New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-01-27


We have received from the Publishers, through Mr..
J. B. Steel, copies OF the following
LUCY HowARD's JOURNAL. By Mrs. L. H. Sigournsy.
New York: Harper Brothers.
This is not the least charming Of the many good
things which have trickIed from Mrs. Higournsy's
graceful and womanly pen. The journal " is a
series Of jottings, begunby school miss at the age
OF ten, and lefftn' at the womanly age Of twenty.
two; her style changing a. her age advances. The
quiet little incidents Of girls home life are scattered
along through the Journal, amidst the happess EN-.
belshments Of moral and religious reflection and the
warmsst and purest heaftseelings OF woman. 'Lucy
Towards journal Is a charming book for the home
freside' u i handsome blue-boand volume Of $40
pages. ssf
DfgEr AND CREDIT. Translated from the German, Of
Gnstav Freytag, by L. G. O. With preface by
Christian Charles Josias Bunsen D D.. etc. New
! York Harper h Brothers.. H
A novel, by the editor Of the Grsnz Bote Border
Messenger at Laipsic The Cheyalier Bnnsen, IN bis
preface prononnees II the greatest story in the Ger
man language It's popularity being attested by the
public demand, which has required six editions Of it
in two years. As novel, IL is pronounced able and
unusually exciting whilst its great feature or funda
mental idea "a TO favor the fusion Of the educated
classes and the total abolition Of bureaucracy and all
social barriers between the ancient nobility and the
educated classes in The nation especially the indus
trial and mercantile population the just and christ
ian bearing Of this united body toward the working
classes especially in towns and the recognition Of
the mighty fact that the educated middle classes Of
all nations, but especially Of those Of Germany are
perfectly aware that even the present. but still more
the near future, is their own, they advance along
the legal path 10 perfect constitutional monarchy
Il Il o neat book Of $50 pages.
From Mr.. B. n. Norman. No. II Camp street, we
have received copies Of
knowledge, for 1858. Boston Crosby, Nichols
4 Co. h
The twenty-nintb issue Of an Invaluable book Of
reference for the politician, merchant and citizen OF
every degree 1t contains the usual annual calendar
with much valuable kindred information. in astron,
omy, meteoroIogy, magnetism, horticulture, etc. /;
complete lists Of all the officers in all the branches Of
the Federal Government and its different services,
with their salaries government statistics Of all kinds
statistics and general information concerning each
State and Territory Of the Union statistics Of En-
rope American and Foreign Obituary for 1857 !;
Chronicle OF events etc. etc. II is book Of upwards
Of 400 pages but contaias mass Of information,
which could not be culed from thousands Of pages Ia
other books. 80 rs M
LADIES' ALMANAC FoE 1858. Boston: DaInreu a
Moore and g. Coolidge. l4
This is redand-gilf bound blou not larger than a
nonnaie, and viii serve as beautiful little
present 10 any lady II is rather an annual contain
ing fine steel plates and elegant literary miscellany,
with calendar and monthly diary at the beginning
Tits really an exquisite little thing.
To Mfr. Morgan Of Exchange Place we are also in