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more useful to the sergeant of police of the district
than to me. lie could tell him where I went,
what I bought, what I said, what I thought, and,
above all, how I looked when I was not thinking.
He could explain to him all about my eyes, how
inquisitive they both were, what odd places they
visited, <fcc. &c.”
Hut our notice is growing too long—and yet
our copy of the book exhibits a score of “dog
ears,” indicating passages to be quoted. Some of
them shall appear hereafter in our pages, and for
a whole chapter from this picturesque book, we
refer our readers, in advance, to the eclectic de
partment of our next number.
We have no sort of sympathy with the political
critics, who will quarrel with Sir Francis and his
Faggot, because he is a tory—thinks well of
Louis Napoleon—does not believe that France
is better oft’ as a nominal Republic, than she
was under the old regal regime, and quotes the
chiftionere to prove that the rich and titled are
necessary to the well being of the poor. We are
for letting the Baronet have his own way of
thinking about all this—while we have ours—
but we like his book vastly, and we recommend
it to our readers as the raciest, and most readable
volume of the winter, by all odds.
Home and Social Philosophy. From Household Words.
From the pressof Geo. P. Putnam, New-York.
In our last number, we referred to Mr. Putnam’s
announcement of a semi-monthly Library for Tra
vellers and the Fireside. We have subsequently
received the first number of it, containing sever
al of those delightful papers which have made
Mr. Dickens’ “ Household Words” no fiction,
either in England, or in this country. In three
or four volumes, these papers are to be properly
classified, and this is the first of the series contain
ing the essays relating to domestic and social
economy and popular philosophy. Among others
of great interest and beauty, we note especially
the papers on Ice ; Dreams ; The Private History
of the Palace of Glass; The Mysteries of a Tea-
Kettle, and Somnambulism. More delightful es
says than these, to be read aloud at the fireside, or
to absorb one in the noisy solitude of the railway
car, the whole range of modern literature does not
afford. The volumes of this Library are to be
published at the trifling expense of twenty-five
cents each, and they can be sent by mail at a
small cost.
Man and ms Migrations. By R. G. Latliam. From
the press of C. B. Norton, New-York.
This neat volume, in fancy boards, is put forth
as the first of a series, under the title of Norton’s
Rail-Road Library. We commend the good sense
of the publisher in thus appealing to higher tastes
in the traveller, than those who deluge our rail
way cars with the spawn of the lowest schools of
fiction and folly. The author of this volume is a
distinguished English savant , and the book com
prises six lectures delivered by him at the Me
chanics’ Institute of Liverpool. They afford the
general reader a very comprehensive and perspic
uous view of the varieties of the human species.
In the first part of the work the author states, with
great clearness, the difference between the natu
ral and civil history of man, and the two divisions
SOUTHERN LITERARY GAZETTE.
of the former—Anthropology and Ethnology—of
which latter science, or method of science, he gives
a very satisfactory account. He then enters upon
a clear and scholarly analysis of the “migrations
of man,” and we commend his treatise to all who
would be generally informed upon this important
topic.
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The Silver Cup or Sparkling Drops, from many
Fountains, for the f'riends of Temperance. Edited by
MissC. B. Porter. From the pressof Geo. H. Derby &.
Cos., Buffalo, New-York.
This is one of those unexceptionable volumes
to which it is impossible not to give a cordial
greeting, without instituting a very strict inquiry
into their literary merits. The design of the book
is so pure, so excellent, that it commends itself at
once to the heart. It is also very tastefully exe
cuted, the numerous sketches deserving the happy
title of “sparkling drops.” They do sparkle, not
only with the graces of style, but with the jewels
of pure sentiment and benevolent purpose. To
the friends of Temperance everywhere we com
mend this “silver cup.”
oi|i* 6oi)ieh)po^He§.
Blackwood's Magazine. [Leonard Scott &
Co’s. Reprint, New-York. Charleston: John
Russell.] We have received the initial number of
Maga, for 1852, at too late a moment for a de
tailed notice. It has more of “My Novel,” and
half a dozen taking titles upon its index page.
Who would be without the best magazine of
the nineteenth century, when they can get it
for Three Dollars a year, or for Two , if they take
the four leading British Reviews, each at the same
trifling sum ?
