New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-09-21

their latest moment your innocent amusements IT'S
ever thus with poor rail mortas, content exists
not for us-in youth looking forward with eager
impatience in age recurring with regret to the
past. ~, ..5,.5.se7,4 ---
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Madame LIE vert's Book.
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At length the treat of which the literary public
has been in such pleasant expectancy is set before
them. Madame Octavia Walton LIE Vert's record of
her European "reminiscences which she has designated
her I" Souvenirs of Travel, and with becoming taste
dedicated to her mother is before u.s. in the shape of
two handsome bound Volumes from the press of s. H
Goetzel Co., Mobile and New York. t.lr %
In these days Of extensive travel and prolific writing
there is perhaps part of Europe, with the
and novelties Of which the great mass Of American
readers not familiar. 1t therefore follows that
the interest of any book of travel on that con-
tinent must depend for its popularity upon the pecu
liar genius of the narrator. Though the scenes, OBJ
jects, and manners and customs, of strange land,
may be invariably the same to all who witness them,
the charm Of reading about them consists in the par
ticular percepve faculties, temperament and literary
STYLE of the traveller who may put his her diary
type; and, as illustration of this, an exploration
of the interior wds of Africa Or Australia recorded
in style of purely plain description, would possess
much less of interest than journey over the old
beaten field, jotted down in the charming mosaic of
fact, fancy and feeling We have read travel books
of both kinds, and must say that greatly prefer
the latter and our booksellers, opne, readily
furnish practical solution of the question, as to
which kind best meets the appreciation Of the read.
ing public
In the Souvenirs Of Travel" of Mime lie Vert we
recognize gem of the kind we have been describing
l - uano IF fba Rrst' af
Europe have never been visited the brilliant circles
ofits capitals never mingled in, by tourist better
fitted in respect to cultivation Of intellect refinement
ofperception, and geniaity Of SOUL for their descrp
tion than the accomplished authoress of the volumes
before us. The qualities which for SO many years
distinguished her at home and caused her society to
be sought by all celebrities at home and from abroad
were the golden passport of her travel through
4 Europe; and it may be said that in many respects
she enjoyed greater advantages of observation tLan
most her numerous predecessors, in making the tour
Of that continent No one, at any rate read the
book. without thoroughly enjoying it, and deciding
that the literary abilities of Madame LIE Vert are in
full keeping with the other accomplishments for
which she is SO justly celebrated.
We should state, in justice to Mime LIE Vert that
her Souvenirs OF Travel were never designed for
publication by her, and appear in print now only at
the solicitations of her friends who being aware of
their great excellence and atractiveness were 10th
see them confined to the comparatively limited circle
for whose entertainment they originally written
Alarge part of the reading public must have enjoyed
the persal of extracts of Madame LIE Verts letters
from time to time for whenever she wrote to friend
that friend was naturally apt to think the gratica-
ton of the public would be equal to his own and
would accordingly furnish extracts to the public
! press and thus started, they seldom failed going
the rounds of newspaperdom .
4 The Souvenirs of Travel have been received in
the city, and are now to be had at the different book
!. stores. b.. He r --
RELICS OF THE BATTLE OF BIADESsBuRG.-A
youth, residing near Bladensburg-- having had his
curiosity excited in relation to the battle of 1914
probably by the perusal of Williams lately published
history of that event-commenced search for relics
upon the field OF slaughter, and had not looked long
before he found beneath two little mounds in gully
or raVne, the skeletons of man and boy lying ap
parently as they had fallen, where the earth was
hastily thrown upon them. The skull of the mar
showed the perforation of the forehead by musket
or rifle ball. He lay upon his back with his arms ex
tended, and near each wrist were his cuff buttons
some of which were still distinct enough to revea
the number, IS - from which, as well as from the
position they occupied it is inferred that these per
sons belonged to the English army.
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VEEus.--In the good old Grecian days, Venus wa
Of all the gods and goddesses because she type
the senmentoye-whch every man. who r,as man. copsi
ered one of the chief necessaes of life But she has fle
from excusivenes since then if not from her high estate
degenerate days owing to the couyentonaisms and
obstacles which forbid easy approach to the Queen
Love- large numbers human famly-ehieAy the masc
linz psrvote the sentiment and its goddess ronanti
fiction, and solace themselves with delights drink
ing smoking fighting moved to pity by this spec
tace the divinity has ceased to conne herself thu