The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1870-04-28
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"PARIs by SUNLIGHT AND GAsLIGHT," A tgork
descriptive Of The Mysteries and MiSe1ies, the Vr-
tues, TiceS, SplendOrS and Grimes Of the City Of
PdliS.-By james d McCobe, Jr., National Pub
iiSting Company, Cincinnati.
The unusual facilities possessed by our first
class Subscription Book Publishers have enabled
them to furnish the public with many works Of
great interest and value; but the most power
full and attractive work Of this kind is the book
now before us. 1t is simply the City Of Paris
photographed by the authors pen and the ar
lists pencil. 1t is magnificently illustrated, and
is issued in the very best STYLE 1t not only
abounds In solid and useful information, but
faithfully reproduces the most startling sensa-
tons of the gayest City in the world. 1t tells us
how the beauty and splendor of the bright City
have been purchased at frightful cost of mise
ryand suffering; how virtue and vice go arm-in-
arm, and how the latter is undermining all the
sweet courtesies of social life; and how most
fearful crimes are committed and concealed. 1t
tells us of high life and low life; of palaces and
novels; of the Emperors family, and the work.
mans household. We mingle freely in the most
magnificent and dissipated pleasures, and drop
an involuntary tear into tho "Common bitches"
where tho poor sewing girl is laid to rest. All
that has made Paris the most beautiful and at
in the world Unite to make this book the most
interesting we have seen for many day. The
author, writing of what he has seen and expert
cnced, has evidently sought to make hisYolume
not only the most powerful and fascinating len
sational work of the day, but also book which
shall hold place in every mans library as an
authority upon the subject whereof 1t treats.
The book is magnifcently illustrated with l50
fine engravings, by the leading artists of France:
-Dorc, Therond, and others whose names amply
attest the character of the work. 1t is comprised
In one large volume of over 800 pages, and sold
only by subscription.
The chronological and Packard's Monthly fol
May contains the following articles, many OF
which are illustrated; Hon. Samuel Merrill
Governor Of Iowa, wi portrait and character
Knowing, or Man of the World; The Man in the
Moon; Superstitions of different Tribes and Ma
tions; sketches from China; The Color of his
Eyes Mark NJ. Pomeroy; Peter Crisp's specta-
cles; Charles P. Sykes Eminent Engravers
Yale sketches Growing in Grace; Honesty
An Assassin, and his Victim-Prince Pierre Bo-
naparte and Victor Noir; "I Can't for the Boys"
| Young Womanhood In America Elenor Kirk
| at the Five Points; To Dahomey and Back; Sur
names and their Derivations, etc. No 3S9
Broadway, New York. The Christian linton says
"Any body who refuses to examine the Phreno
logical Journal from notion of its being sclen
tically hereto, is infiictlng no small privation
on himself The chronological element aside
there is no American publication more strongly
characterized by shrewd, incisiVe, workaday
common-sensc. It's hints for living, alone, anc
the care OF health, could not well fail in the first
instance to abate the Doctors bill to its mini
num- and ultimately to promote the longevity
of the observant reader, and this at the cost of
small outlay which the present pleasure OF pc
rusal more than repays"