Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1870-12-20
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
From blanchard a. Mohuu:


AS the title indicates these notes upon the
present European war. by a correspondent of
the London Times, are not from the 'front.'" but
are on "the trail Of the war" and they give a
desulfory but interes ing history OF its progress
thus tar.
Puss-edt geic, and other Stories for Children. By
4. h. ACKNOWLEDGMENT. New York:
Harper & Bros.
splendid volume for the Fairy-loving pub
lie, with spirited illustr atoms.
The Ch5dren's Week. By X. W. RAYMOND.
New York: j. b. Ford & Co.
budget of seven capital stories for the little
folks-one for each day in the week between
Christmas and New Years day.
Morning and Erening Exercises. BY Henry Ward
Beecher. Edited by Lyman Abbott. New
York Harper & Bros.
This volume comprises morning and evening
devotional exercises for every day in the year,
composed of selections from the published
writings of Henry Ward Beecher. The selections
seem to have been made with good judgment,
and the work takes In a wider range of topics
than is usually embraced in devotional litera-
ture.
The Adrentures of a Young Naturalist ByLucien
Bart. New York: Harper & Bros.
The hero of this story of journey through
the Cordilleras of Mexico-Master Lucien Bart
is a young gentleman of nine years, who, in
company with his father, a distinguished natu-
ralist, has a series of notable adventures climb
ing mountains, encountering jaguars tapirs
alligators, snakes, bison, wild hogs, vultures
armadilloes, &C., and having narrow escapes
from flood, famine, and casualties OF all sorts.
The book is profusely illustrated, and is a very
attactiye volume for the juveniles.
From los. shfIlington:
The Children's Friend. The Infants Adga,ine.
London: s. w. Partridge & Co.
Two verv interesting volumes for the younger
hrap 1H& ToIr~o
great spirit.
The British Workman. YEARLY volume Lon
don: 5. w. Partridge & Co.
This book, dedic Gated to the industrial classes,
though issued in q cheap form is a very hand
some publication, and the full-page illustrations
are Of an order of excellence we fail to find in
works Of the kind in this country.
SAillington is doing good service to the com
munity in introducing these excellent and ad-
mirably illustrated publications here.
A Rent IN the Cloud. By Charles Lever. Phil
adelphia: L. b. Peterson & Bro.
lively story, by the author of Charles
O'Malley" and score more OF rollickng Irish
novels The scene of this story is laid, how
ever, in Italy.
KernpOOd Louisville, KY: Published for the
Author.
An anonymous story, purporting to be "a his
torical romance founded on events OF the tte
war, from the manuscript OF a Confeder ate
Spy"
From William Ballantyne:
With Fate Against Him. BY Amanda NJ Doug
las. New York: Sheldon & Co.
An American novel, OF very considerable
power, but Overdrawn.
Captain John. Boston: Henry Hoyt.
good story for children, and for Christmas
times.
tn: ssadO'g Of Molosh fountain: BY Jane G.
Austin. New York: Sheldon & Co.
This is a GALAXY serial that attracted consid-
cradle attention from the readers OF fiction and
is now published in book form.
The Destroyer of the Second Republic b,in1 Napo-
leon The Lutte. By Victor Hugo. New York:
Sheldon K Co.
This work was first published in 1852, has
passed through some sixteen editions, and is
now translated for the American market and as
apropos to the events OF the year. With much
Of the Hugo rant and extravaganza, there il
also much of his intense power and genius
in this .atiTical and denunciatory history of
Napoleon The Little" now nominally the
prisoner OF King William In the light ofrecent
history, the Hugo estimate OF Napoleon made
twenty years ago, will seem to have been nota-
bly, accurate.
From j. e. Parker:
Opium and the Opium Appetite. By Alonzo CAL
kins, M. ID. Philadelphia: j. B. Lippincott
We have here variation from the "opium
literature" of De Quincy, Coleridge, and
Of modern writer's and victims, in the calm
utterances OF medical science. DIR. Calkins
brings vast amount of information to bear
upon his subject, and compares opium with
other classes Of stimuli. His deductions are
that Opium, as compared with Alcohol, is more
fascinating and less controlable; Cannabis a
more turbulent excitant, works q speeder ex-
haustion; Tobacco is the most easily restrained
OF all; L ca, As compared with coffee, is exhier-
ant, but of mere fugitive impression; Coffee is
force. He also comes to the conclusion that the
use of opium is increasing in this country TO an
alarming extent, and demands more serious
attention from the medical profession than it
has yet met.