Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1866-07-23
New Publications.

"The Glory and Shame Of England" BY
@. Edwards Lester. New York Bartram e
Lester, = pm blishers. Mr.. Testers first work
under the above title attracted much atteu-
ton, as exposing with scholarly but vigor-
GUS hand the atrocities of the oligarchlcal sys-
tenn Of England. He has now rewritten and
enlarged the original work, bringing it down
to 1885, and making striking exposition of the
conduct of England towards this country dur
ing the period OF our great trouble. The quo.
tation OF authorities driving all these allega-
tons home upon the English authorities and
sources OF public opinion is copious, and the
result so conclusive as to make the book
standard Of reference to all having occasion to
post themselves as to England's course during
our great intestine struggle. In these days Of
cheap Indifferent book. work IL is refreshing to
put eyes upon book so admirably got out as
Is this under notice, with its clear type and
fine paper.
"Prison Life of Jefferson Davis BY Bre-
vent Lieutenant Colonel John ]. Craven, M
ID. New York: Carleton publisher. For sale
in this city by H. Clay Stier, AIS eth street DR.
Craven was on duty for some time at Fortress
Monre, and In this book gives some account Of
the conduct and convers alton of Jefferson
Davis in his prison life. 1t is a catch penny
book, designed evidently to make money out Of
the supposed public desire to learn how the
great traitor carries himself in his prison CELL
The story is told, too, quite evd emily to create
sympathy for him, but really only shows the
rebel leader to be exceedingly Indifferent stuff
out OF which to manufacture q hero. The
book unintentionally confirms all that has been
SAID Of the selfishness, childishness. egotism,
and petulent irritablity OF Jefferson Davis.
s'After the War; A Southern Tour" BY
WhiteIaw Reid. Cincinnati: Moore, Wilstock
Baldwin. This book, written by a vivacous
and experienced journalist, is exceedingly
readable. and contains considerab lie really val.
liable nformation-warped measurably BY the
writer's politics-in regard to the condition of
affairs in the South. The book essays to show
something of the condition in which the war
lett the South. the feelings Of the late insur.
gents, the situation and capacities of the liber-
ated slaves, and the openings offered under the
changed condition of affairs, to capital and in :
dustry from without.
Foot Prints of Letter Carrier" BY Jas
Rees, clerk in the Philadelphia post office.
Philadelphia: J. b. Lippincott & Co. For sale
In this city by Franck Taylor. A curious work,
giving the postal history of the world, with in.
cidents, statistics, &c, &c.
"a Life of James Stephens, Chief Organ
izer of the Irish Republic" New York: Carrie.
ton publisher. For sale in this city by H. Clay
Stier.
"Love's Conflict. A novel, by Florence
Maryatt, Mrs. Ross Church) Loring: Bos-
ton. For sale in this city by Hudson Taylor
We have received from Hon Edw'd McPher.
son. Clerk of the House of Representatives. a
copy of a useful Political Manual for 1885, -
prepared by him. including a classified sum-
mary of the imports, executive, legislative and
poltico- military facts of the period, from Pres
ident Johnson's accession, April Is, 1865, to
July 4, 1S66. and containing a full record of the
action of each branch of the Government on