The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-04-04

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of publication by Roberts Brothers. 1t is
most amusingly Frenchy in its whole tone,
and it gives an excellent idea of the totally
impractical theories of the class of reformers
to which the writer belongs. The object of
the story is to show the superiority of
poverty over riches, when true love is substi-
tuted for hard cash, and the reader is enter
tanned with the persistent efforts of hand
some young aristrocratic widow to get rid of
her fortune in order that she may be able to
marry workingman who has engaged her
affections She happily succeeds in her en-
deavors, and her lover does his part towards
bringing about sthe desired result by making
no efforts whatever to earn his living or to
raise himself to a social equality with his
lady love. The story has some capital
character sketches, and it gives a most
interesting description of French country life
about thirty years ago. For sale by Claxton,
Remsen & Haffelfnger.
-''The Silent Partner" by Elizabeth
Stuart Phelps, published bv James r. Osgood
& Co., is a vigorous attack upon the evils of
the New England factory system, which can
scarcely fail to attract attention to them in
such a manner that efforts will be made to
in her "Gates Ajar' and ''Hedged In," goes
straight to the heart of her subject, and "The
Silent Partner" is bold and striking picture
of great wrongs which cannot be denied or
argued away. The outline of the work is
fictitious, but substantially it is solid fact,
and it opens up to public attenti on a subject
that certainly needs to be looked into. For
sale by Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfnger.
-"Gutenberg and the Art of Printing"
by Emily @. Pearson, published by Noyes
Holmes q Co., is an account of the invention
of the art of printing and the struggles of the
inventor with a sketch of the progress of the
art and the perfection to which it has been
brought in our day. The story of Gutenberg's
life is related in a semi-fctitious style, all the
substantial facts being drawn from authentic
sources, while the flling-in is the writer's
own. This method of treatment has many
advantages, and it is not only more attractive
to great number of readers, but it affords
the author an opportunity to give perhaps
more graphic description of Gutenberg and
his surroundings than she would be able to do
by q recital of the known facts of his history.
The work is gotten up in elegant style, and
it contains a number of handsome specimens
of early printing and other appropriate illus
trations For sale by j. B. L'ppincott q Co.
"A new and elegant edition of the Poems
of Lucretia Maria Davidson, illustrated by F.
o. g. barley, and edited by M. Oliver David
son, has just been issued by Hurd q Hough-
ton. The author of these poems, whose sweet,
refined, and thoughtful face is one of the
greatest attractions of the beautiful volume
before us, died before she had completed her
seventeenth year, and her writings are to be
judged rather by what they promise than by
what they are. The poems are frequently
scarcely more than echoes of Tom Moore, l..
E. L., and Byron, and young-ladyisms with
out number appear on every page. In spite
of their unavoidable deficiencies, they are
very remarkable performances for girl of
sixteen, and they give abundant evidences of
poetical genius of a high order, and are we'll
worthy of preservation for their own sake.
The elegant volume before us contains an
appropriate introduction by Barry Gray, and
Miss sedgwick's life of the young poet as an
appendix. Steel-plate portraits of Miss David
son and her brother Lieutenant L. p. David
son, U. S. A., and several spirited designs
by Mr.. barley, are also given, and the book
is, altogether, gotten up in very handsome
style, and we are certain that it will receive
cordial welcome from the public, and will
aid in perpetuating the fame of an American
poet of real although undeveloped genius.
For sale by ]. B. Lippincott & Co.
-''Reginald Archer" is the title of o new
novel by Mrs. Anne M. Crane Seemuller,
author of ''Emily Chester" and "Opportu-
nifty, which has just been published by James
r. Osgood & Co. emily Chester" was
work of great promise, and both in "Oppor-
tunity" and in the story before us Mrs. See-
muller has fulfilled the expectations excited
by her first performance. Reginald Archer"
is sensational in the sense that it has some
strongly marked characters and some highly
wrought situations, but it is something more
than an effort to stir the blood of the reader,
and it has a disti net moral aim, which will
commend it to the regards of those who
esteem the moral of story to be of as much
Importance as the story itself. For sale by
Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfnger.
--''Bred in the Bone, by the author of
"a Beggar on Horseback, is a well-written
novel of English life from the pen of a popu-
lar writer. Published by Harper q Brothers.
The same publishers also issue the report
of Messrs. David A. Wells, Edwin Dodge,
and George W. Cuyler, the commissioners
appointed by the Governor of New York,
under the authority of the Legislature, to re-
wise the laws for the assessment and collec-
tion of State and local taxes. The subject