Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1851-08-01

w Ortly. Now OTk' Harper ~ BrOtneTS.-
This book of travels, which possesses more
than usual interest to Americans, has been re-
published by Harper Il Brothers. The travels
of Lady Wortley extended through some of the
most interesting sections of the United States
across the Isthmus to Panama, thence to Lima,
Callao, and other places on the west coast of
South America.
The descriptions which Lady Wortlcy gives
of the scenes, incidents and adventures of her
travels, are written in that lively and gossip
ing style peculiar to familiar letters. She in
forms us in her preface that she set out for
America fully determined against writing a
book of travels, but after her return to England
she was induced by her friends to print the let
tiers which she had written during her excur-
sion. The American reader cannot be too
grateful to the counscllors through whose agen-
cy this work was given to the public, for it is a
book well calculated to create favorable i'm
pressions of American character and manners,
and to remove the unfavorable ideas which the
works of Trollope and Dickens, and other SUI
perclllous English writer's have created in the
minds of the British public.
Godfrey .Uaiuern; or the Life Of an .4uihor,
is the ii lie of u new novel by Thomas Miller,
Just published by Harper & Brothers. 1t is it,
Illustrated with twenty-five comical engravlngs,
and Is published in a cheap form.
The July No. of B,actroofs .Nagacinc, com
mencing the NXXIII Volume of that popular
Monthly, rc-published by Messrs. LEONARD.
Scorr g. Co., NY.
The splendid illustrated edition of Shaks-
pcare, published by PurLIlrs, SAMPSON g. Co.
is now completed by the issue of part 3 of the
Poems, including Nos 40, l6 and A. contain
ing an engraved representation Of Mrs. Siddons
as the Tragic Muse, from the celebrated paint
ing of Sir John Reynolds. The publishers
have abundanty fulfilled their promise to make
this altogether the most elegant edition of the
great authors works ever presented to the
American public
The International Magazine, VOl.V.
We have received from Messrs. STRlNGER g.
TOWNSEND, New York, through the Kindness of
L. SMITH g. Co., the August number of this
admirable Monthly, in advance of its day of
publication. This number commences Volume
", and affords an appropriate opportunity for
those who have hitherto neglected to become
regular subscribers to begin. Itappears in new
type, on the finest paper, and in altogether new
and improved external appearance, while the
value and interest Of its contents have been
B lly Sob md I
of printed matter, and numerous beautifully ex-
ecuted wood-cut illustrations, is afforded for
% cts. number, or 50 per annum. The post.
age amounts to only four cents NUMBER to
subscribers in Vermont, and if its Subscription
were double and the postage treble, we should
feel no hesitation in recommending it to our
readers as abundanty worth its cost.
August Periodicals..
From Messrs. E. SMITH & Co., we have re.
ceved
Sartain's, Graham's and Godeys Magazines
for August, more than prompt TO time, and filled
with their usual variety of novel and interesting
reading matter, and illustrated with the Gus
tomary terrific pictorial embellishments which
are supposed to make light reading" attrac.
tive TO young minds
Cd Magnus Trolls two daughters, Mnna
and Brenda, as depictered' in SCOTS Novel,
The Pirate" are represented in Cooley, as
large as life, twice natural and at least
seven times as frightiul as any OF the cliffs of
the Scandinavian reg ion where they figured in
early life.
Graham has a "picter" of "Irish Courtship,'
that ought to have been called the Antidote to
Matrimony, for if any body could think of the
divine lame" amid such an assortment of
hcn-coops, potcen buckets pigs, cracked crock
cry, pensye dogs, old hats, and bare feet, it is
marvel beyond ordinary comprehension!
We have SO often had occasion to stand
aghast at the meZzotints in Surtain that it gives
US pleasure to say that the one in this number
Of that Mon,hly, "Thc Mothers Prayer, is
really very good, showing a decided improve.
mcnt in this class Of the ordinary embcllish-
mcnts. But that Last Rose Of Summer u
makes one regret that Summer should have
left the worst one for the last.
We know all this sounds captious and lib
eral. But we have always thought the cngrar-
) iagS with which the proprictors of these Mag
azlnes attempt to make their publications at
tractvc are absurd in themselves. and little less
than an atiront to the intelligence of their pat
rons. The letter press-the written contents
OF all of them are generally interesting, and
if nothing more inolfensvc. Such writings
as are usually tou.d in them, even by our most
p produce positive effects, or leave positive im>
presSions, one way or the other. They are a
sort of harmless literary dissipation. We sin
, cerely hope those who read them enjoy the oc