New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-05-09
RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

Through Messrs. ]. G. Morgan & Co., of Exchange
Place, the publishers have sent us copies of the fol
lowing:
THE LIFE OF NORTH AMERICAN INSECTS. By B. Jae-
ger, late Professor of Zoology and Botany in the
College Of New Jersey. New York Harper l.
Brothers.
e well.gotten up work q most interesting
branch of natural SCIENCE The seven orders Of Amer
lean insects, towit beetles, bugs, straghtwing ed
insects, moths and butterflies, and netwinged vein.
winged and two-winged insects, are infinitely de-
scrbed in all their varieties their histories habits
and peculiarites being detailed in genial and some.
times humorous manner. There are seventy illustra-
tons in the work. which is neatly printed octave of
800 pages
LOVE NE LITTLE, LOVE Me LONG. By Charles
Reade author of I" White Lies" etc. New York:
Harper & Brothers.
A novel of 435 pages, written in the vigorous and
somewhat eccentric style of" White Lies.' We doubt
not it is sufficiently interesting story
The ROMANCE AND ITS HERO By the author of "Mag-
dalen Stafford New York: Harper & Bros.
four hundred page story of English life-a story
the kind best suited to lady reading.
MORE ABOUT JESUS. By the author of i" Peep Of
Day." Reading without Tears etc. New York
Harper u Bros.
pretty little book for young people, profusely il
lustrated with woodcus. tits simplication of the
life of the Savior and is intended Sunday school
book having in it questions to be propounded to the
children after their readings.
The ANrIoUARY. THE ABBOTT. By Walter Scott.
Philadelphia 7. B. Peterson & Bros.
Two more of the weekly twenty-five cent edition of
the Waverley Novels In this cheap shape the novels
sell amazingly well.
ECLECTIC MAGAZINE of Foreign Literature for May.
New York: w. FL. Bidwe.
Containing the choicest selections from the British
Reviews, and two beautiful mezzotint engravings,
representing the Condemnation of the Princess
Lambale," and Marie Antonette going to Execu-
tom
HAMPERS MAGAZINE for May New York Harper
4 Brothers.
An uncommonly fine number, in both reading mat.
ter and illustration. The present number closes the
eighteenth volume. The illustrated papers are The
Lamentable Complaint of Katharine Maria Pop
pelle, Flies" Loungngs in the Footprints of the
Pioneers,'' The Virgnians,' and " Fashions for
May"
WAvERLEy. By Walter Scott. Philadelphia 7. B.
Peterson & Brothers.
Another of the twenty-five cent series of the Scott
novels, now issuing weekly by the Petersons.
TRAGIC FEATs OF THE INsANE.-On the LIST inst,
at Sand Lake, near Troy, N. Y, an old man, named
John Belding, beat out his own daughters brains
with hammer, while he was laboring under fit of
insanity. The murdered girl was 10 years old Beld-
ing is now in Jail in this city.
On the I'd inst, in Southwe Fleet, Mass, Samuel
Fish shot Mr.. Eben S. Ward, his father n.law dead.
Fish then tried 10 shoot himself but the gun missed
fire. The murderer first alarmed the family by throw
ing bricks through the windows, when Mrs. Ward
his wife, got out of bed lighted lamp and looked
out to find tine cause of such strange proceeding
and soon after the fatal shot was fired through the
window. Fish WAS arrested and confessed the deed
He had occasionally been insane.