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elt Clark & Co. Law Publishers. 1861.
This valuable and conciso outline of the
LaTs Of Partnership, skctcled for the use OF
the buk1ness community. Tic principles arc
very clearly stated, and while they may not
knpcrccds the necessity Of employing LAW
yer, set they. point eut verJ clearly those
csses where it Is Necessary to employ enc,
snd wherc it 10 not necessary, which il u1ch
more important. II ts al unp1etEudins vol
u1nc in size, but contains l.r.t a.no:,nt O!
valuable information both to busfness men
Tue 7TH { eE5ss or HONOR: p Apn!s Thomas. IL
nati: Robert Clark q CO. chicago:'e. c. Griggs
The above is the title ef IN English story OF
every day life, possessing average iutercat,
considerably tanner than the hu um-drum life
oItyeTJ day itself. 1t might do to while
away an horr, provided ore could find moth
Ing eate 10 do. In short, it IL Of that class OF
s10rics With which the prces Of to-day il bur-
dtned, cphcmrr1kpro d1ctions which will be
read BY fer,, unread BY many, sad soon for
crDJo's CAVE, By 1T: TEorbriaze, nnthot Of
'.Ne1;lbor Jac1wood," "Thc urnmmar Boy
G. Gr1cgt + Co.. 1+64-
OF "Cud]o's Care" it il almost unn.ces-
sary to speak. 1ts wide spread populsrity
and Immense sale are tia bsst Indices
Of its excellence. ME. Trowbr1dge, SO well
known to the literary world BY his many ad-
MiIabie contributions to the Atlantic Month
y, bus produced In Cudio's Cave" that rare
rEr1t-a genuine American Nore1. It Is of
especial interest % connected with the rebel
lion, and remarkable for its vigorous touches
of character and graphic incidents. It's dra-
natic character At once exposed it to tho
stage writer's who were not SLOW IN adupt-
ing 1t to the tAeater even fu face OF copyright.
T ber hog ii NJ ~
culiarly American books-Sargext's "Pecu-
liar," Taylor's "Uanpail Thurston," aud
Trowbridge's "CndJo's Caya." While the two
former arr strongly character books, tho lat
Ter is true to history as nell as to life, and
illustrates the passing eFents Of the rebel
lion under the pleasing garb Of fiction, and
as such, 1t must play ita part tn future In es-
times.
THE WHIP, hoe AND SWORD; or, the Gull
Department IN '6s. By GEORGE q. aErwonrH.
6iss 6a;!sn; Ss'fit co' iSs ~i's Co.; oheas0: s.
"The Whip, Hoe and sword' is an exact
and excellent sequence to Parton's Life OF
Butler. Combined, they will prove to the
historian Invaluable documents, furnishing
,detsilcd eridenco Of thc condition Of Louisf-
ana under the administrations Of Generals
Butler and Banks. The author, Mr. Hep
worth, went to Louisiana as chaplain OF the
7tlu h4A6EACuQktlLo 1CtE51luCuk, Uut HAA 6uuoE-
4ueatly commissioned by Gen Banks ts hsst
lieutenant in tho Fourth Louisiana Native
Guards (colo1ed.) ue.was detailed to super
intend the plantations, and the present vol
ume nar1ates Lis experience In that depart
mcnt. While he treats largely Of plantation
life and labor, and tie rela1i >ns bet -cen mas
Ter and elayc, as indicated by the title ''Wh1p
and Hoe" lc also gives detailed accounts Of
military rule aud events, The book is full ot
inttrcs1irg aud really vivid descriptions OF
Southern life and manners, and must com.
uand attention from its reality aud trnth oj
statement. It should be III every pcrson's Ii.
brnry who is destrous Of preserving the rc.
GREELEY's AMERICAN CONFLICT. Hartford;
9. D. Case & co. Chicago: Geo. Sherwood L
We have received, from the Chicago pub.
1ishers. part u Of the specimen pages OF ths
s'Lme1icau Conflict" b5 Horace Greeley, and
Connected Nith the letter press are some ad
,nirable Portraits OF the leading men conuect
cd with the anti-slnvery reform movement
We have Gte.ady no1fced the work some what
at Il rgth, and repetition is unnecessary. We
src greatly mistaken II the American Conflict
dots not prove the most successful york O.
the season.
LITERARY M1Eck1LASY.
1t has been thought TINT Shakespeare and
the former died April Is, 1GIG, and England
did not adopt the Gregoriau calendar till 1754
there WAS twelve days difference between tllf
time Of their deaths. N GODDARD, the AFRO,
nant, has started In Paris = newspaper deyo
ted to mronautic subject. DIR. Groth, Ger,
man, 1enturcd on the following pun, which
be cent with a large quantity Of rum to the
Prrssian soldiers in SchleswiG:
"Dcn Rnhm habit Ihr Euch selbxt gestuckt,
DaYu Hfrd Eucb der Rnfo fsa*ehfcEr -
Rum Ia spirit, and Ruhm IL fame. The
translation Is:
The {RQhm> {atne you've won will adorn you,
The Rum send Eou will warm you.r
Lamartine's rife copied with her own hand
ell Of the poets works, except 4sLes Giron-
dins.' for the printer. .. The sixth volume
Of Guizet's Memories has appeared Guizot
is also busy writing reply to Reaan's "Lffs
Of Jeans" "A book bound in human akin,
was lately sold in Paris for 22Gf. =. The libra.
~ ut Basaano has lost Ill the papers OF Cano-
"a, which we're bequeAthed to 1t. They were
carried Of by priest. WHO obtained them
by forgery 49,. The library Of Matthias Cor
now belongs to tho Sultan Two new pseu-
donsms have recently appeared IN the litera-
r. world: Mlle. Rose Didier, signature
which masks H. Charles Monselet, and Mile
Judith Walter, who r Mile Judith Gautier.
The latters' contributions have been translA-
AioAe u AAluGSS poEnlH. alAAou5u HUI lHcd-
II years of ase, fhr Is profoundly vcrzed
IN Chinese. :. .Firmin Didet 4 Gle {Paris}
have completed their ''PIctoria1 Universe
in ei1ty-scven octayo volumes, containing
5000 eUgr2vings aud which has been above
twenty years passing through the press.
.-.- Middleton. Of SeW York City Is about
rtpublisling Dr. Dora1's- 4sAnna1s Of the
EtIse Of Great Britain" - 6ou~fn.1aW Ut
Charles Dickens and brother Of Wilkic Col
lfns, has new story In press to be called the
Bar Sini6ter.". 1t Is said that the novel
entitled "Cousiu PhiIlis" now being pub
nsled IN the Cornhill Magazine, and to be
tepublished here by the Harpers, is written
hy Miss 1hackeray - The fourth volume ol
Carlyle's History Of Fred :ric the Great has
APPEARED. The tercenttnary Of Calico has
laltly teen celebrated at Pisa, where lie
MUSICAL MATTERS.
Tie following arc tho operas Paris has
heard during the last twenty-five years: Ol
Rsssini-Otcllo, IL Gaxza 1adra, T4ucredl,
Semi1an,ide, Audrenne Parigt, La Ccner:
erta1a, il Barbicrc di Sivi.jia, Mose, rItx1
isui In Algieri, Matsldc de shobr=n, Il Donnl
Gel Lago, and the St4hat Mater. or Bellini'e
operas, Paris has heard SounambQla, Eorma,
Pirata, Puritani, Beatrice dc Tenla and the
Capuletti. From November, 1B4o, to April,
1868, there were one Thousand two hundred
and fifty eight representations gwen of the
works Of the tive masters, Mozart, Rossini,