The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-12-24
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HOWE DRAMAS FOR YoUSG PEOPLE ComniIed bv Err,
LEE FoLLEy Published by james NiGnroa CO.. Boson
This compilation of dramas for the drawinp-room
is intended for the use of children, and is one Of
several works of the kind which have been pub
lished to meet the demand occasioned bv the grow
ing taste for private theatricals on both sides of
the Atlantic. Iii Boston production, and is
strongly tinged with New England ideas on the
subject of slavery. Out of fourteen plays contain
ed in the volume, two are thoroughly abolition
ist in sentiment as Helpers book. The "Christian
''Sjoce," contributed by Mrs. H.B Stowe, IS a dra-
matzed version of Uncle TOMS Cabin, and the Has
'er and Stare" by Miss Aiken presents the stere-
otyped Exeter Hall view of the relation The in
PRODUCTION of such matter in a work designed for
children, and otherwise sufficiently unobiectinnable
in tone, is greatly to be regretted, and must ne
cessary affect both its usefulness and circulation.
READINGS Y0UNG MEN, MERCHANTS AND MEN OF Brs.
LESS Published by James Munrce & Co, BOSTON,
This little book, which is reprinted from Lon
don edition, is addressed to young men engaged in
business and is designed to incucate lessons of er
camille honor and morality, and the necessity of
energy, industry and business-habits in order to
success in life. 1t seems to be free. in measure
from the feproach incident generally to books of
its class-;hat they hold up merely ma erial sue
cess as the only object in life, ana teach phioso
ply that is correspondingly narrow and selfish.
"EELlGLous ~ MoRtL SENTENCES, CULLED FROM THIS
& on or @ ,9apaed wh Sacred Passages
EacK D. IirvTGxcro u u P,bs5s1 b by f G
re &Co. Boston. lsmo., PIP. 226. Reprint
The American editor of this work anticipates
the criticism most likely to be made upon it, when
he admits, as he frankly does in his Preface to the
volume, that the attempt to collate and compare
S1olr1. IL.
star, and that many of the alleged resem-
"blances are fanciful, and many of the apparent
correspondence purely accidental STILL
the book Is interesting, if for nothing else
as showing the extent to which the phraseoogy
of the Bible has colored and shaped our language
and the productions of its greatest writer. As
collection OF Shakspearean quotations, it includes
OF course, many of the finest passages in the works
OF the poet-thOse in which sentiments of the
purest and loftest morality are clothed in language
oil corresponding dignity and majesty. One por-
uoh OF the extracts is arranged with the view of
e'ucidatng, il possible, the long-mooted question
as to whether Shakespeare was a Catholic or Pro-
testaht. 1he compiler takes the Protestant side
"l the controversy, and, in support of his view
gives long list OF sentences from King John, the
lst and I'd parts of Henry W, and from Henyy
"been inclined, or would have dared to mt into
''the mouths of his dramatjs persona" The book
is admirably printed, an embellished with an
engraving on steel, after the Chandos portrait of
Shakespeare.
FnIENLs IN CouNc Series Of Readings and Discourses
'hereoh' Ne" Seri,s James Munroe * Co. 2yols
ms Is new edition of work already sufi-
GENTLY well known to require no further introduc-
ton to readers
FAIEr nEhah o. Manderiogs in ElELand BY JANE G.
AUSTIN d. = iii-7h x Co, Boston. pp 2ls - "A'- We
the LIFE ASn ADVENTURES Or DANDY lace PutIisro, h.
the anne PIP 100 avn ""'iShed ny
These little books belong to the department or
Juvenile literature, and ought to be higblv
Die to the taste which they are designed to n,aasa
Both are neatly gotten up and clevery illustrated
In the ose-tinted pages of Miss Austins book on
chanted castles appear and disappear; Undines
and mer-maidens rise and vanish: mario
flutes are heard to sound, and magic
flowers bud and blossom after the manner Of
the most approved fairy tales which we read in the