The Daily Nashville true Whig. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1851-1855, 1855-10-25
TEE NEW NOVEL.
By THE AUTHOR OF FASHION End FAMINE"
THE OLD HOMES FAD.


4uHor Of "FiNhi u and Fdmine"
In one large l2mo. volume. Price 81 %.
4 NEW BOOK h, the Author Of "Fashion and Famine"
y which attained, in three mont slle Of FORTY THOU
COPIES, and which publ, he'd in Leip St Pc
trrsburgh yieaua AID in three editions London, is
we'll ccdtt TO excite than ordinary inters
Fhe OLD HOMESTEAD while not tragic and intense In its
character As Ftston and famine, Is anything, Of pro-
founder interest aud appeals with greater force the
where there are May scenes Of pathos and tragic
power but, the book progresses the clouds dispense
Introduced to the Old Homestead among the Catsks Of
the Hu SON when presented with Of the
delightful and graphic pictures ever given in an American
booa. Mrs tephens display in places in this bo L.
humor that rivals that OF Dickens, and dramatic force
grasp Of thought Of exp esson and vdness Of de-
scr!puou II which she Is peculiarly the maser-superor
th.nk to any OF her cotemporaries
CONTENTS.
The Fathers Return B Peasant Conversation
The N4yor and the Policeman Valley the Mountains
The Polreman's Guest New People and New Homes.
The Midnight Consultation. The Ola Homestead.
The Mayor and the Alderman Aunt Hannah and Uncle Ma
The Plot. than.
The nth Day Festival Morning at the Old Home
Chester's Trial. stead.
Poverty, Sickness and Death .Homesick Longings.
Waking and Watching. The Evening Visit.
Chester's House in the Morn Autumn Ga toe Mountains
ing Our Sister Anna
The Mayor and his Son. sunset Italian Cathedral
Jane Chester and the stran- The Two Infants
ger. Dark storms and Dark Mem
Bellevue and New Inmate orirs
The Fever Ward and its Pa Apple Gathering.
uents. The karnhans eturn from
Jane Chester and her Little abroad
Nurses. The Husking Froic
The student Physician and he Household Sacrifice
the Child Nurse. The strange Musician.
The Midnight keVel-Mary' 4 Dance alter Husking.
and her Mother. The Mother, the Son and the
A Spring Morning and a Pau orphan.
per uraI Old Memories and Young
The Daughters Path Wins Hearts.
the Fathers Prophecy. The Moth'rs Fraud
The Two Ola Men Sana Bowlrs' Mission.
The Walk and the VIII. The Double Confession.
The Festival Of Roses The Double Birth day.
Wild Woods and Mountain sxpedients aud Explanations
Passes.
From the n. Y. Day Book.
We have no hesitation pron0unciug this book superior
pathetic interest descriptive power, and earnest whole
souied vgor, 10 any story recently published.
From the Il, Post.
As literary work 10 Is la suDeUor 20 Fashion AAd Fam
inc. Many portions are intensely interesting.
From the Boston Olive Branch.
Many Of the laid la the humble walks Of life,
the authors fine descriptive powers brought
bear upon them The comfortess room, where the glr
watcher waits for her dying therWhere they meet at last
in has death hour aud part forever, the simple but cheerful
home o. Chester the long hight agony AZ Bellevue the SOL
burial with o. ~ those two lonely children for
ers and the exquisite pictures o. life the Old Homestead
all show the tenderness OF the combined with the
skill Of the artist
From the n. Y. Express.
The moral Of this work inviSoratng and no person
rise om its perusa without being made, In the end bet
ter woman.
BUNCE BROTHER, Publishers,
ost23-d3t l26 NASSAU Street ". y.