The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-10-04
NEW BOOKS.

FROM James >. W alters, Baltimore street:
TIoXs, BY JOIN PooLE, Esd, author Of PAU T'Tp
new edition. vol l2mo 1859 Alsc-
reSse az H. a Being S @ years
LIAM BURROWS. vol. 12mo 1859.
The above are from the press of Routledge
Warne Routledge: London and New York
MIR. Poole must be allowed certain amount of
Ufs co"ca, but it is wholly that of distortion and
caricature. There is perpetual stranng in the
Names incidents and dialogues of these sketches af
ter the ridiculous, which produces very disagreea-
BILE effect. If the whole world were turned upside
down there would be nothing remarkable in
man standing on his head, and so in the midst of
universal Misrepresentation, there is opportunity
Tor contrasts, on which alone the of the ludi-
crous depends Goldsmith observes that the COM
pany of fools may at first make us SMILE but can
not in the end fail to leave us sad Without being
fool himself, Mr.. Poole deals with fools and fool
ish things only, and therefore becomes bore
The "Mounted Trooper" does no credit to any,
body concerned in its production. The title itself
is blunder. For "trooper" to be ''mounted' is a
| troopers understood and normal condition. dis
mounted trooper is one whose peculiar situation
might require definition. One would expect from
the personal narrative of member of the horse
police of Australia, novel and stirring if not
startling adyentures-brought into daily contact
as these must be- with many ofthe most picturesque
and accomplished graduates of the worlds
seminaries of crime No such thing -
Such adventures chasing a kangaroo
with dogs and horses, catching an outlaw
and his execution, man being bitten by snake
and cured by burning gunpowder on the wound,
&C., &C., are given with about as much detail, and
possess as much interest such things usually
have in an ordinary index. In his preface the
author says: CHS long sojourn in the Bush and
oher parts of the interior under peculiarly avora-
''be circumstances for observation has enabled him
"to give rather full account of many objects of
"Natural History" Now the natural history of
Australia is quite curious--its ornithology partcu.
larly so. The following is a specimen of his sob
servations" on this branch: EQUALS are in
"some places very plentiful, especially in
"stubbles, and the long grass of the swamps
ION the plains, which are dry in summer
"Dogs being seldom used when shooting them the
cloud whirring noise they make when they rise is
rather startling to any accustomed to shooting
"with dogs; moreover, they fly only short dis
stance and very fast, rather quick shooting is re-
"quired;at harvest time they very fat although
"rather small. When only wounded, they are very
"cunning in getting away; and, as they run so far
"and lie so close there is very little chance of find
Sing bird without dog, unless shot dead. The au-
thorreserves the right of Translation and if the book
were worth it, we might suggest that many of his
sentences would be improved by being done into
English. but inasmuch as we think that those who
read that language are not likely to take any great
interest in these "Adventures," the author had
better translate them into the tongue of that peo
pie, whoever they may be, who are individually
willing to pay "eighteen pence for a narrative of
l96 pages, which tells morestory than Canning's
Knife-grnder.
Mr.. Waters has also sent u.s. from the press of
Ticknor & Fields Boston: .4;t
RAB AND HIS FRIENDS. By JoHN BROWN, NJ D. Also
ALMOST HEROINE BY the author of Charles chichester,
THOMAS De QgIXcEr author of The Confessions Of an En-
gttSh Opium Eater, dc, dc. / vol II mo, 1859.
This is a much better lott Rdb and his Friends,
is little thirty-one page tract illustrated by the
head of its mastif hero, asleep-bearing a
strong likeness to that of Doctor Samuel Johnson
1t is mere sketch an eight by ten board, with
out frame or gliding, but is not the less unique
a piece of high art-the master hand being as ap-
parent it could be made in much more elaborate
production. We should like to reprint RAD entire,
and may perhaps some day give it at length in our
WEEKLY. latI .rH
But this is the way in which JOHN BRowN, doctor |
of medicine, paints his hero's likeness:
81 wish you could have seen him. There are no |
such dogs now. He belonged to a lost tribe ASH |
have said, he was brindled, and gray like Rubis |
law granite; his hair short, hard and close like
lions; his body thick set, like little bull-a sort
o. OF compressed Hercules Of dog. He must have
peen ninety pounds weight, at the least; he had
large blunt head; his muzzle black as night, his |
mouth packer than any night, tooth or two-be-
ing all ne had.gieamng out of his jaws of dark
ness. bis head was SCARED with the records of |
olo wounds, sort of series of fields of battle all
over Il; one eye out one ear cropped as close, as
was Arenolshop Leghton's fathers: the remaining
eye nad the power of two; and above it. and in con-
slant communication with it, was tattered rag of
aa ear a,g which ae6 was forever unurg itself like
1 ; lag ana tnen that bud of tail, about one
men long, ii it could in any sense be said to be
long, being as broad as long-the mobility. the in
stantaneousness Of that bud were very funny and
surprising, and its expressive twinklings and wink