The New York herald., 1873-09-15
NEW BOOKS.

OF new DOCKS which have been allowed to accumu.
ia'e Oh an editor's table. Poetry fiction, history
anu natural science form the bulk, but the subjects
ousside oi snese relate to all manner OF incongru-
GUS things.
For instance, now that there is danger OF an
epidemic, we have received from J. B. Lippincott
Co. pamphlet on Malignant Cholera, by DIR.
Alfred Stille.
And then the manual OF something specially de-
signed for the use of somebody Is sure to turn mn
This making OF elementary text books has become
terrible nuisance. The latest thing OF the kind is
"A Manual OF Moral Philosophy" by Professor Pea.
body, OF Harvard College, published by A. g. Barnes
co. We cannot see that the book has any claims
upon the attention OF anybody except the mem.
bers OF Professor Peabody's classes. and we hope
he may better employ his time than In writing the
more complete text book he promises In the pre-
face to this one.
The inevitable book on the great West Is certain
to be found in such bundle. The most recent
work Of the Kind Is "Five Years in the Territories,
by J. II. Beadle. 1t Is subscription book, got up
with coarse prints ana all the supposed attractions
necessary to make work sell among ignorant
people, but 1t has no real interest or value.
Reprints Of standard works are also found te
claim attention, and sometimes they are entitled
70 notice. This Is the case with the new edition
OF the historical works OF william II. Prescott
which the Lippincotts have begun to issue. This
edition will be edited by John Foster Kirk, the his
torian. and will contain all Mr. Prescott's last
additions and corrections. The first volume Of
"Ferdinand aud Isa,ella" has already appeared.
In the bundle before us we lind one Of those ex-
ceptional things Of sweetness in the way OF re-
print which are seldom seen 1t Is collection OF
papers by Douglas Jerrold not included In his pub
lyoho dvvnr rxu h,to rofro onvth htpvV Vvht
Jerrold wrote. To give an idea Of the volume,
which is published by Lee h Shepard, we cannot
do better than to quote the preface:-
Leigh hunt, in little speech at the Museum
Club said that II Jerrod had the sting Of the bee,
he had also his honey" In this volume there is,
undoubtedly, more honey than sting; though 1t
must be confessed there Is also plenty OF the lat
ter particularly in "Mr. Caudle's breakfast Talk"
Tutor-Fiend and his Three Pupils" q story or al
leR0ry almost as grim and ghastly as anything
On On a an
wit. keenly and unsparingly exposing "the hy
pocrisy OF iiie," many OF the essays sketches and
philosophy. Even the Hedgehog Letters,S which
are nothing If not satirica are not very bitter
IN church and state in England. 1.-THE Recollec-
tons OF Guy Fawkes" is paper nearly as genial
Lamb. And the "Fireside Saintsn are think, the
sweetest and sunniest Of Jerrold's writings.
Money always commands respect, and 80, we
suppose, will Mr.. Walter Bagehot's book on "Lom-
bard Street," just published by Scribner, Arm
strong 4 Co. 1t is Q description Of the English
money market, carefully prepared by an intelligent
and philosophical writer, and 1t Is In every way
more valuable than any Of the text books on poltt
cal economy Wall street can look over this book
with profit, and even "cornern for Bageh0t Will
not hurt anybody.
hund lo NJ no toiD hfn0
that tries ones patience severely. Here we have
volume of essays about Men and Things" by G.
s. Henry, and published by Thomas Whitaker
The preaces to these books generally contain some
remark to which 1t Is easy to assent. In this One
for instance, the author says:-"These papers do
not pretend to be any very great things" Nothing
would more aptly describe the feebleness OF MI.
Henry's platitudes.
Poetry, or what claims to be poetry, demands
attention almost every week throughout the pub
| fishing season.
| "lscah, or Jephthah's VOW" apoem In six cantOs
by Isabella lie Patton mrs. Hunt Morgan), and pub
lished by Binns Il Goodwin, London, tells, II
pleasant rhymes, the story of Jephthahs daughter
1t is not a very new nor very strong poem, bu
| commends itself to such as delight IN Scripture
stories ampliAed and in verse.
The most remarkable poem Of the present season
is "White Rose and Red," by the author OF "St.
Abe,n supposed to be Robert Buchanan. Red Rose
is an Indian maiden,
shapely creature, tall
And slightly formed, but plump wfthal
who mady loved Eureka Hart, of DrOwsletown, in
the State Of Maine, and the White Rose is Phoebe
Ann
Dmpled, dainty, one and twenty,
Rosy faced and round Of limb,
Warmed with motheI-wit in plenty,
Prudent modest, spry yet priin.
Lily-handed, tlny-footed,
With an ankle clean and neat
Neatly gloved and trinity booted,
Looking nice and smelling sweet,
who married him. Red Rose appeared in Drowsie.
town with her child, and while the wife tended her
to her DEATH the white woman was
spite her pain,
Able, with womans brain,
To discern as clear as day
On whose side the SHINING lay;
Able TO compassionate
Her deluded rivals fate,
All the wearlness and care
OF the fatal journey there;
Able to acknowledge UlliS
Far the most amazing is)
On how duIl and mean thing
Wasted was this passionny;
On how commonplace chance
Hung the wanderers romance;
Round how more log did twine
The wild tendrils of this vinc
The poem Is one OF singular originally and
beauty.
General Lew Walace's novel, 'The Fair God,"