The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-11-18

Brothers.
These celebrated speeches are got up in
pamphlet form; we suppose, for extensive circu-
lation. AS they have often been published and
have no special pertinence to the times, we do
not see why they are issued now, except to give
an opportunity to the public again to peruse
Webster's 7th of March speech on the Slavery
Compromise, which is reprinted with them.
They can hardly raise such weight as that
the tail is too heavy for the kite.
Robert Carer a Brothers. For sale by William Bal
tantyne, Seventh street. Washington, ID. C..
Old John Bunyan, ever welcome, come in
what garb he may This edition is very hand
some-quarto form, good paper, large, clear
type, and twenty quaint illustrations, drawn by
George Thomas, and engraved by W. l.. Thorn
as. How many of the books issued in our times
will live as long as that of the tinker of Ems
low?
Isabella Orsni. Historical Novel Of the Fifteenth
Century. Ry F d. Guerrszzi author of Benoni Cenei.
Translated from the Italian by l.Ouigi MORT, A. M.
New York Rudd Il Carleton. For sale by Franklin
A Tale of Love, Lust, Intrigue, Passion, OPP
preston, Murder-told with Italian subtilty of
analysis, elOquence of expression, prOfusion OF
sentiment but we must say, that the class OF
novels to which it belongs is not more to our
taste than the minute and graphic reports Of
crime and criminals which illustrate from time
to time the hero-gallery of our New York ex
changes. The incidents in Isabel Orsini y
are historical so is the conduct of old King
David, who seduced Bathsheba, and caused her
the acts of that parsonage does not make rO-
nance out of his crimes he puts them down
briefly, in black and white, in all their deformi-
| ty, to be hated and loathed-saying just enough
for this, no more. When a woman commits
adultery, and her paramour, assassination, and
| her husband, murder, let the facts be recorded
| by the historian, and let them remain historical
Romance can make them tolerable only by veil
ing or distorting the truth-trying, for example,
to win our sympathy for the guilty woman by
exalting her graces and exaggerating her temp
! t@tisrs- -
Mich Cows and Dairy Farming; Comprising the Breeds
Breeding and Management in Health and Disease ot
Dairy and Other Stock; the Selection of Mich Cows
with Full EXPLANATION ofGuenon's Method; the Culture
ofFornge ants, and the Production OfhlK, Butter and
Cheese: Embodying the most Recent Improve me nts
and Adapted TO Farming in the Unled States and Brit
ish Provinces With Treatise upon the Dairy Hus-
bandry of Holland. To which is added HOrsaps Sys-
tenn Of Dairy Management. By Charles l.. Flint Sec.
retaTy OF the massachusetts State Board of
author OF Treatise on Grasses and Forage Plants &C
Literally Illustrated New York A. o. Moore For
sale by Blanchard Mohun Pa. avenue Washington.
ID c.
Not word more need be said of that volume
1t speaks for itself.
Sunday Afternoons in the Nursery or Familiar Nara
lives from the Book OF Genesis. New York Robert
Garter Brothers. For sale by w. Balsn,yne Wash
ington, d. C.
Had the author compiled the narratives in
the simple style of Genesis, we should have liked
the book much better. AS it is it is pietv over
done. Why is it that good people cannot be
content to say good things, without OVERLAPPING
them with cant, ringing the changes everlast-
ingly upon blessed" and holy" and 4" god
ly," &c? These words have their meanings
and their places, but why drag them in at all
times, at all places? Cannot Abraham have a
son, and very good one too, without styling
him "a blessed " SON? Cannot Enoch walk
with God without having it said of him that he
walked in holy obedience" &c? 1t would
be well for the religious writer's of the present
day to study Fosters celebrated Essay on the
Obstacles to the Advancement of Truth among
Literary Men. Christ, we presume, taught his
countrymen in their common, everyday Ian
guage. Why should not his followers teach
their countrymen in their vernacular-their
everyday speech?
The Strait I'D Gallery: or, the Shakespeare Sisterhood.
Comprising Forty-fve ideal Portraits, Described by
Mrs. J. w. Palmer illustrated with Fine Engravings
Steel, from Designs by Eminent Hands One volume,
Imperial svo, in Antique Morocco, Gilt sl2 New
York: ID. Appleton Co.
We notice this beautiful work in advance of
its publication. Specimen sheets have been
sent us, from which we infer that it will be all
that is claimed for it. We transfer to our col
umns a paragraph from the pen of one who
seems to have obtained an insight into the
work
The plan of this beautiful work is as orig.
NAL as 1T Is attractive In no respect is it mere
reproduction of the. Shakespeare Galleries.
and HerOines of Shakespeare, so well known to
the trade, but, with striking novelty and taste.
combines the storytelling quality of Charles
Lamb with the graceful criticism of Mrs. Jane
son. The editress has judiciously kept her title
in view; from page to page, as from picture to
picture, she conducts the reader-vister through
her Gallery, delightfully."- describing with story
and quotation, and continually surprising with
the untechnical opinions of fresh and shrewd
mind. The work is counterpart, and fitting
companion, to the World Noted Women Of
Mrs. Mary Cowden Clarke, and the Republican
Court of Mr.. Griswold."
B6~ We learn that CHARLES LASMAE is
about getting out Dictionary of the United
States Congress, containing Biographical
Sketches Of its members, from the foundation
of the Government with an appendix, COM
piled as Manual of Reference for the Legisla-
tor and Statesman. 1t is now in press IN Wash
ngton.
Boston, Nor l0-The third meeting of the
creditors of Messrs. Lawrence, Stone, 4 Co.,
was held to-day, when additional claims were
presented, which, together with the claim Of
George Peabody, Of London, amounting to
$500 900, will swell the sum owed by the firm
at the time of its failure to nearly four millions
of dollars.