The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-06-26

young girls and boys, and willibe peculiarly
attractive oaH persons who believe that
children seven years old love moral tales
better than candy, and obedience to their
parents better than dolls and pretty pic,
lures. The book is not we'll written. The
"darkey" talk is astonishing. The hero
ine,-the preoooious Elsie,-is stuffy and
priggish in all that she says, and mulishly
obstinate in the belief that she knows
"whst's what" better than her father or any
other man. Such are not 10 our taste.
CHARLES DICKENS. a
D. APPLETON & Co. have published the
first volume Of their library edition Of
the works Of CHARLES DICKENS, which will
be completed in six volumes. The first
volume contains PickWick Papers, Barnaby
Rudge and Sketches by Boz, and is illus
trated with designs by GEORGE CRuIKsHANK,
JoHN LEEcH and H. &. BROWNE. 1t is
clearly printed and handsomely bound, and
is sold at $1.75 per volume or $l05O for
the complete set. For sale in Charleston
By JOHN RUSSELL. -. ~ -
The SPANISH CoNouEsr IN AMERICA. AND TTs
RELATION TO THE HISTORY OF SLAVERY AND TO
THE GOVERNMENT OF TIE COLONIES. BY Ar
thur Helps. Volume ~. New York Hal. aaI.
per & Bros. Charleston Holmes Book
House. e -ss
This is the concluding volume of MIR.
RHLps we'll known history, andis not want
ing in the characteristics; which have at
'tracted attention TO its predecessors. In
closing, what has evidently been labor Of
love, Mr.. HELPS says: S. -.
He who has attempted to write history OF
the Spanish conquest may well look back with
astorishment at the temerity which Led him to
undertake such task, and with thankfqlness
at having been permitted in any way to bring
his work to completion-a privilege which
literature laments to, have been denied TO SO
many of her. worthiest sons.s The subject OF
the history,is, in it's main outlines, unique.
The triumphant march Of Alexander, the rise
and fall Of Rome, the unintended conquest OF
British India, afford narratives to Rnioa a. tae ne
parallels, and something like them may. occur
again, That one half OF the globe should re-
main for ages Ignorant Of the existence OF tho
othsr; that it should then be led by the insight
and indomitable perseverance OF one man to
discover this long concealed hemisphere; and
that, in the short period OF fifty or sixty years,
the larger part Of this New World should be
subdued. by ahsndfnl OF men rom tne .Sls .Oia
World, form narrative OF vast ends accom-.
plished by the most scanty means, the Like OF
which is not to be found in other annals. 1t
ia a tale which tells. OF deeds that no longer
admit Of imitation; which describes warfare
resembling some strange, unequal cona!ct IN
fable OF, my ythology, rather than the ORDINARY
encounters OF mortal men; and Wmcn, IN the
mantic Incidents, lives only in the marvellous
records Of Spanish discovery, conquest and
colonization. HtfIs sz,R ~ - =
WE PRINT this morning full abstreotlof
two letters which have been received by
General HARRIBoN; containing graphic
but faithful account. of the vast wealth of
the border counties of South Carolina and
she line of the Blue Ridge Railroad The
facts stated may seem incredible to those
who do not know. the region which they de-
scribe, and they will be surprising to many
who have believed that they were well ao-
auainted with our mineral and agricultural
resources. Every word may, however, be
relied on as the simple, straightforward
truth. There is every reasonSto believe
that the Blue Ridge Railroad will be COM
pleted during General soorr's term of Office,
and we are glad to see indications that the
State is once moro alivo to tho Importance
Of that vast undertaking.