New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-11-27

I HfaWatnRs penneu puQD0t
sThe Song of Hghwater - and assuredy the water mus
have been food tide when such dry chips as are SOM
portions Of the poem given the world specimen
will be more than any words criticism on the book:
| q And Nokomis, the old woman,
Pointing with her finger westward, f7
Spake these words to Hiawatha: ~ =
Yonder dwells the great Pearl Feather
Megissogwon, the magician,
Mantle Of Wealth and Wampum
Guarded by the fiery serpents, ~
Guarded by the black pitch-Water. E=FG
| Take your bow, o Hiawstha,
Jake your arrows jasper headed,
Take your war-cluo, Puggawaugun,
And your mittens, Miujekshwaen
And your birch canoe Tor sailing,
And the oil Of Make Nahma''--and 80 forth,
IT. In all the history Of macaronic verse, any greater
nonsense can be found than this sringing together
gutturas We should like to IT, for We should then
Take double dose Of castor oil,
Take about apeck Of ipecac, s5
Take large amount Ut pizan,
~ Take whatever we could get,
Take cab and take gun,
And incontinsntly leave for some place
where no poet bresthed and poetry was srsr al
lowed to come. - I'd
If Mr. Longfellow has fit to follow the example Of
Chatterton oway and Others gone crazy very good
we will respect him for what he did when sane
J. O. Morgan, near the Post Office, favored us with
copy. 500
CURIOUS SToaiEs FnIEs and othsr Funny people,
With Illustrations. Boston: Ticknor C Fields :
very pretty little storybook for the small folks hand.
somely printed and illustrated has been issued from the
press Of Tcknor Fields Of Boston 1t Is compilation
OF strange aud marvellous tales from the German and
tells stories that will make whole household ring with
laughter or give such drsfu dreams Of bugaboos and
walking apts Of wckednsss to require night guard
near the credulous children who hare besn perung the
dsleetable fetions
10 Morgan, Exchange Alley near the POST Office has
favored us with copy. go.
REroRr THE SUPERINTENDENT or THE CoAar SURVEY.
1854. Washington
We are indebted to Capt. H. W. Benham, Of the Epoi-
nees for copy Of Prof Baohes report Of the coast
vsy The work is folio of nearly three hundred paues
with ywo we'll executed maps and charts OF different
sizes and Importance When able to give mora
space to examination of the work than our columns
will present permit shall endeayor to gather toeetb
the important results growing out Of this national
work
HELEN LEEsos Peep at New York Society. Philsdsl.
pnia I: Parry h Mcmillan.
We have received from the publishers, through j. b.
Steel No. SO Camp street. Of this city, novel entitled
e Helen Leeson-A Peep at New York Socety.n The ma
ture Of the story Ia well ndexed in its aiasfor atterly
for every burglar and to be similarly en-.
lowed and clothed Without possessing any strong ss
lent points to distinguish 1t from multitudes of other
works Of fiction that pour from the press of the
day. there Is easy graceful dioona plot continued
with characters drawn with truth
and Incidents both natural and probable Leaving ase
the fact hat the streets and stores arc those
New York. there why Helen Lesson should
not as we'll be resident Of London New Orleans as Of
New York.
Those who wish to while away spare hour over some
work not 50 profound as Daves Calculus yet so sim
Pile Mrs. Barbaud's morates will 6nd their desirs
grati0sd by perusing e Helen Lesson"
MOLLY AND KITTY; or, Peasant Life in Ireland r;th
other Tales. Translated from the German Ry TIE
nermantsl. Boston Crosby, Nichols & Co.
II the inteeots Of the adults well cared y In this
present dsyhrough the fundamentally % histories
travels explorations and scientific
the pleasure and progress Of the juveniles an object
scarcely less regard Horn books have gone to that
whence let us hope they will mover return
and the path, grsveed Is strown with flowers
OF those who have been active in thus paving the way
for beginners has thrown prettisr garland than
the author Of Molly and Kitty" and ars confident
the little folks will clap their hands with glee when
formal Introduction Of it Is made to them There are
several very pretty coored Autographs the stories ara
not too long learned, and wholly free from the
iidastiye spirit which many reformers would san In
rodues even into the instructive and classical pages of
Mother Goose.
Lovs OF courrRr or, SoBEIsKA HEpwla Translatse
from the French, by Transrmantel. Boston Crosby
Nichols & Go.
We sincerely hope that this book will be put into the
hands Of every American boy Il "a trne book with
rue object well written and beautifully illustrated The
ives Of sobesk Hsdwig and Polish patriotic trad
ions the staple material used for intoxicating LESSON
whose fruit will be green and glorious when We who now
ire, are not 1t only needs be said Of the typography
hat 1t ID clear and excellent and Of the eagraypg that
hey are Handsomely colored.
We are under obligations TO B. N. Norman, IA Camp
treet and under the ST. Charles Hotel, for specimen
'opies. 4,4sis
Tho loans nerntiated hy the Rothsnhilds since