The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-09-09
BOOK NOTICES.

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Albert d. Richardson author OF "Fleld Dungeon
and Escape" and 'Beyond the Mississippi" Hart
ford: Connecticut American Publishing Company.
The author Of this bulky volume of five hundred
and fifty pages mentions In foot note the fact that
''whe this book was passing through the press five
or six lives Of Grant were already out and twelve
were announced to appear within few weeks"
But the life of the General has often been exposed
before, and we may hope that he will survive all
these attempts upon it. The present work appears
to justify its title of IA personal history Of Grant
and the avowed purpose Of its author, who remarks
in the preface-"In these pages do not give all the
minute details Of his achievements in the field. The
world knows them by heart seek rather to show
what made him the man he is; the stock from which
he sprung; the moulding influences OF his
boyhood; his early military and civil life;
his intellectual growth and political education
during the great rebellion his opinions since ma
tiona and international AFFAIRS chiefly the difficult
and ever-changing questions involved in the stu
pendous problem Of readjusting the political and
Industrial relations Of ten millions Of people, occu-
plying half continent; and through all the little
things indicating the interior life Of the man-what
he thought and hope d and feared. Hence l relate
many incidents, believing that those even which
seem trivial and pontess may help TO throw lig Int
upon his organization ana development" In con-
sultlng previous works Mr. Richardson has drawn
most upon Badeau's admirable volume For new
material official records have, he says, been open to
him with great freedom and Kindness, enabling
him TO use many letters and dispatches upon i'm
portant points Of our recent history never before
given to the public. Mr. Richardson has journeyed
Grants chcauered life and talked with hundreds of
his life long acquaintance civil and military. The re-
suit Is a fulness of detail, which, If sometimes
unnecessarily OVERCOMING as to swell the volume
to the size required by mere bookmaking eXigen-
cies, has, nevertheless, value as well az interest.
most OF which belong to the cheap and ordinary
STYLE peculiar to books issued by subscripton-by
several fac SMILES OF letters from Grant, Lincoln,
sheridan, Buckner, Lee etc., and by six maps with
q portrait and sketch OF Schuyler ColfaX. PrefXcd
to the fortyseven chapters OF which the work con-
ssts Is appropriate quotation from Tennyson's
ode on the death Of Wellington One verse particu-
larry, notwithstanding Brick Barlow's protest, must
Our greatest, yet with least preicncc,
g garsn in c GSDan ana gS s ,im ~ war
kSh as , sSe se sG%mo ons nis
In his simplicity sublime.
THE WORKS OF Rev. ARTHUR O'LEAAY, o. y. +.
Edited by clergyman Of Massachusetts. Boston
Patrick DonahOe.
This collection Of the celebrated and influential
Franciscan. whose name has been coupled with that
OF Ganganelli. tho late Pope Clement XIV, among
the most distinguished OF that great order, was
undertaken ut the suggestion OF the late lamcnted
Bishop John u. Fitzpatrick. IL Is as complete "a
every research by the editor, both In Ireland aud
America could make II. In the debates OF the Irish
House OF Commons on the Popery bill February 90,
1882, Sir Lucus O'Brian made the comparison be-
tween Pope Clement and Father O'Leary, which con-
ferred the latter the appeaton Of the Irish Can
ganen" Mr.. Grattan paid an elegant tribute to the
patriotism and genius Of Father OLeary, abiding
pa rticularly to one OF his publications as work
"that would do honor to the most celebrated name.-
Mr. Yeverton, afterwards Lord Avonmore said that
'his works might be placed on O footing with
those OF the finest writers OF the age" adding they
originated from the urbanity OF the heart.u Another
eulogst calls Father 0'Leary "a Moliere when ne
laughs, Locke when he reasons Tully when he
writes Totson when he exhors." IL Is not sur
lions OF the works Of so eminent writer. TO the
present elegant edition is appended an Interesting
piled from the large work on 'The Life and Times OF
Rev. Arthur O'Leary,n by Father England, brother
to the late Bishop Of Charleston South CaroIina-
FIRST PRINCIPLES OF POPULAR EDrcATioN AID PUB
LILO INSTRUCTION. by :. :. Randall, snperinten-
dent OF Public Schools OF the city oil New York.
New York: Harper Brothers.
This unpretcndIng volume embraces the results OF
an experience OF nearly thirty years in the practical
administration of the systems Of public instruction
in the CITY and state OF New York. IL IL appropr-
ately dedicated to Henry Barnard, III. d., Com
missioner OF Education OF the United States. The
concluding chapter on the "0bjects Means and Ends
OF Education Ia particularly interesting as cmbody-
ing the strong convictions and clear Illustrations OF
the most competent judges and most un-
exccptionable witnesses, accompanied by the
most indubitablc and well attested facts, show
ina demonstratlvely the intimate connection
which subsists on the one hand between education
and virtue, honor and usefulness. and the other
between ignorance and vice, crime restitution and
pouperisrn. The author is amply justified In asking
II it is not clearly and unquestonably shown that
the highest and most direct interest OF the Whole
community, and Of every individual composing it,
demands that the education Of It's youth should not
only be free and universal but that no pains should
be spared 10 render IL thorough and complete; not
in intellectual instruction merely--not i'm the mere
communication OF knowledge or the advancement OF
scIence, however comprehensive or exalted--bnt,
together with this, In that early inclination
and that assiduous development, discipline and cu
ture Of the heart the affecons the principles habits
and conduct OF life which Christianity inculcates
quires which reason and philosophy alike dictate,
and which every consideration pertaining to the WEI.
fare and improvement Of society and the advance
ment Of our common humanity imperatively de-