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Recent Publtcations.


From the publishers we have received a copy of
ditisn in Search Of Sir John Franklin, 1858, "a,
'55. By Elisha Kent Kane, NJ. D., U. s. n. Phila-
delphia: Chids & Peterson.
Two octave volumes Of $50 pages each, with up
wards Of three hundred steel and wood engravings
This is a book which will long outye the mass of the
literature of the present day. and one which we need
hardly say we prize very highly. The munifcence
Of Grinne and the chivalrous daring of Kane united
in one of the nobest enterprises that stimulated
the heart of man. have elected for the world mar
ratye CT fact the novelty and romance of which
have been surpassed in any previous age OF the
world The icebound regions which previous adyen-
turers merely pecked at it were, have been pene-
trated and laid bare by the enterprise OF America
and from the forcble descriptions and graphic draw
ngs of Kane, the worshipper of nature, the man OF
science and the mere lover of the wonderful may
alike derive a pleasure Of the deepest character;
for over all hangs that which charms every degree
of human fancy-the mysterious and the terrible.
The mystery of the pole is about all of earth that is
now left to scientific speculation and upon this mys
tery the explorations of the Grinne Expedition have
shed more light by far than those of any previous ex
plorations The descriptions of the icy chaos OF the
Arctic region the rugged animals and human
beings which inhabit its lower belt; the sublime
celestial phenomena, such as the bright sunshiny
midnights, the dark start mondays, and the gor
geous fantasies of the polar lights and above ALL the
great Polar Sea, whose bosom is still virgin to the
caress of manalI these together, in their stern re-
atty, furnish a feast to the imagination such as
poetic fancy has never been able to provide No BOOK
of the present day. we think, will be able to rival
Kane's Arctic Explorations in its popularity and
universal circulation One of the volumes before us
has portrait of DR.. Kane for its frontispiece, and
the other a portrait of Mr. Grinnell The print is
clear and beautiful, and the illustrations are fine
throughout. Every body should possess copy of it.
From Mr.. J. b. Steel, No. 60 Camp street, we have
received copies Of
THE TRAGEDIES OF EuRIPIDEs.-Llteraly translated
or revised with critical and explanatory notes, by
Theodore Alois Buckley, Of Christ Church. New
York Harper Bros.
Two neat volumes, containing the nineteen TRACE
dies Of the great Greek dramatist and constituting
part of Harper's Classical Library They will be
valuable acquisition to any library or bookcase.
Ell GRrNGo; or, New Mexico and her People: By
| WV. Fl. Davis, late U. 5. Attorney. New OK
Harper & Bros. ..
/ A neat volume of 432 pages, with illustrations
giving historical sketch of New Mexico, with de-
scriptions of the manners and customs of its different
inhabitants and scenes and adventures of travel 1t
appears to be very entertaining and instructive
book. ...
K ArHIE BRANDE A Firesde History of Quiet Life
By Holne Lee author of ''Thorney Hall, "Gilbert
Messenger etc. New York: Harper & Bros.
story of English life written in the Autobiography
ical style, and in which passions and feelings are
rather the subject of the dpainting than dramatic
or startling incidents The chance passages which
we have read bear evidence alike of refined feeling
and scholastic finish in the author.
The ELECTIVE FRANCHISE IN OHIo.-A bill has
been introduced in the lower branch of the Legsla-
ture of Ohio upon the subject of the elective fran
chise of that State which prohibits persons of Ar
can descent either in whole part, from exercising
the privilege Of voting at elections The Statesman
says: .u- H.
This bill makes it the duty of judges of election
to reject the votes of persons reputed to be- in Who'll
or in part of African descent after taking testlmon
satisfactory to them of the fact of such descent
person reputed to be, in whole or in part of Africa
descent. Who shall vote at an election shall be sui
iect to imprisonment in the county Jail not less tina
one nor more than six months. Persons who asss
counsel or adyisesuch persons to VOTE to be subet
to fine in any sum not exceeding $500, and to IN
; prsonment in jail from one to six months Prosec'
$ tions to be by Indictment in the Court OF Commo
Pleas, and the act to be given IN special charge
grand ures The act to take effect on its passage
, What commentary upon the socaled "phila
throphy' of free soil Ohio-a State that voted fl
Fremont by an overwhelming majority! What
, difference between precept and practice What
danning evidence Of the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of tt
pretended friends of the African race!
The laws in force in Ohio against the African RAJ
are more rigid and demoralizing to that race, in
practical respects than the laws of Louisiana Cover
ing the free coored population and now it is pr
6 posed to enact still more stringent laws. "Oh sham
: where is thy blush?" But, as Abolitionists new
blush-coudnt if they would, and wouldn't if thu
coud-there is no use in putting the interrogatory