The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-02-03

The INTERNATIONAL for January. 1851.
The first article is Edmund Burke--his Resi-
dence and Grave This is the last Of Mr.. Halls
" Plgrimages to English Shrines." These are
written on the plan of those charming books,
"visits to Remarkable Places" and The
Haunts and Homes Of the Poets" by the Howitts
These sketches were first published in the London
Art Journal, with all the aids which the most ex-
pensivs letter press and wood cuts can bestow
This single article, even in the more modest dress
Of the International, is well worth the twenty-five
cents paid for the hundred and fifty pages Of
printed matter.
HARpERs' Nrw MONTHLY for January.
These two books can scarcely be called rivals
they are rather inseparable friends, for the man
who buys the one will be sure to take the other.
Its first article is Robert Southey, by his soma
beautiful picture, which one can read without
infinite pleasure. The second is extract from
the Confessions of an English Opium Eater. By
the Northern papers, we observe that three volumes
Of De Quincy have been published by Ticknor, Of
Boston-none of them have yet reached New Or
leans bookstores.
THE MINISTRY OF THE BEAUTIFUL. by H. J. Slack Phil
adelphia Carey Il Hart-l2 mo-, PIP. 30
This is exquisite little book which takes a
poets view of nature, and attempts to trace the
connecting link between the material and the
spiritual
| LONDON ART JOURNAL for December
This publication has been received by Morgan
1t is pleasure to look at this work. 1t should be
in the possession of every person DESTROYS of keep
| ing up with the world of art
LETTERS FROM THE THRrr Con. INEsTs. by M, the
Arkansas Correspondent Of the Louisville Journal New
| York. D. Appleton & Co.. IL mo PIP. $50: ~
| The readers Of that journal will be gratfed tc
find these agreeable letters returned to them in
permanent form. The writer is citizen of Lou
isville, and well known here. He has judiciously
selected the most interesting cities and localities
instead of initiating journal with its minute de-
tails. We commend to our readers his descriptions
of the Danube, and its steam navigation. 1t may
| remind the old men of steaming on the Mississippi
thirty-ive years ago. At Steefs.
| Practical MERCANTILE CORRESPONDENCE, by William
| Anderson. d. Appleton & Co., IL mo. PIP. 279:
| This we presume is good book of the sort, blu
| we doubt very much whether such books are o
| any service The forms of mercantile contracts
| are worth more than the correspondence which
| takes up so much of the book. At Stee's.
THE BARDs THE BIBLE, by George Gilfllan. ID. Ap
pletOn & Co.. IL mo-, PIP. 325:
| This author is well known by his volumes o
literary characters. The present book is on diff
| ferent subject, but marked by that redundancy O
STYLE and attempt at antithesis which characterize
his other works. 1t will however be read will
much interest by the religious community, Will
the mere scholar may find much to interest him il
| its pages. Every writer and orator is taught t
read Homer, Virgil, Dante, Shakespeare and Mil
ton, but the Bible abounds in more sublime i'm
| agery, in more poetic fervor than any of them