The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-10-03

Friend and neighbor Gresham, % Camp street,
has just received large acquisition to his extern
sive stock of pictures, periodicals., novels and
books of standard literature. Among the numer-
Gus and generous contributions Of Mr.. Gresham to
the CRESCENT are the following:
The Bachelor of Salamanca" by the Illus
trious LeSsge. This is q work we have often
sought for in vain We have read "Gil Bias "
and " The Devil on Two Sticks" over aud over,
and each seeding time have found new beauties
to admire in them. LeSsse's knowledge OF
human nature is almost as varied snd comprehen-
sive as that of Shakespeare. In fact Sir Walter
Scott once wrote book entitled The Lives of
British Novelists." he began with LeSage, and
in bis preface stated as his reason for including
French author in his work that LeSsge belonged
not to France, but to the world. The "Bashelor
Tor, as il used to be styled The Suddenly of Sala
manca" may be second to "Gil Blas"-but Is only
second, as paradise Regsined " is second to
paradise Lost" and as " Macbeth (" and " Ham
let may be, in the judgment Of different readers,
second the one to the other. The " Bachelor OF
Salamanca is an admirable book, full Of life and
spirit, transgressng the accepted style of morals,
it Is true but, for all that faithful to human ma
ture and to the Spanish life which it illustrates.
Whoever takes up the adventures Of Don Cheru.
bino the student or bachelor, will find it hard to
lay the book aside. Every chapter has
its moral, far superior, not only in style,
but in its good results and in its
searching delineatons, to anything in Alex.
andre Dumas, Eugene Sue, Georges Sand, or any
of the present generation Of English novelsts. II
seems strange that people will quote the
warped obliquities Of Dickens in these modern
times, when they have at hand the hale, whole
some, natural characters Of Shakespeare. Scott,
LeSage and Fielding. "Mr. Hailes, of Eton,"
said John Dryden, in his famous panegyric, Il" de-
clared that he deied any person to produce an
Idea or q figure in any poet, ancient or modern,
but he would find it better expressed in Shaks.
peare." So is it with Lesage; his pages are re.
plete with human nature; every man he writes
about-be he prince, potentate, archbishop or
simple valet-LeSage is his natural born Boswell,
and Johnsonises them all. The present edition is
a chesp one. the print large and size convenient.
Then we have " The Old Nam selle's Secret"
after the German, by Mrs. A. l.. Webster. Being
the third edition, this must be q popular novel.
The print and binding are excellent.
Third is Advice to q Married Woman" which
is a book that ought to be in the hands OF
every wife who expects to become a mother. 1t
was written by gentleman high in estimation IN
England, Pye Henry Chevasse, Of the Priory
House, Birmingham. 1t givesthe most experienced
advice to ali women on the management of their
health in the different stages approaching mother
hood, and contains nothing offensive to the most
sensitive or delicate minded Of the female sex.
Gresham has these, and thousands more. He
invites the public to visit 90 Camp street aud
Judge of his stock on hand.