The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-04-16
New Books.

ALFRIEND's "LIFE OF JEFFERSON
DAVIS. "-This elaborate and well-digested
book has received hattering praises from
all sections of the Union. Our townsman
Mr.. ALFRIEND is rewarded in this way
very greatly to his satisfaction, we are
sure :; and we trust his pecuniary recon-
nense is not behind it. The work is written
in clear and graceful style, and the skill
and propriety with which the author has
worked up his material is remarkable. The
following very just views of the book are
from the pen of member of Mr.. DAvIss
Cabinet, and addressed to Mr.. ALFRIEND :
"I am happy to express my cordial ap-
probation Of both its literary execution
and the elevated spirit pervading it, and
to congratulate you on having made so
valuable q contribution to historic justice,
and the vindication Of noble leader of a
fallen cause. Your sympathies ever suffi-
GENTLY appear but instead of misleading,
have only inspired a keener insight and
ulster conception of the character and
motives of the subject Of your biography ;
and have thus enabled you, while main
tanning fidelity to truth, to dispel many
preiudices. and record the memories of
the virtues which have been so industri-
ously obscured or maligned. To all whose
hearts yet glow with the emotions of pride
or sorrow as they recall the events and re-
suits of the late great struggle of arms be-
tween the States, your work cannot fail to
prove of thrilling. interest, while to few
indeed, if any, $50 admirable has been the
tact and so equitable the judgment you
have evinced,) can it infict pang or ex-
cite wrath"
Pendrqasts Mastery Series: Consisting
of three little books. New York: D..
APPLETON g. Co.
The author says that his " mastery sys-
tenn is based upon the principles of that
natural process pursued by children in
learning foreign languages when they asso-
ciate with foreigners after they have
learned to speak their mother tongue"
Children, he says, learn how to speak
foreign tongues automatically without in
struction of any kind. He claims to have
systematized this "natural process" Our
friend Nc, on Franklin street, long ago
gave the hint for this system by his beau
tiful sign, "Horses shod according to ma
ture." IF Mr.. PENDERGAsr has succeeded
as we'll in teaching French, &C., according
to nature as Nc. did in shooting, his sys-
tenn is success.
APPLEToN's CHEAP NovELs.-We have
from the publishers the following books of
their cheap editions of the Waverley Novels
and DIcKENs's works: "The Antiquary,"
]" Bleak House," and "Hard Times"
The above books are for sale by A. II.
CHRISTIAN & Co.
T. Plribus IMAM; or, american Nation
atty: The Origin, Reason Of Adoption,
and General Effect Of the Distinguish
ing Features of the Constitution. By
L. BRADFORD PRINCE. New York: G.
+. PUTNAM l. Son.
1t noticeable that this disquisition upon
the dead Constitution has reached its third
edition. Itmay be inferred that the Consti.
tuition is dear to the memory of some people,
tney cannot be more enthusiastic in their
recoileetions of the illustrious and obso-
iets instrument than is the author, Mr..
PRINCE. His devotion, however, ia 80 in
tense that he is carried away by the delu- |
sion that though dead it still lives. Quo.