New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-10-22

From the publishers we have received. through
Messrs. Morgan & Co.. Of Exchange Place, copies aE
the following
THE LAYING OF THE TELEGR4PHIc CABbE with all
its Incidents and Anecdotes Impressive Or Divert
ing, as well a4 Fresh and Reliable Biographical
Sketches OF Messrs. Field and Everett and Captain
Hudson. BY John Mulaly, Official Historian of
the Memorable Expeditions. Abundantly iIias-
trated with portraits, maps, views, groups and re-
presentations Of the machinery employed. New
York D. Appleton 4 Co.
| The title Of which is 50 comprehensive that We
need only add it is book Of over 500 pages contain
ing everything that anybody can want u know about
the great cable. The price is only fifty cents and
copy of it should be purchased forthwith by every
man who has an Atlantic cable charm dangling at
his fob, in order that he may fully explain to bis
friends why he wears the said charm.
ELECTION; or, the Franks Of tile Modern Pack. Al
Telegraphic Epic of the Times By Wm. o. Rich
ards, New York D. Appleton & Go,
a neatly printed string of faneifnl rhymngs about
the Ocean Telegraph 50 pages il all it il pleas
ant little book, though evidently the oshoot of some
excited scholars fancy given whilst yet the telegraph
hallelnjah rang in the streets Of New York.
/ ERNEsTIN or, The Hearts Longing. BY AIeth s
New York Stanford i Delisser.
A handsomely printed novel OF 500 pages and
curious novel, too; one of the French sensation
school. Ernestin, the artist, with soul of demi-
god aud heart made up Of consuming passions, saf
ers all sorts of trials and temptations just his devil
or guardian angel happen to be near the latter
characters figuring largely in the story. Joanna,
the heroine of the story, isl another Camille. The
book, in fact, is utterly French that cannot
commend it to readers polite.
/ BLACKwoOD's Magazine for September. Reprint Of
L. Scott il Co, New York.
Containing seven papers of the usual able and in
terestng kind, different Subjects The new forth
fcatons of Louis Napoleon at Cherbourg receive an
amount of attention which shows how Interesting
those stupendoas works are to the British people.
GouRFsHfp AND MAFR1HoSY with Other Sketches,
from Scenes and Experiences in Social Life BY
Robert Norris Philadelphia: i. B. Peterson u
Brothers.
This is book which we can with great pleasure
recommend to the family circle and TO polite readers
of every class Robert Morris was for many years the
editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer; and the book
before is made up Of short Sketches one hundred
and twenty in number, upon the different subjects
and exetements of everyday life 1t is no sensation
book but collection Of pleasant dribblings from a
graceful and graphic pen guided by purity and re-
fnement, and good common sense in the mind Of the
author. The book contains steel portrait Of Mr..
Norris and should be in every family in the land. II
is handsomely printed volume of over 500 pages
Get it and read it.
DAyEHPoRr DUNN. A Man of Our Day. Ry Ghas
Lever Philadelphia I. B. Peterson u Bros.
This novel has been in the course of serial puhlca
cation for some time past and is nov offered for tht
first time in complete form. Lever has strone
hold upon the affections of American fiction readers
and Davenport Dunn, we may be sure, will not 81
i unread
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