Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-04-11
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felt that they would be doing Us kindness
by creating or m 4king an effort to create a
sensation in this Office, and therefore sent US
copy of the work but after mature refec-
ton. we have concluded not to ''sensate''
without stronger provocation; and hence
the generous remem brance of the Messrs. z.
and BIS, as illustrated and exemplifed by
this act of kindness. must end in what SHAK-
sPEARE beautifully describes loves Ia
Dor lost. We acknowledge, however, and we
do it with emotions of the profoundest graft
tude. thai the p. and BIS have sent US right
nice book IL il bnund in sort of thunder
cOlored muslin, with the sensation title print
ed on the back in very plain gilt letters,
while under the title three fine grape
leaves in gOld-twelve or fourteen caraIs-
as you will find in the most fourishing vine
yard. They make us think of old Long
wOrthis sparkling Catawba, and in all likeli-
hood we shall have to go and compromise on
a julip before We get half done this article.
But to leave the leaves and "licker" of
the subject, and turn to the literature. Just
now story of Secession, Coercion and Civil
War is calculated to sell. We know this to
be the fact. for the telegraph sells the people
with just such stories every morning. The
BRoTHERs PETERSON had an idea that an hon.
est penny might be turned by a large story of
this sort, and SO they got out this book and
sent us copy Immediately to have it pulled
in the Patriot. knowing as they do, and as
every body else does who has tried
it, that no better advertising medium exists
in the country. But it turns out that their
"Story of 1861" is merely an old gun that
wouldn't go of, fixed up with new set of
triggers A copy was also sent to the Daily
Banner. The Local Editor of that journal
was unkind enough to go around to book
store and pry around among things until he
discovered that 1.-THE Story of 1861" is an
exact copy of a still-born novel published by
the PETERsoN's several years ago and pur-
porting thow truthfully we do not now re-
member) to be story of "Wild Southern
Scenes" We are ashamed to say that we
read this novel when it first appeared. though
under what circumstances we were driven to
the task of reading so much for so little-in
fact we may say nothing,-it is impossible
now to tell; but we must have been long
way in the country, and with more of moth
ing-to-do on our hands than we could con-
veniently stand up to. As we didn't intend to
read it second time, under its new name, we
should never have discovered the contemp-
tible swindle of the P. and BIS, if it had Mt
been for the revelation of the Banner We
are not surprised at this swindle. The perpe-
traitors oft are becoming notorious for their
tricks upon travellers. and it is strange that
all respectable booksellers do not shut down
upon them and cease to purchase or receive
On sale their publications, a large majority of
which are miserable cheats like the one un-
der consideration, or are utterly unfit to be
read.
For sale by GREEN & Co.
THE CROSSED PATH Or BASIL A Story of Modern
Life. By Wkie Collins, Phi adelphia: T. B. Peter
Son Brothers 1851. pp- 81.
What assurance have we that this book is
from the pen of WILKIE COLLINS? PETERSON
& BROTHERS are never the first TO republish
an English work in this country, and rarely
bring out reputable new work of any sort.
Their publications are genrallys such as, having
them they can get without paying for. 1t has
been but a short while since =" The Woman
in White appeared, and it is not at all like
ly that he has written THE Crossed Path,
since. This book opens some how so:
"What am / going to write now?"
I" am going TO write a book in which
sufficient quantity of interesting and start
ling incidents TO spread over a whole life
time are crowded into about one year.
What am 1 going tie write that sort of
book for -
That is about the way "The Crossed Path u
Introduces itself to the reader. 1t is certainly
new; but it does MT sound much-like WILKIE
COLLINS. nor anybody else that has got much
sense, if we except REYNOLDS, the triumph
card of the PETERsoNs, and it is impossible
to except him, for he has MT got any sense at
all. The literary editor of the Duly Gazette,
who writes with no little elegance, says this
story {" is WnKIE. COLLINS from beginning to
end" This may or may not be true with re-
gard to the end ; we have never seen it, and
do not expect to see it !; but we think the be-
ginning is very decidedly somebody else If
The Crossed Path " will come to us bear
ing more reliable imprint than is borne by
the edition to which the copy before US be-
longs, we will read it as the work of WIIKIE
COLLINS but under existing circumstances
we would rather not. We do net pretend to
assent, however, that it is not one of the ear
Iy stories of COLLINS we merely mean to
say that it was not written subsequent to
"The Woman in White" or if it was its
early republication by the PETERsoNs is the
only bit of enterprise of the sort they were
ever known to be engaged in.
For sale by z. HAGAN & Co.
A MESSAGE FROM The SEA and THE UNCOMMER-
CIAL TRAVELLER By Charles Dickens complete in
in one volume. PhiapeIphia: T. B. Peterson L
Brothers. 1851.
We will do the Messrs. PETERSON & BROTH
ERs the justice to say that they have issued
the works of CHARLES Dickens in very hand
some style. They have published some thir-
tyo forty different editions, all of which are
reliable, and aae sold at moderate prices. In
this case, and in one or two others, they ex-
hibit symptoms of honesty that do them
credit These symptoms should be confirmed
as soon as possible, or the first thing they
know they will have vast quantity of books
and sery small quantity OF buyers.
The Messrs. PETEKsoSs have done US the
kindness from time to time to send us, at