New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-06-03
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS ON SLAVERY By WILLIAM
JAY limo. PIP GO Boston, John P. Jewe,t ca.
This is a sesson.be publication II compi the anti
Slavery productions ~ the author from 1895 to the present
time gass OF valuable statistics is here brought to
gether and made To bear with stringent logic the
Slavery question Mr. Jays reasonngs usually forci
bic and concuve illustrated by ample array OF facts
and enlveped by bold and earnest appeals tbs, oten
hbt the character Of true eoquence The letter in this
volume to the Hon Samuel Eliot Congressional dough
face from Boston, is mastery specimen Of indignant and
whitening moral rebuke.
FERN LEAVES FROM FASNYs PORTFOLIO 12no- PIP. 400
Auburn: Derby Miller.
Fanny Fern de plum, very familiar to newspaper
readers The shadow Of great popularity precedes her
volume She will lose nothing by presenting her fresh and
fragrant offerings in form Her book reads better IS
whole than any of her scattered productions which
remember This rare experience in authorship. II Is
the best tribute the authenticity of her fame We pre-
dict that her Leaves" will become general favortes.
Some Of them are perhaps rhe too crisp but for the
most part they sweet womany and surchareed with
tender patbos dash of subscid and then thrown
in only gives wholesome variety and piques the appetite
Of the reader.
THE HISTORY OF RoMANIsM. By John Bowling D. D. svo
PIP g5 Edward Walker.
new edition Of controversial work, maintaining the
truth of Professionalism from the eOupons Of the Roman
Catholic Church supplement is added. continuing the
history from the Of Pope Plus TX to the present
time.
CARLoTINA AND THE sANsFEDEsTI. By EDWARD FARRESc.
J. S. Taylor. 12mo PIP 43l.
fictitious work intended illustration OF the shos
tlty of Catholicism the of Freedom. 1t written
with great vgor though under the restraints of foreign
language Apart from its ical and religious bearings
il contains paragraphs of brilliant and graphic
description which will repay the attention ofeven the habit
ual novel reader
DICTIONARY Of DOMESTIC MEDICINE By Spencer The%
Phiadelphia LippiDcot, Grambo Co.
popular compendium of practical medicine and surge
ny on aopathc principles 1t contains many excellent sug
gestons the preservation Of health which the adher
ents of any system may follow to advantage.
PORTRAITS Of EMINENT AMERICANS NOW LIVING. By
John Livingston. 8vo 2 vols Cornish, Lampor Co
These pory volumes almost entirely confined to the
commemoraton Of local and accidental celebrities. Sue
cessfu lawyers and of business whose names have
seldom awakened echo beyond their counties,
the subjects of the biography The plan has advan
tages II exhibits a remarkable catalogue of selfmade
men, II illustrates the steps by which they from OBJ
scure poverty to wealth and consideration. more in
sructve chapter Of human is thus opened than is
often found in the lives of the ustrous 1t pleasing to
remark that the individuals Of whom sketches here
given are indebted for their in life to genuine sur
dy sraig qusesto energy, diligence and en-
terprse ratbe than the by which many snags
to swinde themselves into good reputation. Many OF the
incidents recorded are of highly amusing character
showing the struggles and udcrOus perpleIes through
which the Of worldly prosperity won. Several
of the narrative auto biographical in whole or In part
ard nged with racy humor proving that ths writers have
kept light heart well good pluck.