New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-03-10
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RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

IA Camp street, for q copy OF Miss Pardoes new |
work. The authoress will be remembered for her life
Of Mary de Medic, and Louis Fourteenth, more than
for her novels but the ability and easy style exhlb
tied in the histories runs through the romance and
renders it very pleasan and attractive work. Those
who keep I'D with the "current literature should
endeayor to obtain copy. .@I
HOUSEHOLD WoRDs. A journal conductedby Charles
Dickens. New York j: Dix & Edwards
The March number of Household Words has been
received and is filled with its usual amount of pleasant
interesting and enivenng reading matter The
Holly Tree Inn being the extra Christmas number
of Household Words, containing the amount OF one
number and half-is added to it, making the whole
one Of the best and cheapest works ever issued for two
bits from any press. Those who are subscribing to
| magazines should not forget this one.
| THE SCHOOL FELLOW; March-New York Dix u
Edwards.
Amore agreeable work for the yonng has not been
published since Peter Parleys death took all life from
his journal for childhood It not too abstruse nor
too simple but happily combines use and Interest All
who have young heads growing about their knees
should let this welcome visitor into the family circle.
HOME SERVICE A manual intended for those who
are occasionally hindered from attending the house
of God, with sermons and selections of hymns. By
| Butler & Co. +,
The character of the volume is sufficiently given in
the title, and the object amply enough explained to
meet the wants and wishes of all. It's beautifully
printed book on fine paper, with large type and in
| the most distinct manner. 1t contains number of
sermons Of considerable length and merit good
number of approved psalms and hymns, special
prayers and the first second third and fourth Sunday
service As an abstract and yet enlargement of the
| Book of Common Prayer, it seems to be of such
character as was designed by those who conceived
and have executed it. Copies can be procured Of
| Thomas L. White, No. los Canal street.
| WoMAN's FAITH. Tale of Southern Life. New
4 York: Derby & Jackson.
| "Woman's FAITH commences on the bayou Teche,
stream which glides noiseessly along through the
romantic region of the Attaknpas, the Southern
4 border of louisiana. The hero, Mr.. Lefort, is a
! Frenchman, and his family grows up, thoroughly
Creole, among the prairies, bayous and bends Of the
great father Of waters The author authoress has
very vivid imagination in fact, somewhat too vivid
and unrestrained for it has been considerable pc
Rod since magnificent herds Of buffalo dashed
around Bayou Teche; and certainly, not since Col
umbus that any one could look out on the Gulf, from
that section, and see majestic ships Of the line
the writer announces Beyond this, noattorney would
be apt in Attakapas to paint the horrors of slavery
the horrd butcheries attendant upon the revolt IN
ST. Domingo" quite as openly as a young lawyer is
said to do there in open court 1t may be, incident
ally observed that Cote Blanche must have been al
island in the air, in order to be reached in days
ride from the centre of Attakapas for no island il
the Gulf has such geography. These instances are
sufficient however, to show that the work is writer
by some utterly ignorant Of the State and OF so
ciey and geography in the State. Leaving these an
tagonsms of fact and fancy which cannot but be OBJ
served and noticing only the general thread OF The
story it is quite entertaining, and will make food fol
an halfhours pleasant reading 1t is well printed
and bound 4"~
| The LOST HUNTER. A Tale of Early Times. New
York: Derby & Jackson
We confess to not having finished the Lost Hun
ter" 1t was want of time, however, and not incli
nation and shall be remeded so soon may be- The
preface we haze read Or the author terms it, the
fsapology; - most excellent introduction and sufi
Gent guarantee for what follows. If it comes from
the pen we suspect there is the pure belnetal in it
and enough ability to stock dozen common vol
umes of ordinary pretension. There are many inlper
ections in it; the scope is too broad the plan mo-
sufficiently matured nor the style adequately pruned
1t is nevertheless, worthy of being read by all Wht
read. Some of the theology and some Of the politic
are very exceptionable, and both are much out o
place where they are put.
The CREOLE ORPHANS or Lights and Shadows Q
Southern Life. A tale of Louisiana. By James
Peacocke, NJ D. New York Derby u jackson.
The Pelican State is rising into rapid literar.
prominence when two books come to hand in on
day, concerning its merits and method of life. Nh
Peacocke very evidently knows of what he is writing
and gives more Or less satisfactory account of affair."
Ie sketches the prominent points strongly, and fill
up in a very fecitous manner. Plantation and cit
life, customs and courteses, character and scenery
g are all laid the canvass with easy, embracin
hand, and after style that will please all who rea
it. If this is the commencement, the conclusion
his literary career, properly pursued will be not onl
. profitable but highly honorable. We advise all VIII
> are purchasing new books to include the " Creol
;. Orphans " in their list.
= We are under obligations to Messrs Burnett & Bos
i wick, No. Is Camp street, for copies of the aboy
q named works also, to B. M. Norman, No IA Cam
street and St. Charles street, under the st. Charle
a Hotel.
J., LETTERS FROM THE UNITED STATES, CUBA AND CA
:, ADA. By the Hon. Amelia NJ. Murray-two 70
unles complete in one New York. g. P. Putnal
l. g. Co.
n The occasion of the visit of the Hon. Miss Muwa
to this country was one which afforded an excellel
opportunity for an aristoeratc descendant of an Oh
English house pour out with abundance the anath
n mas of Dickens and Marryatt, and that masculin
y feminine, Mrs. Trollope, who seemed to be a cor
e pound of the crocodile and allegatorgar, slight
II touched up with nitric. Miss Murray has been ov
n a larger ground than any of her predecessors ar
has trod it carefully Her book, recording Il
Il experience of her travels, is comprehensive, b
singular one and is just to all sections and
interests that it must be pleasing to every fair mind
a aud intelligent person. Her story of Northern Ii
and scenery is close and accurate and her desert
l, tons Of the South far more fair and unpreudic
d than could be expected from any Englishwoman. IT
II work, as entirety, is without being profound
re statistical pleasant, descriptive and good nature
Re ono of those very few goodnatured books concern
a. this country, from foreign pens that may be read,
Z" only without pain, but with absolute pleasure a
1T profit. Miss Murrays story of New Orleans and
80 South is so entirely contradictory to that Of NJ
Stowe that we may yet see falsehood and fiction
home bigotry corrected by the unprecedented W
dict of foreign censor This unpretendng volul
will receive credit for truth and accuracy here, VIII
- ever is said of it elsewhere.
~ TO1LA; A Tale of Modern Rome-By Edmond Abo
|; Boston: Whitemore, Miles & Hall.
Id "Toi.a'' is translation, and very wonderful ia