Litchfield enquirer., 1860-09-27
Literary N otices


 usual, well worth perusng and inwardly digest ing. Some of the Haunts of Burns, ivy a Tourist without Imagination or Enthusiasm" is an excellent matter of fact description " Pasquin and Pasquinades' is brief biography of the father of many popular and witty epigrams. Darwin and his Reviewers, is causticaly reviewed. pretty story of "A Modern Cnderilla, or the Little Old Shoe" isa pleasant episode amid papers of severer cast :" The Old Days and the New" is charming bit of pocsy. 4 dspassionate and commendabe Sketch of Theodore Parker follows. "Ica- rus" short poem, follows this "Walker' is the title of an interesting tale of Western Woods and Wilds. 1.-The National Intelligen- cer and its Editors" forms an excellent biograph- ical notice of one of the oldest and most re- spectacle journals of our country. |" A Sonnet" and The Professors Story" succeeds, and a political article on the bearings of the Election in November" closes the entertaining series for the month. The Atlantic is we'll worth the subscription price, $500 per year. Ticknor & Fields, Publishers Boston. A
 HARpER's for October, sustains it's reputation It is more than usually profusely and elegantly illustrated. "Bayard Taylor" has pretty po- em entitled "The Quaker Warden" "The House and Grave of Byron" is an illustrated sketch, handsomely written, of Newstead Ab- bey. 1.-The Amoor and the Steppes," and "Journey to the Land of the Moon," are also we'll written illustrated articles, beside numerous other papers of more or less interest, Thacke- reys George the Third" and an article by " "John Ruskin."
 Patton of Waterbury has Harper, and all the other magazines and periodicals of the day.
 PErERsoN's MAGAZINE for October, GoDEYs LADY's BOOK, and ARrHUR's HONE MAGAZINE are all on our table. We hardly know which is the best; tastes differ but all our lady readers ought to have one or more of them as an ele- gant and entertaining monthly repository of ar tistic and literary gems.
 Riverius Marsh furnishes them all, in Litch- field, at Publishers prices.
 THE COSMOPOLITAN ART JOURNAL (Quarterly,) for September, is none the less interesting to read, though it's amiable visits are so few and far between. The present number contains many papers of abiding interest, the best of which, is an elaborate and entertaining article on !" Dean Swift" It has also reviews, romances, and poems, and handsome steel engraving en- titled "Juliet."
 Published by the Cosmopolitan Art Associa- ton at 54s Broadway. Price s2 per year.
 BLAcKwooD for September, is the most enter taining number we have lately read. It contains {" A Sketch of the Life and Character of Sir Robert Peel ;"" The Romance of the Agonisti, Part L." "Great Wits, Mad Wits j" King Ar thur and his Round Table j" "The Struggle at Melazzo ;'' " The Tower of London" and Part Eighth of N Norman Sinclair" L. Scott & Co.,, Publishers, 79 Fulton St., New York.
 THE POLITICAL TEXT Book, compiled by Hor- a;e Greeley and John F. Cleveland, and pub lished by the Tribune Association, at the low price of $1.0O, affords Me most valuable medium ever issued, for the use of the student of Amer ican Political History. It contains all the various National Conventions and Platforms, ever heid or adopted; complete history of the struggle for the restriction and extension of Slavery; history of the Kanzas troubles ana % the %speecmh, m es of most of the distinguished leaders of all no rt;ea mn the great issues before the American paonia We advise all of our readers, of all par t;es eeph who wish to be thoroughly posted on the questions @ of the day, to send for "Text Book"