New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-12-31
Recent publications.

French, al well American publishing houses do
recolect Of any more correct In conceptionmors
nnte, exact and elegant in execution than the one
ch comes to US last from the pen Of Mrs. E. W. Writ,
Virginia and the press Of Lucas Brothers of Baltimore
pc work folio Of hundred and thirty three pages
th supplementary matter in the form Of notes. occupy
g nearly as much more space. Ths commonest and
oces plants given, with their usual their sci
itic names their botanical character their medical
her uses their Specification engrayings Of them and
srtinent poetical quotations accompanying The work
l. in fact exactly what it processes bea floral die
onary but 80 complete in every branch, inciden
y appertaining to the subject Of flowers be almost
botany too. The engravipgs which are coiored must
been painted from the real plants and by
ert in coloripg well with botany. The
cal flower to have been taken and bodily transfer
by the skill Of the artist to the printed page and then
mbalmed The paper excellent and the typography Of
kind not often equaed-never exceled Each page is
urrounded with bordering of flowers not less appropri
e than excellent and the presentation page-foowiDg
essay upon the structure Of plants and another upon
iowers-is conceived Snd executed in the most happy
elegant and artistic The notes are exceedingly
FULL minute and comprehensive in all respects leaving
nothing farther to be asked for written that the
slightest manner germane to the different plants
Toned or even incidentally relative them The die
tionary and directory which up, enumerates and
arrangement and careful and mnutey in its
execution AS whole Fora's Dictionary is one Of the
finest handsomcst and most desirable Of the of its
class, we have ever seem and will make magnificent
present at any season of the year.
We are indebted to J. B. Steel No 60 Camp street. and
I. L. White, No. l05 Canal street, for copies
HIsToRr OF THE REIcN OF PnILiP rHE sxcosD KtsG OF
spAis. By William Il. Prescott. Boston: Phillips.
Sampson Co.
Among the authors Of this country, 1t may we'll be
doubted whether any one has yet for himself
secure, so deserved and permanent seat William
H. PRESCOTT and that too in field the hardest to tread
and ground the cleaners had oftenest swept The
histories and miscelanes published by him heretofore
and like the present Volumes chiefly pertaining TO the
glorious though halfknown history SPAIN already
classics by the side of Hume sisimond Niebuhr and
Arnold. That which he had accomplished being, how
ever, but incentive to further exertion he has like
"Blind old Dandolo
|. tuE By Zsntium's conquering foe p
pushed to Eeids and fresher aures Pursuing
the thread Of Spanish history which he touched in his
Ferdinand and Isabella and which seems to him
odorous with much ncense-hs has prepared and pub.
shed two volumes concerning Philip the Second-as en-
inent notable and famous monarch eat the
Spanish throne from the times Of Boabd these pre-
sentnos excepting the fifth Charles. In the preface
his work Mr. Prescott informs the public Of the different
sources from which his information has been drawn
that could only be touched by who united
the requisites Of fortune and education.
Starting with the period when the Spanish empire
under Ferdinand and Isabella, consolidated and be
of the great members Of the European
wealth. when after their deeeass its which
the set occupied much Of The old world ant
the new and its flag moved foremost among the nations
the story is continued with unceasing interest to tn
death Of Isabella The period Of time embracing famou
pyrbe tha ahJ prft
| Spanish alliance with England, when Mary was Queen
the with the Pope when Paul ~ anil Henry II
on the throne the with the French the system
Philip; the history Of Professionalism and the Council
Trent; the marriage of Philip and Isabella the reforma
ton in Netherlands the troubles of Philip the religion
troubles the regency the troubles with Netherlands
the Ottoman Empire the Knights Hosptalers and sieg
of Malta Don Carlos and his death and finally the dest
of Isabella, is as full of romantic interest middeag
story and has been treated By the historian in artist
that leaves the coorng fresh when FIRST ei
To speak of the style would be labor of supersrc
CATION when it has been said that Prescott the author
Every will be anxious to obtain copy of the wor
and every will be richly repaid for its perusa
have been favored by the publisher with copy throug
| B. NJ Norman under the St. Charles Hotel and No.
| Camp street.
| MODERN PILGRIMS; showing the improvements in tray
and the newest methods of reaching the Celestial Cit
America In two volumes Boston Phillips SamI
| son 6 Co.
Those who have ever read Peter schlemihl in Anne
ica,' published some six eight years SINCE and no
hardly ever met wih-csn form approximatng opinio
to the character and style of the Modern Pilgrims
work which singuarly unites the different qualities
Peter schemihl southeys strange tale of the East
Moores wild Egyptian legend and the fascinating impo
sbility of Shelley's iron monster The original
| ton seems to have been compounded of Bunyan's Pi
grims Progress and the theological ysgaries Of Germa
metapbyscians. 1t starts from Babylon the Less al
closes with crossing the Jordan. The scenes are n
original or outre in their BIRTH but in the manner
which they are colored and exhibited. There a
many theological discussions; many abstruse al
elaborate reasonings; many pleasant pictures q,
much description that is attractive and well devise
The author seems desrous of making the pen scalr
and exposing the psychological being of man as t.
doctors do his physiological being The views that
defended are all through the mouths Of others and
rewards of the persistent in rght-dong proportion
to the puuishments of those who do wrong.
It is of those strange works that unite the sen
theological character of Lady Alice to the literary exc
lence of Vathek, and rather interest the read
than convince him. 1t is something more than nov
something less than an segory-s kind of literary
brid; but of very agreeable and suggestive kir
Whatever judgment may be pronounced upon the tru
and soundness of the theology think all will agree
commencing the ingenuity, skill and excellence Of
way in which the work is performed.
We are indebted to 7. L. White, No. los Canal stre
1 for copy
9 How THE KANSAS WAR ENpEp.-A letter
the St. Louis Republican of the 2lst, from gentem
of Westpor who accompanied Gov Shannon to Lawren
gives the following account OF the termination of the
cent Kansas invasion:
A committee waited upon his Excelency, inviting
to come to Lawrence. We found them entrenched, a
well fortified could be expected for their forces
They all well armed with sharps rifles and reroye
and other implements of war. My opinion is, they OF
had piece of srtillery. / think our forces co,
have demolished every building in the place in half
hour; but had one gun been red on either side am
of opinion that the greater portion would have be
killed, and no doubt many of our own men would a
6 have suffered We numbered many more than they a
u Their force greatly overrated and could not pos
have been four or five hundred. We also had gr
It many of Sharps rifles many more than they magin
| besides cannon.
Gou Shannon brought them to terms THsu agreed q