Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-10-14

time, enlivened with incidents, anecdotes,
and a variety of n ,ture's side shows, of
which your travellers trade seldom take
note. 1t is a pleasant book, through the
whole of which may be traced sparks of
that humor which told US how Zekle
crop up quite unbeknown."
This book is for sale by Ingham i Bragg.
ESSAYS on SOCIAL SUBJECTS IRON rHE SATURDAY
KEvFEw.-Boston: ricknor and Fields. 1864.
As we have in this democratic age hit'
upon modes of life which touch the ease
comforts and elegance ofthe rich, on one
hand, and, on the other, the homely sim
plicity of the poor, our literature naturally
betrays in its spirit and form the two vir
tues, vigorous common sense and easy, fe -
licitOus expression. Since Montague we
have had in nearly every generation some
writer who could put the best thoughts in
to language at once elegant and current in
markets and on streets. Books nowadays
seem bent on expressing hard common
sense, and their style, like that of our en-
inent scientists in DOpularizing science, is
model of ease, gracefulness and vigOr.
Such a book we have before us. 1t con-
sists of series of essays, Independent of
each other, reprinted from the Saturday
Review, for which they were contributed.
They take up the common social subjects,
which we all think and have more or less
definite notions of, and treat them with
mastery good sense. The style is graceful
I a,x nd ha ho Oh,
powers of quiet observation, and so kindly
disposition, and immerses his subject in
such rare old wine of humor, that the book
is made one of the cleverest, pleasantest
little volumes in the world.
Among the best of these excellent essays
are "Busy People," "on being Under
STOOD" Explanations" "Talking of
Self" " Hugger- Mugger," &c. These pa
pers are streamed with humor, while there
are in them an evidence of ripe culture,
kindliness of eye and heart, and pres
ence of reason, which will commend them
to the contemplative.
Ingham Bragg have them for sale.
LIFE OF JEAN Paul Frederick Richter, by Eliza
B. Lee. Boston Ticknor and Fields, 1854.
To any one who has read Jean,.Paul, in
German or in trans ation5, to any one who
has read Carlyle's admirable Essays on
this great man, no "life'' of the great Ger
man, unless it were a botch, can come IN
welcome. We have here a readable vol
ume Of over 500 pages, compiled from va
rious sources, and preceded by his auto
biography, which is full and OVERLOOKING
with that superabundant humor which
was the distinguishing trait of Jean Paul.
The writer of the Life was drawn by
love to her task, which she has discharged
with enthusiasm. She gives just the de-
tails we want, Gnd the book, in point of
minuteness, must satisfy Carlyle himself,
who must know the color of his hero's
stockings. This fullness of personal de
tails ranks this book in the class at whose
head stand works like Goethe's Auto -biog
raphy and Rousseau's Confessions. We are
enabled, by it, to trace the thread of desti-
ny, and see how this person, or that SEEM
ingly triAing event, shaped the whole
subsequent course of the hero, and modi-
fed and developed his character.
J. B. Cobb d Co. have this book for sale.
EMILY CAEsTER. Boston Tlcknor Fields 1864.
This is new American novel of great
interest and unusual power. The scene is
laid in Baltimore. The plot of the story,
if such we may call it, is not at all difficult.
Indeed, the story is but thin disguise
covering certain strong social facts, states
and tendencies-a slender thread whereOn
to hang very heavy weight.
The author dares dispose of the charac-
mental youths and mai6s would. We will
give no analysis of the book, but simply
say that it is worth, and will repay, read
ing.
1t may be had at Ingham & Bragg's.
LINDIsFARN CHASE. Novel by T. Adolphus
Trollope. New York: Harper Brothers 1854
"Lindisfarn Chase is from the pen of
7. Adolphus Trollope, brother, we pre-
sumo, of the unexcelled novelist Anthony
Trollope. 1t possesses more than ordinary
vigor and interest, and deserves careful
perusal All in search of good novel will !
find their desires gratifed by "Lindisfarn |
Chase"
For sale by ]. B. Cobb & Co,
CRUsoE's ISLAND Bcmbls in the footsteps |
Of Alexander Selkirx, with Sketches of Adventure
in California and Washoe. BY ]. Ross Browne |
Harper Brother
We have only room to acknowledge the |
receipt of the two interesting books men
toned above. Ross Browne is one of the |
most spirited and graphic writers of travels
as all who have read Yusef, - ''Etch- |
ings of Whaling Cruise" &C., will own.
And his "Crusoe's Island" is not one whit |
behind its predecessors in point of vivid |
ness of description and genial, lively, |
hearty tone.
For sale by J. B. Cobb & Co.