Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-12-20
New Publications.

WARRINGTON OUTSIDE AND INSIDE. A
Picture and a Narrative Of the Origin, Growth,
send, Cath" Auth r OF The New world Com
dent Il The 0hicsso TfibTns Hartford James
Belts 90. Through stockman Son, SIS s;h
street, sshinston
The New York Nation lately remarked of Mr..
TOwnsend's pen-work, " We do not know of any
American newspsper-EnglIsh which we like
better as English than that of Mr. George Al
fred Townsend. Our readers are not ignorant
of Mr.. Townsend's services at the Capital.
where he has distinguished himself as a hster
of shams ard friendly to all those measures of
political reform to which the better portion of
the republican party is irrevocably committed.
1t is, to be sure, sometimes easier to be amused
by Mr.. TownseDd's personalities than to spol-
ogize for them; but there is a humor and pic
turesqueness about them which is nothing less
than pOetcsl" This criticism upon Mr.. Town
sends newspaper work may be fairly applied TO
his book-work, as Illustrated by the present
volume, which has all the hurry, dash, (ssme-
times slap-dash,) picturesqueness of narrative,
graphic portraiture, and happy felicities of ex-
preston which s,rve to make his letters the
most readable of any going. Mr.. Townsend has
industry, however, as well genius, and
this book has q wonderful amount of curious
information in regard to the past and present of
Washington, and the personages known to its
history. 1t affords an amount Of data in this
way calculated to make it an indispensable
feature Of a Washington mans library. Among
the forty-one chapters of this thick book Of $50
pages We will refer to those headed, "How
Washington City came to be-" 1.-THE Lobby and
Its Gentry" "The Civil versus the Congress
sonal Service" "a Running History of Gov
eminent Scandals" "Style, Extravaganza, and
MAfrimnuu at IA IF
Series of Open Air Excursions around Wash
ington to Get Rid of Politics. /" The Dueling
Ground at Bladensburg and the Greal Duels
there;" "Curiosities of the Great Bureaux of
the Government" "My Pursuit of Credit
Mobilier;" "a Record of Historical Events in
the District of Columbia from 1921 to 1885,"
Excursions in the Potomac Country" (which
gives the inside history of the adventures of
Booth after the murder of Lincoln.) and
Social Sketches of the Old and New in Wash
ington,' as affOrding good idea of the interest
and Importance Of the work.
TIE BEST OF ALL GOOD COMPANY. By
Blanchard Jerrold. First Series. Boston: Shep.
ard Gill. Through Warren Choste CJ.I
Mr.. Jerrold, son OF The Jerrol6, in his preface
introduces his book a. des, gned to draw readers
from that
very modifying stuffage Of mind"
which is offered to them in the shape OF light
current literature, and induce them to become
the companions of the noble minds that, we are
told, ''taken up any way are profitable com
pany." The four writers illustrated and quoted
from are Dickens, Scott, Thackeray, and
Douglass Jerrold.
SANTA CLAUS LAND. By Amanda NJ. Douglas.
illustrated. Boston: Lee Gill. Through
Warren Cheate q COL
A pleasing illustrated story, just the thing for
the holiday season.
CHILD WORLD. By Gail Hamilton. Illustrated
Part Sec md. Boston: Lee & GIL, Through
Warren Choate %.
Another apropos book for the season by a
we'll known writer.
ENMINUTE TALKS ON ALL SORTS OF
TOPICS. By Elihu Burritt, with autobiography
OF the author. Boston: Lee 4 Shepard. Through
Warren Choete x COL
Almost generation has passed since Mr.
Burritt's last book was issued in this country
though in the interval about a dozen volumes
from his pen have been published in England
He has therefore dropped a little out of public
recollection, though his name stands conspic.
uously in current biography in connection with
his remarkable feats in early life in acquiring
most of the languages while working daily at
the anvil. The present volume will revive pub-
lie interest in him, the more especially as it has
pretty full autobiography of the author.