Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-04-04
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Hook Notices.

ABRD0ESr o. DEBATES CoNeEEs 7ss to 1856,
by the Author of the Thirty Years View. New York: D.
Appleton Co.
We have received the twelfth volume of this val
liable compilation covering the period from the as
sembng of the second session of the Twenty-second
Congress, December 3. 1882, to the close Of the
Sanate's proceedings of the first session of the
Twenty-fourth Congress, July 4. 1896.
For sale by Mcssrs W. T. BERRY d Co
MEDICAL ADVISER full aad plain The theory
and practice OF Medicine suited Planters and Farmers
we'll as to beginners in the study Medicine and Of
reference for the pracouee by EZIN THOMPSON " D. Of
Nashville, Tenn " Thompson Fever Dysente
&c" and enlarged edition, EMIT led, Thompson Fever
wh ApPendiN' Germantown Tenn, published by Isaac
". Bliss.
The above is the comprehensive ttle-page of
substantial and well printed volume Of eleven hun
,lred and thirty pages which the publisher has laid
upon our table. A peculiarly about this work and
one which viii De fully appreciated by the purchas
en- is the plain. clear and common sense style adop
ted by the author and to which he faithfully aGhcrcs
throughout lie acknowledge, the assistance rem
dered by other authors, but insists that he has
drawn principally upon his own knowledge and ex-
perience." obtained by an energetic and lntiring
devotion to the duties of the profession OF his choice
for time equal to the average length of mans life
His work on Fcyers, which has already obtained
quite an extensive sale-the second edition being
nearly exhausted-is embraced in this book
before us as is also some fifty pages ON indigenous
remedies a chapter of formulas or recipes a table
of medicines for family use, and glossary of tech
mical and principa! words. DIR. THOMSON is an old
and respected practitioner and his experience. en-
bodied in this form. viii be OF invaluable service
TO many family where 1t is nConvenient to call in
physician.
CONVENTION OF YouNG MEx's Christian Assocl-
.riovs-The approaching annual Convention of the
Young Mems Christian Associations to assemble at
New Orleans on the llth inst, is elcitug considera
BILE attention. This will be tie seventh of these
annual conversations. the last having been held at
Troy, New York, June. 1859. The expressions
of cordially the part df the New Orleans breth-
rem. and the disposition already manifested to
make the soiourn OF The delegates as pleasant as
possible. viii induce large numbers to visit the
Crescent City at the most propitous season of the
year.
Miss AUGUSTA J. Evans. the accomplished author
css of Beuah." while in a bookstore IN Mont
,omerv. Ala. one day last week, was recommend
ed to buy a copy of that popular book clerk re
marking that lac thought il wolu5 please her.
Too Mech STUBY.-The School Committee have
forbidden the assignment of lessons for study ont Of
school in the Boston school for girls. The city ply
stefan had become convinced Of the alarming evils
resulting.from such studies
/ According to an official statement just made, Ten
-. has racaived under the act Of IS0s. % 900
- and rifles from the General Government.
sole number distributed to the various States
is HeNg
Gr..N coFrNs.-Giass Theoretically sealed collins,
C,,xo,. patent. the first of that material in the
world n I've been successfully made at the Louis
vile cIas works.
The b,buse of Louls AGLER residing three miles
from Is.iayette, Ind was burnt down on the SON
ult, while he and his wife were absent and their
two children persisted in the flames