The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-02-21

Books Received To Feb. 20.
unghson's Medical Dictionary.

Helps Spanish Conquest in America; vol g.
Bay and Taylor's Travels in Sweden, Iapland and
Norway.
The Pew and the Pulpit.
The Enlarged Prostate: it's Pathology and Treat
ment.
The Black Baronet By VIM. Carleton.
Fifteen Years Amongst the Mormons.
| Gerald Grif6n's Works-Taes of the Munster Fes-
tivae.
Scenes of Clerical Life. BY George Eliot.
! Debit and Credit: novel.
| The Lost Daughter.
Guerazzi's Beatrice Cenci. Translated by Luigi
Monti.
Guerazzis Beatrice Cenci. Translated by Mrs.
Watts Sherman.
The World of Mind. BY Isaac Taylor
European Acquaintance. By j. W. De Forest.
Leisure Hours. BY J. G. Cobb.
PERIODICALS FOR MARCH.
| Harpers New Monthly
| Dickens Household Words.
Mrs Stephens Illustrated Monthly
| The ladies' Journal of Fashions.
THE BLACK BARONET; OR, THE CHRONICLES or
BALLYTRAIN BY William Carleton. p. NJ. Ha-
verify Fulton street.
Carleton occupies amongst the admirable romance
writer's to which Ireland has given birth during the
last half century, the same position that Michael
Angelo filed amongst the artists of his day. His
creations rough hewn and wanting in finish, but
they striking and terrible and wholly unlike the
characters that to be met with in ordinary life.
Thus we have in the Black Baronet an impersonaton
of vlainy grand and unapproachable in its exag-
geration that ts parallel is only to be found N the
Inferno or Paradise Lost" Repulsive as such acre-
alton must always prove to impressionable minds, it
| possesses an interest that is vany TO be
| sought for in more sentimental conceptions.
| From the commencement to the end of the
| story the attention is enchained by the
unaccountabe attraction of this fearful charac
| ter although there not wanting some fine con-
trasts in the other indviduates of the tale. This
work is unquestionably of the best, if not the
| very best to which the wild and untameable genius
| of Carleton has given being 1t bears at the same
time unmstakeabe evidences Of the peculiarly NOR
bid condition of mind into which he has fallen of
late years.
GERALD GRrFFIN's WORKS: Tales of the Munster
Festivals-The Rivals, and Tracy's Ambition. ID.
| x j. Sadlier Co.
The last issue of this beautiful edition of Grfins
works comprises two of his best tales. For humor,
for pathos and for close observation Of the workings
of the human heart, there is nothing in the whole
Il
happy to see a taste Tor productions of such ac-
knowledged merit growing up amongst the novel
reading portion of the community. In the popular-
| ty which foreign works OF this kind is finding
amongst us we see evidences of an eclecticsm of
judgment which speaks favoraby for the intellectual
progress of that leisure loving class.
| SCENES OF CLERICAL LIFE. BY George Eliot
Harper X Brothers.
We are glad to meet with this collected edition Of
the tales which gave so much pleasure to the readers
Of "Blackwood." Mr. Eliot ia a writer who, like Mr..
Kingsley, will bear to be frequently reperused.
FIFTEEN YEARS AMONG THE MoRMoSs; being the
Narrative of Mrs. Mary Ettie v. Smith, late of
Great Salt Lake City. Charles Scribner.
This narrative, written by lady brought up since
childhood in the doctrines and practices of Nor.
monsm comes out opportunely. If the statements
contained in il be established by proof Brigham
Young and his high priests deserve mercy or con-
| sideration at our hands The crimes with which
| Mrs. Ettie charges them cannot be compounded by
submission and IL is Judge Eckels and not Colonel
Johnston that will finally have 10 deal with those
| worthless. No guarantee that military negotiation
confer protect them against the retribution
which will be insisted upon by the friends of the par
| ties whom they are charged with having made away
with; and unless they have taken care to secure the
means of escape in the event Of their defeat they
stand chance OF swinging high and dry on some
| provisional gallows
EUROPEAN ACQUAINTANCE Being Sketches Of Peo-
| pie In Europe. BY j. W.De Forest. Harper II Bro
thers.
This little volume although written without pre-
tension and misleading somewhat by its title, will
well repay perusal. In opening II we expected 10
meet with sketches OF persons who have occupied
-. -. a. -. Inf
that, we find them to lie simply sketches Of charac
ter as encountered In the authors ramblings. As
Mr. De Forest has a keen sense Of humor and good
deal Of graphic power, he has succeeded in making
| quite a. amusing book as II he had dshed up for
us the second hand gossip Of the European salons,
which is frequently rctailed for the benefit Of the
| American admirers Of funkeyism. His account of
Pressnitz and his water process, at Graefen-
berg is capital and will be enjoyed by all who have
undergone that agonzing ordeal.
| THE PUIPIr AND THE PKw. Burdck Brothers.
The political design Of this work is badly
concealed under the cloak Of religious earnestness.
II clergymen would attend TO the business Of
their missions instead Of endeavoring 70 add fuel
TO the fames Of political discord, they would
have no occasion 10 resort to DISCUSSES and subter.
| fuses When parSon enters the field Of politics IL
may fairly be assumed that he does not feel at home
in that Of religion His spirit yearns after worldly
interests and contests which entirely unfit him for
| the sacred responsibilities Of his profession.
| DtSoLrsos's MEDICAL DICTIONARY. Blanchard and
| Lea, Philadelphia.
| The fifteenth edition of this valuable work
| has just been issued. IL has undergone tho
rough revision, about six thousand subjects and
terms having been added 10 its previous con-
tents The work will be found useful, not only
for professional purposes but for general refe-
renee technicaliiies being avoided as much as
possible, and where used being carefully explained.
BEATRICE CmcI. BY r. d. Gueazzi Translated from
the Italian by Luigi Mont, Harvard University
| Rudd 4 Carleton.
This is an excellent translation Of Gucmzzi's