New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-01-09
RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

MIMIC LIFE or, Before and Behind the Curtain. A
Eeries of narratives by Anna Cora kitct:e Boston
Tieknor s. Fields. s
Mrs. Richie, better known as Mrs Mowatt having
quit public life far playing upon the stage is con-
cerned determined to retain her connection with
IL by playing part in the field of LETTERS She has ceas.
ed recting the language Of Others in order that ahe NAV
give expression to her own and deserted the drama that
she may be better able to cricise IT, Her former work
entitled the Autobiography Of Actress won no in
considerable amount of praise and enjoyed very mark
ed popularity The same anmating principle which in
spred that gives life to this They both treat of the
STAGE its tinsel crowns grand dresses, mimic reality its
joys and its sorrows its trumphs and defeata The field
ia broad and has been but slightly Guilty ated Mrs.
Rtchie has, therefore, the benefit of novelty to common
with and has sso very considerable ability to sustain
IL. Those who sit down to the per lsa Of Mimic Life
will be apt to continue Its conclusion 1t is in itself
" as good as play -.-,
soNes AND BALLADS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Notes and Illustrations By Frank Moore. New York:
D. Appleton, & Co.
Whst Percy in his rsliques hls done for England,
and Rson Scotland Mr. Moore has essayed to do for
this country ecoect and preserve the fugitive verse
which embalms the spirit Of the age that produced it.
Giya the songs nation and will tell you its his
tory' remark made by one whom the world has
honored OF the history of this country all the leading
facts patent and iar but the spirit of the earlier
times Of the Republic not clearly Written in the
deeds of that time than in the songs which illustrated
and nspiritsd them The collector of the volume EN-,
bodyng the songs of the American Revolution has been
happy in his researches and has produced volume
which will be Of inetimabe value to future Nebuhrs
end Macauays It has all the popular songs Of the land
in the days Of its infancy Of which we have ever heard
with many and strange but not the less interesting
1t Is neatly printed and we'll worthy OF purchase.
THE HOMESTEAD ON THE HILLSIDE, aud Other Tales By
Mrs. NJ. l. Holmes New York and Auburn Miller,
Orion & Muligan.
Mrs. Holmes the authoress of several interesting works
prominent among which the English Orphans.n has
given another story to the world Of considerable enr
pretension. 1t is in character like most of the do
nsso novels of the day but of happier and more
full execution than the majority of them and will be read
with interest by all who obtain it.
HONE COMFORTS; or Economy Illustrated By Lille sa.
very. New York; Bunce s. Brother.
great deal of good and useful information concern
ing the familiar of day fe has been incor-
porsted into the little book which processes to tell us Of
home comforts of those comforts than which there
are purer, sweeter lasting Inasmueh as
all education must be sugared in order to be paatabe
the taste Of the day. the information has been embodied
In the form of novel, but of strong substrucure that
enabled to bear up and sustain great amount of
valuable and instructive matter to which 1t YES thu
purpose Of q literary skeleton.
BALLApH. BY William M. Thackeray. Boston: TicknoY
s Fields.
All who know Thackeray q novelist, will be curious
to learn Of him in the department of letters which
he has undertaken-poetry Many of the pieces have
appeared before in his novels the brood was
cooped until As is wont to be the case with most
writer's those pieces upon which suspect the author
principally pluues himself very siderable and not to
be endured % while those which like literary waits
have fair magazine excellence. None of them will craze
the world but the Jingle of some is quite creditabe
| the iongleur. The yolume is handsomely printed.
CASPER. By Amy Lathrop. New York G. ?, Putnam
s Co.
Since Peter Parleys time and the able editor of the
Rolo books turned his attention 80 history of Napo
leon We have not better conceived more judi
cousy executed work. for the instruction and edcasiou
of the Juveniles than Casper. It il well written, well
| printed, and quite handsomely illustrated.
New York: Leonard Scott s. Co.
The reest soundest and abest of the English reviews
has reached for the tn of November It contains
its usual amount Of reading matter various literary
historical and political Subjects all carefully and ably
| prepared.
We are indebted to j G. Morgan, Exchange Place. sd-
joining the Postoice, for copies of the above named
| works.