Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1868-09-10
NEW BOOKS.

FROM Philip Solomons, J52 Pennsylvania
avenue, we have the following late publiGa-
tioLs:
About Woman; Love and Marriage. BY
Fred Saunders. New York: G.. W. Carleton
& Go. A readable melange by the author Of
''Salads for the Solitary.
The Philosophers of Foufouville. BY Radi-
cal FreeIance, Esq. New York. G. w. Carle-
ton & Co. This volume intended to ridi-
Guile various ferns of human folly, but the
SATIRE does no; seem to be very pungent
Smoked Glass. By Orpheus @. Kerr. New
York q. W. Carleton & 60. Mr.. Newell, the
author of the s.Orpheus T.. Kerr Papers" (and
who, by the way, has received some notice
lately as one of the several husbands of the late
Adah Isaacs Menken,) has not appeared before
the public in book form since the publica,io
Of his history of the dOings OF the immortal
MsckeIel Brigade. The present volume
abounds IN the same style of humor rsmem-
bered in the skerr Papers''-humor not of a
very high quality, but which is about the best
going in these days of the sNasbys," s'Josh Bill
hngs," and Brick Pomeroys." The reader
Will find some droll touches at political and
social high-life at the National Capital.
The Artists Dream. BY EIlerton Vinton,
New York q. w. Carleton Il Go.
The Negroes in Negroland. BY Hinton Row.
an Helper, New York q. w. Carleton & 90.
This Is compilation by the author of 1.-The
Impending Crisis of the South" that created
u H. IL
Fremont canvass, as a fiery Republican cam
paign document. Curlously enough, the pres
ent work OF Helper Is considered 50 valuable
as Democratic campaign document that Sen
ator Doolittle, as Chairman of the Congresson-
al Executive Committee, subscribed for one
thousand copies on behalf of the Committee to
aid in its publication.
However effective il may BE- for party pur-
poses il presents little attraction to the general
reader, as its whole purport is TO show up the
negro in the most repulsiye light,-his "blood-
thirstiness,' ''barbarity," superstition
''shamelessness," drunkenness" s'idiocy,"
dence," srhieving propensities, . "mendacity,' ~
s'duplicity," "venality," ''voracity," '.gluto-
Sc,&c. These different traits are welt upon In
separate chapters con dmOre, making q curious
volume indeed. Mr.. Helper, not content with
showing up the mental and moral defects of
the negro, paints his physical unpleasantnesses
with a heavy brush, calling attention to each
negro feature with marked particularly, to
''his compressed forehead" ''thIck skull:''
"snall, backward thrown BRAIN "short
crisp hair; .'fiat nose" s.thick lips" ssproiect-
ing snout-like mouth s'stran5e eunuch- toned
voice. '.scantiness OF Deard;' stoughness, and
unsensitiveness of his skin" s'the thinness and
shrunkenness Of his tnighs,'' "hIs curved
knees sscalfiess legs" slow, short an kles;''
'long fiat heels" ''glut-shaped feet ''the gem
eral angularity and oddly OF his frame" 'sthe
malodOrous exhalations of his person.
'his pureili'y OF mInd;'' .his inertia and
esty;'' s'his pre-disposition to fabricate false
hoods and ''his apathetic indifference 10 all
propositions and enterprises of solid merit"
II was in July last that Senator DOolittle
gave his order for a large number of copies of
this book as a campaign document. With the
changed position taken by his party in the
South in regard TO the negro vote, and the pro-
liability that they will get large portion OF it,
it may be tbs the committee will conclude not
10 seEd Mr.. Helpers book on the negro for cir
culation. IN that part of the country at least.