Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1859-02-01

THE LAND AND THE Book; Or Biblical illustrations drawn
from the Manners and Customs the Scenes and
scenery Of the Holy Lind. by W. NJ. Thomson DID.
In two volumes. New York: Harper Il Brothers.
1859.
Christendom will never cease TO look with
| a roverential interest to the Holy Land. The
scenes from among which was quarried the
corner stone of the Church, will never pass
from before the Christian vision, nor out of
the Christian heart. These will always re-
main fresh There is not crumbling stone
of the once holy city that has not its place in
the temple of history, or that does not cast
some ftful CLEAN athwart the infinite and
gloomy chambers of tradition--not brook
or fountain of the Holy Land that is not
holy in its associations, nor sprig of grass
| that is not sacred for springing from the sod
consecratcd by the tread of God incarnate.
The Temple and the Court, Calvary, and the
Scpulchre, when shall we read enough, and
know enough and feel enough of these! We
have had books almost without number con-
corning them; but the world reads with I'M
tagging interest each succeeding one The
author of the one before us possessed pecu-
liar advantages for the work. He has been
for twenty five years in the country, and his
whole soul and mind and heart is flooded with
his theme. Of-course his book will be read
because, il such books are written with even
moderate taste and skill and style, they are
irresistible. Mr.. THoMsoN's work is accom-
panied by maps and large number Of excel
lent engraviugs, besides being written in an
easy and graceful style, and is in all other
respects valuable and good.
THE PoKucAL woRKs OF FITz.GREEyB HALLEcN : New
Edition.. New York: d. Appleton Co 1885,
No library is complete that does not en-
brace in its catalogue the poetical works of
HALI.ECK, one of the best that America has
produced. This is neat volume, for which
the public win thank the Industrious and
always tasteful publishers.
ARAmAS DAYS ESrEArAIsMENrs- Translated by
Herbert Pelham Curtis Boston: Phillips, Sampson
4 Co. 1855.
This work is modelled after the arabian
Nights Entertainments" and attained wide
spread popularity in the original German.
The translation here presented is said by the
critics to be faithful and true. To employ |
the leisure hours of children and 10 cultivate
the imagination without injury TO the judg- |
ment il is well adapted. We know of nobody |
who has not read, at some time or other, and
been completely absorbed and delighted with |
the Arabian Nights. aud this Of the Days will |
also prove highly pleasing
wmrE IT WAS MoRNISG. By vlRaru, F. TOWNSEND.
New York: Derby X Jackson. ,ls5s.
This is portraiture, by not an unskilled |
hand of the common life of human beings. |
It. plot Is not Intricate. but ii possesses de-
gree Of straight forward interest, which gives
IL oleveruvss that many of its class do not
attain. We are somewhat iatigued with the |
down-eastisms that make so /
much of the tenth or twelfth rate literary out
flow Of the times. Hasn't WEBSTER been In
long enough TO correct the hord-
BILE provincialisms of this great, learned ae-
tive and industrious yankee natlonl Is YAK
AXE HUI. TO reign perPetnally in our hearts,
or Ia our libraries, or ia our mouths; The in
lsisl page Of the boOk NO are now striving To
consider good, is wretehedly dizhxared by this
sentence, purporting to come from one SEuI /
RoBISs, who figures In the story, and has
'-smali. sharp, blue eyes, set under shaggy
brows: ''fon don't say, nows reckon that's |
real nice. lios old are you. though -
"waile Il Is morning" with our literature,
we want no such horrible grammatical clouds
to cut OF the beams of ils rising sun. We /
fancy the talent Of The fair saihoress could |
manifest itself without them. There are three /
thing that have crept into the stream II our
current reading, which Ne take this occasion
toreprobate. list. The yeoa-dsoa say sD-lsms
that We have just referred b. End Thea |
slave philanthropy that il wrung la, AID /