The penny press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1859-1860, 1859-09-13
CORRESPONDENCE.
LETTERS OF A NoMAD.
YELLOW SPRINGS, O., Sept. 9, LIS


. YELLOW SPRINGS, o., Sept. 8, 1859.
MY DEAR PRtss:-Among the books whicn
should have been mentioned before We leave
the subject Of novels, are Coum'erports and
Life for Life Let no one who plunged with
eager expectancy into Charles Auchfster,
the great musical novel, snd mad lais head
bruised on semibreves ara his sInkle sprained
among innumerable major ANA minor scales,
scores, &c, be thersoy intimid sted ny new
novel by the ssaie author. W hile persons of
musical culture will not find the same charm
here as in Tat brilliant one in which the au.
thor had the audacity to make idendessohu his
(her?j nero, the usual reader vii find this novel
90 fragrant and sublimatng es a sea- beach,
whore its scenes are laid ORA Life for a Life
We have read enough to reconIlnend though
we must protest in regard to Miss Muloch's
productions that stories of life in which ueitf er
authoress nor any one character smiles or gets
of a bit OF fun from Chapter l. to Fir'.s, are
not healthy books. Joha HaliGar is tie most
morbid book to be 30 interesting which. we have
ever read every sentence ia it is solemn
enough to have b cen "dyiDs speech" How
different the bril- liant author who has lately
given US Love me Liale, Lore me Long, Among
all the modern no Felists, Charles Reade is alone
entitled to the Ar abian compliment, ...
Suns hino is he. .. ,I-...
On winters day;
And In midsu INNER
Cool ness and shade. a "I.
A new novel fr ON RoaSe sounds in Aha an.
n0uncement som ,thing like tho nows that one
has had small estate lett him-we have heard
of peoples hearing Of such hir,rs-for the
friends and acq quaintances to whicS Resde in
troduces us are alive; puncure the verv names
Peg Wellington, Ch ristie Jo.hnstone. Lucv
Fountain or Eve I,Obbs, end thew would
almost bleed. The la dies do not like Reade.
we know, and We must admit that White Liss
was somewhat person al but the fellow has
ruddy heart in him, whatev or they saw, and
with it genius, "a wor we use rarely as we get
Oldsr) He is, as d. no velist, what Robert
Browning is as 2 poet and they are tho only
authors now living wb ose graphic touches
remind us Of Shakspe are. We can fancy,
indeed, that Shakespeare were he living, would
work up into surps ssing drama the wild
Australian scenes of " Neuer Too Late to Mend"
as he worked up Bocs ccos story into "Cym-
beline."
But we must pass on, leaving out mention of
some tavorte worki to speak Of some Others
which arc good d brary works. / remember
it was motto of president w., often repeated
to the students, "Never buy book that you
can borrow" A nd however strange and OBJ
jectionable the 80 ying may he, it will bear ex-
animation. Borrowing means hero all that is
not buying,i. g., obtaining from the public
library, or paying small sum to the circu-
lating library, or borrowing from some friend
who is unfort unatc enough not tr, know the
wisdom of the motto. But let tho reader who
wishes to have library save Ills money for
the new edition Of Bac0n's works, with the
preface ard notes, which will b., ant to reyo
lutionize the ideas of Bacon and strike ont
that odious third qualification in Pope's line
"Greatest, wses, meanest of mankind"
Aooveaii, every studentar i'd every young man
should have the new tran' ,lation of Piutaych's
Lives, by A. II. Ciough, the gifted Oxonian.
The notes are mines OF purest gold, and the
translation perfect Ar. Clough has put in
this work what has Hitherto been distributed
and hidden away in inaccessible volumes.
very sosoroin 6 and valuable work for the
general reader is ar. Swinton's Rpm6les among
Words We Fave reason to be proud of
our young countryman, who has car
ried philo' logical studies further than
they have ever been carried before. he
history OF the science of woras-now one
OF the AoSt growing and importapt--will be
.enlarF able when it is written. DR.. John
% slow S.5 ANY, spoAe NJ ,Gion'ieinPluously OF the
inr orb"r,;sy uy u oat; uo'teSa'1H toper? coinpar-
g, "st?o,ns oS@nar'es' OF ac
,,aant,,"" IJn'pna,,ons' , o;. lVea 70 know Ine
snt ii tno s''euee aI" give !. import
ir Strat:, ,ou''OT' o~ "'~ Sne, ogneath Ihs
nharo az ia .. a"ino i9"hs' resge ana
or o~I o., ~ uiu "iheS, anu ochiegei, Ire;lcn
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indv t ,rbn JmH ,ot ot"utS Iuhalane'eu. h Inc olh
saIf 70 Tu on ,tio 'h l,A "eai neto.ns nsr-
booL bd unl 5D ",, VIC nolts' ou. 'na' .Le
smb;aots f,ho haal, .,,sn;-',t "I'".eh viie
inc old iadv Hmv il chYnges ,ba ,c,lnw;nn r.
words to know their etymoogies: WIFE, from
we', to weave; how many wives are true TO