The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-03-17


The Posteal WORKS q John Dryden Boston Liuis,
Brown, * Co, lisa Washington Franek Taylor Penn
syfvsDia avenue. vols. IS cents per vol
This forms Of the beautiful series Of the English
Poets In Of publication by those enteTphsing
Publishers, Messrs. Ltte, Blown, Co. OF Boston. They
have already Issued the Poems Of Gray. Goldsmith,
Pope, and Others, and viii complete their series by
publishing all that Of general interest permanent value,
aud genuine poetry OF English authors from ChaueeT
Woodwork The copy Of Dryden before very valu-
able Our language, az 81 present exists much ndebt
ed 20 Dryden, about whose personal history much
long unknown. He frat gave II regular harmony, aud
discovered he latent powers. His pen formed the Con.
greves, Prios and Addisons, succeeded him Bur Tor
Dryden we never should have had Pope His ode 70 St.
Cecia's Day, bis faithiu and exquisite Transitions OF
Ovid, Theocrus Lueretus Horace, Juyena ana Persius
viii ever his rank among the first OF English
poets But his exoelencles writer confined TO
poetry alone. There Ia his prose writings ease and
elegance that have been well united in works Of
taste OF criticism. Drydens yersheation, Gays Arm
strong Essays 1927 take be the musical thai
has appeared in rhyme round sweet pomPous spr-
tied, aud various il flows with such happy voubiw,
such animated and mastery negligence, as am afraid
viii not soon be exceed From the hneness Of his ear
his prose- TOO, is perhaps The sweetest The most mellow
and sonorous that the English language has yet produced
The work before contains hne portrait Of Dryden,
and in style and size OF Pickering Ardine Poets on The
finest paper, with clear imprint well finished In every re-
sPect; and we with contemporaries in believing
that the whole series viii be popular issued
from the American English press.
The reproach, tauntingy flung upon nation by the
English .'who reads American book r. may, in this
age Young America, be proudly retorted 'What Eng
ish book do Americans read r. We venture the
ertion that have in nation many who know
cuFatey the min points Of Epssb history and
derstand and appreciate the beauties and worth OF Eng
lish poetry, well the scholar OF " her
ag isle Gould but the spirit OF her Shakespeare again
revisit these earthly abodes how reioiced would be his
heart hear his immortal interviewer with his
familiar in their mouths household words and quite
well understood and equally appreciated in the age
when his plays delighted the royal Of the good Queen
Bess and perhaps better spoken than in the cock
ney dialect Of The place where he These works.
published by Messrs. Little Brown. & Co. will
70 extend this knowledge Of English poetry cheap
among the great body Of nation No library is com
plete without choice collection Of English poets. and
conceive that this edition is the very idea
The Physiology o. Taste or, Transcendepta GRsronomy
Illustrated by anecdotes Of distinguished artists and
statesmen of both continents BY Briiat Savarin
Translated from the last Paris edition by Fayeue Robin
son. Philadelphia: Lindsay 81 Blackiston, 1854 Wash
ington Franck Taylor.
Truly dill the wise say that ''u the making OF
books there is end J" but think il Solomon alive
and read this book would think that here is
thing new under the sun"
The author is a Frenchman, for but a Frenshman
could write well and Phicaly such sub
jeet. de born the Rhine, educated to the bar
ocia of The government When the revolution broke ou
he fed from the reign Of terror 10 this country taught
French in Boston, Ptadelpha, aad New York and play
ed the first violin in the orchestra OF the Park He
turned his native country, and there, in the bosom OF
friends, easy circumstances, and gentle employment he
spent the remainder OF his life il discharge Of his official
duties and the composition OF this work. which he consid
cred the great work 81 bic life We confess thar
reading this work We feel like Hamlet:
. There are more things
In heaven and earth, Horatio.
Than dreant OF in my philosophy"
We all know from experience how agreeable
ditou and necessary happiness Is good digestion,
and agree with Savarn in his rphorism that "a good ia
bic il place where does suffer from du-
ring the first hour" We a know that the Amiable
animal is unqniet when hungry, and ssvaIin contends
The desny nations depends upon the in
which they fed.
We have been told by younger men, thai ia affairs Of
love il is safe pop question lady before dinner
but wait until the system ulled into quiet by delicious
viands and gentle repose The cients had maxim, ne
Cerere ct Baccho fright venus which proves that they
understood this point In national matters, 100, have
doubt the feeling often regulates the important al
fairs Of government Many bills Of much value lost in
Congress by Impotence embers wanting their din
carried the Wisconsin railroad bill bad the question
been pressed hour when The hungry stomachs OF the
members cried out for food.
The Lost PrinceFacts tending prove the identity Of
Louis XVII, OF France, and Rev Eieazar Williams BY
Join II. Hanson. New York Putnam g. Co. Washing
ton Taylor Many
Have Bourbon among US y has been asked often,
and this work tries prove that have 1t Is dedicated
TO DR. Hawks, Of New York, and published by Putnam,
who, starting his gszne last year, would give II
additional rest by this important quere, Have Bour-
bon among r. Yes have nearly twenty millions Of
them, Of good blood that which expelled from
France in 1871, and restored by foreign force in Isls and
gain fuay expelled in the person Of yrant Charles
and his family 1880 This sicky sentlmentslity
royal blood, which may have crept through scoundr.
since the food" Is unworthy great people II we
have among who il the legitimate descendant Of
the house OF Bourbon Of Navarro, let hS like ali other
soyeregns Of land 20 work. do bis duty and he will
be respected ius has merits ene him. but no more