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SELECTIONS FROM THE WRITINGS OF WALTER SAY
AGE LASDoR. Edited by George Stillman Hlliard. |
Boston: Tcknor & Fields.
Mr.. Hlliard, citizen Of Boston, Massachusetts,
pretty well known in literary circles, has recently
given to our country little volume containing some
selections from the writings Of Walter Savage ando
The peculiar trait upon which Landor's fame must
rest is altogether classical. His stories reproduce
Percles and Aspasia when the former was inthe full
flower of his influence and ability and when the latter
was queen-legnant over him who ruled the destinies
of Greece. They ignore time, SO far as they place
the reader directly among the events mentioned, and
show him the whole public and private life of the
people of those great days. making the personal and
political lives and the events that transpired, present
| rather than past.
| Such labor, for which the learning Of very few
men, their ina gimaton could fit them, Landor has
performed in a most admirable and satisfactory man
ner. The volume will well repay careful perusal.
1t is beautifully printed and well worthy place in
every library.
THE MAG1C1ANs Snow Box AND OTHER STORIES
With Illustrations Boston !: Ticllnor & Fields
Seven stories of very pretty nomenclature, and
told in a very flowing, easy manner; make up the
contents of a new book for children, which, we are
assured, will crafty all whoEperuse it. Something
of the " Prince Charming and Il Good Fairy style o
compositio1 is adopted; quite numher of wood cut:
are nerspeEsed ;and the typeis large and legible-
The last story of the seven which the book contains
is Of practical and matelialistc nature. entitled
Il Earning Ones Own Living" It puts few pretty
hard facts forward to teach the necessity Of individual
exertion ii order to win flite, and will,
probably doas much actual good, if not mort, than
the dreamy rosecolored pages that precede it, ~
4sKlr BAsrs ADyEsgtEEs or, the Yarns of an oll
George Grill Boston: TiekloII e \ E Fields.
4 stQrys book tho auth6ress ofg shakspeare's
" Conc9rdance,' must, NECESSARILY, be Of a somewhat
tshakspeare east far etafactef and plot Ials
concerned Mrs. Clarke seems, however, to have
copied Omoo and Typee, the stories of Sinbad ant
Robinson Crusoe we'll and to have curously worked
together their diverse and incongruous characters
She has invented new mermads and melmen, stran g
Islands, wondrous CUSTOMS the fables of the pigmie
and Gulliyer's Brobdingngo-making Mr.. Kit Ban
mariner-seeing more wonders than Monboddo, eXpe
rience more dangers than st. Paul, and rectc then
with more spirit than Southey's Old Soldier 1t il
full of the wicrd. wild and wonderful and will be
whole Bodlean to the juveniles. tits prettily printed
and pictured
ZA1DEE A Romance. From Blackwoods Magazine
Boston John p. Jewett.
The readers of Bacl1wood will need no exhorta
shape. The story is an admirable one admrabl,
told; well worthy of perusa by all lovers of curren
literature. Who its author is, we have not heard an
nounced. Can Buwer have tried another incognto
| B1AcKwooDs EDINBURGH MAGAZINE for January
New York: L. Scott l. Co.
| Maya has entered upon another year, no whit dc
creased in excellence by of the many that hay
preceded it; nor exhausted in ability by the grea
amount which has gieded its previous pages. 9Th
Gold Screw and its Consequences and the @ Ney
Peace Party" represent the present tory politics c
: the magazine. &c A Military Adventure i'll the Py
rences by Peninsula Medalist,'' occupies the sem
) romantic scmiphilosophic curule while numbe
of other articles of highly interesting nature fill
+ its entire being pleasantly, usefully and agreeab
r. r. Every one should read Blackwood.
e We are indebted to J. C. Morgan, adjoining IL
Post-Ofice for copies Of the above works, Whic
r. may be found at his store.