The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-06-13

State Trials of the United States during the Administrations
Of Warrington and adams roih References historical and
pyossionai and Preliminary Notes the Politics Of the
times. BY Francis Wharton. Octave, PIP 727.
We are indebted to the author for the very valuable
work, the title OF watch we have given above. On a
careful examination of its contents we find il TO be
work of very great merit and value, involving large
amount of research, and exhibiting great skill and udg-
ment in the use and arrangement of the of interest
ing matter which its pages imbody. The preface
ans succnct but perspcuous and Just view of the po
tcal events and their causes happening in that period
of our history embraced in the administrations of Wash
ingon and the elder Adams, and of the distinguished
men who the leading and prominent actors upon
the American stage of politics during that eventful
period. The work contains not only report of the
Stae trials, but it mbodies all the documents and
other matter necessary eucdate the events of that in
teresting portion of our history Il is work which
should be in the hands of every statesman end constu
tonal lawyer. 1t supplies desideratum long felt in
American legal and political literature, and will be
sdered NEST valuable acquisition to the library of the
general scholar Its compiler is eminent an author of
works upon jurisprudence and upon the work before
he has abored most faithfully 1t from the press of
Carey & Hart Philadelphia, and may be found at most
OF the bookstores in this city
The Adventures of Captain bonneville, Of the IT, S. a., in
the Rocky n,ounaias and the Fur West. Digsstsd from
his Journal and illustrated from ua,ious other BY
Washington Irving. l2mo. PIP. 42s.
This is no book of tales or fancy sketches, as
readers we'll know who have read the former edition of
it, but narrative of most interesting and startling adven
lures made up from genuine and authentic materials
The facts furnished mainly by the gallant Captain
himself. and have been put in the form of book, and
properly illustrated by its able and gifted editor 1t
tans q mass OF valuable information of the country
through which the Captain travelled in his overland
route to Oregon, and of the Indian tribes which he
counered and abounds in of deep and thrilling in
terest Its from the press OF Geo p Putnam New York
Raiooah, the Jopmeyings to the Debd Kumri Auto
biography of Jonathan Romer. Edited by w. s. Mayo
M d. l2mo., PIP. 5li.
We shall be mistaken if this does not turn out TO be
the crack book of its kind for the season, and predict
for it an extensive among the general reading public
The author has displayed skill in weaving
up the incidents of his story, and has conrved to give
great vvacy and piqaancy both to his narrative and da
logue The preface gives interesting account OF the
manner by which he came by his manuscript, and the
curious character cipher in which it originally
written. We cannot commend agreeable repast
to the taste of the reading community. 1t is also from
the press OF George p Putnam and both this and the
preceding work beautiful specimens of American y-
Biography
They may be found at the bookstore of Taylor &
Maury