Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-10-21
New Publications

| 'FLowER, FRUIT, AND THORN PIECES, or
the Married Life, Death and Wedding of the
Advocate of the Poor, Firmian Stanislaus
Siebenkas, by Jean Paul Friedrich Richter, y
| publishedin two volumes by Ticknor & Fields,
can be found at Holbrooks The work was
translated, in England, by Edward Henry
Noel; and there is a fine portrait of Richter,
and memoir of his life by Thomas CARLYLE.
Need we tell our readers how rich and beauti-
full this work is? We shall not undertake to
describe it. There are some who are famil-
lar with the best works of Richter; and thes g
know that not one of them can be described
in a brief notice. They must be read to be
appreciated and, even then, they will not be
adequately appreciated by those whose Gin
ward preparation fits them only to see the
finest style of literature in the most popular
sensation novel. Those who have read one
of his books a dozen times, will find in it, at
the next reading, more that is new, than would
be sufficient for a dozen popular novels, -
such as are most Landed in advertisements and
most called for at the circulating libraries.
HARD TINES, by Charles Dickens; in con-
tinuation Of the illustrated "Household Ed.
ton, published by Sheldon Co., is for sale
at Sanford's. This work is issued in two
volumes neat, convenient and beautiful, like
their predecessors. One of the illustrations
shows Stephen Backpool when he returns
home and finds that miserable drunken fiend,
his wife, "back again :" in the other we have
the scene where Rachel calls and listens at
the chasm into which Stephen Blackpool had
fallen. A part Of the second volume con-
tains some twenty "Reprinted Pieces'-tales
and sketches selected from the shorter pub
lished pieces of Dickens. The more we see
of this edition of his works, the better we
like it.
"BRoKEN COLUMNS" is the title of new
novel, published by Sheldon & Co., which is
highly praised. Peter Bayne, the essayist,
says, sit superior to Adam Bede.'" We
have not read it. For sale at Sanfords.
EXCURSIONS, by Henry d. Thoreau; with
Biographical Sketch of Thoreau, by Ralph
waldo Emerson; Boston published by Tick
| 800 ~ iSiuo' Ills volume contains nine
pers, with the following titles Natural His
tory of Massachusetts; A Walk to Wacbuse,t.
The Landlord; A Winter Walk; The Succes,
sion OF Forest Trees; Walking; Autumnol
Tints; Wild Apples; Night and Moonlgbt
The biographical sketch fills twentv-soyor
pages of the volume; but the facts stated
could have been printed on three pages. Mr.
Emerson relates one incident that very fair,v
illustrates Thoreau's character. After leaving
college, he worked for a time with his father
at making lead pencils. He thought he could
make a better pencil than any in use; triet
the experiment; succeeded to the full salts
faction of chemists and artists and then re.
fused to make another, 'because he woulC
not do again what he had done once" The
world would soon be in very singular con.
ditlon, if everybody should act on the same
principle. There may be some question in re-
| gard to the real worth to the world of such
men as Thoreau; but he was, in some re-
spects, remarkable. Those who believe he
might have been of much more use to man