Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-06-02
Book Notices.

WoLFsDEN; An Authentic Account of Things
There and Thereunto Appertaining; As
They Are and Have Been. By B. Bos-
ton Phillips, Sampson & Co For sale by
Taylor Maury.
There is enough of descriptive power dis
played in portions of this book to cause the
reader to regret that the author has not con.
fined himself to the delineation of country
life, where he seems peculiarly at home, in.
stead OF making bis story the vehicle for con.
veying to the world his turgid and no ways
original views upon temperance, slavery, &c.
The scene Of the story is laid for the most
part In the nook of Wolfsden, among the
mountains Of Maine, and the picture of life
and manners in the rural portions of the Pine
Tree State is both accurate and interesting.
The EARNEST MAN. A Sketch Of the Char
acter and Labors of Adoniram udson, First
missionary to Burmah. By Mrs II c. CO.
nant. Boston !: Phillips, Sampson & Co.
For sale In Washington by Taylor & Maury
This work was planned by the late Mrs.
Judson C'Fanny Forrestsr'') while DR.. Way
lands memoir of DR.. Judson was in prepare
ton, and, being briefer history of his life
and labors, is designed to meet the wants Of q
larger class Of readers. Mrs. Judson's de-
Ginning health did not permit her to carry out
her project, and the present volume is pre-
pared at the request of the executors of Mrs.
Judson, and the publishers generously relin.
qulsh the larger share Of the profits to DIR.
Judson 'sorphan children. Mrs Conant seems
to have made very good use of the ample ma
teriais at her command and while any his
tory OF the career Of this remarkable man
could hardly be devoid of interest, this work,
from its smaller size and pleasing style, il
hkely to be the most popular Of any memoir
of DR.. Judson yet published.
PHYSIOLOGY AND CALIsrHESIcs, for Schools
and Families. By Catherine f.. Beecber
New York Harper 4 Brothers
This little work supplies a much felt want,
and with the exception of crotchet or two Of
the author upon the cold water cure" is
deserving Of entire and hearty approval. 1t
Is quite time that the American people should
be thoroughly aroused to the steady physical
deterioration and decay so alarmingly notice.
able amongst US as people The facts and
Illustrations given in this work are sufficiently
startling, we should judge, to bring home TO
every man, woman and child the necessity of
conforming to those physical laws, the viola
ton OF which brings such inevitable physical
puniihment. We hope to zee this book, or
some similar work, placed as a text book in
our public schools.
LINDA, or the Young Pilot of the Belle C,soI.
Isle OF Southern Life. By Mrs. CaroIina
Lee Hents. Philadelphia T. b. Pstepsnn
For sale in this city by ]. Shillington'
This is one of the last productions of the
lamentsd Mrs. Lee Hentz, and, like many of
its predecessors, is q very pleasing and faithful
delineation of Southern life, society, and
scenery, and the incidents are striking enough
and the plot sufficiently intricate to make the
work one Of absorbing interest. In POPULAR.
w a. evinced by the salS, it stands next to
the Mob Cap" by the same authors.s.
FROM shillington we have a Jroehu,,
s'yieo Political Lyrics" and which il a
mOuia-oe sa'irical, postical and pictorial squib,
directed against the Administrators