The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-05-23
New Books.

Historical and Biographical Memoirs, E.
says, addresses, ETC., ETC., acrittcn at rd-
1TOuS times during the last ffty gears, and
nor published az he collected form. by
GEORGE b. WooD. NJ. d.. IL. d., PreSi-
dent of the American Philosophical So
ciety, President of the College OF IhyS
clans of Philadelphia, Emeritus Professor
of the Practice of Medicine in the lnivcr-
sity OF Pennsylvania, etc. Philadelphia:
J. b. LIrrlECoTT Il Co.
This volume is no doubt welcomed hy the
medical faculty. The venerable DR.. WooD
is identified with the history of medicine in
this country during its most brilliant period.
He is a man of ability, and eminent in the
profession. 1t may be fairly inferred that he
is now somewhat in the rear-the march OF
discovery in his art being so very rapid that
old practitioners and teachers are generally
not able to keep up with it. for he advance
ment of the medical science has been greater
within the last fifty years than for the two
preceding centuries. But his general know
ledge, his intimate relations with science his
standing among his noted contemporaries. all
make what he has to say highly interesting
to his brethren. Besides the history Of medi-
cine during his day, DR.. WooD gives some
very interesting personal sketches OF the
most distinguished amongst the professors
of the University of Pennsylvania and OF
Jefferson Medical College.
For sale by WooDHousE & PARHAM.
Women Helpers en- ne Church, their Say
ingS and D0ings. Edited by WILLIAM
WELSH. Philadelphia: J. Il. LIpPlNCoTT
& Co.
A very handsomely printed book. There
is no doubt about it that the women are the
lnainstay Of church worship, and the Chief
artiicers of the decorum and beauty that
adorn The houses consecated to religion.
Their delicate hands decorate them with
flowers, whose sweet Odors are waited upon
the breeze, and thus add to picty the cm-
blems of innocence and the sweet odors OF
purity. We fear religion would he in Il
Stacking condition We're it not for the wo-
men. If this author has done justice to his
subject he has made a good book.
For sale by WooDHoUsE & PAKHAM. -.-
Nina Monte. BY "STELLA." Philadel-
phia: j. B. LIPPISCoTT & Co.
A novel neatly gotten up, which has one
very great merit in these times of everlasting
proliXity-viz., brctity.
For sale by WooDuousE Il PARHAM.
The autobiography Of Stephen Collins, M.
ID. Philadelphia: LIPPINCOTT Il Co.
This is religious autobiography of the
author, given in the form OF 4 journal. He
is none other, we suppose, than the very es-
Unable gentleman so well and kindly known
at the White Sulphur Springs AZ PORE Coz
Inns. He takes church worship there under
his especial charge, and sees that some divine
admonishes the gay dancers OF six days
of their latter end and the importance
Of preparing for it, on the seventh. Dr..
COLLINS, always pious and earnest, was alto
gcther liberal in this matter, soliciting repre-
sentatives of all denominations successfully
to try their hands upon the gay deyotees OF
pleasure at that paradise of earth, the White
Sulphur Springs.
VI Sitc ny w oODHotSE ~ L ARHAh.
Poems. BY MARY Z. PopE. PHILADELPHIA !:
LIPpNCOTr Il Co.
The author is Il poet of the South; very
devoted in her Qate) nationality and her
piety. ~.
For sale by WooDHoUsE d PARHAM.
The Desert Of the Erodus:' Journeys on
Foot IN the Wilderness Of the Forty Years
Wunderings, undertaken IN connection
scih the Ordnance Surrey Of Sinai and
the Palestine Exploration Fund. BY f.
Fl. PALMER. NJ. A., Lord Amoner's Pro
fessor of Arabic, and Fellows Of st. Johns
College, Cambridge. With Maps and
Numerous illustrations from Photographs
and Drawings taken on the spot by the
Sinai Survey Expedition and c.. +.
TYRwHITT DRAKE. New York: HARPER
& BRoTHERs. ..s.aa. gs4s .
The title-page of this valuable book pretty
well describes it. 1t Is one Of the most in