CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1850 Abstracts 98 - 106 BOOKS & AUTHORS (Cont'd) 98 DTD Aug. 6:2/2 We have received Byrne's DICTIONARY OF MECHANICS AND ENGINE WORK, No. 15. Forging, fortications, friction, fringe machines, fulling, furnaces, and other topics are discussed at length. (1) 99 - DTD Aug. 6:2/2 - FARMER'S GUIDE TO AGRICULTURE, number five, has been received from the publishers, Leonard Scott and Company, New York. It treats principally with the subject of feeding cattle on turnips in the winter and the construction of stables for farm horses. (1) 100 DTD Aug. 6:2/2 PICTORIAL TRACT PRIMER, for sale by E. H. Merrill, is a beautiful book for the little folks. It is full of instruction and amusement. 101 - DTD Aug. 6:2/2 - HUDSON'S STATUE. This is number seven of Car- (2) (7) 102 DTD Aug. 12:3/1 - Come now, merchant, lawyer, banker, any and everybody who wants to know-and who does not?-something of the CHRONICLES AND CHARACTERS OF THE STOCK EXCHANGE; get John Francis' book. It is a romance in Thread-needle Street. It is a discovery of fraud in high places. It is the anatomy of stock jobbing. Get the book and read it, if you would learn something about national debts, bribery, charitable frauds, lotteries, and their inventions, wholesale jobbing, and public roads and their beginnings. (16) 103 DTD Aug. 15:2/2 THE BERBER, OR THE MOUNTAINEERS OF THE ATLAS. This is a tale of Morocco by W. S. Mayo, the author of KALOOLA, published by George P. Putnam of New York. It is full of startling scenes and bold adventure, and although the critics will not prize it as highly, it will probably have as wide a sale as KALOOLA. (5) 104 DTD Aug. 21:2/4 Miss Cooper in her RURAL HOURS decries the at- (5) 105 - DTD Aug. 21:3/3 Sidney Smith in his book, WANT OF COURAGE, regrets the great amount of talent and good work lost though the lack of a little courage. He says that most men are afraid to start something for "want of brass." 106 - DTD Aug. 29:2/1 J. Fennimore Cooper, whose daughter wrote the book RURAL HOURS, can well be proud of the beauty and delicacy of the notes and sketches with which she gives "the simple record of the little events which make up the course of the seasons in rural life." (5) (3) CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1850 Abstracts 107 - 114 BOOKS & AUTHORS (Cont'd) 107 - DTD Sept. 18; ed: 2/1 - We have read Dr. Fitch's SIX LECTURES ON THE USE OF LUNGS, with remarks on longevity and the mode of preserving male and female health. "This book contains so much practical sound sense that it commends itself and its author to the confidence of all who read it." It may be had at Messrs. Gaylord, local agents for Dr. Fitch's medicines, braces, etc. 108 DTD Sept. 19; ed: 2/1 We print one of Mrs. Gage's stories today. She writes with beauty, power, and eloquence. "Mrs. Gage does well to keep her pen employed. She will be the wise instructer of thousands." 109 - DTD Sept. 19:2/3, 4 - REMINISCENCES OF CHILDHOOD, by Francis D. Gage, is a story of the author's anguish when, as a child, her playmate, a Negro, was sold into slavery. It describes the horror and heartbreak of the little Negro girl and her mother, being separated and sent to different sections of the country as slaves. 110 DTD Sept. 23; ed: 3/3 (3) (1) (27) The Rev. Henry W. Beecher's description of the cynic in his LECTURES TO YOUNG MEN will be recognized as a true picture. It may be taken as a specimen of the author's vigorous and glowing style. (5) 111 DTD Sept. 25:3/1-2 - FIVE YEARS OF A HUNTER'S LIFE IN THE FAR INTERIOR OF SOUTH AFRICA, by Roualeyn Gordon Cumming, is for sale by Younglove and Company. Adventurous, loving Cumming is no scholar, but he tells his stories with simplicity and power. It would unnerve a weak man to read his tales of slaughtering elephants and antelopes. "The naturalist, the ethnologist, and the 'hunter of the hills' will derive great information and amusement from this most attractive production. "Those who enjoy reading of battles with wild animals will find here a book exactly to their taste." 112 DTD Sept. 25:3/2 Colton's CALIFORNIA is for sale by E. H. Merrill. Colton spent three years in California and tells us what he saw. It is an interesting work. It contains steel engravings, wood cuts, and maps. (28) (2) 113 - DTD Sept. 25:3/2 GEORGE CASTRIOT, by Clement C. Moore, LLD., purports to be a history of George Castriot, surnamed Scandeberg, King of Albania. It is an exceedingly interesting book. No fiction by the most gifted author could be more so. Smith, Knight and Company have it for sale. (2) 114 - DTD Oct. 4:2/1 Mrs. Merrill has handed us WATER DROPS by Mrs. Sigourney. It is a book on intemperance. "The tide to stem, and the CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1850 Abstracts 115 - 122 BOOKS & AUTHORS (Cont'd) work to achieve, by her, is forcibly told. Women know intemperance most generally by its effects.... It is when husband and father becomes a frenzied foe that its deepest reality comes to pass. 115 (2) DTD Oct. 4:3/2-4 - BRIDGET KEREVAN, by Enna Duval, is the story of an Irish girl's experience from the time she leaves her home in Ireland until she sends for her mother to join her in this country. (45) 116 - DTD Oct. 18:3/1 - We have received Nos. 23, 24, and 25 of SHAKE- The price 117 - DTD Oct. 26:2/1 - MY MOTHER, OR RECOLLECTIONS OF MATERNAL INFLUENCE, is a history of a mother raising a family under peculiar circumstances. It is written anonymously by her son. Its lessons of experience are valuable to every mother; and to this class of readers we would commend it in the strongest terms. (2) 118 DTD Oct. 26:2/1 - MIDSUMMER FAYS OR THE HOLIDAYS AT