The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-06-06
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

BEAUhARcHAIs. An historical novel. BY A. z.
Brachvogel, translated from the German by
TheTese j. Bradford. Complete in one volume.
Illustrated by CASTOR Fay. New York d. APP
pleton Co. 1865. New Orleans, J. A. Gres-
ham, 81 Camp street.
The continued issue in elegant style by the APP
pletons of German works of fiction on ground.
work of historical facts, indicates a growing de-
mand for such productions on the part of the
American reading public. Judging from the spec
linen before MS, and from several of its predeces-
sors, this fact we take it, attests improvement of
the popular taste in respect to literature Of the ct
tiOus order. At least the works Of Mahlbach and
Brachvogel belong to higher literary as well as
moral category than the majority of those novels,
English and American. which have for years fur.
nished the chief literary food of undiscrminst-
ing class Of readers.
TIE WORKS OF CHARLES DICKENS With iIlustra.
tons by George Cruikshanks, John Lsech and
H. K. Browne. Pickwick Papers, Barnsby
Ridge, Sketches by Boz. New York: ID. APP
pleton d Co. 1865. New Orleans, J. A. Gres-
ham, 90 Camp street.
The volume before us is the first of series of
six in which will be completed the Appleton
library edition Of the works of Charles Dickens.
AS specimen of publishing skill, judgment and
taste, it is admirable, and should commend the
edition to all who desire to enrich their libraries
with the productions in suitable and lasting garb,
Of the most popular novelist, and the most gifted
and accomplished humorist and caricalist of the
time.
CAMoRs; OR, LIFE UNDER THE NEW EMPIRE.
From the French of Octave Feuillet, author of
Poor Young Man, )" f" La Petit Comtessen
ETC., etc. New Orleans: Belock & Co., los
Canal street.
The purpose of this novel is to give in the
story Of the Count de Camors a panorama of
Partisan life, with all its contrasts OF light and
shadow, lis tragedy and airy gaiety. The qualid-
cations of the author for such a task are of q
high order His Poor Young Man." familiar to
many American readers by DRAMA tic version Of it
in English, stamped him as leader in new school
of French novelists-s school which treads the
wilds Of fiction in pursuit Of some great moral,
perhaps political reform. The descriptions in the
present work of the typical Partisan Of the New
Empire and of the inner life of Paris, exhibit
startling picture of gilded rottenness, and border
often the dangerous ana forbidden. But there is
a moral energy in the treatment of its themes
which makes it in both matter and aim quite dis
tnct from the morbid and the satanic orders of
literature.
lHE OkEAT lMfEACHMkNT lhlAL OF ANDREW
JOHNSON, President OF THE UNITED STATES.
Philadelphia L. b. Peterson Il Brothers.
New Orleans, George Ellis, opposite the Post
Office.
This purports to be the only full, correct, and
verbatim report of the impeachment and trial
published in book, or in any form. 1t is en-
beilished with portraits of the president the chief
justice, Gen. Grant, Mr.. Stanton, Mr.. Wade and
Butler, Stevens and Gen. Lorenzo Thomas.
HEART LEAVES. By Lsura S. Webb. Mobile
Daily Register Office. 1868.
The contents of this little volume, except few
prose sketches and essays consist of short poems
and songs, many of which are marked by much
tenderness Of sentiment and melody of versifca-
ton and there is throughout the book prevail.
ing tone Of wholesome religious trust and fervor.
We are indebted to the Leonard Scott Publish.
ing Company, lao Fulton street. New York, for
their edition Of Blackwood's Magazine for May;
number which. by the freshness and vyacity of
its principal contents, and the general literary
value of its matter recalls the early and brilliant
days of Blackwood under the auspices of Pro-
fessor Wilson and staff of congenial spirits. An
article which every classical scholar will be de-
lighted to read, on the Odes of Horace, is con-
tanned in the present number, with numerous
English translstions intended as exact limitations
of the original. We have from the same pub
fishers the London Quarterly-the Tory review
for April. with large mass Of valuable and in
teresting matter, among which is an article en-
on leading questions of the day.