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The SCMMEa LAND. A SOUTHERN STORY BY Child of
the sun New York ID. Appleton & Co. For sale by
r. Faraham, Washington. d. C.
1t needs not the preface to assure us that
the author" of this book I" is a Southerner"
The whole series of sketches CLOVIS and twin
kles in the atmosphere of the "suRny land"
Many story of "Southern life" has been put
forth, bearing nothing of its pecularities except
the name of some town or city in which the
scene was professedly laid. But here, you ram
BILE through the very cotton fields and sugar
swamps of the upper and lower slave States !;
you breathe the fragrance of magnolia groves,
and bask in the glory of gorgeous moonlight
near the tropic. The fragmentary and superb
cial, though often spirited and poetcal tone of
the work. also characterizes the Southern nature.
1t is a fair exponent of the class which it aims
to depict.
AS matter of course, the sunshiny side
alone is given here. The heavy shadow that
Grapes that fair section finds no counterpart on
the page of the gay tourist. The book will
probably, therefore, win extensive popularity at
the South
WOMAN NINErEENrH CI:SruRY; and Kindred Pa
pers. BY Margaret Fuller Ossoli. Boston: J. p Jew
EFT & Co. For sale by Taylor Maury Washington,
DC.
This most comprehensive work of great
female thinker has long been before the public
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universal favorite, left her mark upon the
mind of her day. Her views in regard to the
wrongs and rights of Woman are here clearly
and seriously expressed. Even those who dis.
sent from them cannot fail to have their respect
for the writer heightened by reading the volume.
The "true sphere of Woman" seems indeed
"Utopia" difficult to define or to discover, if
one may Judge by the thousand contradictory
opinions put forth in regard to it. We are fully
persuaded however that all earnest, reasonable,
selfdenying souls, among the daughters of Eve,
whatever may be their theoretical revolvngs
and futterings, will not fail to fnd practically,
in whatever sphere they move, the "rghts of
Woman" acknowledged in their own persons.
Let Woman be thoroughly educated
morally, and physically let her develop herself
and her resources-and she will find her level
as noiselessly and as irresistibly as the freshet
fed lake overspreads the wide green plains. =
BLACK DIAMONDS or Iiumor Satire, and Sentiment. BY
Professor Julius Cesar Hannibal. New York A. Ran
ney For sale by Franck Taylor, Washington, D. C.
This is a republication of series of letters,
&C., which first appeared in the "New York
Rcayune," with specimens of which almost
every newspaper reader is familiar. 1t contains
much that is funny" with sprinkling of the
satirical and the witty which latter, we think,
might have been served up in style more at
tractve to the sensible.
HAGAR MARTYR or Passion and Reality BY Mrs
H. Marion Stephens Boston: w. p. Fetridge For
sale by Taylor Maury, Washington d. C.
The name of a woman upon the title-page of
book is generally considered fair security for
its freedom from gross faults of principle, if
not of style. With this impression, we took up
the story of "Hagar," and-found ourselves
mistaken. 1t were charity to suppose the au-
thor subject to occasional fits of mental aberra-
ton while guiding her pen. No reader ofrefned
taste will proceed far in a book whose violations
of probability and sins against good style are
only exceeded by its recklessness of propriety.
TIE SLAVE THE LIANT. A Posihumous Novel. By Will
liam North, author Of Anti Coningsby, &c. New York:
II. Long & Brother. For sale by Shillington Co,
Washington, ID. c.
This title, suggestive as it is of aladdin "
and the "Arabian Nights Entertainments" in
PRODUCES the reader to no story of fairy or ma
gician 1t purports to lay before the public the
peculiar miseries of authors, as class. But
neither on this subject, nor on any other, could
any healthful or logically thoughts
have been expected from one who was the VIC
tim of morbid nature, and whose suicide in
deed, followed close on the completion of this
work. 1t bears, throughout, marks of a disor-
dered nature.
Tue OLD Sx; or The Travellers Entertainment By Jo-
siah Barnes, New York: J. C. Derby For sale
by Taylor Maury, Washington, D. C.
collection of stories imagined to have been
told at way.side inn, by knot of travellers.
No regular plot runs through the book. 1t con-
tains some very readable episodes.
LUTHERAN MANUAL, on ScRPrURAL PRINCIPLES; or the
Augsburg Confession illustrated and sustained chiefly
by Scripural Proofs and Extracts from Standard Lu
theran Theologians of Europe and America; together
with the form of Government and Discipline adopted
by the General Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran
Church the United States. BY J. S. Schumacher d. d..
Professor of Christian Theology in the Theological
Seminary, Gettysburg, Pa. Philadelphia: Lindsay &
Blakiston.
We have given the title of this volume in
full, as it explains its contents better than we
could do in any other way. A work like this,
of course, must be most useful among those for
when it is especially designed. Yet it is also
valuable to others, as an authoritative book of
reference and as such will no doubt be deem
ed desirable in the library. DR.. Schmucker's
reputation and position in the Lutheran Church,
with the former specimens of his ability as a
writer, furnish pledge, even we're we not able
to confirm the assurance, that the compilation
has been well done. Except in the notes, it al
lowed little occasion for distinct authorship He
has placed in the volume the Augsburg Con-
fession, that creed which bears the marks of the
mighty mind of Luther, the polished diction of
Melancthon, and the pious reverence of all its
confessors, in three different languages-the
original Latin, and in the German and Enplish