The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-03-04
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by LOWS IL. damelSley, late Lieutenant
United States Marine Corps This work has
been compiled by Mr.. Hamersley from the
official records of the Navy Department, and
without unnecessary circumlocution or detail
it gives the exact facts with regard to the
principal events in the lives of the living |
officers Of the navy, and much other interest |
ing and valuable matter connected with our |
naval service during one of the most eventful |
periods of the history of the country. Mr.. |
Hamersley gives a sketch of every officer, |
from the grade of admiral down to lieutenant |
commander, including surgeons, engineers,
paymasters, and marine officers, as they ap-
pear upon the Naval Register for 1870.
Following the biographical sketches is brief
but complete history of the naval operations
during the Rebellion, and also list of the
officers and vessels engaged in the most i'm
portant naval battles of the Rebellion. The
book is made complete by an index to the
names of the officers whose records are given.
This work supplies desideratum, and it
ought to be in the hands of all who are in
any way interested in the naval operations of
the Rebellion. 1t is we'll printed on good
stout paper, and is neatly and strongly bound
in calf.
--''Mauprat," by George Sand, translated
by Virginia Vaughan, is a novel that has
never before been rendered into English, and
yet it is an eminently characteristic work,
and one calculated to leave better impress
sion on the minds of the majority of readers
than some of George Sands better known
writings. Although the fact is not officially
announced, we judge that Roberts Brothers,
the publishers of this volume, intend it as the
first of a complete edition of George Sands
novels. 1t is to be hoped that this is the
case, and if a complete series is to be issued
, good judgment has been shown by commen-
cling with this comparatively little known
work, which is an excellent specimen of
Madame Sands style, and which is not open
to any of the objections urged against some
of her writings. ''Mauprat" was written
when she was suing for divorce, and in its
composition she desired to show that while
attacking the abuses of marriage she fully
appreciated its essence. The story shows
how the love of refined and noble woman
could elevate a man who was by education
and instinct savage. 1t gives remarkable
picture of French society in Paris and the
provinces during the period just preceding
|, the revolution, and it is most interesting
story Independent of it's philosophical
/ qualities.
The same house publish "a Day by the
Fire, and other papers hitherto uncollected,"
by Leigh Hunt In spite of the mutations of
taste and the number of new writer's that
have arisen since his day, Leigh Hunt, like
Charles Lamb, still maintains his hold upon
cofo low, oir Of
As an essayist Of peculiar class, Hunt is
almost the only rival of Charles Lamb, and
although their styles are different, they ap-
peal to the same class of readers. The essays
in the volume before us are in Leigh Hunts
\ best manner, and for the beguilement of a
leisure hour they deserve to be in the hands
y of all who can appreciate quiet humor, poeti-
cal feeling, and elegance in literary style.
Turner & Co. send us THE Transatlantic
= for March 10, and also the first monthly part.
4 This publication is well conducted, and it
gives an admirable selection of short stories,
sketches, essays, and poems from the best
foreign periodicals. 1t has already obtained
an extensive circulation, and it fully deserves
all its popularity.
{ From Turner & Co. and also from Porter
Coates we have received AppIetOHS JOuTRd
for March u.
/, C. +. Putnam & Son have republished
from Putaam's Magazine of July and De
cember, 1862 the articles entitled "Oul
Established Church" and "The Unestablishet
Church" These articles proved to the pub
lie, by facts and figures from official records
that the Roman Church was entitled to b.
called ''the Established Church" in the Stat
of New York, and exposed the enormous sub
sides that were granted it out of the Stat
Treasury. The original article created muc
sensation, and its leading facts were indig
nantly denied by some Of the clergy and tn
D Catholic papers, but in the paper entitle
''The Unestablished Church" the origina
statements were backed up by additional evi
dence, and in the present publication a pre-
fatory note gives other important informs
tion bearing on the same subject. Th
Catholics have denied but they have not dis
proved the statements in these articles, whic
are well worthy of the serious consideration
of all thoughtful men. 1t should be distinct
\ understood that no religious question i
raised, and that no attack has been mad
upon the doctrines of the Church of Rome
but the writer or writer's of the essays onl
attempt to show how this one denominatio
has managed to obtain political ascendanc
in the State of New York, and how it hs
obtained concessions that are inimical to I,
publican institutions, such as no other rel