The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-07
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STATES. By Charles Nordhoff. New York
Harper & Brother. From George Ellis
Brother, 80 Camp street.
This volume, which contains over four hun
dred octave pages, and is very fully illus
trated, is a valuable contribution to the dis
cussion of the labor question, which is en-
gaging SO much attention at present. Com
munism, of which almost nothing definite O
precise is known, but which is general
spoken of either in terror or contempt, i
here fairly and impartially put before tn
public in the light of keen and caution
personal investigation of the various commu
mites existing in the United States, including
the Shakers, the Harmonists, the Separationists
the Oneida Community, the Aurora Commune
Cedar Vale, Vineland, and many others, who's
7 systems OF government, religion, morals, etc.
are carefully analysed and compared will
each other and with the workings of the out
side world. Mr. Nordhoff is noted for hi
strong sense and his earnest contempt TO
, anything like sensationalsm, as we'll as TO
an exceptional talent for investigation Tn
conclusion he reaches, therefore, merits consid
Grafton, and furnishes food for thought It il
as follows: "Finally, I repeat that one canno
play at communism. 1t is earnest work, anl
requires perseverance, patience, and all Other
manly qualities. But if compare the life in
contented and prosperous, that is to say
successful commune, with the life of an or
binary farmer or mechanic even in our pros.
porous country, and more especially with the
lives of the workingmen and their families
in our great cities, must confess that the
communist life is SO much freer from care
and risk, SO much easier so much better in
many ways, and in all material aspects, that
l sincerely wish it might have further devel.
opment in the United States"
REMAINS OF LOST EMPIRES. By P. V. N.
Myers. New York: Harper i Bros. FROM
| Geo. Ellis & Bro, 80 Camp street
| This handsomely illustrated octave of over
five hundred pages is the record of leisure
y journey through Egypt and Palestine,
Babylonia and Persia, a summer in the Him
alayas, and winter among the antiquities and
the plains of India previous volume,
Life and Nature Under the Tropics gave
the author favorable introduction to the
public and the present work will be equally
well received. The ruins of Palmyra, Mime
veh, Babylon, Persepohs, the Tenn pies of the
Vale of Cashmere, ETC., were leisurely and
carefully explored by the traveller, and their
history is well written; their present condition
graph cally portrayed The appendix, "The
Glaciers of the Hlmalayas," is valuable con-
tribution to geological science
The V1RG1NIus CASE, as reviewed in England
and as regarded by the New York Herald.
We have received from the publishers, a
pamphlet bearing the above title, and contain
ing very able article from the London
Transatlantic Magazine for October, 1874: com
ments upon the same from the New York
Herald Of October II, 1874, and the letter
from the owner of the Virginius to Secretary
Fish In view of the present agitation of the
indemniication question, the pamphlet is
well-timed and will be found to contain a clear
and complete statement and review of the
Virginius case, exhibiting parallel between
British and American action upon the subject,
which is as creditable to Great Britain as
humiliating to the United States
LOST FOR LOVE. A novel By Miss M. E.
Braddon. New York Harper Il Brothers |
From George Ellis Il Bro, 81 Camp street, |
New Orleans.
Perhaps no modern novelist has been more
read and more talked about than Miss Brad
don. She presents a delightful combination
of masculine vigor and feminine tenderness.
Like all her novels, the present story is one
Of absorbing, exciting interest, which is sus-
tained without a break from the first page
TO the last.
The VATICAN DEGREES, with history of the
Vatican Council, etc. By the Rev. Philip
Schaf, d. d. New York Harper & Broth
ers. From George Ellis & Brother, SO Camp
street.
This volume is portion of a forthcoming
History of the Creeds of Christendom," and
contains the celebrated paper by the Right
Hon. VIM. E. Gladstone, NJ. p, which has
reated such an excitement in the ecclesiastical
nd political worlds viz "The Vatican De-
rees in their bearing on civil allegiance" 1t
Includes also history of the Vatican Council, {
7hich will be found of great interest at the {
resent stage of the controversy. The full ,
ext of the ''Papal Syllabus of Errors" 1884,
nd Of the "Dogmatic DEGREES of the Vatican {
'ouncil concerning the Catholic Faith and the {
hurch Of Christ" CA. D. 1870 is given in /
9th Latin and English. t
He UGLY GIRL PAPERS; OR, HINTS FOR THE /
TOILET. By S. d. P. New York: Harper
Brothers. From George Ellis Brother, =
50 Camp street, New Orleans. n
This reprint of series of papers from Har- I
er's Bazaar, is q most complete hand book of q
le toilet; veritable book of beauty, teach n
lg how to attain and retain q clear COM tt
exion, abundant silky hair, perfumed breath il
i'd pearly teeth. graceful figure and pic e
RESCUE carriage. In short, the science of p
e toilet is here taught, and not by the use of tx
sIuIS HuO pOWUcES, cOSm0t1CS ana OyeS out a
7 the observance of the laws of health, by 9,
1genic reforms in dress, diet and exercise, Il
rough which every woman may become CT
easing to herself, and consequently to all sc
ound her. ri
STEELE: A novel, By Mrs. Annie Ed ST
wards. New York Sheldon & Co. From CT
George Ellis & Brother, 50 Camp street,
New Orleans.
Mrs Edwards. the very popular author of til
Archie Lowell" "Ought We to Visit Her. th
ID other equally we'll known novels, looks W
ION this story as one of the best she has ever ev
'itten. 1t was originally published in Eng th
nd under the title of ''Creeds," but at her sc
m suggestion it is now presented to the &c
nerican reader, for the first time, under the oil
ore attractive title '.Estelle," the name of wi
9 heroine. an
MALTA: A Narrative of the Expedition to I"
Central Africa for the Suppression of the be
Slave Trade. By Sir Samuel w. Baker, MI
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