WOODLEIGH, by Susan Pinder. "A sweet, charming little book is this; so full of good instruction, in its enchanting stories--so simple, and the cuts illustrating them are so beautiful." (2) 119 DTD Nov. 1:3/1,2 - THE COUNTRY YEAR BOOK, by William Howitt, describes the peculiarities of each month of the year. "There is much that is interesting--some of it beautiful-- some sad, and some laughable." (34) 120 DTD Nov. 9:2/3 - A PEEP AT THE PILGRIMS IN 1636 is a re-publication. It is a New England tale by Mrs. H. V. Cheney. "The pictures of Puritan manners are always pleasing, and the volume will no doubt be interesting to their descendants in this region." It is ac 121 - DTD Nov. 9:2/3 THE HISTORY OF XERXES THE GREAT, by Jacob a romance. (2) (2) 122 DTD Nov. 11:2/4,5 - MEMORIES OF THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF We have read this volume of the biography of the distinguished Scotch (27) CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1850 Abstracts 123 - 130 BOOKS & AUTHORS (Cont'd) 123 - DTD Nov. 13:2/3,4 - LIFE OF JOHN RANDOLPH, by Hugh A. Garland, has recently been published. It is no easy matter to write a biography. When well done, nothing is more interesting; when ill done nothing more dry or tedious. Mr. Randolph was a character and unfortunately for him Mr. Garland was not the man to write his life. He was not the gift for it. Any life of him not seizing hold and describing his peculiar traits must be a failure. (39) 124 - DTD Nov. 20:2/4,5 WAH-TO-YAH, a book on the Taos trail or prairie travel, was written by an Ohioan, Lewis H. Garrard. It is the story of the author's adventures while traveling westward. "An excellent book,... - common sense, truthful, giving men and things as they are, and depicting the country as it is." 125 DTD Nov. 23:2/1 George W. Greene has written a new book, HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY OF THE MIDDLE AGES, to be used in colleges and schools. This volume, taken chiefly from a popular French work, gives a condensed but clear view of the revolutions, literature, society and manners of the middle ages. (25) (4) 126 - DTD Nov. 27:2/2-5 - Charles Kingsley wrote a new book called ALTON LOCKE TAILOR AND POET. It is an autobiography and is full of interest. The social ills of the day are pictured forth with intuitive skill and masterly power. It is a poet-heart speaking for the poor, voicing with earnest strength, whatever of agony or hope, tears or cheers them. The gigantic social prejudice which weights down so many, and makes life seemingly a curse, is seen and described: so described that it rends the heart to read it, though the author does not tell us what we should do about it. (65) 127 - DTD Dec. 3:2/2 - Mr. Morse, agent for the sale of the LIFE AND WRITING OF JOHN ADAMS, is at the New England House. No well informed person will do without this book, if he can get it. (1) 128 DTD Dec. 9:2/1 - W. Skinner and Company, Hudson, O., have pub- (2) Bookstores 129 - DTD May 17:2/1 - Messrs. Smith, Knight and Morrison have opened a bookstore in the old store of R. O. Pier, 69 Superior st. (3) 130 - DTD July 8; ed: 2/1 Mr. Merrill, well known as the excellent colporteur of this and surrounding counties, has a choice selection of good books at his store on Superior st. We have now four book stores here, three of which are publishing houses. We assure those who wish to purchase in any quantity that our booksellers can offer them superior inducements. (2) CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1850 Abstracts 131 - 141 BOOKS & AUTHORS 131 DTD Oct. 18; adv: 3/1 - Smith, Knight and Company have just received. No. 27 of DICKEN'S HOUSEHOLD WORDS. The price is six cents. (1) 132 DTD Oct. 18:3/1 Mr. Sanford is receiving books from the east, at the rate of ten boxes a day. (1) 133 DTD Oct. 21:3/1 Young men who wish to travel during the fall and winter, notice the advertisement of Smith, Knight and Company. "The books they propose to sell are good books, and will 'go off' readily." (1) 134 DTD Oct. 26:2/1 books of every description. Smith, Knight and Company are daily receiving (1)`' 135 DTD Oct. 26:2/1 - Younglove and Company have received the best assortment and largest and most valuable stock of books they have ever brought to Cleveland. 136 DTD Dec. 7:2/2 - The booksellers of Buffalo have decided to close their stores at six p. m. from now until next April. We, as a people, slave ourselves to business, and this move in our Buffalo neighbors is worthy of the consideration of our merchants and business men. Their profits would not be lessened, their families and friends would see more of them, and they would have time to do other things than sit in counting rooms. 137 - DTD Dec. 20:2/1 These are days for presents! Smith, Knight and Company, and Mr. Merrill have a fine collection of books. Mr. Sanford also has his usual supply. See also Schools & Seminaries Text Books (1) (5) (2) BRASS AND COPPER 138 DTD June 17; adv: 2/1 Samuel Allen, who does brass and bronze work, is located on Superior st., just above the New England, and is prepared to do any work in his line in good style and on short notice. (1) 139 DTD June 17; adv: 2/3 Samuel Allen, having purchased his father's interest, will continue the business in all its branches, at the old stand, Superior lane. He manufactures brass boxes, cocks, globes, and oil cups for steam engines. BRAWLS & FIGHTS (2) - 140 DTD Jan. 28:2/1 - A fight occurred yesterday on Union lane. Some of the fighters were arrested. The real cause of the "muss" was whisky. (1) 141 DTD Feb. 12:2/1 A bit of a "muss" was kicked up yesterday near the corner of St. Clair and Ontario sts. Whisky was the cause. (1) |