The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-11-14
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THE MORAL HISTORY WOMAN. From the French of
Ernest LegOuve, of the academic Frdncaise Lecturer
in the College of France author of Edith de FdlSen,
&c &c Translated from the fifth Paris edition by j. W
Palmer NJ. D., author of The neW and the Old &c, &c.
vol, l2mo, PIP 34S. New York; Rudd Carleton,
1850.
The announcement of a new translation by DR..
Palmer of French book the Moral History of
Women will recall those of Michelet's two remark
able works La Femme and EAmonr, from the
pen. In notice Of these, we expressed some
doubt about the propriety their introduction into
the company of English books. There was so much
OF that which. in France, may be mere scientific
speculation, but Which, to ourmore rigid 4o1:~"H.
pears like philosophical prurience, that we thought
| their curious bonding of anatomy and metaphy-
sizes quite as liloly to excite Passions to in
form the understanding. Whatever might =
| been deene' u The tendency ofth"I "o"e'e mo
>iid deny the -.u.al sable excellence and ee-
A., gance of the translation; and in regard to the
work before us we are happy to say, that while
the rendering is equally felicitous, there is not
line which, for trenchiug too freely on the sacred
privacy Of the relations of SEX the most delicate
would care to blot. The book interests US, howev
er, quite much by the numerous historical il
Illustrations which the author has used in his
gument as by any novel treatment of the top
les discussed Most of the propositions advanced
will be admitted without hesitation BY American
readers, who will frequently find the condition of
women, in this country, adduced as proof of our
progress in the right direction.
| From John Murphy d Co., Baltimore street,
| Baltimore:
ROSEMARY; OR LIFE AND DEATH. By L. yINOENT HUNT
trated by Geo. G. White. vol, 12mo PIP. ST. New
| York: d. 4 j. Ssder. 1860.
1t would be unfair to pass over this novel with
out some special notice. With many glazing de-
fects do not hesitate to it the best pic
ture of American society, or more properly speak
ing, New York city life, which has fallen under our
observation. Our novel writers, chiefly female,
who strive to reproduce from memory and imagi-
nation something resembling the English model, al
most invariably lay their scene in the Sou.h-com-
monty in Virginia-because it is only there that
anything can be found parallel with country life
in England. The semblance is remote enough,
yet still, where the exigencies of the story call
for the development of the family, particularly in
Its relations with ancestry, hospitality and social
| influence, this can nowhere else be found in this
country. Another class of stories finds its habitat
among the country homes of New England.
| A people so homogeneous and so peculiar
as those who dwell between the Hud-
son and the sea, is mine of untold wealth to the
writer of fiction who shall understand the working
| VI IL. A1eIo 4hls- StoWe may RdlueT ueT gTeenesL
laurels, and DR.. Holmes find, in his age, fame
to overshadow the promise of his youth 1t
is only in great cities, however, that those strong
melo-dramatic contrasts exist which have furnished
materials for such writers as Dumas and Sue, and,
with the single exception of Paris there is no me-
tropolis in the world where they so abound as in
New York. That DR.. Huntington has availed him.
self of the social marves of that vast city, may be
inferrad he fact aie
to the reader in a dissecting room, to which she is
brought, for sale, from Greenwood in patent
metallic burial-case, by her family ,coachman and
| fashionable mulatto waiter. She is arrayed
in her bridal attire, having By the art of Quaker
physician skilled in Eastern potions, been placed in
a state of suspended animation at the very moment
of her marriage to a French Count, who is here on
leave of absence from the trenches of Sevastopol.
She is restored to apparent life by the anatomical
| demonstration, who with some members of his class
minister to our government from foreign power,
and young New York sculptor, form a profession
al and amateur dssecting party. 1t is the unrav-
cling of this mystery, the righting of various
wrongs and the details of the inevitable ofaire
damour, to which the 500 pages of Messrs. Sad.
lier's good type devoted. This book is destined
to have large sale.
From Rudd & Carleton, New York, and for sale
by Henry Taylor:
THE GREAT PREPARATION, or Redemption Draweth Nigh,
By the Rev JOHN CUNNING D. D., F. R. S. E.. Minis.
ter of the Scottish National Church. Crown Court Co
vent Garden author of The Great Tribuldtion, &c
First series. vol. limo, PIP. 259. 1860.
| Also:
THE MORAL HISTORY OF WOMEN.
From Crosby, Nichols, Lee & Company Boston,
and for sale by Cushings & Bailey:
LIFE AND RELIGION OF THE HINDoos, with Sketch of
my Life and Experience By JoGUTH CHUNDER GAN
| GooLY, baptized Philip. l vol limo, PIP. 306
| 1860
Some of our readers will remember the author of
this little book, Mr.. Gangooy, as lecturer in this
country, in which capacity he appeared in this
city. He is a young Hindoo, who came to the
United States to be instructed in the doctrines of
Christianity to qualify him for the duties of mis-
sionary in India. He has written work which
none but native could write, since none but a ma
tive could become perfectly familiar with all the
thousand peculiarties of Indian society.
Also: F.ti. 7a 30
| PETER Pallets TALES AMERICA. With engravings.
| Revised Edition. Pine. Philadelphia Charles Desil-
| yer & Co.; Baltimore Cushings Bailey. 1850.
From Peterson Brothers, Philadelphia, and for
sale by Henry Taylor ANS -.,.
| TIE MAN WITH FIVE WIVES; By ALEXANDRIA DUMAS.
| THE RUINED CANISTER: By.GEoRGE W. N. REYNOLDS.
Each complete in one volume in paper.
From Little, Brown & Co., Boston; for sale by
Cushings Bailey:
INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN LAW. Designed as first
book for Students. By TIMOTHY WALKER, L. D., late
Professor of Law in the Cincinnati College. Fourth
edition. VOL, svo., PIP. 77s. 1850.
Walkers American Lao has reputation both well
deserved and well established, as preliminary treat
use for the law student of the United States The
work was composed In series of lectures, which