Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1869-10-09

1. BREMER. Lfe, Letters and POsthumous Works
Of FredrsS Bremen Edited BY her sister, Charlotte
low. In one vol crown SvO. Cloth, ~.
I'VE have quoted go mpch from this charming tslume
that have room for further quotations. but Il is
book to be read ErdDriRsr, London.
'The double biography is delightful, chiefly because
shows Fredrka In the bosom Of her family, from
est chdhOod and may be said to trace the history "
her rmind."-thiddelphid Press.
2. THE OPEN POLAR SEA. Popular edition. BY
Isaac l. Hayes, NJ. ID. with nine illustrations on
Fine edition, embelished with six fupsge illustra
tions, drawn by Darley, White and others, from DR..
vlgnettes and hne portrait Of the author engraved
on steel. l vol, $40. Price, ts75 half calf g.
What we have said of Dr. Hayes book will, we trust.
Is remarkable and he well deserves to be bracketed
with the late DIR. Kane in Arctic honors."
3. SKETCHES ABROAD WITH PEN AND PEN.
Gil ny Felix o. o. barley. With 10 full,paged and
,aran on wood new edition with
per In VOL 4to. Price In cloth. $3.50 cloth gilt
"a morocco IS. s''
Undoubtedly, Mr. barley is the best drauahtsm.p IN
the United States and judging him by what he ha
done, he can have no superior any where Ills designs
Of art and take these, together with his own entirely
natural and unaffected description OF what he saw
abroad, we know OF no similar production which we
should be willing to recommend so unreservedly."
Boston CoVrier.
4. OLD ENGLAND Its Scenery, Art and People
vol, 16mo. Price 81.
"Ths book has the advantage of cenciseIy and en-
phatically pointing out many comparatively neglected
sure old England is just the book for the departing
traveller to put in his pocket to refresh his memory and
make suggestive his tOur."-BOstOn TTdnscript.
s. ITALIAN JOURNEYS. By william d. Howels,
anthor Of Venetian Life vol. crown svo Price 81
''There is no writer Of travels in day 90 simple
sincere, enjoyable and profitable. ."-Br0oklyn linton
ut is not so much what Mr. Howell as what he
ignores that gives his readers the sense when they
finished his books of having been lingering
charming narrative."-B0stOn Post.
| @. VENETIAN LIFE Including Commercial. Social.
Historical and Artistic Notice OF the Place BY vii.
liam D. Howells VOL, crown syO. Price, extra
ut is Venice directly presented to the Imagination
stepped in its own peculiar atmosphere, that
the companion OF his walks rather than the reader Of
| his pages."-Bostor Daily Transcript.
Probably no book Of the season has given much
has produced volume which Is worthy to e,and with
Irving's 'Alhambra ."-Hdrgord Press.
T.: "REMINISCENCES OF EUROPEAN TRAVEL
| Harvard University. Price 81 80.
"0n art. architecture laws. manners and society," his
criticisms are discriminating kindly and often orgnal
and the volume contains more information, less spite
and moe solid sense than many Of lar greater size and
pretension." n."-Satsrday Rerie'c, London.
8. TWO THOUSAND MILES ON HORSEBACK -
Santa Fc and Back. Summer Tour through Kan
sas, Nebnska, Colorado and New Mexico In the year
1sS Prise sS By Col james F. Neline 1vO crown SvO-
"He is good traveller, and, combining the discpIin-
ed mind of student with the training OF army Off
Ger, Ii well qualified to give an opinion upon what he
observes Iiis mode Of travelling has furnished him
with excellent opportunities for careful observation and
with great variety of adventure in the prairie'
Standard, NeW Bedford, Mass
o. ESSAYS OF ART. By Francis Turner Pagrave,
late Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. i vol, i5mo,
red cloth, gilt tops. Price 81 10.
"Mr Palgraves canons Of art are eminently catholic
free from tendency to sensationalism and though
his examples confined chiefly the current emana-
nFPO lie
reasoning broad and his style of expression is such
carry the weight Of authority. ."-B0StOn Post.
10. THE ART IDEA Sculpture, Painting and Ar
chitecture in America. }y James jackson Jaryes. /
vol, 16mo, clo,h. Price 81 70.
"The volume deserves the careful sudy of intelligent
amateurs and, whatever differences OF opinion
muy call forth its details will be found of rare inter-
est and full Of instructive suggestions"
1y1032 NeW York Tribune.