New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-04-14
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ing:
BARNES NOTES on THE SECOND CORN
! THIANs, AND THE EPIsTLE TO THE GALA
TIANS.
This is one of the series of Notes Explana
tory and Practical, by Albert Barnes, au
thor of Lectures on the Evidences of Chris
tianity, Notes on the Psalms, etc. New
York Harper & Brothers.
CHRIST IN MODERN LIFE.
Sermons preached in st. James Chapel,
London, by Rev. Stopford A. Brooke. New
York: Appleton & Co.
CECIL's TRYsr. A Novel. By the author of
"Carlyon's Year" Gwendolines Har-
| vest" Won-not Wooed,' Bred in the
Bone" lone of the Family etc. Syo,
paper fifty cents.
! Those who are familiar with the writings
| of the author of this book will, we fancy,
| agree with Us that it is rather difficult to
| give any adequate notion Of its contents in
| the sort of sketch and comment combined.
which is commonly known as review"
| the reason being that so great is the sus-
| rainnent Of his tales, so completely does
almost every page contain something Of in
| cideIt or illustration, or whatever is neces-
sary to keep them going. that it is hardly
possible to deal with them in mere Otline. In
the present instance this faculty is quite as
apparent as ever; all the special character
| istics of the author are to be found in ex-
hibition. and the ingenuity in devising a
plot on which the whole story is made con-
sistentIy to depend is in as full exercise as
ever. A very able and very inter
esting nOyel-Lo,,don Morning Post.
RIGHTED AT LAST.
A novel with Appleton's imprint; beauti-
fully printed, with illustrations.
MABEL LEE. A Novel By the author of
valerie Aylmer," Morton House," etc.
Illustrated. d. Appleton & Co., New
York.
Music AND MORALS. By the Rev. H. r.
Haweis. Harper Il Brothers, New York.
The author treats his subject as science,
and develops its philosophy. He proves, as
the word goes, an intimate relation between
music and morals His sketches of Handel,
Gluck, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schu-
bert Chopin, MendelssOhn, and other gifted
sons Of song, are interesting and instruct
ing. "Music and Morals" will be found a
valuable book to amateurs as well as more
advanced artists.
THREE CENTURIES OF ENGLISH LITERA-
TURE. By G. d. Yonge, professor OF mod
ern history and English literature in
Queens College, Belfast. New York: D.
Appleton & Co.
This volume contains brief sketch of
the life of the leading English writer's
for the last three hundred years, with ex-
tracts from their works. Also, an appendix
devoted to Chaucer and Spencer, whose eras
date still further back.
LORD BROUGHAM's AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Vol.
Ill. completing the work, is just received.
In this work will be found the more inter.
esting details in the life of most remarka-
BILE man. Those who have the first two vol
umes will not fail to call for the third.
TYERMAN's WESLEY. The Life and Times
of the Rev. John Wesley, MA, founder
of the Methodists. By the Rev. Luke
Tyerman, author of The Life Of Rev.
Samuel Wesley" Portraits. 3 vols,
crown ovo, 81 80 per vol. Harper Il
Brothers. Vol IL. just received.
Of this work the Rev. j. F. Hurst says.
l am fully convinced that it far excels any
other biography of the founder Of Method
ISL. Inc cdHuOf Oh the author, his critical
and cOr1@Gt taste, his laborious research
which has been re warded with the discov-
cry OF much unpublished matter, his shun-
ming OF tulsome adulation, and yet ardent
sympathy with his subject and profound
appreciation of the mission OF the son of the
Epworth rector. conspire to place his work
IN the front rank OF ecclesiastical biography.
BALDwIN's ANCIENT AMERICA. Ancient
America, in notes on American Archae-
ology. By John d. Baldwin, AM, au-
thor of PREHISTORIC Nations" etc With
Illustrations. 12mo, cloth, 8. Harper g.
Brothers,
MAUD MoHAS. A Novel. By Annie Thomas
author OF "On Guard" .'Theo. Leigh,
Playing for High Stakes" "Walter Cor
ing, False Colors,' etc. Harper &
Brothers.
Miss Thomas has already many admirers
among our readers, and this last work will
add to her tame