Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1854-12-15

to-nightfor the benefit Of the Anscostia Fire Com
pAny, the proceeds 10 20 towards the furnishing Of
library, and We hope the citizens Of our city win
duly appreciate the efforts Of our iremen 10 furn-
ish themselves with good books as possible and aid
them in their noble endeayors The burlesque of
Macbeth" is on the bin for this evening.
Tomorrow evening concludes the engagement of
the Kunkers in our city. They are to play to the
Alexandrians Monday and Tuesday and then 60 to
Baltimore
Their engagement has been, We should judge,
profitable.
SrASLEY's WESTERN WILDs. Last night greater
crowd than ever at Odd Fallows' Hail. to enjoy this
interesting panorama--for to see is to enjoy No
one should deny himself this pleasure. Yws
The AMERICAN RIFLES at their benefit last eve
ming had full house, and must have realized quite
snug sum Of money We rejoice to see the spi-
rit Of iberaty manifested towards our citizen sol
diery, the " right arm Of the State everywhere
PoIIcE, Augustus Kane, whom we mentioned
yesterday as having been arrested, as being con-
nected with the attempted robbery at the house of
Mrs. McQuillan, was examined before Mr. Justice
Dom, yesterday, and discharged. Some witnesses
swore positively to his identity with the man whom
they had seen at the house, and others as posi-
lively that the prisoner at another place during
the time; and the latter evidence preponderated
in favor of the individual a
MEMORIES OF A GRANDMOTHER, by Lady Of
Massachusetts, Boston Gould q Lincoln. ~
mo-, PIP. l4l For sale by Gray & Ballantyne
We are tempted to say Of this volume that It
should have been written, perhaps printed, but not
published; beyond this, nothing but good The
personal narrative of warm-hcarted lady, from
childhood to grand-maternity i'll doubtless deeply
interesting to friends, and is somewhat SO to the
public. Its style is simple, unpretending and at
tractiye; its tone and influence most healthy its
tendency peacefully, heavonward. Among a num-
Der ofpoems, in the latter part Of the book, one,
"A Carol" Up. 124,) is, to our fancy, an exquisite
little conceit at
The BETTER LAND, or The Believers Journey
and Future Home" BY Rev. Aug. @. Thomn-
son. Boston: Gould & Lincoln. limo, DID,. pa.
sale by Gray Bullantyne
Thoughts Of Heaven, of the spirit with which
the journey should be pursued and the final bound
airy passed; of the announcements which this life
gives US, and the strength which an earnest faith
can gather from the next; of our condition in
future state, our intercourse and relations with
those beloved on earth, with the saints made per
feet and with the angelic hosts /; of the spirits
happiness holiness, and progressive activity
through everlasting ages These thoughts " have
not the Formally Of sermons nor the irregularity
Of conversations preserved; they probably formed
course of informal weekday lectures from pas
tor to his flock. As might be expected, the work
is very imaginative in its character but yet con-
tains much that is elevating, exalting, purifying,
and strengthening
MARTIN MERRIvALE His Mark" BY Paul Cray
ton; Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Co.; N. Y: J.
Y. Derby. IL mo-, PIP. 55S. For sale by Gray &
Ballantyne
story OF young man entering at once, and for
the first time, upon the world anda literary career,
bearing his cross amid many trials until his victory
is secure, both for this world and that which is TO
come 1t was INTENDED for one Of that class Of tales
whose effect is due to its high moral tone and reH-
gous spirit rather than to its direct teachings, but
its execution is Indifferent
For several chapters the style is generally simple
the story natural and interesting but as proceeds
1T becomes ambitious and inflated. The characters
begin to speak and act in the most constrained and
artificial manner; the language of metaphor and
ailegory flows from the most prosaic and even un-
grammatical lips; the unoffending reader is thrust
ruthlessly upon sermon on the most unexpected
occasions, and the truest religious sentiments are
made repulsivc from the stiff and bloodless form
in which they appear.
In the delineaton of character the author is very
unequal Cheesy is admirable; the wormletts
good; the loquacious Toplink and the misanthropic
Lewiston, ct I'd genus onne, well drawn But the
higher class Of pcrsonages are falureA-mere misty
forms, speaking words already written down for
them. fMargaret had been ms real as CHATTER, In
her life, the work would have been instinct with
more Christian teaching than falls from the COM
bined lips Of all the neghborhood of Summer HILL
In a book protesting to be neither supernatural
nor spiritual" the visions of blind Alice are sin
gulary out Of place and the language which clothes
them most unchildlike. In the thirteenth chapter
we find glaring imitation Of Poe, and we are
throughout impressed with the authors vain en-
deavor TO write an extraordinary book. In the last
chapter, however, the language and sentiment to-
getber rise to lofier realms melower light Is cast
over all that has gone before and the reader, II he
have succeeded in getting so far, readily grants a
free pardcn-which is saying great deal-and
rises :" better and wiser man"
CHRONOLOGY OF THE BfBLE.--The following Ia
bic shows the dates Of the writing OF the books Of
theNew Testament the figures denoting the num-
Der of years AFTER the death of Christ:
After Christ