The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1854-06-29
LITERARY NOTICES.

LITERARY NOTICES.
LITTLE BLOSSOMS REWARD. A Christmas Book
for Children. BY Mrs Emily Hare Illustrated
Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Co.
This is very nice book 1t opens with az
pretty picture of family as one need desire
to sea- lovely home somewhere On New Eng.
lands rock bound coast. After this come fairy
stories-ever welcome fairy tales We should
not care to call child ours, who did not love
fairy tales. The time to read them comes but
once in the longest life-we pity the dull NOR.
tai who has never known that " glorious, golden
time"
For sale by Taylor s. Maury.
FARMINGDALE. By Caroline Thomas New York
D. Appleton & Co., and Is Little Britain, London.
1t was stated by an eminent London book
seller, last summer, that next to Uncle TOMS
CABIN the divide, wide World had had the
largest circulation of any American book pub.
lished in England. The best proof of its popu-
larity is the fact that it was for sale at almos.
every railway station throughout the Kingdom
We soon learned that it owed its success to the
graphic picture of New England domestic life
which is its dist nguishing characteristic.
Farmingdale is another book of the same
sort-a simple story, beautifully told. 1t must
be true for there is not q single incident that
is not as natural as life;' and, although
"Aunt Betsey" is a very disagraeable old lady,
and comes as near living specimen of "total
deprayity as We should care to see, yet she is
not " ali bad" When the scarlet fever comes
in the neighborhood, and one after another OF
the little children are laid in the country
church-ysrd, Aunt Betsey is the faithful, pa
tent nurse and most efficient help in the suffer
ing and bereaved families. Far down beneath
that load of sordid worldliness, there is living
fountain of sweet water-but only one in al
the desert waste. We have seldom read book
of the kind with more pleasure.
For sale by r. Farnham, Pa avenue, Wash
ington d. c.
LECTURES ON FEMALE SCRIPTURE CHARACTERS
By William Jay of Bath, England. New York
Carter & Brothers. One vol. Sold by Gray 4 Bal
lantyne, " ashiugton.
Usually, all such works are little else than
examples of the skill Of divines and others
showing how much can be said on a very brief
text-a sort of spider expansion of wide web
all spun out Of their own bowels. And with
this feeling we opened this book.
These Lectures were delivered forty-eight
years ago, and the venerable author, as his
last effort edited and published them. His
STYLE well known to a multitude Of readers in
this country, by his Morning and Evening
ErerciSes,n IA work of the highest excellence
invests with beauty every subject which passes
under his pen. 1t is not book full of pretty
sayings to pretty ladies, about ladies, the bellies
of their times, centuries ago, and so to be spo-
ken of as bellies and ladies Of fashion are spo-
ken of, in circles of "upto best society"
Mo- these Lectures are upon the characters
tics Of Women recorded in Scripture history
The SHuNAMITE; MARY MAGDALENE; HAN
NAH; ANNA, the prophecies, the WOMAN OF
CANAAN; the PooR WIDOW; MARTHA and
MARY; LYDIA aud DoRCAs-who were all most
excellent women also, the W0man Of Sanlaria
whose example has not become obsolete, and Of
Lots Wife, whom we are always to remember
but never to initiate.
VARA or, the Child of Adoption. New York: Car
ter & Brothers. For sale by Gray Ballantyne
9TH street. W ashington, D. G.
It seems to have been the design of the au
thor of this book to correct some misapprehen'
sion existing in the religious public, concern
ing the duty and privileges of Missionaries
The popular notion that they are or should be
clad in sackcloth, and 60 mourning all then
days is amusingly caricatured and satirized
The very reasonable and sound doctrine thai
the laborer is worthy of his hire is boldly
avowed, and the question is pertinently asked
why men who forego the pleasures of civiliza
ton, the society Of their friends, and the lucra
tive pursuits of life, should be required to deny
the common necessaries of life, while men il
the Same religious society, who are just a.
much bound to do their part to carry the Cos
pel to the heather as the humblest missionary
are living in luxury at home? How common
is the mistake, that the Lord has laid unequs
burdens on his followers.
The author amusingly describes the amaze
ment of an unfortunate youth, whose mother
had persuaded him to give up the use of butter
for a whole month, that the saving might g
to the Missionary fund, when he discovered
that Missionaries had houses to live ID, abund
ance of provisions and fruit, flowers, birds, ant
other luxuries of the climate as in the Sand
wich Islands, and servants to do all their hare
work. Was it for such as these be had eater
dry bread for 80 many weary days! 1t wal
too bad.
LECTURES ON THE Book OF DANIEL. By Rev
John Cumming. New York Published by Lind
say & Blackiston. In ono vol, PIP. 4o5. Sold bJ
Franck Taylor, Washington, ID. c.
We noticed, last week, very attractivelJ
written book upon Daniel as model man, and
we have since received this work upon Daniel
the Prince of Prophets, by DR.. Cumming, who
stands at the head Of all students of prophecy
and the Apocalypse in England. IL is confess
ed, On allshands, that Daniels Prophecies tel
the history of the world to the end of it.
Sir Isaac Newton regarded Daniel as the
easiest to be understood, and as affording the
kew to all the rest and Prideaux tells us that
SO clearly was this seen and felt in the times
If pornhvry. that he cut the knot by saying
they were written after the events had hap
pened.
There il much said about the manner Oh
Christ's scond coming, and when he will come
In the opinion of DIR. Cumming sne ran o.
Papacy follows the revelation of Chrises sec
ond coming, when, in the language OF Paul
this sxst.r,a Of las will C be DESTROYED BIZ M