The Schoolfellow, for January. [Charleston :
Walker, Richards & Co.] Advance sheets of
this little work, for January, are before us, and
we notice them chiefly to say that the delay in
issuing them has been unavoidable, and was ow
ing to the stoppage of the machinery of the print
ing office for three weeks in December, which put
every thing behind. The number will be the
handsomest one ever yet sent out.
Hunt's Merchant's Magazine. [New-York:
B. F. Hunt.] The January number of this re
nowned commercial Journal is before us, with a
very attractive bill of contents. It is regarded by
those who knew it best as a work of inestimable
value to the interests it represents. Price—ss per
annum.
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The Southern Magazine. [Mobile: Strick
land & *Co.] This miscellany replaces the Par
lour Magazine, of which we spoke severely some
months ago. Its inevitable fate was written in
every paragraph of its editor—who, we observe, is
now personally denounced by the Alabama papers*
The new work is neat and spirited, and is under
the editorial care of Mr. W. G.C. Clark—said to
be a relative of his deceased namesake—the amia
ble gentleman and clever writer, Willis Gaylord
Clark, of Philadelphia. Mrs. Angle de V. Hull,
opens the January number with an agreeable
story, and there are other articles of merit. We
cordially wish it all possible success. Terms—
only $1 a year.
Hhiwi Mattel^.
The report that Mile. Jenny Lind would sail
in the Atlantic, on the 28th inst., is now posi
lively contradicted, and Madame Rumour post
pones her departure until May—and further inti
mates that her “farewell Concerts” may y e t be
given. We have no faith in the story, that the
fact of her mother’s death was made use of only
to cover a retreat from the engagement for the
concerts referred to, from apprehension that they
would not go off with sufficient eclat. It is, un
questionably, newspaper gossip. * * The cel
ebrated Hutchinson family have been giving con
certs in New-York, with much of their old suc
cess. * * A rupture has taken place in the
great Italian Opera Troupe, and there are now
two companies instead of one. Maretzek conducts
one with Marini, Salvi, and Steffanone, as its
stars ; while Arditi (the popular leader of the or
chestra in Charleston,) conducts the other with
the graceful Bosio, as prima donna, supported by
her husband Signor Bosio, Badiali, and Bettini.
Both divisions are now performing in New-York—
the former at the Astor Place, and the latter at
Niblo’s. We may now hope to enjoy in Charles
ton, a brief Opera season in the ensuing spring.
* * The Californians are to have the Ameri
can nightingale—Madame Biscaccianti—among
them in a few weeks. Although that is a gold
region, her notes will, we doubt not, be exceed
ingly current, and easily convertible into the pre
cious metal. A complimentary concert was given
to l her in her native city of Boston, a fortnight
ago, and was very handsomely attended. * *
Parodi, now at New-Orleans, is expected to join
the Maretzek troupe at New-York. * * Sig
norina Maberlini, will, probably, make her first
public appearance in Charleston during next week,
and we have no hesitation in saying that her sing
ing will possess attractions of no ordinary char
acter. * * Catherine Hayes has arrived with
her suite at Washington, and we may hope to see
her in Charleston next month. We shall have
something to say of her singing next week.
£sifofiql ;Bi*ebitieg.
A foolish rumour is in circulation that the Aus
trian Government has employed Lola Montes as
a spy upon the progress of Kossuth in this coun
try. * * Some of the English journals are
now stopped at the French Post Office, by the or
der of the Emperor. * * The cost of the Kos
suth reception in Gotham was SIO,OOO * *
Bayard Taylor says that the Egyptian drivers
start their donkeys by twisting their tails. * *
Anti-Intervention resolutions are quite “the order
of the day” in our Legislative assemblies. * *
The national debt of this country is now sixty
two and a half millions of dollars. The Mexi
can war did it. * * The mercury stood at
16 G in Charleston on Tuesday, the 20ih inst. * *
The steam-ship Janies Adger, for the New-York
and Charleston line, was launched recently in
New-York. * * Layard—of Nineveh fame
has presented to Williams’ College two beautiful
pieces of Sculpture, from the ruins of Nineveh. *
* The Greek Slave is gone—couldn’t stand our
[Jan. 24,