Litchfield enquirer., 1862-04-10
ffterarv i,,,,,.- No.s...

Axter4ry NOetCeh
 5oHN BRENT: BY THEoDoaE w,x-u,o. A.. thor of "Cecil Dreeme." Boston TisLn.. . Fields. S
 lhs aoove novel, which has been lying upsn our taole for some time. now that the hurr, ..s e1cissment of election is over, we arc vi.A .. n9'ice' commend and call to it our readers, .,. 'en'ion. Having read ''Cecil Dreernsn and thea. sparkhng papers in the 'Atlantie' vhish a,., won his literary fame for the brilliant ,ola,.,. author we were prepared to find equal sa.cip.. tion' interest and delight in this seesnd ar ,A. oo0k-ssries published since the authors lament. ca death-and our expectations, on i.s psru,,,. were more than realized, As .entertaipia, and vivaciOus as was Cecil Dreeme,' C Jshn sr..,- IS far more 50 than was that. h that t6,-,y.. a ssin. of unrealityr-a straiains as If fer iisIs ana nature out of dark and mysticism -s .ssi.l niasma-af we may so call it--which was ns,., t'ls aushof 2 mission to breathe, and out se which 1 he seemed to struggle for purer and h.,. ter atmosphere. .-
 '0nh brent IS the very reverse of all this. To is pure Nature itself, or the delenia,iOu of i, Life in all phases is exhibited; in Euvl.na .,s America, in the drawing room and on ,h. n,.;. i'm the Mormon camp and in the lord,v u...,.- If the picture or the plot is sometime. , ,,;s. overdrawn it is always fresb, hsal,hy .,a I.- spirings The sdysnturss are % lifs-lik. ,..s they seem almsst auso-biograpAio, and i.a..a we catch glimpsss all throusk ils paess se ,I. life that was so pure and brave and .n.,,.,,. and self-sacrifcing of the author. and an, thoughts often revert from the bosk to ;,. v,,,. err An! how sorrowful the reflection ,b., ,A... are all we now have of him, save alw.r. h;. glorious memory, which shall live long afssr his ephemeral works shall have been forro,,.n- more enduring than marbls--more lasting ,h.. even the printed pagc-the memory Or him q, k. fell on that fatal morning. face foremost, nsar.., the enemy, waving his sword and cheering sa his troops, in that gallant charge q, Gr.ss Bethel1 Among tho sainted heroes which shall shine through history side by side with Wash. ington and KnowltOn and Putnam and LineOla. with Ellsworth and Lyon and Forbes and Lsa- der of our own times none shall be higher hoa. ored or longer mourncd than THseDoIs Wla. THRoP
 "JOhn Brent" is published in nsaI;biadiac. uniform with "Cseil Dresms," and will be ssn, postpaid by the Publishers on receipt Of the price $l.00.
 | THE EARL's HEIRs; A.Tals of Domestic Life. by the Author of "Esst Lymo" &e; Philadsi- phia, T. B. Peterson & Bros, Publishers.
 We have rarely read a novel of more intense and absorbing interest, or one displaying more dramatic and constructive power, than the eas above mentioned, just published by the Peter sons and written by celebrated English Au. thoress. To the novel-reader, who has been long disgusted with the trash with which both English and American presses teem of late, ws can heartily recommend " The Earl's Heirs," confident that their opinion will not disappOint our own. Its plot is excelleutly conceived and adroitly carried out to the end and though suf- ficiently intricate to excite constant interest, s is not at all overdrawn, and increase in interest to the conclusion. Price fifty cents, and sent | by mail by tho Publishers on receipt of the price
 TRAIx's UNION SPEECHES, Delivered in EnG. land during the present American War, by Gee Francis Train, of Boston, United States. Phila- delphia, T. B. Peterson & Brothers.
 Witty, shrewd, patriotic and truth-telline - Of the "Young America school, and the Ysn- kee adroitness. They will be read l.rsslysby all classes of loyal citizens in this Country, who would like to read how one live Yankee stood uD for his native land in the mother country. when that mother thought it for her interest to turn away from her struggling child; and none the less so as their publication is in aid of THE Los DON AMERICAN, weekly newspaper devoted C American interests in the metropolis of England. Price 9 cts, and sent, postage frso, on rsesips of the price by the. Publishers.
 MUSICAL. We have received . copy of Whit. tiers " Song of the Negro Boatmen" set to hs- sic by ROBBINS BArrsLt, Esq. of Norfolk While we don't pretend to be s judge of very elaborate music, we believe we Aape an ear for melodies of the Ethiopian style, having gradu. ated early in life at the Musical Conscrvaioriss of the Messrs Christy and Bryant, not to speak of various essays of our own in that line. to the accompaniment of the tuneful tambOrins If therefore we may judge impartially, we may ssy that the air of MT. Battsll, to the Boatmsn ssae. when played with the accompaniment--sr well whistled-appssrs to us to be sufficiently sweet. simple and taking ts catch ths popular sss. and prove as universally appreciated and admired e the celebrated air to which those s,A.r boatmsn have danced, year after year, Zen the hanks sf