Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-08-29

New Books.
THE NEW AMERIcAN CEcLoPADGA a Popular
Dictionary Of General knowledge edited by
George Ripley and Charles O'Dana, Volume
Jerusallem-T@M @ New York, d. Ap
pleton Co. 1890.
Another instalment Of eight hundred pag-
es of this the greatest American compen-
dium of general knowledge ever published.
Full, accurate and comprehensive, these
volumes will never fail to afford rich mental
food and useful information to whoever ap-
plies to their pages. The series Of this great
work is now about half completed Each
volume is furnished with complete index.
The present volume is very rich one
Among the articles of interest, the his
torian will find those upon the Jews, the
Jesuits, Jerusalem, Judea and Karrak; the
geOgrapher upon Joppa, Jordan, Jutland,
Kansas, Kentucky, Key West, Koordistan,
LeghOrn, Leipsic, London, Liverpool, and
Lowell; the biographer upon Jesus Christ,
Joan de Are, Job, the Johns, the JOsephs,
Josephus, Julien, Elisha Kent Kane, the
Kembles, Simon Kenton, Kosciusko, Kos
suth, Lafayette, Lamartine, Charles Lamb,
Landor, Landseer, Lavater, the Lawrences,
Ledyard, Leopold, Abraham Lincoln, List,
Logan, LOngfeIlow, Nicholas Longworth, the
LOuises, the Lowells, Ludwig, Martin Lu-
ther, Bulwer Lytton, Macauley, MacClin-
took and Macdonald. To show that the
work is thoroughly up to the times, it con
tains the results of the Chicago Convention
in connection with the biographical sketch
of Mr.. Lincoln.
WHAT MAY BE LEARNED FROM TREE-By Har-
iand. Co9ltasY author Of HoTganie Life the
York D, Appleton Co. 1850.
The design Of this work is to explain the
mechanism and the nature of trees for th G
satisfaction of those who -.a
Find tongues in trees books in the running
brooks, f.. +. .#L ..... .."
Sermons in stones, and good in everything
1t is dedicated to all friends and lovers Of
nature, and gives complete history of the
development of trees, the natural causes
which tend to their peculiar formations, the
composition of their tissues, sketch of the
history of creation, as recorded in the strata
of the earth, showing that the trees which
now cover its surface were not all created at
one time, but were introduced as the earth
became fitted for their reception, and much
more interesting matter.
NOTERs VERSION OF THE LIFE AND CHARRC-
TER OF STEPHEN ARNOLD DOUGLAs.-By Robert
B. Warden Columbus Follett, Foster Co
1850.
We're it not that the authors name appears
upon the title page of this little book, and
that author a well known public man, we
should be strongly inclined to fix its author
ship upon our Southern correspondent, Ed
win H. Tenney. There is striking simi-
larity in many of its astonishing sentences.
Witness this paragraph, from the first page
Of the book, referring to Douglas grandfa-
ther: Gene
"There can, indeed, be no well founded
doubt that Stephen Arnold Douglas himself
is quite free from such defect as that ac-
knowledged as impsiring this account of that
distinguished statesman. Douglas, doubt
less, has the usual supply Of indisputable
antecedents. But no grandfather is to figure
in this- history excent the father of the Judge
Again, follow the twistings and turnIngs
of this sentence with sober face, if you can :
! 81 But, however this may be, the author is
unable, save by circumstance, to prove that
! the original ensanguination Of the Douglas,
/ arteries, and veins, and eapnlaries, contained
/ any indisputable effusiOn of the blood that
! elassicalIy, fought, and bled, and died, il
/ the times that, classically, tried men
souls"
Judge Warden now goes it alone" OF
circumstance"
by circumstance, it may be sufficiently
evident that the father of the mother, or tn
father of the father, of Judge Douglas, mus
have been, fnot an actor, then warm wei
wisher, of the revolutionary drama here en-
acted something less than century ago.
And allow US to add, by circumstance
is sufficiently evident that a shadow of
shade, or a shadow of shadow of dout
exists whether the author, if not in jovis
fun, was then in desperate earnest in tn
Life" which he has written. The biz
graphical facts are doubtless correct, but Il
style is astonishing. We have fled the Doc
q away among our curiOsities of Literature.
APPLEroN's COMPASSION HAxD-BoOK OF TRAvE
5 New York. D. Appleton Co. 1850
This book contains full descriptions of Il
principal cities, towns, and places OF inte
est, together with hotels and routes eff trav
i through the United States and Canadas, wi
J cOlOred maps, and for all that, is sold at
:, cents per copy. Tourists will find it invl
/ liable.
d For sale by Ingham & Bragg.
For the Leader
Mr.. EDITOR II observe with sorrow,