Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-05-07

1. BREMER. Life, Letters and Posthumous Works
of Fredrika Bremer. Edited by her sister, Charlotte
Bremen. Translated from the Swedish by Freda Mi
low. In one vol, crown Syo Cloth So
ave have quoted so much from this charming volume
that we have no room for further quotations. but
book to be read. Examiner, London.
THE double biography is delightful, chiefly because
i shows Fredrka in the bosom of her family from ear
est chdhood and may be said to trace the history of
2. THE OPEN POLAR SEA. Popular edition By
Isaac l. Hayes, NJ. II. With nine Illustrations on
Tns m1P TU & Rq6 six y Go f
tions, drawn by Darey White and others, from Dr..
HAYES sketches three full page charts; twentv-eght
on steel. 1 vol, svo, Price, 1870 half calf So
What we have said of DR.. Hayes book will, we trust
is remarkable. and he well deserves to be bracketed
with the late Dr. Kane in Arctic honors."
3. SKETCHES ABROAD WITH PEN AND PEN
Gil BY Felix o. g. barley. With 10 fulpaged and
three additional vgnetes and printed on toned pa.
per In vol 4to. Price in CLOTH $3.50 cloth gilt,
81 morocco, So.
the United States and jndgng him by what he has here
done, he can have no superior any here His designs
of art and take these together with his entirely
natural natural and unaffected description of what he saw
should be willing to recommend so unreservedly."
Boston Courier.
4. OLD ENGLAND; /; Its Scenery, Art and People
vol, 16mo Price ST.
This book has the advantage of conciscly and en-
phaticaly pointing out many comparatively neglected
objects of interest and OF information and plea
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. "-BoStoa Transcript.
5. ITALIAN JOURNEYS. BY william D. Howells
author of Venetian Life VOL crown Svo Price $2
There is no writer of travels in our day so simple
sincere enjoyable and profitable. Br0oklya URion
ut is not so much what Mr.. Howell sees what he
ignores that gives his readers the when they have
finished his books of having been lingering over a
| charming narrative "-BOstOn Post
@; VENETIAN LIFE Including Commercial. Social,
Historical and Artistic Notice of the Place BY vii.
cloth, So.
ut is Venice directly presented to the Imagination
stepped in its peculiar atmosphere so that we see
what the writer sees share his emotions, and made
his pages '-BOston Daily Transcript
Probably no book Of the season has given SO much
delight as Mr. HoMell's Venetian Life Mr. Howelrs
has produced volume which Is worthy to stand with
| Iryings Alhambra'." '."-Harg0rd Press.
v EEMINiSeESGHs aaSll PSbnGsv OF EUROPEAN TRAyEL
Harvard University. Price 81 so.
On art. architecture. laws. and society," his
criticisms are discriminating kindly and often original;
and the volume contains more information, less spite
ana more solid sense than many of far greater size and
pretension '-Saturday RerteO, London.
8. TWO THOUSAND MILES ON HORSEBACK
Santa Fe and Back. Summer Tour through Kan
sas, Nebraska, Colorado and New Mexico in the year
Price g. '''' '''"D 0'''
HE is good traveller, and, combining the discipin-
ed mind OF student with the training of an army Off
GER IL well qualified to give opinion upon what he
observes. His mode of travelling has furnished him
with excellent opportunities for careful observation and
with great variety of adyentur. in the prairie"
Standard Nes0 Bedford 4Hdss.
o: ESSAYS OF ART. By Francis Turner Palgrave,
late Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. vol, l5mO
red cloth, gilt tops. Price 81 rs
"Mr Palgraves canons of art are cminently Catholic
free from tendency to sensatiOnalism and though
his examples confined chiefly to the current emana
tions Of British culture, his motives are general his
reasoning broad and his style of expression Is such
carry the weight of authority. ."-BoSton Post.
40. THE ART IDEA Sculpture, Painting and Ar
chitecture In America 3Y James Jackson Jaryes. 1
vol, 16mo, clorh. Price 81 20.
1.-The volume deserves the careful study of intelligent
amateurs oi art and whatever differences of opinion
1t muy call FORTH its details will be found of inter.
est and full of instructive suggestions"
1yl03s Nei0 York Tribune.