The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1876-01-21
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| Mrs. Arthur Arnolds long-heralded transls
ton Of Senior Castelar's "Life Of Lord By
ron. is at length before the reading public
and the most critical reader will find hi
warmest anticipations of rare literary trea
fully realized in the elegant volume before us
CASTELAR, has been pronounced "the most dar
ing and brilliant literary colorist of our times
rance Of diction and poetic hyperbole; a
times it is even oppressive in its sustained
uniformity of appended rhetorical eloquence
His admiration for Byron is uubounded; b.
sees his faults, bat forgives them. exagger
atlng the grievances on which Byron basee
his hatred of England and England's Gus
toms, thereby indicating his own short
comings To justify Lord Byron. CASTELAR,
deals with the painful history of the nations
of Europe, regarding him as embodying il
himself the synthesis of all ideas, all senti
ments, all sorrows, all difficulties ." manifest
| ed in penetrating cry of heart-rending
though sublime doubt, like q momentary
eclipse, which, by the law of contrast, makes
tellectuai prodigy" The brief biographical
sketches of Victor Hugo, Alex 4nder Dumas
Emile Gjrardin, and Adolphe Theirs are also
| replete with interest. The translation is evil
IDENTIFY worthy rendering of the original and
the volume Is issued in style commensurate
with the literary elegance of the contents.
The THRONES AND PALACES OF BABYLON AND
NINEvEH; from st to Sea- Thousand Miles
onH orseback. By John P. Newman, b. D.
New York: Harper l. Bros. New Orleans
r. G.. Eyrich.
This record of journey of ga thousand
miles on horseback, to detray the expenses
OF which, by the way, We have all contributed
more or less, the narration being the em bodi-
ment Of the worthy parsons observations on
his unique governmental tour OF "Consular
Inspections, is superbly printed, bound
and illustrated volume.
The reader could scarcely expect anything
new, except in the method of handling q
subject which has been so thoroughly ex-
bausted. Every nook and corner of the HOLY
Land has been explored; every grain of sand
turned over; the lines of travel intersect
each other at every point, while the little that
remained to be said, was quite recently very
we'll said by Van Lenness in his bible
Lands " from the same publications.
There are, however, many different ways of
saying the same thing, and DR.. Newman has
in making very readable book,
which would find many purchasers were it for
nothing else than the novelty of the manner
in which the material was obtained
The LIFE OF JONATHAN SWIFT. By John
Forster. New York: Harper and Brothers.
Nav Orleans: r. G. Eyrich.
FOrs :er's Life Of Dean Swift, which will be |
in three handsome crown-octavo
volumes of some 800 PIP. each, will prove an !
invaluable possession to every English class
cal scholar. There is perhaps no celebrated |
author of whom SO much has been said, and |
10 little really known, as the immortal Swift. |
The collection Of new, and hitherto mac
'essible material, has been ''labor of love "
With his present biographer for many years.
Among the original material now brought into
equlsltion for the first time, may be
ut ntioned more than $50 new letters, the
original MSS Of his more important pub
lshed works, much manuscript matter
hitherto unpublished, including Marginalia,
poems, journals, notebooks, etc The pre-
ent volume contains fund of anecdote re-
ating to himself, his family and his ancestors,
specially his childhood and his school and
is college days, his earliest attempts at au-
horship (p1etical, of course), the history of
he composition and public ton of the "lale
+ Tub, 1.-The Battle of the Books" Ban
is and Philimon," the true story of his con-
ection with Poor Stella" and that long un-
ropilious love, widely famed as the passion
Petrarch or Of Abelard The irst volume.
ow before us, covers forty-four years of his
fe, or from 1867 to I'LL.
OF FORTS SUMTER AND MouL.
TRIE IN lS6O-6l. BY Abner Doubleday.
Brevet Major General, o. s. A. New York:
Harper & Bros. New Orleans: r. G. Ey-
rich.
An impartial record of the momentous
rents that preceded and attended the taking
Fort Sumter. written by an eyewitness
Id active participant in the events portrayed.
ould undoubtedly possess great value as a |
'ntribution to modern history; but the vol
ne before US, as written, is a most un-
'cessary, untlmely, urjustiiaole and ILL
dyed publication, fitted only to stir
, anew those bitter passions over
hose partial subsistence all right minded
en- rejoice. The author is bitter and ma
,nant. evidently Influenced by the memory
private wrongs, and, therefore, utterly
hit for the position assumed-that of O
tier Of history. His tale, even as told, how
er, has Value of its own, as the narrative
minute and clear, though marred by tre-
ent Irrelevant digressons into political
gument The portraits of his fellow officers
9 vivid and life-like sketches, and the con-
lst drawn between the lukewarm patriotism
certain Federal officers, as compared with
3 conduct of Confederate officers under e.
nllar circumstances. is striking enough,
nsidering the pen from which it proceeds.
lTH HARP AND CROWN Novel. By the
author OF Ready Money Mortiboy," "My
Little Girl, etc. Boston: James B. Osgood
4 Co. New Orleans: r. G. Eyrich. 7,
This is decidedly one of the best novels of
3 new year, which, however, is only what
uld be expected by the readers of Ready
'ney Mortiboy" and my Little Gll." IT
4 thoroughly English story OF life in good
'iety. Tee title is somewhat sensational,
is justified by the concluding words, g,
'ken of the heroine, one of The loveliest
lracters ever conceived by the novelist:
6 As the children read of women to be wor- Al
pped, they shall think of Marion. When
y grow up and can understand something
the mystery and meaning of good works,
y shall associate all good works with
rion. When they hear of those who give
spend for others, their thoughts will turn
Marion. There is crown for
Sc who live for others, more glorious than tt
wreath of the Nemoean games. Hers is
hoo ~, L.