The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-10-03
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The New Don QUIxorE; OR, THE WONDERFUL
ADVENTURES OF TARTARIN OF TARAsCoN. BY
Alphonse Daudet. Translated from the
French by G. Roland. Boston William
F. Gill & Co. New Orleans: r. G. Eyrich.
Charles Dickens is said to have regarded
Alphonse Daudet as some of the rising glories
OF French literature" while in the judgment
of Edmond About, the French novelist, Dau-
Diet is "the pupil of Dickens possessing
like his immortal master "the command OF
tears and laughter, making the reader laugh
and cry in company with him." Tartarin, the
new Quixote, is a curiously complicat ed
character-an enthusiastic, dashing Iartarln'
-Quixote, and timorous, weak Tartarin-
Sancho, combined in one stout little French
man, whose adventures give us many
hearty laugh, though the chances for tears
are IRE enough in this unique specimen o.
the French novel.
THE TREASURE TRovE SERIES. Vol. l. Bur
lesaue. Edited by r. H. Stoddard. Com
piled by w. S. Walsh. Boston: William T.
Gill & co. New Orleans: r. G. Eyrich.
The first volume gives admirable promise
for this new series, which bids fair to form
worthy pendant to Osgood's "Little Classics
lust completed. 1t contains choice selec
COQ OF SketCu0S HULL lLO PoA VI oNOAA HANS~S
hands at burlesque as Dickens, Charles Lamb
Thomas Hood, Mark Twain, ETC. 1t vel
merits it's claim to be regarded as "TreAsu
Trove."
THE WOMAN OF HONOR; OR, FALSE FRIEND
SHIPS IN SOCIETY. A Book for Women
Translated from the French of Louis Enault
nv Mrs. Rebecca L. Tut. Philadelphia: L
r. Peterson and Brothers. New Orleans:
G. Eyrich.
To the young women who, in the present
day more than at any previous period, arr
thrown upon their own resources, this stor.
offers an admirable example OF courage II
misfortune, patience in adversely, industry II
overwhelming, we may add, in a happ.
marriage.
For A WoMAN's SAKE. or The Mysteries OF tn
Castle. Adapted from the German OF Han
Wachenhusen. By NJ S. Boston: WI
liam F. Gill & Co. New Orleaps: K u
Eyrich.
we are informed on the title page OF thi
novel that the author is "the Wilkie Collin
of Germany" We fail to see, however
wherein lies his claim to this title, for tn
present volume at least is thorough German
story, whatever may be the peculiarities
merits of his other works. We have duel
and mysteries, banquets and balls, brutal op
pressors and absurd peasants, linked together
however, by the slender thread OF lov
story, tender and sweet, which stands out II
pleasant contrast to the miserable intrigue
and yillainies which form the staple OF tn
story.
SPEECHES OF Pope P1Us TX. BY the Righ
Hon. w. E. Gladstone, M. P. New YORK
Harper & Bros. New Orleans: 4. 4
Eyrich.
Originally published as au article in tn
Ouarterly ReUieW of January, 1879, TIL
pamphlet forms one of the series OF g Vatlca'
Pamphlets recently collected into singi
volume by their author, and re-issued unde
the title "Rome add the Newest Fashions
Religion" The present number is scathln
review of two volumes of eleven hundre
pages, containing two hundred and nl Iaet
speeches, addressed, between October, 1875
and September, 1873, to all kinds of commit
tees and Populations and audiences. Thei
burden is vail over the loss of the Pope
temporal power, laudation of his own great
ness. and an appeal to foreign interventio
to restore him his political pr sition as a mai
| ter of religious necessity and duty.
Tur CA1pERwoop SECRET. A Novel. By Vii
pinia W. johnson. New York: Harper
Bros. New Orleans: 4. u. Eyrich.
| This is the third novel which Miss John
son has given to the public, but 1t exhibit
little, if any, improvement over us preoeces
sors. Containing the elements OF GOO zoo
story, it is unfinished and lnartls.lc. ~
language is grammatically correct, ous NV Wi'l
ont polish or elegance; there is no magic
| stvle to charm the fancy. The interest
snasmodic: the different portions of the stor
are GOOD in themselves, bat the whole form
but q loosely jointed skeleton. The chara'
ters are sufficiently well delineated, but the
are uninteresting; either good in common
place fashion, or base money worshlppef
aco uaintance with whom diminishes our r