New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-08-10
RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

We have received the following list of new
books, through ]. G. Morgan & Co., Of Exchange
| Place:
HooKERs ILLUsyRATED NATURAL HISTORY. New
| York: Harper Hrothers
| A neat and valuable book for the use Of schools
and families, written by talented author. and
| illustrated by nearly three hundred engravings.
RIGHT AT LAST, and other Tales. By Mrs. Gas
| kell. New York: Harper Brothers.
Four fine stories from Household Words and
"AIl the Year Round.n 1.-THE Manchester Mar.
| riage,n Louis the Witch,t and ''The Crooked
Branch" complete the category. zm.
CASTLE RICHMoND. A novel by Anthony Trollope.
New York: Harper 4 Brothers.
THE THREE CLERKS. A novel, by Anthony Troll
lope. New York: Harper \ Brothers.
Two bulky stories of English life, by an author
| who is becoming widely known and popular in the
literary world.
ErRPIDEs Vol. l. New York: Harper & Brothers
Another of the series of tht-,9arpers' Greek
and Latin texts; a valuable companoR for stu
dents Of the classics.
| Lowell THE WIDowER. BY W. NJ. Thackeray.
New York: Harper Brothers.
The story complete, in cheap FORM which has
been running through Harper's Magazine.
| The SAND HILLS OF JerLASD. By Hans Christian
Anderson. Boston Ticknor & Fields.
,
| gether, illustrative of life and scenery in the icy
latitudes-a charming book for young people es-
| pecially.
| LIcuEN TUFTS, from the Alleghanies. By Eliza
beth G. Wright. New 1ork NJ, Doolady.
| collection of prose and poetic sketches and
| dreamings by one who evidently has soul for the
! beauties and the wonders of nature. 1t may be
read with profit as well as entertainment by both
| young and old.
THE WooD RANGERS, or the Trappers of Sonora.
| BY Capt. Mayne Reid New York: Robert NJ.
De Witt.
Now, boys, you may clap your hands again, for
| here is another story of wild adventure by Mayne
Reid! 1t is handsomely illustrated and the read
ing of it will be feast to all.
AuroB1oGR ArI1cAL REGoLLECTIoNs. By the late
Charles Robert Leslie, r. A. Edited by Tom
Taylor, Esq. Boston; Tieknor & Fields.
An interesting collection of sketches and remin-
iscences of one of England most famous painters.
1t will afford much pleasure in art circles. Il is
accompanied by lengthy introduction from the
| pen of the editor.
TRAVELS, RESEARCHES AND MISSIONARY LABoRs,
during an Eighteen Years Residence in Eastern
Africa. BY the Rev. DR.. j. Lewis Krapf, Seere-
tary of the Chrishona Institute at Basel, etc.
| Boston: Ticknor Fields.
Every explorer of Africa visits scenes unvisited
| by his predecessors and discovers fresh wonders !;
hence, in this volume by Dr. krapf may be found
much to entertain and instruct, after all that has
been written by other missionaries and explorers.
1t is a handsome volume of $50 pages, with map
of the country explored.
| WING-AND-WING. BY James Fenimore Cooper.
New York W. A. Townsend & Co.
Another of the series of Cooper's novels now
| issuing from the press of Townsend Co. As re-
CARDS paper, print and binding, this series has
| never been riyaled by anything from the American
press.
ONE AND TWENTY. BY the author of WildHower,' -
/ g The House of Emore, etc. New y York Rob-
1 ert NJ. Dewitt
A story of London life, in cheap fornl-highly
praised by those who have readit.
JESSIE CAMERON. A Highland Story. By the Lady
Rachel Butler. New York: Robert NJ. Dewitt.
A story in cheap form. It's highly spoken Of by
the London critical journals
BEAcKwooD's MAGAZINE, for June. Reprint of
| Leonard Scott x Co., New York.
Containing, among other things, a long poetic
description of the fight between Heenan and
Sayers.
Ton BRowS AT OXFORD. A sequel to "sehool
Days at Rugby By Thomas Hughes. Boston:
Ticknor Il Fields.
Parts six and seyen--the story being issued in
twelve cent numbers.
ANOTHER MErEoR.-The Helena (Ark.) Demo-
crat has the following
On Thursday evening. the I'd inst, as the steamer
| Diana was passing opposite this city, brilliant
meteor, seemingly about two feet in diameter
appeared behind the boat a little above the tops
of the trees shaping its directly after her
1t ran in nearly horizontal position for about loo
yards.