The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1853-12-08

tinaunB tnat ii ne could not present himself
in the dress Of an American gentleman, he
must decline any presentation at all. He was
accordingly received. He is better Ameri-
can, decidedly, than Ex-Governor Vroom.
Vroom, we apprehend is one of your regular
Northern Hunker politicians and has lost the
faculty Of standing erect
Ex-GovERNoR JARED w. WILLIAMS has
been appointed by the Governor of New Hamp-
shire, to fill the vacancy occasioned in the
Senate of the United States by the death of
Mr.. Anterior.
LITERARY NOTICES
LECTURES To YOUNG WOMEN By VIM q Eliot
jr, Boston Crosby, Nichols q Co For sale by
Taylor Maury Pa avenue, Washington, D. c.
Mr.. Eliot has only to be known, for any book
from his pen to be received with every senti-
ment Of high respect. To teach young ladies
has ever been delicate and difficult task
Those topics about which they need the best
advice are too often just the topics which, by
the conventiOnalities of society, must not be
spoken of to them. The subjects of these lee
lures are Home, Duties Education, Foiiies, and
Woman's Mission; and Mr.. Eliot has treated
them with great beauty of style and true re-
tnement and purity of thought and expression
The CHRISTIAN Fathers PRESENT To HIS Chill
DREs. By A. James. New York Robert Car
ter Brothers For sale by Gray Ballantyne, 9TH
street, Washington, d. C. l vol.
Some idea of tho impression this book has
made in England, upon English parents, may
be obtained from the fact that this is printed
from the seventeenth London edition.
The author has embodied in this volume his
own parental wishes, objects, and pursuits
Much that is here written has been the subject
of his converse with his children 1t is not in
tended for children below the age of fourteen :;
to snnh tho book will ha attractive. frnrn the
graceful style in which it is written, aud the
numerous anecdotes, illustrations, and extracts.
which relieve it from all sense of fatigue and
unvarying monotony.
HOME PICTURES. By Mrs Mary Andrews Denisou
New York Harper q Brothers. For sale by Tay.
lor Maury, Washington, b. c.
We have here the lively pictures of coun-
try girl, who commences her married life in
the city. These home scenes begin with child
hood, and are drawn from the progress of lite,
and to the life.
| THE CLAREMoNT TALES or, Illustrations of the
| Bcatitudes. New York Carter d Brothers For
sale by Gray Ballautyne, 7th street Washington,
ID. c. vol
This is one of the happy efforts of the pres
ent day, to teach children the most important
truths, in the most attractive method; and for
this, We think our Saviour has set us an ex-
ample, in the use of PARALLELS, which are the
shortest and best of all illustrations Of religious
truth.
COP WITH MEN or, Footprints of Provdential
Leaders. By Samuel 0sgood Boston Crosby,
Nichols Co. For sale by Taylor Maury, Wash,
ington, b. C. vol, PIP 269.
Mr.. OSgood has written book, which. in
I" the deluge of print in these days" to use his
own phrase, merits, we think, place in the
Ark. These papers are devoted to the consd-
Grafton of the great men of the Scriptures, az
Abraham, Moses, Saul, David Solomon, Isaiah
and the prophets, John the Baptist, the Mes
siah, Peter, Paul, and John the Divine They
embrace the results of scholarship and labor,
and are attractive and instructive to readers of
all ages
LIGHr on THE DARK RIVER or, Memorials Of Mrs
Henrietta A. l.. Hamlin, Missionary in Turkey. BY
Marguerite Woods Lawrence. Boston Ticknor.
| Reed. 4 Fields. For sale by Taylor Maury
Washington. vol, PIP 800
| This is the memoir of pious lady, born in
Vermont aud who early sought for an aim
which would be worthy Of life, and to which
she could look forward with pleasurable anti
cipatioD, and look back upon with feeling "a
have done what | could" She was highly
educated and singularly endowed with love
of knowledge, as is shown in her correspond
ence 1t WAS her happiness to be selected by
the Rev. Mr.. Hamlin, who was destined for the
mission to Constantinopie We have here pic
lures OF Eastern Life and Manners the Trials
of a Missionary; Sketches of the Beautiful Val.
ley of Heavenly Waters; the Valley of Sweet
Waters; the Domestic Life of the Turks; and
the story of her own decline and pious expe
rience while descending into the dark valley,
made light by the preence of the great God
and Saviour, whose last command had been
the labor of her life to fulfil, and whose sus
tanning grace aided her to 20 down into the
waters OF the Jordan Of death with the greatest
serenity and hopefulncs The author, Mr..
Lawrence, has written the memoir with heart
full OF afectionate sympathy and with facile
and glowing pen.
GENERAL INDEX To Periodical LITERATURE
by WIN. +. Poole, A. NJ, Librarian of the Boston
Mercantile Library. Royal octave, PIP. Sal New
York C. b. Norton, II Chambers st. 1853
This book will not require second glance
to convince any student that it is the very thing
he needs--one Of the indispensabes of life-a
book that must be had at any price and must
occupy the most prominent place upon his
Shelf for daily and hourly reference. No Ii.
brary public or private, can long be without
copy; and many man, a. he avails himself of
its aid will wonder how the world could have
gone on so many years without IT,
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