The New York herald., 1869-03-06
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

He KNEW He WAS RrGHT-Part First BY Anthony
Trol.ope. New YORK: Harper b Brothers. pub
lishers
Az general rule we object to reading unfinished
novels, but have waived objections In this instance
and given the volume before US o hasty perusal.
Mr.. Trollope, so far as the work has gone, has
written novel OF unusual interest. but the prnci-
pal characters, Louis TreveIyan and his wife Emily,
are failures The husband, II jealous one never
would have acted with such indeclsion as he does
until the world begins to talk OF Colonel 0sborne's
attentions to his wife. Mrs. Trevelyan is as con-
temptibie character as ever We saw given 10
woman. Ladies 'who love their lords" do not per-
sist In a course likely to end In a suit In court.
Mrs. Treveiyan evidently has q liking for Colonel
osborne's company, aud only decides upon not
seeing him by her husbands express command.
We cannot any strong points in either OF these.
the principal characters of the work. They are not
natural 10 any sense OF the word. That husband
aud wife should deliberately go to work 10 disgrace
the name OF the wife - something that never oc-
CURED in society beiore for. however innocent a
woman may be, the first breath OF siander upon
her reputation places her among the list OF the
fallen. The code OF woman's honor Is inexorable.
MooRg's poETIclL WORKS. w. w. Swayne, Fulton
street, New York and Brooklyn.
The poetlcai works OF Thomas Moore, complete,
including "Lallah Rookh,n the "Irlsh Melodies his
American Poems, his Anacreontic 0des. sacred
Songs, and a decent sprInkl,ng OF the amorous
poems OF Thomas Little, In q volume OF 2ao pages,
published In good type and readable shape for
twenty-five cents is reducing the price OF standard
WORKS TO minimum. such Is the little volume be-
fore us, printed m Glasgow aud put on sale here by
Swayne, the Importer OF many cheap editions or the
best known authors which are finding their way
into thousands OF households wnerc more costly
literature cannot always grace the table or the mod
est bookshelf
THE WORKS or JONATHAN SWIFT, DID,. WITH A
BIOGRAPHY AND ORIGINAL NOTES. EdnROurg.
w. p. Nlmmo New York: W. W. Swayne.
In this volume II we have not the entire writings
OF the genial witty ana eccentric Dean or st. Pat
ricks who In humor II not In pathos was the equal
OF sterne and the superior OF sarists we have
carefully selected collection from his bes writings,
comprising. in fact, all that is worth preserving and
aii thN ~ remembered ~ characteristic OF hs
genius and his nne conception aud command OF the
Engllsn ianguaye. geographically this book is well
R0t up and is Illustrated with an excellent portrait
OF the Dean aud his real imaginary lore, Stella,
whom ne has immortaixed IN prose aud verse.
LETTERS PROM LONDON. 1sss-iseo. Ry George Mlf-
ON Dallas. Edited by HIS daughter Julia. Pha-
deipnia: =. Is. Lippincot co.
No person can peruse ths volume Of letters with
| out pleasure. They are written IN an easy, fluent
style, aud contain M amount Of Information which
| fully repays perusal. Mr. Dallas az the reader Ia
doubtless aware, was Minister 10 England during
| the administration OF Mr.. buchanan.
/ HER MAJEsTY's TOWER. by w. H. DIXON. New
York: Harper Brothers, publishers.
On Monday last the HERALD contained review Of
this book ~ published BY J. b. Lippincot Co. Tns
edition before ~ Y exceiently printed and bound.