The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1852-06-10
LITERARY NOTICES.

LITERARY NOTICES.
PYNNsHURsr; His WaNderings and Ways ofThink-
ing. By Daniel Macleod. New York Charles
Scribner. For sale by R. Farnham, Pa. avenue,
Washington, D. C.
A somewhat rhapsodical June of travels
or wanderings in the Alps and about chem, in
which we have occasionally brilliant pictures
with incidents invented by the author, and
made the texts Of quaint comments.
KATE PENRosE or, Life and its Lessons. BY Miss
Hubback. New York: Dewitt & Davenport. For
sale by shillington Co., Pa avenue, W Washington,
d.
Kate Penrose is young girl, with many
good qualities, but headstrong and hasty, who
marries against good counsel, and finds her
reward in the humiliation and agonies of do
mestic indifference, tyranny, and brutality. 1t
is short story, well told, and to the point
POEM ON THE USE OF TOBACCO. BY Rev. c. s
Adams Boston: Hall Co. For sale as above.
This is decidedly practical poem; and if
any one would see the vileness of the filthy
weed, and its vile effects properly exposed and
denounced, let him read it.
THE DALToNs; or, Three Roads in Life. BY Charles
Lever New York; The Harpers. For sale by
Franck Taylor, Washington d. C.
This novel, of three hundred and seventy
pages, will not be deemed too long by the ad-
mirers of the author Of Maurice Tierndy and
Charles OMalley He has occasion to refer to
important political events, and takes care to
throw his influence on the side Of Civil and
Religious Liberty. 1t is full of action and
dramatic interest
THE EDINBURGx REVIEW. April, 1852. New York
Leonard Scott Co. For sale by Taylor Maury,
Pa. avenue, Washington, d. c.
This number contains fair and liberal re-
view of Squers's Nicaragua, and refers in a
good natured way to the policy of our Govern
ment in relation to that country. The re-
viewer remarks that having no responsibility
for the acts of their American brethren, the
English people may fairly rejoice at the steady
progress of American empire southwardly !;
hut, in postscript, he qualities the remark as
follows
In speaking at page 39l of the unsullied
enjoyment we might derive from the progress
of the Provinces which our kinsfolk in America
have severed and may sever from the old in
heritance Of Spain, we have overlooked one
terrible exception-that of the spread of Sla.
very. For, unfortunately, the Stripes and
Stars, as it advances south, carries Slavery
along with it,"
This is true as it regards Texas but not in
relation to California ; nor can it yet be GER
tainly known whether it will prove true of
New Mexico and Utah. Whatever the machi-
nations of the Slave Power may accomplish
hereafter, those Territories now are free, in
fact and in lac.
The CULTIVATION or THE GRAPE AND wNE-MA-
KING. BY Robert Buchanan. Cincinnati Moore
4 Anderson. For sale as above.
We are indebted to the author for a copy OF
this work. Cincinnati has become famous for
its grape culture and wine-making and Mr.
Buchanan, a gentleman of intelligence and
fortune, is well qualified by his experience and
observation, to treat of these subjects. He has
presented in small compass and neat style a
very convenient hand book to new beginners
in the business, who will scarcely need, after
the study of its contents, any more elaborate
treatise on&the subject
ELEVEN WEEKS IN EUROPE. BY James Freeman
Clarke. Boston: Ticknor, Reed 4 Fields. For
sale by Taylor & Maury, Penn. avenue, Washing
ton, C.
Few travellers spend eleven weeks more
proftably, or see 20 much in so short period.
OF these eleven weeks, Mr. Clarke spent four
in England, two in France, three in Switzer-
land, walking two hundred miles amidst Alp
inc scenery, one hundred ON the Rhine, and
one hundred in Belgium Mr. Clarke is evi-
IDENTIFY good tempered, quick observer, a
good thinker, a ready writer-and, of course
very useful and agreeable companion His
book cannot fail to be popular.
THE AMERICAN wuIe RsvIrw, June. 1852. Nov
The opening article treats Of the relation of
the Wing party to the Compromise, insists that
it has sufficiently demonstrated its fidelity to
that series of measures, argues that for the
sake Of securing harmony, all resolutions On
the subject should be excluded from the Ma
tional Convention, suggests that if resolves
are to be introduced, they ought to be framed
after the New York pattern, but hopes that il
the South should demand the adoption of the
Finalty test Northern members will yield, and
the Convention assent to IT,
Another article in the Review pleases us
rather better; and that is capital one in
favor of Land Reform, not only Of the Home
stead Bill now before Congress but Of the
broad principles on which that measure rests
AUSTRIA IN lsis Isl9, By VIM II. Stiles. Now
York Harper Brothers. For sale by Franck
Taylor, Penn. avenue, Washington, d. C.
This is quite an elaborate work, being a his
tory Of the late political movements in Wen.
M, Milan, Venice, and Prague, with details Of
the campaigns Of Lombardy and Novara, and a
full account Of the revolution of Hungary"
Preliminary to the whole, are two introductory
chapters reviewing the progress Of Austria
and presenting q comprehensive view Of heI
general and internal condition
The position of Mr.. Stiles As the rspressnta'
tive Of the United States in Vienna duving ~
late revolutionary movements 10 Europe -