The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-05-31
OUR BOOK TABLE.

PERSONAL "REMINISCENCES. By ChOrley
blanche and Young. New York: Serb
ner, Armstrong & Co. New Orleans
Kahn e. Co.
The dainty exterior Of this little volume,
with its pale lavender tints, is fit index to
the character of it's contents; the promise
held out in its motto, "Infinite riches in a
little room," is amply fulfilled.
The Bric-a-Brac series, Of which this il
the first volume, is to be collection of per
sonal "reminiscences Of the famous poets and
novelists, wits and humorists. artists, actors
and Observation-Disclosures of every charac-
ter-who have made the nineteenth century
80 brilliant in the annals Of literature
gathered from biographies, autobiographies,
memoirs, ETC., under the edit"rship of
Richard Henry Stoddard, whose name alone,
iu this connection, guarantees delightful
treat.
The present volume opens with the most
charming "reminiscences of personal inter
course with such celebrities as Lady Bless
ington, Count d'Orsay, Theodore Hook,
Sydney Smith, Lady Morgan, Paul de Kock
Southey, Rachel, Mrs. Browning, Moschelles,
Mendelssohn and a host of others, CHILLED
from the 700 pages of published auto
biography, memoirs and letters Of Henry
Fotheringill Chorley, for many years must
cal and literary editor of the London 1.-The
soum, and who, as a thoroughly capable
and impartial critic, stood unrivaled. For
upward of twenty years his house in Lon
don was the rendezvous of all that was
distinguished in art, science. or literature
He died in February, 1872.
j. Robinson blanche was most prolific
and successful English dramatist, having
produced upward of 200 plays, Of which rs
were put upon tho stage between his 22d
and 37th years!
His profession threw him into close con-
tact with all the dramatic celebrities Of his
time, and through him we are introduced to
Wallack, Malibran, Lablache, Charles KEN
bic, Sheridan Knowles, Madame Vestris and
q host of I" lesser lights" He was also an
assiduous antiquarian student and an au-
thority in matters Of historical costume and
furniture, his advice being sought by the
leading English painters-Etty, Twins, the
Landseers and others. He is still living,
though nearly eighty years Of age.
In the selections from the Rev. Julian
Charles Young's Memoir of his father,
Charles Mayne Young, the tragedian, we
have anecdotes Of Edmund Kean, Mrs. Sid
dons, Mile. Duchesnois, Kemble, Charles
Matthews, ETC., on the one hand, and Of
DR.. Chalmers, Coleridge, Wordsworth,
Bowles "the parson poet" Walter Scott.
Sir Horace Seymour, etc, on the other.
Sparkling with wit and humor, we know
Of nothing more charmingly adapted to
while away the weary hours of the idle
summer time than these scraps of harmless
gossip, these brilliant personalities of the
worlds celebrities.
A FAST LIFE. By Joseph Taylor. New
York: Harper & Brothers; New Orleans:
Kahn e. Co.
This il one of the modern sensational
titles, eminently calculated to mislead the
reader as to the real character Of the book
before us. The characters who lead fast
life, are usually supposed to be roue's and
gamblers; flirts and coquets, if not worse
the scenes, those Of frivolity and dissipa-
ton, folly and shame.
The "fast life here intended, however.
is life upon the railroad the characters,
engineers, brakesmen. and other
innocent, harmless individuals. The pro-
nh Of bo hafnr 90,
give travellers comprehension of the rail-
way system of America; its way of working
It's idiosyncrasies and association; to CON-
bine amusement and instruction in whole
some proportion by means of series of Incl
dents and adventures, ludicrous and pathetic; |
investing the railroad journey, hitherto SO
and wearisome, with new
charm and interest by this glance into "a
new world, with influences and sympathies |
and surroundings of its own, hitherto yelled
rom our eyes,"
JOHN WORTHINGTON's NAME. By the author
Of "My Daughter Elinor." New York
Harper & Brothers. New Orleans Kahn
e. Co.
: My Daughter Elinor," Miss Van Kort-
and" Miss Dorothy's Charge" etc, has
won for himself an enviable reputation as a
,ovel writer, from which the present story
will aetract nothing. Though the plot is
simple, and the characters few, the interest
e intense, and wcll-sustained to the end
There is no tiresome description Of charac-
or they reveal themselves as we read the
dialogue is sparkling with brilliant repartee;
he incidents all essential to the unraveline
# the plot. The character Of Alice March
mont is truly dramatic in its portrayal,
While poor Miss Portman is worthy of
dickens.
The Presbyterian Assembly.
COLUMBUS, Miss, May 3O.-The Assembly
dopted resolution that the attendandance
f theological students to chapel services
sunday morning be voluntary. ADOPTED.