Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1859-06-30
New Publications.

Those kind-hearted gentlemen, the Pub
fishers, are always up to the times. They al
WAYS have something fresh and suited to the
season. They never give us the strongest
intellectual aliment in the summer time; but
something light, spicy, cool and refreshing.
They have set upon our table the following
for which we 'retGrn thanks" Each and all
Of this city. who are probably the most ex-
tensive Booksellers in the South:
SEAcIIFF; the Mystery ofthe Wesiervelts BY ]. W.
DE Forest, author OF ''oricntal Acquaintance, sc
Boston: Phillips, Sampson Il Co, 1889
a book that will do to put in your valise
and carry along in your summer rambles; or
il you be not going jaunting you can throw
yourselves in your easy chair, between the
two windows of your study and read -
till you fall asleep. But if you do that, your
SAUNDERS will be pervaded with dreams of
the very pictures you were unwilling at the
moment the eyelids come togather, and sleep
ing or waking you will have the Mysterious
Westervelts" before you. When you have
finished it you may be able TO remember the
plot distinctly till next fall, and the ''Clif'
itself for several years.
THE TENANT HoUsE; Embers from Poverty Hearth
stone. New York Robert NJ De Witt
Published first a year or two ago and never
bad very great run" But that matters
not. SOME of these 'embersn are still glow
ing and may yet,serve better end than to be
"spit upon. There is much in them to ex-
cite the sympathies and make us feel for
others woes" Where else in this happy
country could such "tenant hous." as this
be, but in New York? From the poor hearth
stones" Of that city the scenes are drawn,
aud they will touch many a heart in their
simple unadornment.
HIoH ILsE N NEW YosK. BY Jonathan Slick. Series
Of Letter 10 Mr., Zephar.ah Slick, Justice Of the
Peace, and Deacon IL the Charch over 70 weathers.
neld in the Of Connecticut Philadelphia: 7.
2. Peterson Brothers.
The "High Llfer OF MFR. Slick has also been
before the public for several years. Ii is the
exposition OF the Impressions made upon a
Connecticut Yankee, by York Yankee-the
high-hying Yankee of York-him that Willis
calls the Fifth Avehudle. To Judge of the
style of their literary efforts we should con-
ciude that Jonathan was brother Of Sam, of
the ''fall blood.n While Sam was gifted with
good deal OF sound sense. which was always
dlscernible under the rough exterior of un-
c"uth expression, Jonathan generally maas
ges TO produce the impression that he j.
natural fool.' under any aud ev.ry form
OF expression. But be Is not u small smiling.
staggering. siekening speeimsH OF the species
rather fresh. large, nnforced. natural one.
that We can abide with tolerable patience
till We have pernsed his ''lrtters." He makss
some ''good hitsp aud "will do 10 take along"
AKsAH Nat; or, Times q oie. Novel. BY O. ?.
r James hrse volanss eonpGeie ia ose. Fhsl
AdeiPaa' ny T. b Fstsrsoa Brothers.
A tale OF Eaglish liie ..ahout lxo eeatarIes
ago. This isesming somewhat nearer our
times than is the custom OF soar snfhor.n
We eonhdIngly trust that be has Dot more
than ifly. seventy-hve. or "A hundred other
novels 10 sFlie. bsiure ne shall hare one
sf,aitsIgd on resl iiis' in this hey daY of civil