The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-24
SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY "a, 1869.
NEW BOOKS

TIE VISION; OR. HE'LL, PURGAToRY AND PARA
Disc OF DANTE ALIGHIERI. Translated by the
Rev. Henry Francis Cary, A. NJ. With the life
Of Dante, chronological view of his age, add
tional notes and index. From the last corrected
London edition. New York ID. Appleton and
Company, 1869. For sale at the bookstore OF
James Gresham, 81 Camp street, New Or
leans.
The name Of Dante stands at the head Of Italian
literature by as emphatic a title as the name Of
Shakespeare at the head of English literature.
With differing but not less pc 1erful and splen.
did genius, this greatest of Italians may be counted
as a full coequsl in the same scroll of transcend
ant fame with Homer and Virgil, Milton, and
Shakespeare and Goethe. Such, within the present
century, has been the growing appreciation of
Dante among English critics and readers, that
where the English language is spoken one can
hardly be said to possess literary culture unless
he is as converssnt with Dante's Inferno as with
Millions Paradise Lost. Hence the demand for
English versions of the great Florentine's Vision
or Dvina Commedis and though SO able aud
original q writer as Mr.. Carlyle has responded
to this demand 10 translation very characteristic
and vigorous yet it is claimed, and no doubt with
justice, that, for critical completeness aud fidelity,
and for carefulness of annexation, no translator
has given as much Of satisfaction as Mr. Cary
The volume above mentioned ia a cheap $50 cents)
edition, bound in paper. but neat and convenient
and capable Of being elegantly rebound for the
library.
THE ADVENTURES OF OLIVER TWIST. By Charles
Dickens. New York: ID. Appleton 4 Co. 1863
For sale in New Orleans by James Gresham, 92
Camp street.
Under cover with the same story are "Great
Expectations" "Blesk House," Pictures from
Ifalv nd fha NH ~r,&k
by Crukshank, John Leech, and Fl. K. Browne,
is an installment Of the excellent library edition of
the authors works which Appleton Co. are
bringing out
SERMON ON THE FAILURE OF PRorEsrANr1sN.
AND on CATHOLIcITY. By the Rev. Ferdinand
@. Ever. s. T. ID. rector Of Christ Church. New
York. New York; d. Appleton & Co. 1869,
For sale in New Orleans by James Gresham, %
Camp street.
This is one Of the most remarkable books which
illustrate the nature and tendency of modern re.
ligious polemics. The sermons, marked by great
ability and independence of thought, are essays
intended to prove that the Bible rests on the
Church that Professionalism and puritauism are
only disguised forms Of rationalsm and infidelity
that the Anglican church is not Protestant, and
that the church of Rome, though incrusted, like
the Anglican and Greek churches, with accidental
errors foreign to true Catholicity, is comprised
along with those churches in the pale of Catholic
Christianity.
TIE BETRorHED, AND tbs HIGHLAND WIDOW.
BY Sir Walter Scott. New York: ID. Appleton
Co. For sale IN New Orleans by James
Gresham, 90 Camp street.
This belongs TO the Appleton cheap twenty. |
five cents) edition of the waverly Novels.
LESSONS FROM DAILY LIFE. By Emily E. Hid. |
reth. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co. |
1869. For sale IN New Orleans BY James Ores.
ham, 90 Camp street.
The religious fervor aud spiritual insight which
characterize this little volume blend with tone
of moral cheerfulness, and ii is, hence, work to
improve thought, dispel gloom, and refine feeling.
THE Won TooDLEBURGs; OR, THE History OF A |
VERY DISTINGUISHED FAMILY. By F. COlburu |
Adams, author Of "0ur World - the "Story of a |
Trooper" etc. illustrated. Philadelphia Clsx.
ton, Remsen & Hafelfnger. For sale ia New
Orleans by George Ellis, .opposite the Postofice. |
The author OF this novel does not belong to the
morbid school. BE tells his story seemingly with
no other purpose than to make it as interesting,
exciting and amusing as possible. His sketches of
scattering life aad incident have something of the
heartiness OF Marrystt, and there is q homey
humor about bis Toodleburgs that reminds one Of
1rving's Knickerbockers,
The OLD WORLD IN IRIS NEW FACE. By Henry W.
Bellows. New York: Harper Bros. 1859.
For sale 10 New Orleans by George Ellis, oppo-
site the Postofice.
Thk IL the second volume of letters giving the
reverend authors impressions of Europe in 1857
1868.
JESUS OF NAZARETH: His Life and Teachings;
Founded on the four Gospels, and illustrated by
reference TO the manners, customs. religious
beliefs, and political institutions Of His times.
By Lyman Abbott. With designs by Dore De
Lsroche, Fem. and others. New York Hsr.
per Bros, 1869. For sale 10 New Orleans by
George Ellis, opposite the Postofice.
This Is, in all respects, an elaborate and highly
finished book. The authors purpose was to take
the Gospels as disconnected biographical memor.
sbilia, and to make them the groundwork Of
complete and consistent life calculated by de-
ecriptions Of the circumstances in which its re-
corded events occurred. The reader viii not be |