FREE BOOKS

Author's List




PREV.   NEXT  
|<   81   82   83   84   85   86   87   88   89   90   91   92   93   94   95   96   97   98   99   100   101   102   103   104   105  
106   107   108   109   110   111   112   113   114   115   116   117   118   119   120   121   122   123   124   125   126   127   128   129   130   >>   >|  
_Hurry-graphs, or Sketches of Scenery, Celebrities and Society_, taken from life. It embraces the author's letters to the Home Journal, from Plymouth, Montrose, the Delaware, the Hudson, the Highlands, and other summer resorts, with personal descriptions of Webster, Everett, Emerson, Cooper, Jenny Lind, and many other notabilities. It will be a delightful companion for the watering places this season. * * * * * Among the most beautiful books from the American press is _Episodes of Insect Life_, by ACHETA DOMESTICA, just reprinted by J. S. Redfield. The natural history and habits of insects of every class are delineated by a close observer with remarkable minuteness, and in a style of unusual felicity; and the peculiar illustrations of the book are more spirited and highly finished than we have noticed in any publication of a similar character. * * * * * The Harpers have published a new edition of the _Greek Grammar_ of Philip Buttman, revised and enlarged by his son, Alexander Buttman, and translated from the eighteenth German edition by Dr. EDWARD ROBINSON. It is not to be doubted, we suppose, that this grammar, in the shape in which it is now presented, is altogether the best that exists of the Greek language. We are not ourselves competent to a judgment in the case, but from all we have seen upon the subject by the best scholars, we take this to be the general opinion. * * * * * JOHN P. KENNEDY has in the press of Putnam a new and carefully revised edition of his _Swallow Barn, or a Sojourn in the Old Dominion_, one of the most pleasant books illustrative of local manners and rural life that has ever been written. It is more like Irving's Bracebridge Hall than any other work we can think of, and is as felicitous a picture of old Virginia as Jeffrey Crayon has given us of Merrie England. The first edition of Swallow Barn was published twenty years ago; the new one is to be beautifully illustrated in the style of Irving's _Sketch Book_. * * * * * Dr. FRANCIS LIEBER, the learned Professor of the South Carolina College, has been elected a member of the National Institute of France. Dr. Lieber is a German, but he has resided in this country many years. Among Americans who have been thus complimented are Mr. Prescott and Mr. Bancroft. The late Henry Wheaton was also a member of the I
PREV.   NEXT  
|<   81   82   83   84   85   86   87   88   89   90   91   92   93   94   95   96   97   98   99   100   101   102   103   104   105  
106   107   108   109   110   111   112   113   114   115   116   117   118   119   120   121   122   123   124   125   126   127   128   129   130   >>   >|  



Top keywords:

edition

 

published

 

Irving

 

Swallow

 

German

 
member
 

Buttman

 

revised

 

judgment

 
competent

pleasant

 
manners
 

illustrative

 

Dominion

 

carefully

 

opinion

 

Putnam

 

KENNEDY

 

general

 

Sojourn


scholars

 

subject

 

Virginia

 

Institute

 

National

 

France

 

Lieber

 

elected

 

College

 

learned


Professor

 
Carolina
 

resided

 

country

 

Wheaton

 
Bancroft
 

Prescott

 

Americans

 

complimented

 

LIEBER


FRANCIS

 

picture

 

felicitous

 

language

 

Jeffrey

 

Bracebridge

 
Crayon
 

beautifully

 

illustrated

 

Sketch