New publications.
Folk Song.--This is the name of a book published in New York by Scrienes, and in
London by Sampson Low & Co. The editor is
John Williamson Palmer. It is a collection of short poems from a great number of authors.
English and American, among them
Shakespeare,
Dryden,
Scott,
Burns,
Byron,
Southey, Por,
Tennyson,
Longfellow, &c. It is designed as a gift book, and so far as mechanical execution goes, is a very superb affair.
If the
Knickerbocker standard of excellence in a book — viz: its avoirdupois weight — be correct, this is a very precious volume, for it outweighs any we have seen.
It has other recommendations, however.
It is elaborately gilt, is printed on beautiful paper, the typography is unsurpassed, and the engravings with which it abounds are appropriate and well executed.
It was presented to us by
Woodhouse, who, we presume, has "a plenty more of the same sort" left.
Travels in the Regions of the Upper and Lower Amour, and the Russian Acquisitions on the Confines of India and China, with Adventures Among the Mountains, &c. By
Thos. Witlam Atkinson, F. G. S., F. R. G. S., author of "
Oriental and Western
Liberia," with a map and numerous illustrations.
New York:
Harper & Brothers.--This book is illustrated with a map and numerous cuts.
It is an account of travels in a part of the world in which travellers "mostly" do not "congregate," and therefore has an air of novelty presented by few narratives of travel.
The critics have spoken in complimentary terms of
Mr. Atkinson's performance.
For sale by J. W.
Randolph
Our Year: a
Child's Book, in prose and verse.
By the author of "
John Halifax, Gentleman." New York:
Harper & Brothers.--This is a new field for our author, and one would think from the aptitude he displays in the art of pleasing the young people, that he had some experience in the matter of the guardianship and education of children, whereas he has bad precious little to do with them.
Yet one cannot but hope, in reading his pleasant little book, that one who exhibits so much art for the task, may yet have the care of them, and thus derive a new pleasure for himself, and become a benefactor of his country in a new relation.
We commend the agreeable book of our estimable author to our young friends.
It is a handsome and appropriate
Christmas present.
For sale by J. W.
Randolph.
