The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-08-23
NEW BOOKS.

From Jas. s. Waters, No. 244 Baltimore street:
GERMANY By Madame the Baroness De stael Holstein,
with notes and appendices. BY o W. WRIGHT, A NJ In
Jackson iI9 Nassau street 1855 ''A De'"S
The statue of Madame De SrAEL stands in that
niche of the temple of fame which it is always to
occupy. . The most masculine of female minds, the
most English of French auhors-her place is in the
very front of the women of genius of the world.
We make no attempt to anayse the character of her
intellect, nor need we repeat the well known cata-
logue of the works of her productive pen In the
present translation of what Sir JAMES Macintosh
has not hestated to pronounce the greatest work of
female genius, we recognise another most valuable
accession to the beautiful editions of French
Classics passing through the press of Derby &
Jackson, which we have heretofore had occasion
to speak of in terms of high commendation
From Cushings & Bailey, 262 Baltimore street:
FROM DAYLIGHT; or the simple story of Western
Home by Minister'S wife l vol. l2mo PIP 339. Derby
The authoress declares that this memoir was pre-
pared for the amusement of her own domestic
circle, and we agree with the Judgment of the
friends who persuaded her to admit larger audi
enee to share the interest which her slight and
graceful narrative possesses Not Intentionally the
book is sad, and leaves the palate taste of bit
terness. The spectacle it discoses, of youth and
health and talent wasted, and toll unpaid in any
sense, of premature grey hairs and early wrinkles,
of the long struggle, bravely borne, and the
final inevitable defeat-faithfully presented, as it
obviously is, and not uncommon, as we are com
PEELED to believe, is yet painful and depressing.
TEN YEARS OF PREAcHER-IIFE: Chapters from an Auto
Biography By WILLIAM Henry MILBuRN, author of
PIP, 1863 New York: Derby jackson. 1859
This is, out and out, an American book-as much
American as hickory and tulip trees, or Mis-
sissippi and Niagara. 1t is a book composed
wholly of American materials, which none but an
American could gather together or put together
which none but American could write-becau
it is written in the American, and not in the Eng
sh language-and which could be written so efec
lively in no other. 1t is book, moreover, which,
though genial, and, in its graphic sketches
of American life, of even cosmopolitan interest
will be completely enjoyed and appreciated
only by Americans. 1t is in short, mos complete
though unconscious expression of almost every
thing that separates or distinguishes American
civilization from all others.
1t is a collection of the authors memories
and observations-not an autobiography but
sufficiently autobiographcal to lend it the strong
hue of interest which attaches to personal narra-
tive at all times. His means of observation have
been unrivalled, and he is the very man to have
improved them to the utmost. The thought Of
writing his life was suggested to Mr.. MnBURN, on
Nahant beach, he says, by the poet LoNGFELLow,
and in less than week afterwards the historian
PREsooTT also asked him why he did not do it, Like
PREscorT he is but remove from being entirely
blind-a state resulting like PREscorr's from an ac
cident in early youth. No one probably, however
better able to dictate to his amanuenss than
who has formed himself in such a school of
extempore speaking as the Methodist itinerancy.-
1t is impossible to imagine anything more fresh and
| glowing than his sentences.
This is a book which no one will fail to finish who
begins to read. In running through its pages, we
marked many paragraphs for the printer, but our
want of space compes US to omit most of
them. Those we present rather indiscriminate-
ly taken.
WESTERN PRIE-DIEU.
One of our old preachers, the Rev. s. Fl. Thomp-
son, was travelling circuit in Tennessee at an
| early day. He was invited to cross the mountains
| and visit settlement where preacher had never
been. The entire population turned out to give
him hearty welcome and to hear his message
In the midst of his discourse, man rode up to the
| edge of the assembly and aighted; whereupon,
every man, woman and child in the congregation
rushed to the newcomer to ask and hear the news
| Az MARTY with an encnura Oin0 lnok and