The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-07-17
NEW BOOKS.

MessrswGsr & JohSsroS OF Kichmond
have sent us the following. =,
The. Historgof Mouthful Of Bredd = a'a rs
ETecfs ~. the Organization Of Men dra
InimaLs. BIZ Jeon Mace. IrGnHteteII |
from The French. Ns,r York: Harper q
TBe ssruants of the Stomach. BY jean
lfdce. author of"The History Of a ho'unc
fI Of Brsdd,n NeC York HarpG d
Brothers.
Here are two very pretty, very taste
fully bound and exceedingly useiui l'tt'c
books, which have not received from INC
press the nosice they deserve. Intend
ed for children, they nevertheless coll
tain information of the highest impor'
lance to persons of all ages. IL Is as
founding what ignorance there Is even
among educated people, in regard 10
that wondrous organism, the hu'hah
body. We have met grown mcn VINO
did not know which side of tile body the
liver was on, and we have known nigh
" cultivated gentlemen who were al
most as ignorant OF anatomy. phy sioio-
, CIV and hygeihe!es the ver:est CArib or
Wottentot, Now these little books con-
yey precisely that kind OF knowledge
: which is most useful in the preservation
: Of health and the happiness that de-
4 pcnds so much upoh health. The KNOW
ledge is conveyed, too, III the mos.
nb,rr,inp manner, so that the child
reader becomes wise without being a.
ware of 1t. Every parent should SET
's .h.t those hooks are in his household
= .rhe volume first named has been adopt
= od nv the University commission Il
:, Paris as one of their prize BOOKS ant
b,s reached its seventeenth edition.
nv M.ssrs. WEST &c JoHNsros sends us u
addition to the above, the following he>
= novels, all from the press OF the iiA'
~ ~ prns: dead Sea Fr,dt,"by Miss bHAppoN
''' {. ro,e and Marriage" by WILLIAM bLAcF
y" ,,du4 lost Name" by j. SHERIDAN l.
v FAM, which will be noticed more i"'l
> hereafter, Also,
aHarrers' Piciotial History OF me ure
Is RebeHion"-parts 20 to 81 a.
its. This huge work has nearly reached
one compIetion. 1t has been characterize
| OF "a book with .'immense pages, II
the nensc pictures and immense lies, WI
and an occasional deviation into truth
nee This is too severe a criticism II
no the work is sectional, partisan ana
C fair. we have the assurance oil Co
,des fpderatc General, who has examiner
reat carefully. that, upon the wht'le' IL
nee fai,er and more Just than any Nor'he
WINS history yet published. "Rebeli'oh
aun- gross misnomer, but one when
,rity Yankees of this generation will cling
tenaciously. Looking to the future
of the book, the IIARpERs have ma ao
PIN mistake IN excluding vigorously
maze likenesscs ofprominent Con'edera'
stir Some OF the pictures are very goou'
c the ers very poor.
tv Of Mr.. ), WALL Turner. the great II
la bv dealer, sends us "Be'ind the hcefeS'
lei LY,obefh Recklev, book which has m
tI,;s great noise and attained great
u, J',yzy KKcKLEr was muiatto won
that who DclOnEcuto '"c '''N
Il for LoSosrnEkr, bought her freedom "
.snro. the war, became sempstress 70 Tue !"
House during the war, ana ai'er
:. Rag w,r the dearest, most intimate
- most faithful of Mrs. tIScohS's IRE
o.s. r. 1t has been generally supposed
al, KrckLEY's book was "a tissue OIL "
racitics." Not so. A gentleman
-, knew her when her master Ia
d " lived in North Carolina, tells rs VI
''" much of the book as relates 10 nc
''u." while in that State, is true; ana
80 the TEST, most of it carries cohV,
go ~ whit. Kccklcy seems to have to'
: truth, to the best OF her knowicug
=, r, ~ ;. belief, but the Bohemian VINO W
= l, ""V her story up in print has gwen
lno ,o. many parts, sensational style
ceo' ne, man, however, the book is rchap
~ ~ fords very curious insight III
-, cav nestle high life among Yankees
ga ' really very interesting.