The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-03-28
EEW BOOKS.

HEU MAJKfTY9 TOWEks Dy
Dixon. New York: Harper Bros. For SAFE
in New Orleans By George Eiiis' oio Lowe
street, opposite the Postomce.
M Dixon knows how to make an attractive anu
entertaining book book to enlist scholarly in'
teyest as we'll % to commend popular apprecia-
ton. No writer possessing In IS great degrees
sterling ability and genuine cultivation has VEN
tured either more boldly or more gracefully TO
shave the borders of clsp-trap and sensation IN
order to produce live, selling book. ln some
instsnces-in his work on spiritual views and
polygsmy, for example-he has gone 50 far In this
way as to shock good taste. But the present
volume Is not amenable to this criticism. Is COM
bines the graphic vivdness and personal charac-
teristics of we'll constructed novel with an artis-
tic array of some of the most notable passages OF
English history. It is needless to say that the
vast. grim and intricate Of architecture known
as the London Tower, the most ancient and ro-
mantle pile 10 Europe, ia associated with almost
every historical tragedy in England from the time
of william the Ccnqueror down to the time OF the
stuarts; and Mr.. Dixon has succeeded 10 tracing,
and verifying, and depicting its trsgical associa-
tons as no other English author, perhaps, OF this
age could have done except one-the late Lord
Macaulay. +
GRIFFIrH GAUsr; OR, JEALOUSY. By Charles
Reade. With Illustrations. New York: Hsr-
per & Bros George Ellis. New Orleans, Old
Levee street, opposite the Postofice.
OF Mr.. Reaje's merits and popularity as
novelist 1t is unnecessary to speak. For artistic
construction. apd for bold and vigorous delinea-
ton. none Of hfs works surpass Griffith Gsunt."
Perhaps none Squal it.
GLEsNAR; OR. LIFE IN SCOTLAND. By Helen
Hazlett, author Of Heights Of Eideberg,"
etc. Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen Half
felfnger. George Ellis, New Orleans, Old
Levee, oppoapte the Postofice.
The soaring ambition of this authors genius
would seem to be to prove that Sir Walter Scott
did not use up The resources of old time Scottish
life, character and scenery In his romantic pro-
auctions.
BE KNEW He WAS RIsHT. Part. By Anthony
Troope. Harper Brothers. George Ellis,
New Orleang Old Levee. opposite the Post
Office.
MIR. Troopeas Justly esteemed among judlcious
readers of fct5n for the purity and for the quiet
strength Of hissworks. We have also Mr.. Troll
lope's last noyel, "Phineas Finn from C. G.
Haley, COMMERCIAL Place.
PRxHIsroRIc dArIoSs; or. Inquiries Concerning
some OF the fGreat Peoples and Civilizations Of
Antiquity. dnd their Probable Relation to q
Still Older civilization Of the Ethiopians or
Cushites of Arabia. By John ID. Baldwin, A. NJ.
harper Il BTbthers. George Ellis, New Orleans,
Cid Levee, opposite the Postotfce.
This lie q wo4x replete with interest for the GU
rious stud at d historical antiquities and archa-
illogical specuiations.
THE CHRsrrdE SABBATH INDICATED; AND THE
SABBATH IN ITs POLITICAL ASPECT. By Ignotus.
Philadelphia: Clsxton, Remson a Hafelinger-
James A. Gresham, New Orleans, 90 Camp
street.
Whatever inky be thought of the dlscoursss in
this volume, tiewed from either q religious or
political standpoint, they certainly indicate pow
ers Of no ordirtry character on the part of their
anonymous abthor, as q bold and aggressive /
thinker. He contends that the obligation to rest |
on the Christian IL as absolute as the obligation OF
any one Of ttb Ter Commandments; he disap- /
proves of the separation Of church and state, and /
believes the ,government Of the United States I
essentially Mound and pernicious by reason OF
eliminating flom its constitution the religious
element and rs{usng to acknowledge the royal
authority Of sus Christ" as the supreme political
power on e{rth and the English government
which, through the Established Church, makes
this acknowld gmept and honors the Sabbath, he
holds 10 be fabsolutely indestructible (" as longI
as II shall cor1inue to do go.
How HE woMH By Mrs. Southworth. T. b. I
Peterson 4 20. Philadelphia: Krull h Dickey,
No. log Cs3al street.
This is SEQUEL to "Fair Play" and possesses
the characteristic merits of its prolific and popu.
lar author.
NATURAL PHILOSOPHY FOR HIGH Schools Ann
AcADEinB;i. BY w. J. Rolf and J. A. Giet,
Teachers ~ the High School, Cambridge, Mass
Boston: Woodwork, Ainsworth & Co. New
York: A. 81 Barnes Co. KIull & Dickey, New
Orleans, 106 Canal street.
An excellent work of It's kind, belonging to
set Of publications entitled "The Cambridge
Course Of Physics"
Our IN THE STREETS. A Story of New York Life.
By Charles Gsyler. New York: Robt. M. De-
Witt ppbliiher. @. C. Haley, New Orleans, ID
Commercial Place.
Along with thread OF fictitious story skilfully
unrsveled. this book reveals truthfully much Of
the inner life Of the great metropolis, In Its va
rious asp cts Of tragedy and comedy. Ailarity and
sorrow, Nxury and squalor.
ANNIE OF GKrBsrEN. By Sir Walter Scott. FAIR
MAID OF PERTH. By the same author. Phila.
delphia: 7. b. Peterson Il Bros. Krull q Dickey,
log Canal street, New Orleans.
These volumes belong TO "Peterson's cheap
edition for the Million Of the Waverly novels.
Price 20 cents.