The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-09-30
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REC0LLECT1oEs OF SEVENTY YEARS. BV Mrs |
John Farrar. Boston: TicknOr & Fields. |
1865.
One of the most delightful and charming
publications of the season is the book
named above. It is fall of the pleassntest
gossip and chat about celebrities of all pro-
fessiOns, in Europe and America,-military
and naval heroes, authors, srtists, actors,
divines, princes, sovereigns, &C., &c.,
whom we see in these pages in undress; but
the writer, though she appears as gossip, is
never garrulous, nor assumes the role of
busy body. Mrs. Farrsr, the well-known
authoress, is q cultivated woman, and she
tells these stories of her life with such sim
pliclty, beauty and perfection, that her
book must be counted classic.
For sale by Cobb, Andrews & Co.
Our ARTIST IN CUBA. By George W. Garlic
ton. New York 1855.
The well-knowhf publisher has turned
author, or rather artist. For he who buys
this little semblance of a book, will soon
find that it is mere sketch book or album,
nor will he be disappointed by such dis
covery.
Poor health led Mr.. Carleton to spend the
winter of ls64-5 in Cuba, where he relieved
the monotony ofinvalid existence as we'll as
gave form to his impressions, by sketching
representative characters, salient features
of Cuban life, &C., &c. On his return he
was imPortuned to give the results of his
travel to the public, and this series of fifty
drawings on wood, printed on tinted paper,
has thus come to the light of common
day. Itwere we'll for the public if nine
tenths of all the spawn of travel were
equally felicitous.
The sketches are humorous, all Of them
having dash of caricature and extraVa-
gance, which SO delight the American
heart. And 30 this album falls under the
head of comic literature. .H
For sale by Ingham & Bragg.
ARTENUs WARD; HIS TRAVELS. Part l.
Miscellaneous. Part l1.-Among the Nor
mons. With Comic Illustrations by Null
len. New York. Carleton. 1865.
We have received this second book of
Artemus. Considering how dearly the
American heart loves exTavagance and
carricsture, and wild, uucouth and Rich
ter like humor, A. Ward must be counted
fixed fact with US. America reckons him
immense, and he certainly might be called
the prince of American humorists, if it were
proper to dub with digni6ed title ''the
clown" who, from the nature of his office,
"knows that he is the tail of the process
sion."
We are glad to see that Artemus, in the
Mormon part of his book, lays aside the
':peculiar bad spelling," a system of ms
chinery on which his humor had no need
ever to rely. The essence of that style or
form Of art, had been exhausted long ego
by the English humorists.
These letters and papers, in this collected
form, do not strike US with half the force
with which they struck us as stray and
occasional missives. Perhaps one in read.
ing it is invariably tempted, like Eve,
though with slightly different aim, and
over-indulges, gets an overdose, and go
tires of surfeit. But we fancy that pure,
unmixed humor of this sort is hardly
legitimate branch of literature. A man
seems to come to poor pass when he writes
with no higher aim than to touch the risi-
bles. Our greatest and best essayist says
that it is not the Office of the best wit to
make US laugh.
This book is for sale by Ingham & Bragg.
Lyrics OF LIFE. By Robert Browning. Bos-
ton: Ticknor 4 Fields, 1855.
This is the lOng-promised collection of
the more popular poems of Robert Brown
ing, one of the first minds of England not
only, but of the age. 1t falls in the edition
of "CompAniOn Poets for the People" being
the fourth of the series, which will soon re-
ceive continuation in corresponding vol
umes BY Oliver Wendell Holmes and Mrs.
Stowe.
Bfowning's rich and powerful genius is
strangely undervalued in England. lie is
even unknown by prominent journalists.
Mr.. Hewitt, the gentlemanly editor of the
London Morning Star, who was here with
the party of foreign capitalists the other
day, told us that he had never heard of Rob
ert Browning, and thought he must
be an American author. This sur
prising confession almost equals that
OF Walter Savage Landor, made 10
Emerson several years since, that he had |
never heard of -Herschel, not euen By name
1t is quite a compliment 10 the American
intellect, the fact that the Old Worlds fine
geniuses and subtitle wits must come to |
America for recognition aud warm appre-
citation.
This volume contains Browning's more
popular poems, those which exact the least
study for their comprehension. Many Of
them are admirably illustrated. "The
Pied Piper of Hamelin" presents himself
with his retinue, to the reader in the most
felicitOus manner possible.
These poems are for sale by Iugham &
Bragg. '