a Whtm and ITS Consequences by G. P. r. James
the fruitful father of many literary offspring We have
read dozen of his novels in time, and though they
are not always the best in the world yet they have al
ways plot enough, nsenously drawn out and neatly ex.
pressed, to excite sufficient interest of the suspense so
necessary to keep up the love story to the last What
ever be the "Whm of the moment, (and Heaven knows
there whms enough in the world to fill library with
noves the story ends with great deal of contentment
on the part of the principal character in the piece
The third the roll is "Eduari Vernon my
Cousins Story" These cousins are dangerous charac-
tiers, but especially convenient to the noveliss They
too have birth to hundreds of romances large or
snall-from good thick volume unto a single
column of newspaper cousin is of that class OF
people whose relations to you that they are
very apt to into something that is rather nearer
As we glance the pages of the present production
we are struck with the usual beauties of the love tale
and as we approach the end find the denouement con-
GLIDING at the altar 1t is from the pen of E. Childs
the author of sundry articles in the London Times and
New York Courier, whose beautiful writing is no secret
in editorial studio We know him to be an obligng
and clever feow-and success attend him he passes
from the chrysais state of editorial correspondent to
the more elegant and beautiful form OF a novel octave
Two small volumes close our muster-roll to day
Story Of the Penins,aar Var, by Gen Charles William
vane, Marquis of Londonderry, G. C. B., G. c. H.,
coloae of the second regiment of Life Guards" 1t
edition. with considerable additions" and is full of
the thrilling anecdotes of the in the Peninsula which
brought the English into collision with those of the
French the soil of revolutionary Spain English gene
rails and French generals uer through the book all the
splendor of military achievements; the principal OF
whom is Lord Wellington who first learned on that
preparatory theatre to cope with French generals and to
plume his wing for the great and decisive battle of Water
loo with the greatest general of the age.