Moore's complete works for fifty cents! Truly, a marvel of cheapness. The typography—something unusual in cheap books—is very good.
Marks's First Lessons In Geometry, objectively presented and designed for the Use of Primary Classes in Grammar Schools, Academies, etc.
By Bernhard Marks, Principal of Lincoln School, San Francisco.
New York: Ivison, Phinney, Blakeman & Co. Pp. 157. 1869.
We can unhesitatingly recommend this little work. We have often felt the need of just such a text-book as this, and have no doubt its appearance will be hailed with equal pleasure by both teachers and pupils. The style in which it is got up reflects the highest credit on the publishers.
A Thousand Miles' Walk Across South America.
By Nathaniel H. Bishop.
Boston: Lee & Shepard. Pp. 310. 1869.
A journey on foot of more than a thousand miles across the South American continent, from Montevideo to Valparaiso, could not but furnish to an inquiring mind and an adventurous spirit abundant material for interesting detail and startling incidents, and of these there is certainly no scarcity in the present volume. There are some portions, however, open to objection, where allusion is made to the religion of the people, less, indeed, it must be confessed, than we almost, as a matter of course, expect from Protestant tourists in Catholic countries; and some attempted caricaturing of the Irish residents, which might be deemed insulting if they were not so very puerile. These excepted, it is a book both useful and entertaining.
The Trotting Horse Of America—
How To Train And Drive Him.
With Reminiscences Of The Trotting Turf.
By Hiram Woodruff.
Edited by Charles J. Foster, of Wilkes's Spirit of the Times.
Including an Introductory Notice by George Wilkes, and a Biographical Sketch by the Editor.
New York: J. B. Ford & Co. Pp. 412. 1868.
The papers comprising this work were originally published in Wilkes's Spirit of the Times, and are a record of the author's forty years' experience in training and driving. While especially intended for those who are interested in the breeding, training, etc., of horses, there is abundance of matter likely to prove attractive to the general reader; biographies, so to speak, of famous trotters, whose names are familiar as household words; and graphic descriptions of the various matches in which they were engaged. In fact, it is one of those rare books which, while got up for a special purpose, and seemingly suited to the few, overleaps the narrow limits apparently prescribed, and attracts to itself the favorable notice of the entire community.