The Evansville daily journal., 1870-12-17

Lu6 DOCK lS puutt5HSO By hoDcftH
Brothers, of Boston, to whom We are
indebted for a copy. through Robert
Clarke & Co. Of Cincinnati.
PARIS IN DECBlMBER Is5I-By EUGENE
TENoT- New York: HURD HoUGHToN;
Cinclnnatis RoBEsT CLARK q Co.
NJ. Tenot Is an ardent and un-
sWerving Republican. His descrip-
ton Of Paris in December 1851. and
the rise of the Second Empire, are
written from the Republican stand
point, and the critical student of his
tory will make the proper allowance
for this fact. The Second Empire is
seemingly at an end. It's head Is a
prisoner-a comparatively comforta-
bic one, hoWever-at Wilhelmhohe,
the guest of the Prussian King, whose
kingdom the Emperor designed over
turning. The tragic and sudden
overthrow of what was regarded as one
of the strongest empires in the world,
very naturally directs attention to the
causes and means used in the estab-
lishment Of that empire in the first in
stance. Eugene Tenot's book con-
titutes most valuable aaxiliary In
this investigation. It is elegantly
and graphically written and furn-
ishes a great many facts that
cannot easily be found in any
other place. That the author hates
the very name of Napoleon, and sur
rounds his facts with highly colored
opinions and stains them With his own
bitter prejudicess necessarily detracts
somewhat from the value of the book,
as a historical work. but they do not
detract from its merit as literary
production; while without doubt they
will attract numberless readers whose
dislike of Napoleon and the Second
Empire is only second to that of the
distinguished author. The book may
be ordered of Robert Clarke & Co.,
Cincinnati.
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CHRIST IN SONG. HYMNS OF IMMAN.
UEL: Selected from all Ages, with Notes.
By PHILIP SCHAFF, d. ID. New York:
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None of the many compilations of
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Messrs Randolph & Co., of New
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Lord.
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