Mental Photographs.
An Album for Confessions of Tastes, Habits, and Convictions.
Edited by Robert Saxton.
New York: Leypoldt & Holt.
We have here an ingenious invention for the amusement of the social circle, and one which is capable of affording a good deal of merriment and interest, provided smart and sensible people take part in it. The album contains places for photographs, and by the side of each a series of forty questions, such as "What is your favorite book? color? name? occupation?" etc., to which answers are to be written by the original of the picture. In this way, the editor says, as complete a portrait as possible is obtained both of the inner and outer man. Most of the questions are pertinent and suggestive.
The Phenomena And Laws Of Heat.
By Achille Cuzin, Professor of Physics in the Lyceum of Versailles.
Translated and edited by Elihu Rich.
1 vol. 12mo. Illustrated. Pp. 265.
New York: Charles Scribner & Co. 1869.
This volume belongs to the Library of Wonders, and its aim is to present in a summary the principal phenomena of heat, as viewed from the standpoint afforded by recent discoveries in physics. The illustrations are excellent, and give the reader a complete elucidation of the text.
The Fisher-Maiden. A Norwegian Tale.
By Björnstjerne Björnson.
From the Author's German Edition,
by M. E. Niles.
New York: Leypold & Holt. 1869.
"An artist, not a photographer, Björnson draws souls more than faces." "In these times of blatant novelists, it is no ordinary treat to get a story which affects one almost as finely as a poem."
The Catholic Publication Society will soon publish The History of the Catholic Church on the Island of New York. By the Rt. Rev. J. R. Bayley, D.D., Bishop of Newark. This work will contain many important documents relating to the history of the church in this city, not heretofore published.