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The Life of John Fitch, the Inventor of the Steamboat. By THOMPSON WESTCOTT. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co. What would not honest Sancho have given for a good biography of the man who invented sleep?
There is no literary laurel too high for her to grasp, if her own will, and favoring circumstances, shall enable her to choose only noble and innocent themes, and to use canvas firm and pure enough for the rare colors she employs. The Wrong of Slavery, the Right of Emancipation, and the Future of the African Race in the United States. By Robert Dale Owen. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co. 12mo.
By James Henry, Member of the Moravian Historical Society, etc. Philadelphia. J. B. Lippincott & Co. 12mo. pp. 316. $1.25. American Wit and Humor. Illustrated by J. McLenan. New York. Harper & Brothers. 12mo. pp. 206. 50 cts. Life and Liberty in America; or, A Tour in the United States and Canadas, in the Years 1857-8. New York. Harper & Brothers. 12mo. pp. 412. $1.00.
But Dickens never saw Strongfaith Lippincott, the schoolmaster, nor heard his lugubrious flute, and he therefore knows nothing of the superlative degree of detestable playing.
Harper & Brothers. 8vo. pp. 268. $1.00. Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an Enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains. By Washington Irving. Author's Revised Edition. New York. G.P. Putnam. 8vo. pp. viii., 519. $1.50. Revised Regulations for the Army of the United States, 1861. By Authority of the War Department. Philadelphia. J.B. Lippincott & Co. 8vo. pp. 559. $2.00.
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co. Compared with "Webster's Unabridged" or "Worcester's Quarto," this little pinch of words would make "small show." It is, however, a very valuable pocket-companion; for, to use the author's own phrase, it "omits what everybody knows, contains what everybody wants to know and cannot readily find."
We have found the great majority of them exceedingly exhilarating reading, and, if our limits admitted an extended examination, we feel sure that the result of the analysis would be the eliciting of unexpected merits rather than the detection of hidden defects. Say and Seal. By the Author of "Wide, Wide World," and the Author of "Dollars and Cents." Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co.
The young minister looked up from his pudding. He was very spiritual, but he had had poor pickings in his previous boarding place, and he could not help a certain abstract enjoyment over Miss Gill's cooking. "You would certainly not be afraid, Miss Lippincott?" he remarked, with his gentle, almost caressing inflection of tone.
Protheroe, belong to a species that is extinct at any rate, outside of Indiana. "The Chronicles of Don Q," by K. and Hesketh Prichard, J. B. Lippincott Company, is a picturesque tale of adventure, told, however, with a restraint that lends dignity and a fair degree of plausibility.
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