REVIEW OF NEW BOOKS .
380
AN ENTIRELY NEW FASHION has recently been introduced s Venetian Life. By W. D. Howells. 1 vol., 12 mo. New in Paris; it is the adoption of complete Breton costumes. York: Hurd & Houghton.-A delightful book . Venice is Some have as yet but partially adopted them, and wear the here delineated with the accuracy of a photograph, but jacket belonging to the costume only; but more daring with a warmth and color to which no photograph can preones have accepted the entire dress with the exception of tend. The chapters entitled " Arrival and First Days in the cap. At a fashionable reception, lately, the hostess Venice," " Churches and Pictures," "The Balcony on the wore- first a short petticoat of dark-blue cloth, bordered Grand Canal," and " Some Islands of the Lagoons," aro with embroidery of various-colored silks, and above that, a particularly charming. Travelers, who have been at Venice, second skirt, in the same style, with this difference only, will appreciate the book especially ; while those who have that the embroidery was edged at both sides with a wide never seen Venice, will wish to start for it forthwith. In band of black velvet. The bodice was low, with immense its way it is as great an addition to our literature as Story's arm-holes simulated by embroidery and velvet ; the sleeve "Roba di Roma." The volume, like all the publications of was quite plain at the top, but opened at the elbow to Hurd & Houghton, is well printed . Price, in cloth, $2.00. allow a white, full sleeve, which fastened at the wrist, to Memoirs and Correspondence of Madame Recamier. Transbe seen. Aguimpe, made of tucked nainsook muslin, with lated from the French, and edited by Josephine M. Lungster. a plain, turned-back collar, concealed the shoulders. 1 vol. 12 mo. Boston : Roberts Brothers.- Madame Recamier Promenade costumes are made in the same style, both in was a famous beauty during the First Empire ; and this is cloth and cashmere, and to these a loose paletot to match her life, as written by her adopted daughter. She appears is invariably added. The Langaste costume, which is black, here as a woman of marvelous tact, great sweetness of the embroidery being worked in very bright colors, the temper, forgetfulness of self, and durable affections. Some arms of Brittany on the pockets of the large jacket, and a ofthe most eminent men of her day, among them Chateauprofusion of silver grelots ornamenting it, is one of the most briand, were her fast friends ; and the volume is full of picturesque and fanciful of all Breton dresses, and it is re- their letters. Price, in cloth, $2.00. ported that even this will be adopted in time. As yet The Papacy; its Historic Origin and Primitive Relations these costumes, although very appropriate for promenade with the Eastern Churches. By the Abbe Guettee, D. D. toilets, (because they are short, and are composed of dark, Translated from the French. 1 vol., 12 mo. New York: substantial materials, ) are only to be seen in carriages and Carleton. The author of this work is a French divine, reception-rooms, on account of their extreme novelty ; and reared in the communion of Rome, but now holding confor the present there is but one shop in Paris where they clusions different from those maintained by that church. can be procnred. For some length of time it has been well He writes well, and evidently has genius. The Rt. Rev. known that gentlemen, belonging to the upper circles, have Bishop Coxe, of Western New York, furnishes an introducworn the Breton costume for sporting and at friendly tion to the book. Price, in cloth, $1.75. gatherings; and now the ladies, following their usual Ecce Deus. Essays on the Life and Doctrine of Jesus course, intend to imitate them. Hats are worn with the Christ. With Controversial Notes on " Ecce Homo." 1 vol., Breton costume ; the Parisian bonnet would harmonize but 12 mo. Boston: Roberts Brothers.- The author of this work ill with it. differs, in some important points, from the writer of " Ecce OUR APRIL NUMBER.—The Waupin (Wis.) Leader says of Homo," a book which, as most of our readers know, has our last number :-" Peterson's Magazine is received, as made a sensation recently in the religious world. " Ecce usual, far in advance of its contemporaries. The opening Deus" does not pretend, however, to be only a reply to engraving, ' The Opera-Box,' is very pretty, and the lite-" " Ecce Homo." Price, in cloth, $2.00. rary matter is excellent. It is bound to maintain its posiThe Market Assistant. By J. F. De Voe. 1 vol., 12 mo. tion as the leading Ladies' Magazine." The Whitehall ( N. 3 New York: Hurd & Houghton.- This is a sort of hand-book Y.) Times says :-" Peterson's is conceded by all who have for housekeeping. It contains a description of every articlo perused its pages, for the past year, to be the Magazine for of human food sold in the public markets of Philadelphia, the times. The embellishments in the present number are New York, and Boston, including the various domestic and superb." . wild animals, poultry, game, fish, vegetables, fruits, etc., etc. Price, in cloth, $2.00. IT 18 NOT TOO LATE to get up clubs for this Magazine. David Copperfield. By Charles Dickens. 1 vol., 8 vo. Back numbers can be supplied from the beginning of the Philada: T. B. Peterson & Brothers.-The second of the year. popular series of the " Author's Edition of Dickens." Messrs. T. B. Peterson & Brothers are the only American publishers who pay Dickens anything for his novels. There REVIEW OF NEW BOOKS . are twenty-five illustrations in this volume. Price, in cloth, The Tent on the Beach, and other Poems. By J. G. Whit- $1.25. tier. 1 vol., 12 mo. Boston: Ticknor & Fields.- This new The Initials. By the Baroness Tauthæus. 1 vol., 12 mo. poem by Whittier is founded on the pleasant fiction, that Philada: T. B. Peterson & Brothers.- A new and neat edithree friends go to spend a week or two in a tent, pitched tion of one of the very best novels of the day. We think on the sea-shore, during the heats of summer, and that, we have read " The Initials" half a dozen times. Where is while there, the time is beguiled by the reading of various there a character more charming than that of Hildegarde? poems. These latter are Whittier's more recent fugitive Price, in cloth, $2.00. pieces, " The Wreck by Rivermouth," " The Changeling," The Last Warning Cry; with Reasons for the Hope that "The Palatine," etc., etc., thus adroitly strung together as Boccacio strung his tales. The descriptive passages in the is in Me. By the Rev. John Cumming. 1 vo. , 12 mo. New newer and narrative portion are particularly good . The York: Carleton.-This is the last of a very famous series of volume also contains various other poems and lyrics, na- works: "The Great Tribulation," " The Great Preparation," tional and occasional, among them. "The Mantle of St. and " The Great Consummation ." Price, in cloth, $1.50. Our Mutual Friend. By Charles Dickens. 1 vol., 18 mo. John de Matha," and the stirring " Laus Deo." In his peculiar walk Whittier has no superior. There is a mar- Boston: Ticknor & Fields.-Another volume of Ticknor & tial ring in many of his poems. Quaker as he is, which no Fields' neat and popular " Diamond Edition of Dickens." other American writer as yet has rivaled. The volume is The illustrations show a great advance on these in the "Pickwick." Price, in cloth, $1.50. neatly printed and bound. Price, $1.50.
