The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1864-08-04
Literature at the Nolt b.

The Charleston Courier gives aa interest
ing letter from the North with some notices
Of new books, &c:
90 novel of the uncle Tom species ia
having run 10 YankeedOm. iii called
'Cudj9's Gave, end the scene is laid in East
Tennessee, where the hero practices the
calling Of Yankee schOo!master, anu is
horribly prosecuted by the seceaaiOnist.-
The sbolitionists are al in tears over the
suff,rings of the pedogOgua. and al impos-
sible niger, named Pomp. Tie war stories
in tie sensation weekly pepers are funny
etfaira. l had long, laugh over a tale
Which appeared il 3 New York Sunday
sheet The scene is laid in thu suburbs CT
Charleston. COLONEL Somebody has meg
nfcent plantation there laid cut with meg
nolias and palmeties and orange groves,
ef cctera. He is ~ licn nSn, Of co1rse.-
H's beautiful and heroic daughter ia also
Union man. They are peraecpted for their
loyalty to the old A9e The youthful sons
Of the colonel are seized by rebel conscrip-
ton and dragged into the army. The
daughter falls 10 love with q gallant Yam
kee officer at Port Royal, who visits her
stealthily O. nights, coming through the
rebel ranks on horseback, and guided by a
faithful contraband! Finally the Charles.
ton people get mad at the Union planter.
They organic themselves into mob, and
proceed to the magnificent plantation, seize
the colonel, and notwithstanding the heroic
daughter kills about dcz9n of them With
her own hnud. and defes them ond denoun-
ce8 her anxiety to ''die for that glorious
Aag" they suspend him to one Of his own
wide spreading mognolias. Then they send
the heroic daughter TO the North per flag
Of trucs, and she swears vengeance on her
fathers murderers, and dresses herself in
breeches, and volunteers and fights, and
kills hundreds of rebels, and helps her bro
theirs TO desert and saves her lovers life,
and marrias him, and .Aually dies in hos
pital of disease Of the lungs brought on
by her arduous services and exposures in
defence of that same old flag. The novel
lists description Of the fierce, bloody mind
ed ragged, uncouth, lOnq-haired and swag-
geriDg Charleston soldiers, would open
With asfonishment the eyes of our good
natured boys in the Washington Light H.
fautry, or the Washington Artillery, or the
Palmetto Guard.
bat to the books. Charles Dickens new
novel, to be called Oar Mutual Friend"
commences ia tine Nay nambers Of Cornbill
and Harper. The same magazines are pub
fishing the fragment of Thackeray's last
work, Dennis Duvsl." The lamente1 au-
thor had completed about twenty chapters
when he died. 1t WAS suggested to get
Dickens to fOish the story, but he objected,
as Tbackeray's friend, to the plan. It will
therefore, remain forever fragment an
English female poet, calling herself jean
Ingelop," has published volume and found
. herself famous. The reviewers say she has
more ofthe true fire than. any of the candi-
dates for poetic honors since Tennyson and
Browning began to write.
The other most noted books Of the sea-
son are Captain Speke's journal of the
Discovery of the Sources of the Nile"
Ticknor's Lille of Prescott" Kirke's
CHARLES the Bold" ga History of John
law and the Mississippi Bubble" by Adolph
Theirs, the statesman, and the last volumes
of Merrivales' History of the Roman En-
pire,p which bring the story down to the
period where Gibbon commences. TIE En-
peror Napoleon the Thirds Life of Julius
Ca1ar is announced as ready for the press.