The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-10-25
Notices or new Publications

Notices OF New Publications.
Bulwer's Drama and Poems. Whittemotes minia.
ture edition.
LIE Prophetic des AIpes GU Ia Renovation da
Monde.
The Practical Housekeeper. BY Mrs. Elett.
Meadow Brook, o novel, By Mrs. Holmes.
Mabel Vaughan.
Adventures in Search OF Horse.
PERIODICALS FOR NOVEMBER
Harper's Magazine.
Household Words.
LIZ PRoPHlTE DIES AIPIs AvMlAENf DIES PKUPLss
1T RENOVATION Do MONDE LoNDass. Longman,
Brown, Green ct Longmans.
This is curious book, and if de Lsmmenais were
not dead might, with some color, be attributed to
him. II is the realization upon paper Of the poti
cal millennium Of the Red Republicans-the full COM
plement of the startling theories enunciated
through the terse predictions of the Paroles dun
Croyant. The Alpine oracle not only foretells the
utter subversen Of all existing political systems bat
announces an entirely new territorial d.
vision of the earth under nomenclature
ready cut and dry. North America is to
be divided into four great provnces-Mexi
coma, Westinghouse, Canada and Oregonis
Under the general title of Columbia South America
zilia Patesia and Peruvia. For the comfort and co.
couragement of our libusters be it knowa that the
province of Westinghouse is to embrace the island of
Jamaica, the island of Cuba the Bahamas and all the
other West India islands. The twentyfour provinces
into which the globe is thus to be divided will COM
prise the whole human family of which the Pantopo
lis or the jerusalem seated on the Bosphorus, is
to be the patriarcha centre. "Then," according to
IF tba rfh atapa
to sentiments of justice by the ecund aspirations of
this new life, will make but one family of brethren.
indissoubly united by the powerful bonds of unity,
liberty and fraternity, strengthened by faith, hope
aud charity, and universally fructfed by ait, sci
ence and industry"
MEADOW BROOK. novel; BY Mrs. Mary J. Holmes-
Miller, Orion & Co.
This is a simple but prettily written American
tale, with a good moral naturally worked out.
Mrs. Holmes belongs to a class of writers who
deserve to be encouraged, as their aim is
to improve and form the mind Of youth rather than
to deteriorate by famiiarizng it with pictures of
society under Its worst aspect.
The PRACTICAL HoUsKKEEPER: A Cyclopeda Of
Dome stic Economy. BY Mrs. Elicit Strnger and
Townsend.
If we are . people extlavagant in our habits, as
existing circumstances would tend to prove it is not
for the want of warning and teaching. OF financial
mentors our men have enough; of economical tres
tises on housekeeping our women have more
than sufficient. The French, who have made of
cooking science, have never published half the
cookery books which have issued from our press.
As too much cooking proyerbially spells the broth,
the more we are taught the worse cooks we seem to
become. The cooking OF our hotels is, as general
Va o->l tn 70 han
abandoned the simple and wholesome modes of our
forefathers for bad imitation of the French cuisine
Mrs Eletts work will not. we fear, mend the mat
ter, inasmuch as IL appears to be an Ola podada OF
different methods.
ADVENTURES % A GENTLEMAN IN SEARCH or A
HORSE. BY Sir George Stephens. J. w. Moore,
Philadelphia.
This reprint Of Sir George stephens clever little
work will be useful 20 novices in the Of horses
II scarcely deserves the name Of a scientific
treatise but II nevertheless affords sufficient insight
into the anatomical structure Of the horse To enable
the reader to appreciate the value Of the advice
which 1t contains az to its pathological treatment.
Tax FIsHsR BoY A Tale. Boston. 1857.
Report speaks highly of a new tale just published
in Boston under this title. IL is said to be OF rare
merit, depicting truthfally, but with touching and
fascinating power, n phase of New England lite
never before presented to the public We notice that
II Is receiving the enconums Of the entire Boston
press; but not having as yet received copy of it,
we can only spesk from the impres ions OF Others
Hxv WORKS m THE PRESS.
Derby 4 Jackson have in the press, and will pub
lish early in the autumn, "Ths Life Of Thomas
jefferson" on which Or. Randall has been so long
engaged. One third of the work viii he composed
Of original materials and facts derived from private
papers in the possession Of Mr. Jefersons family.
II will also be illustrated by portraits and fac
sipriies never before published
Ths Untfsd states Coast Survey SCHOONER
Gailatin.
PoarLASp Me-, Oct. II, 1857.