Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-02-26
NEW BOOKS.

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LIE CAPTAINS or THE OLD WORLD; Scribner New York
! 1 IN CAVALIERS OF France; Redfeld New YORK
FRANK FoRREsrERs FISH AND FIsHrsG IN rrtr UyrTrn
STATES; Stringer New York
We owe an apology to the erudite and accomplished
author OF the three volumes before us HrxRy Wv ur,
BERT Esq, for this late Acknowledgement Pressure If
busness-the stereotype in such cases-nust he
our plea but in all candor, we have yet found lei
sure 70 Perase me entire contents; have merely
SKINNED the surface Of things" and here are our in
pressions.
In the work first named the brilliant achievements of
The renowned Of former days--from Mtades to Keno
phon and from that mastery genius down to Hannibal
pass before the eye in panoramic vvidness The charge
OF the ten thousand the plains of Marathon and the
utter rout of the hundred thousand invaders have decked
the brow Of Miiiades with enduring bays The match
less retreat OF the Ten thousand under Xenophon from
Ger the hills and far away well told and reyiyes the
reeoiectons and youthful admiration Of that desperate
march Nh. HERBERT assigns the palm Of generalship
TO Hannibal, asd dismsSes Macedonia Mailman with
out encomium.
From these pages acknowledge to have derived
clearer conceptions Of ancient strategy and of It's militia
ry e7outons His DESCRIPTIONS of battle in their spirit
and 7!vdness deserve the highest praise In this line
he has equal
The CAVALIERS or FRANCE constitute series Of hsto
rca guPs illustrative of the manners and characters OF
days q yore The qsant dcaon and the costume in full
keeping, together with the and dim perspective
OF medVa' scenery contribute largely to the dramatic
effect Of these portratuees of BY gone days
But commend US to tia lqsf-FEsxK FoRrEsTyR's An
CLING We mean-with ha morocco binding and his hot
pressed paper and his beautiful errayngs Of the finest
eomestible species Of fish Tie life-ke drawings with
the modes % hooking and cooking recall 10 memory the ar
aent exclamation Of sentimental young lady on seeing
the deer and fawn careerng the swar in Greenwich
faFh- heaFenly creatures. What delicious yensou
pasty.'
Fresh-wator fishing constitutes the s,,.s of tbo hr
salmon pike bass and perch its peculiar ,uy,sc,,onJ
ne rod aud rse, the hook and line, its egmpnaen The
excitement Of the sport the adventures the anecdotes 70
Q the heart aud nseed il 10 private conviction that
be chase together with its piscatory aduncts are pur
uits congenih to the nature Of nor do we feel sur
'rsed at the condues Of the Indian youth who after
areul training in Eastern college donned his banket
N returning TO his rve forest and renaushed forever
he fruits OF as pathological and philosophical studies
The engrsIngs throughout are from the pencil Of the
uthor 10 whom We make acknowledgements for tho
high qualification Afforded to rs
TYPES oF MANKIND, o. Ethaoioyical Researches y
based upon the tacient Monuments Paintings. sculp
lures and Crania Of Races and upon their natural
geographical, pathological and biblical history: By u
Z. Norr, MD, Mobile, Alabama, and GEO r. GLrpDoS
formerly United States Consul a Cairo
The prospectus Of this forthcoming work has been
aced in our hanls by Mr. GLDDoS If the authors are
nablcd to fulfil the conditions their programme We
nay fairly expect volume Of solid instruction and sur
assing interests because, apart from the recognised
llent and diversified attachments Of its writer's il viii
ontan the finite results Of Of the ghtest uminarss
{ our national epoch-the lamented MoRroS President
I the Academy Of Natural Sciences at Philadelphia
he book IS inscribed to his memory will evince the sp
Of truthfulness that characterized his laborious life
nd will be based not merely upon his published works.
lch as the Crgia americana and Crdnid gyptarg but
pom those multtudnous and neited manuscripts in the
his hand in May, 1851.
The authors his disciples and friends propose TO fill
the vacuum created in autographed researches by
=. Mortons decease TO prove, in fact, the impetus
wen by our honored counryman the science Of the
study OF man. through comparisons drawn between
= embryo state in 1880 and that in which it appears in
S53 DR.. NoTT formerly Of South Carolina, and now
eminent practitioner Mobile volunteers the execu-
on Of the physiological department. together with the
ucidstion Of those points Of natural history compre-
ended in such Investigations Mr.. GLIDDoN supplies the
monumental and archie illogical data and undertakes the
reduction Of the latest Egyptian, Assyrian Hebraical
nd similar Oriental researches for all Of which he is
-emincntly qualified BY study and practical obserya-
on :" Types Of Mankind will thus comprise the united
forts three minds to throw more less light upon
uman history
Tie book will be published in quarto at the price Of
5 10 subscribers in the Of this year Above two
undred wood-cuts will embellish it, besides yarety Of
geographic plates maps tables SC Between the cities
the Atlantic from New Orleans to Boston, some three
lndred subscribers, Mr. Glddon tells US have already
ndered him their names
We shall be grafed il this notice in columns shall
in completing the list Of four hundred signatures
Tired the publishing risks of a work that pro-
ses to do honor TO our couutry's scientific fame.