The republic., 1851-07-11

We will endorse all the clever things that arc
said by the Rnekerbocker of the work reviewed be-
low, and will add for the benefit of our city read
ers, that they may find this delightful volume at
FRANcK TAYLoR's:
Para; on Scenes and AdrenttTes on The Banks Of the
Arnaxon By JOHN EsAIAs WARREN. In one
volume: pp 27l. New York. G.. p. PUTNAM
Like an oasis in the desert, the relation of these
scenes and adventures on the banks of the Amazon
stands among the many books of travel constantly
issuing from the press. Such profusion of bril-
liant description such luxuriance OF bright color
ing. euch an amount of positive information, are
rarely embodied under We have taken
up the book, read it, and it lies closed before
US. But still lingering among the fairy
scenery which it describes. Tall palm trees wave
their feathery branches in the breeze; the orange
and the mango, the lime-tree and the graceful
banana, droop around us with their golden fruit;
the perfume Of flowers steals upon with dewy
fragrance; the murmur OF running brooks falls
soothingly on our care; while before our dazzed
sight float visions of lovely Indian girls, who with
their dreamy eyes cast languid glances upon US,
while their raven hair floats gracefully down upon
their rounded shoulders
Nocountry on tue face of the globe affords such
q rich field to the traveller the mighty provinces
of South America. And of all these, Brazil is the
richest, and Para the airest division of Brazil The
author tells it is called the Paradise of the
World, :" and well has he daguerreotyped it, His
writing breathes the very odor OF the tropics Like
the land which he describes the book is full of sun
visited this romantic land and the impressions that
were then stamped upon his mind, as the wondrous
beauties of its scenery were unfolded before him,
are given with all the freshness and with all the
enthusiastic eloqucnce of youthful mind, exqui-
sely sensitive 10 the influences of nature i'll its
pristine grandeur and magnifcence.
Moore has rendered US familiar with the groves
of Persia and the valleys of India. The vale of
Cashmere and Bendemeer's stream, on whose banks
he says "thc roses blossom all the year long," we
have always been inclined to regard portrait
of natural scenery too glorious to be realities.
But by this narrative find that scenes as lovely
those the poet sung OF common in the land of
Para; that it is iction that there the flowers do
bloom through the whole year; that the "summer
is perpetual and undisturbed;" and that there
''mammoth rivers, flowing rapidly from the lofty
mountains, in which their childhood
tured, wander through the recesses OF forests Of
unrvalled grandeur, distributing their fertilizing
influences on every side. No sound now breaks
their pervading stiffness, save the voices OF
sional wanderers, or the notes of happy BIRDS"
In a notice like this it would be impossible to do
justice to the merits of the work; for, independent
of it's descriptive portions, it is rendered uncom-
monty interesting by sketches of personal adven
lures which the author encountered in his wander
ings. Many of them told with good deal of
quiet simplicity andunpretending humor. 1t con-
tains also fund of information, which to the stu
dent Of natural history will be very valuable.