The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-04-14
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MYSTERY. Vol. VII; Of Little Classics; ed
tied by Rossiter johnson. Boston: jaime
r. Osgood 4 Co. From r. G. Eyrich, ID
Canal street.
Volume VIII Of this charming series is de
voted to the topic "Mystery." As usual. tn
sketches chosen to illustrate the leading idei
are selected with scholarly discrimination, in
GLIDING in the present volume "The Ghost,
by VIM. d. Ot;onnor; "The Signal Man,
by Charles Dickens; "The Haunted Ships,
by Allan Cunningham; "The R 1T that No
Man Made" by Robert T. S. Lowell; "The
Birthmark," by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and
several others equ lily appropriate as classic
delineations Of the ghostly ideal mystery.
KATERFELro. A story Of Exmoor. BY G..
J. Whyte Melville. Philadelphia: Porter
Coates. New Orleans: Z. G. Eyrich, 100
Canal street; Geo. Ellis & Bro, 50 Camp
street.
A strikingly original story, full of life,
character and action. Katertelto, the central
figure around which all the others group, is a
splendid horse, whose exploits afford some
fine specimens of sporting anecdote, without
which a book of Whyte-Melville's would not
be complete. Gypsy character and gypsy life
are wildly portrayed; in fact, the whole
volume is picturesque romance.
NATURAL HISTORY OF MAN. By A. De Qua
trefages. Translated from the French by
II
4 Co. From George Ellis & Bro, 50 Camp
street.
The Popular Science Library, of which
series the above volume is the second num-
Der, is designed to bring the varied and i'm
portant results of modern scientific inquiry
within easy reach of all classes of reader, in
q series Of uniform, attractive volumes. at the
moderate price Of one dollar each. The re-
suits of the ripest thought and most thorough
culture will be reproduced in such manner
rs to be rendered both interesting and profit
able to the general reader, by means oforiginal
essays, trapslations. reprints. abridgements,
etc. These elementary lectures of Prof. De
Quatrefages constitute most admirable in
to the study Of the races Of man
The science Of anthropology.
The SCIENCE OF Music. By Sedley TAYLOR.
NJ. A. New York: D. Appleton & Co. New
Orleans: George Ellis Il Bro, 50 Camp
street.
This little volume, which is the third num-
Der Of the Popular Science Library, affords
IN int lgible and succinct account of that
portion Of the theory Of sound which consti-
utes the physical basis of the art of music.
It is beautifully and profusely illustrated,
both by diagrams and by musical notation.
The DISCARDED WIFE, or WILL SHE SUCCEED.
By Miss Eliza A. Dupuy. Philadelphia: T. |
3. Peterson & Bros. New Orleans: r. G.
Eyrich, l3OssCanh street.
This is another volume of Peterson's uni |
orm edition Of the complete works of Miss
Eliza A. Dupuy, in large duodecimo volumes,
handsomely bound in cloth. Thirteen VOL
mes will complete the set.
,PocHs OF History THE THIRD
By Rev. W. Warburton, Nj. A. With three
maps. Boston: Estes 4 Lauriat. Chicago:
Jansen, McClurg Il Co. San Francisco:
Payot, Upham 4 Go. From r. G. Eyrich,
13O Canal street, New Orleans.
This is the sixth volume Of very valuable
istorical series, edited by Edward E. Morris,
|. A., and prepared by thoroughly competent
ands, each volume complete in ITSELF The
hole series is designed to sketch succinctly
10 most important epochs in the worlds his
Try, each volume bringing out in the clearest
ght the salient incidents and most important
atures of the period under consideration.
istory is thus popularized, and the general
ader enabled to keep pace with the history
the world in its most important features,
ithout going into the minute details of the
story Of each country and kingdom.
oAz: Hrs TR1BuLAT1oNs. Nashville, Tenn. /,
Wheeler, Marshal 4 Bruce, publishers. 7.
We have received from the author-a Lou ,
anian well known in our literary, judicial -,
ID commercial circles-a copy Of the above
ork, which we find to be collection of
'morous articles originally published in the
Rural Sun. 1t contains more e
nuine humor, pure fun, absurd conceits,
mical situations, laughter-provoking nom I
nse, than anything We have seen since the {
lmy days Of Judge Halliburton and the
idow Bedott While we specially commend !;
Q book to all amateur farmers, We as en- \
latically counsel them not to let it fall into {
Q hands OF their mothers-in-law. If our
other-in-law were to get hold Of copy, we !
ouldn't dare to 60 home for month.
IE BLossoNING OF AN ALOE. Novel. By
Mrs. Csshel Hoey. New York: Harper &
Brothers. From George Ellis l. Brother
81 Camp street, New Orleans.
Mrs. Hoey has given us here a tenderly I,
ID, beautiful story of the pure, holy, stead l
It love Of gentle, self Forgetting woman. II
She was Of those who are content to wait =
r the poisoning of the aloe and who do y
It weary Of the hundred years" She loved G
N truly, and she waited for him patiently, ?
d while she waited he loved another, and