The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-03-18
NEW PUBLICATIONS.


TIE LosT HEIR OF L1NIrHdow. BY Mrs. EMNA
ID. E. N. SoUTHwoRTH (author of ten times us
many books as she has names) Published by
T., d. Peterson Brothers, Philadelphia. For
sale by Ellyson & Taylor, lll6 Main street,
Richmond.
Our readers are familiar with most of
the works of this popular female writer.
OF this particular work, it is enough to
know that the scene opens in the Western
Highlands Of Scotland, and that castles of
the old baronial type, lords and ladies, ba-
rons and harnesses, earls, dukes and
duchesses, all figure conspicuously in its
pages, with ''lost heir, = ultimately found,
to give the more thrilling interest required
in the general detail To those who enjoy
the intense Of passion, emotion, suffering,
misery, despair, with final resurrection
into hope and happiness, will delight to
read this, as nearly all the other works of
Mrs. Southworth. They are not equal to
Bulwer or Dickens, but they are quite as
interesting to large class of American
readers. ..... ...
WE have received from ELLYsoN &
TAYLOR, the April number Of GoDEY's
LADY's Book, which is beautifully Illus
trated as usual. This is the Oldest iving
magazine of all the American monthlies,
and it does our eyes good to see the names
of Cooley & Hale looking out from the
same cover that we used pour over nearly
forty years ago as child. They must be
pretty old folks" by this time, but they
look just as goody and hale as ever on the
cover, with a vast deal of intellectual cul-
ture and improvement inside.
We have also received from the same
firm 1.-THE Sad VERY saD Story of Enoch
Arden, as told by Peppercorn Perry
binge, with illustrations, designed and
chopped by the Author" which is the
same production, Enthusiastically, that we
heard read, not long since, by Major Willie
Caskie, even more sadly than it is told in
print. AS piece of laughable lugubrious-
ness the poem is very clever. 1t will not
immortalize its author, as Tam O'Shanter
would have done Burns had he written
nothing else, but it gives the Major good
start on the road to poetic fame, and If he
does not flag by the way, we may expect
better things from him still. He wants to
mend his poetical feet a4little when he
i pricks up for another jaunt about Par
nassus.
The GALAXY for April is received. 1t
contains several interesting and most reada-
BILE papers, among them one on "Charles
Reade," My Sudbury Mistletoe," "The
French at Home" Fifteen Years q
Qualteress," "My Life on the Plains''
by General CUSTER; Gan Independent
Ku-Klux," 1.-THE Neither Side of New
York p" Woman and Journalism" four
more chapters of Anthony Trollope's new
work entitled "Tho Eustace Diamonds, -
"Lincoln and johnson" By Gideon
Welles); "A Story of Shadow" and
Drit-Wood," with the usual scientific
miscellany, current literature, doings of the
Galaxy Club-Room, and "Nebula" by
the Editor. From this table of contents,
it will be seen that the GALAXY for April
Will demand a place In every scholars Ii
brary. 1t will be found at the Bookstores.
DEMoREsT's ILLUSTRATED MONTH
LY comes along promptly for April. For
a splendid array of spring fashions new
music, literary gems, poetry, and pro-
fusion of articles pertaining to the house
hold, Demorest is necessity for every
lady in the city. The April number is
bright, and full Of pleasant things, as well
as useful.