The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-05-29
NOTES ON NEW BOOKS.

The tenth annual volume Of the "American LoydS
Universal Register OF shipping has Just been pub
shed This standard work OF reference Tor Insurance.
purposes was established 1857 under the approval Of
the New York Board OF Underwriters and has been
edited aad issued uninterrupedy ever since under Tho
superntsn dence OF Captain Thomas D. Taylor It's original
protector The present volume covers the period ron
June 1857, 70 May 81 1888. One Of the usual semi
monthly supplements has also appeared for June I.
1857 since the volume put in type About nineteea
thousand Of vessels contained in the book -
which . new and important feature has been added
This consists OF pages Of closely printed matter.
showing the port charges Of every chief port In the
world giving the tonnage dues. entry fees, haroee
masters fees and other information Indispensable .
charterers and masters Of vessels The volume Is en-
beshed with diagrams Of vessels In whole and OF their
principal parts and fAsssnings 1t gives liss Of ths
different degrees Of classification ~ used BY tho Ams-
and the British Loyds and the French vcrtas ne
rules bs observed by surveyors the proper method
OF slowing OF mixed oargoes the correct length and
size Of rigging Of every class from one hundred ana
any 70 eighteen hundred tons; and il is in fact -
has been styled. complete vads for every one
interested In shipping
Grape culture, and even wine making, although -
their infancy Ia the United States rapidly growing
TO among the st productive interests Of tho oous-
try. plain and practical elementary treatise, present
Ing the details and principles Of Amencan grape culture
in form and manner that will enable any integens
person 70 grow good grapes and mako good wine. has
been greatly needed Such treatise has just appeared
under tho title Of Gan Elementary Treatise on American
Grape Culture and Wine Making' by Peser B. Mead y
is illustrated with nearly two hundred engravinga
drawn from nature Whatever difference OF opinion
some OF tho theories Of the author may provoke hs
facts always reliable.
Among the publications occasloned by the
ticipated increase or American travel in Europe THU
year. account of the Paris Exposition, we notice
rhe Tourists Map OF Central Europe" especially d.
signed for travellers by railway, and giving every state
ment from the latest Of information. conve-
nient table Of coins with their comparative value u
gold and silver, is appended to this useful little map.
With view to the demand Mr. Henry Morford has
issued lively. rang but rather superficial accoanA
OF his last years to Europe emitting the book
sOver Sea-"
The Bishops Son. is the title OF the first novel
which Miss Alice Carey, the poetess, has written. Like
most persons who possess ''the accomplishment Of
verse;" Miss Carey writes prose we'll; and although
some may think that she has wasted too much good
writing rather embarrassing chara ce yet she must
be allowed the credit Of having lifted into literature
class Of people whose lives like al human lives noe
without Of their own, little this element
may have been suspected by themselves or others unt0
1t is discovered and revealed by writer endowed witA
genius with the anties Of genius One Of the highs
claims Of Dickens novelist rests upon his discovery
and revelation OF whole world previously foreign and
almost unknown 10 literature. Miss Alice Carey. by
srhe Bishops Son., has, for the first time invested the
and respectable denomination Of Msthodists
in this country with romantic interest
"Mss Ravenel's Conversion from Secession 70 10y
atty" BY J. W. Do Forest author Of European As
quaintancs" 'Ssa Gill;" &C. fresh addition 70 The
novels occasioned BY recent war Notwithstanding
certain vigor Of action which exhibits il u not SUM-
GENTLY Distinguished from the mass Of hastily written
and. for the most part trashy productions q similar
kind which No oan only count among the deplornsle
consequences Of the ION the Border BY Edward
Kirks, author OF "Among the Pines and haf dozen
osher contributions literature so calsd must b.
added 70 the came interminablo list