Litchfield enquirer., 1860-07-26
Literary Notices.

many faults, it is nevertheless one of the most fascinating books of the season. Its pictures of life and manners are well and finely drawn ; It's interest holds the readers attention unaag- glng to the close; and with the exception of an attempt at thigh tragedy" after the French sen- sational style, which mars somewhat with it's groans and sighs the tinale of the book, it is one which, as whole, is rarely written or pub lished in this millennium of trashy tales.
 Rumor ascribes its authorship to a young New
 York lady, the daughter of highly esteemed and successful shipping merchant; and if Ku- nor be true, Miss Minturn certainly makes her
 unheralded debut in the literary world, under
 the most fattering auspices. -.. l Since the above was written, we have mo- ticed that the family of the young lady referred to, disclaim on her behalf, the honor of the au- thorship It is now said to be the production of "talented young lady" of the South
 HARrER's MAGAZINE for August, from Wm. Patton, Waterbury, comes to us this month with rich store of attractive papers and interesting miscellany. Its opening article on the Red River Country" is the first of series portray ing with pen and pencil, Scenery and Adven- lures in the Northwest. MT. Oliphant con- tributes paper on Japan, and Mir. Anthony Trollope furnishes lively Sketch of American Manners in a fascinating Tale. Better than all, we have the first of Mir. Thackerays Four Lee lures on the Georges of England which will be continued in series, which alone are worth the price of the number, as purchased at PArross Book Store
 GoDEY's LADYis Book for August, from Rive rius Marsh's Book and Stationery Establish ment, is or arzs in our sanctum. It has gone now to adorn the budoir of one of our nume- rous feminine friends, who are always our par- hculog dittoes on these occasions, where may the peace and the good will to women it brings, go with it, nQt excepting remembrancer for Riverius Marsh, who has dozen or more left.
 BLAcKwooD's MAGAZINE, republished by Leon- ard Scott & O., New York, is an interesting number, and can be had, with the four English Quarterlies, for slO year.
 THE ATLANTIC" for August contains many delightful waifs for midsummer reading, and is altogether one of the most pleasing numbers the present enterprising publishers have issued The Carnival of Romance is romantically written NIT. Palfrey finishes his Legend of Maryland ;" Midsummer" is the title of a little gem of poem in Emersons vein " Shakespeare done with French is done cx- ceedingly we'll; An Article commendatory of Tobacco, though denunciatory of it's use among young boys" is after our own heart and the Professors Story" assumes wierd, wild beau ty and fancy, that increases it's interest and ab- sorbs the attention the reader which, together with many other papers of prose and poetry, entirely deserves the most fattering notice.
 Tcknor & Fields, Boston, Publishers.
 THE UNIVERSITY QUARTERLY, Vol. H., No. I, is sent us by the Association that conducts it. We can only say on very cursory glance at it's pages that it seems to improve with every num- Der, and to we'll justify the enconiums placed upon it by the press and the public generally. It
 is edited, as our readers may know, by an asso- ciation of young gentlemen connected with va rious Colleges and Professional institutions throughout the States and it's rages ev.nce all the snap" of the Younger American literature, together with profundity of thought, and manly and classic ease and grace of expression, that appears to rival even the old fogy reviews which are put forth under more high sounding titles, and over the titular alphabet of letters that grace wider known names.
 Thomas H. Pease, general agent, New Haven.
 THE N. Y. SATURDAY PREss-Some name- less and evidently brainless natural, in Boston paper, has been pitching into the above spright- ly sheet, for an honest Criticism, which we meant to have copied, upon the puny platitudes and sickly stiffness of MT. Edward Everetts late contributions to the New York Ledqer, and thereby insinuates that {" bad rum and worse to- bacco,' have muddled the brains of the critic. Ii any one Boston critic or Boston paper, or all of them together, possessed one jot of the brains which animate the writers of the PRESS, their readers would die at once with what the doctors call precocious expansion of the in- tellect. Whatever is just, whatever is good, whatever is true, and beautiful, and of good re- port, finds it's way sooner or later, and generally sooner, into the columns of the Saturday Press which is not afraid of speaking out it's honest sentiments, nor of withholding it's honest scorn at just such nonsense and bosh as this which has appeared aceakly under the patronage of MT. Rhadamanthus Bonner, and over the sigma ture of MT. Edward Everett.
 We are glad to notice the Press has given, in contrast with this effasion of the Boston bran- less booby, the opinions of many of the first journals in the country, thereby evincing to any but the sublimest toads in the "Frog Pond" the estimation in which it is held in the literary world outside of the puddle which sends upward such noxious and noisome odor in the nostrils of unbought and unsold literary men.
 INTRODUCTORY COURSE TO NATURAL PHuoso-
 PLY, for the use of Schools and Academies.
 Edited from Carrots Popular Philosophy, by
 William c. Peck, M. A., Professor of Math-
 ematics, Columbia College.-Barnes & Burr,
 Publishers, New York
 A capital and useful work, compiled with great care and accuracy, simplifying the science to the comprehension of the youngest students, and Illustrated with over three hundred we'll drawn eyplopokorx, honL hot