Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-09-20
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tation his topic relates to matters funda-
mentally connected with social and individual
well being and he writes with great sincerity
and earnestness. Nevertheless this book is in
measure diseased book, and therefore can
not be wholesome for general readers in Eng
land or the United States. 1t tends to lower
and degrade our ideal of woman. Michelet
holds that woman is necessarily, not only an
invalid, but also very weak, unreliable,
childish creature, who must be tended and
watched with great care. He knows what
women are in Paris; he does not seem to
know what they are anywhere else. In Paris
he admits, there is universal withering,"
so that his purest woman sees Cher friends in
girlhood, almost every one of them, undergo
bondage to shame" and "affect at first to con-
slider her strange and ridiculous" 1t is pre-
posterous, to say the least for anybody to
deny that any book which finds nowhere else
so high style of womanhood as the 'inevita-
Bile Partisan" finds in Paris, is altogether I'M
suitable for general readers in this country
We repeat it, the book is diseased And, if it
were not so, it would be fit only for mature
persons who have time and disposition to study
it, In all this, we have said the worst of the
book that can be said justly. 1t is for sale
here by E. Mellen, Jr.
"THE BEAUTIES AND ACHIEVEMENTS OF
THE BLIND" is the title of duodecimo volume
of nearly four hundred pages, which has been
laid on our table by a blind man, Mr.. VIM.
Artman. Its contents are chiefly from his
PEN There are in it, however, various poems
by another blind man, Mr.. L. V. Hall, and the
whole constitutes book which would be cred
table to any man with good ability and good
| eyes also. 1t has n literary value which
should make it attractive, and therefore Mr..
Altman will be likely to find purchasers for
It, lie is now in the city, and if we under
stand him Alright, he will solicit purchasers. or
seek in some way to circulate the book. his
livelihood being somewhat dependent on the
sales He says in the introduction :-"Wa
nave been induced to enter the arena of book
making by desire to disseminate more cor
rect and extended knowledge of blindness. and
its effects upon mental and physical develop
ment than the reading public has hitherto DOS
sessed" And the book will have good uses
whereyerit goes.
PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES: Containing
sketches, biographical, personal, and POLITICAL
OF prominent Candidates for the Presidency in
1860. By D. W. Bartlett New York A. B.
| Burdfck, puD1lslIer. L MS book was written
with hope of selling it proftaby, very much
as Mr., Bartlett wrote life of Franklin Pierce
seven or eight years ago. His life of Pierce
did not, like Hawthornes, win a profitable Con
sulship, and for this difference there are very
| good and sufficient reasons, which are yery
obvious even to careless observers. Whether
anything of that kind will be won by this book
remains to be seen. We happen to know that
one or two who are here enrolled as candidates
for the Presidency are sufficiently indignant at
the impertinence which represents them as
candidates, to shoot the presuming author, if
shooting could mend the matter. 1t is very
certain that Mr.. Bartlett has made some men
swear terribly, and made a few others under
stand how protane men feel when they swear.
We advise all concerned to take it cooIlv.
Leave Mr. Bartlett to sell his book in peace.
1t will harm nobody, even if it be impertinent.
For sale by E. Mellen, Jr.
Miss SLIMMENs' WINDOW, and other Pa.
pers. By Mrs. Mark Peabody. With humo-
rous illustrations. New York Derby & Jack
son. This book has some merit Besides the
paper on "Miss Alvira Slimmens, Miller" and
her window" there are "The Tallow Fami
ly in America" and "Lucy in the City," with
a sequel entitled "Mr. Fitz Foom in the Coun-
try" The last named sketches seem to us
the best. For sale by E. Mellen, Jr
The BRITISH NovELIsTs AND THEIR
STYLES BY David Mason, NJ. A., has been
republished from the English edition by Gould
& Lincoln, Boston. Mr.. Mason has intro
duced himself to American readers in his life
of Milton, the first volume of which has been
issued here by the same publishers. He is
professor of English Literature in the Uniyer-
sity of London. This volume contains the
substance of several lectures which he deliver
ed at Ednburg, last year. We have in it
comprehensive survey of English fiction, with
a large account of Scott and his influence.
The MATHEMATICAL MONTHLY, for Sep
TENDER, completes the first year of this publ
cation, which has been well conducted and sue
cessful. 1t is published at Cambridge by John
Bartlett, and edited by J. ID. Kunkle.
| JOHN MEALS New BooK.-The New York
Evening Post has a Boston letter frem which
we take the following :-"Among the an.
nouncements of new books is "True Woman.
hood" by John Neal, which will be read with
a good deal of eagerness by all who have
| known that eccentric and brilliant genius.
Thirty or forty years ago, at an age when
most men are beginning to lay the foundation
of reputation, John Neal, having made and
| lost fortune in a mercantile partnership with
| John Pierpont, and practced as much law as
he ever wished for, was famous, both in this
country and in England, as n novelist and es-
sayist. The columns of Blackwood and the
shelves Of circulating libraries were reposto-
rics Of his spirited illusions While in Eng
land he was, for upwards of a year, an inmate
of Jeremy Bontham's house, and knew him
intimately. The editor Of the English edition
of Bentham's works quotes him as saying in
reference to his restlessness, that he would as
soon have a rattesnake in his house us Neal. I"
But with all his resllessness, there was no ven
ON. For many years Mr.. Neal has lived in
Portland, where his pecularites used to form
one Of the staples OF conversation, until the
! Grand Trunk Railway and the Great Eastern
steamship came to the relief of that ancient
and enterprsing town. No man has more
brilliant social qualities, and there is no richer
treat than to hear John Neal, when the fit is
on him, relate, by the hour, with yivacity
which never flags, anecdotes Of the men of wit
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