The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-05-06
Few BOOKS.

FIR ON THE HEARTH. By Edward Hopper,
New York: Hurd and Houghton. 1860.
The enterprising publishers just named
send us this neat little book " The Fire on
the Hearth in Sleepy HOllow,"s Christmas
poem of the olden time, as we'll as the pub
lications named below, each of which is a
fine specimen of book-mskiDg handiWork
and art.
Of the real merit of this string of poems,
illustrative of domestic life, which exhibits
all the varieties of metre, and more, known
to old Horace (no Greeley, but the RomsD),
we cannot definitely speak. Here and there
the rhymes mirror a qTiet picture, as a
woodland pond or river images the over
hanging elms and clouds, and some fine
pastoral touches are to be found in the
pages.
iogham and Bragg have it for sale.
AurUME LEAVES By Samuel jackson Gard
Der. New York: Hurd HoughtoR'
1865.
This volume is collection of short essayl
on variety of commonplace topics, writ
ten sitter the manner of Essays on Social
Subjects" published in the Saturday Re-
view" But these papers do rot him
strongly of the pitby good Ise, keen OBJ
eervation, genial criticism and ePigrsm'
matte point of the English book. And ye
good thoughts, expressed in style quaint
humorous and forcible, are not entirely
| wanting.
For sale by IDghsm & Fragg.
| Ny MARRIED LIFE At HILLsDALE. By Barry
Gray. New York: Hurd and HOughton
1855.
Ten years ago the larger portion of tn
contents of this enjoyable volume was pub
lished serially in the "Home Journal" ant
was Immediately taken into public favor
But as the plant which feels in its bone
that it is destined to be big tree, will no
al ways thrive and content itself in a aowe
pot, so those excellent papers, full of hu
NOR and sentiment, demanded and her
find larger sphere.
We commend this capital book to tn
large army of old bachelors. The ladie
| do not need TO reda IL.
For sale by Ingham and Bragg.
A YEAR IN CHINA; and a Narrative of CAP
ture and Imprisonment, when HOmewaT
Bound, on Board the Rebel Pirate Flori
da. By Mrs. II. Dwight Williams. Ne
York: Hurd and HOughtOn. 1865.
Chine equally with the interior of Africi
has been to the rest of the civilized worl
terra incoqnita And there is no otht
country on the face of the globe which
concerns us more to know, because of th
important natural aud commercial relation
which have inevitably sprung up, since Ii
settlement of California, between AmeriC
and the land lying at the gates of II
morning sun.
WIN. Cullen Bryant prefaces this boo
with an Introductory Note, in the course
which he says: ain the little work
which this note is prefxed will be fouI
accounts of Chinese manners and modes
life, derived from a personal observation
} of which the author possessed rather p
) culiar advantages, explaining that she
} the wife of the Commissioner of Custom
at SWatow, one of the five ports ihroug
which the commerce of foreign ports is at
mitted into the kingdom. These Con
missioners often change their residence
orders from the urt, and being held
high respect by sll the Chinese, they ha'
admirable opportunities to see the interi
of society and life in the empire.
This work, quite naturally, therefor
contains vast deal of fresh and imPorta
information aud will doubtless have lar
sale.