' What a desideratum! Let the
disappointment over manuscripts frequently rejected, simply because
illegible, and the despair of printers, tell. The book before us seems
well adapted to attain the end it proposes. The writer says: 'This work
is no creation of a leisure hour, but a careful elaboration of
_practical_ notes, taken in the midst of active duties. The materials of
which it is made are facts, not embodied in our school books, which it
appeared important for all to know, together with conclusions drawn from
them, and answers to questions of practical interest, which have arisen
in the course of my school and after experience, to which no books
within ordinary reach could afford satisfactory explanation. These facts
and observations have gradually accumulated till it has occurred to me
that a compilation of them, properly arranged, might prove as acceptable
to other inquirers as such a work would have been to myself.'
This book is full of valuable information in all that relates to the
abused and neglected art of penmanship, and we cordially recommend it to
schools, teachers, and pupils.
ANNETTE; OR, THE LADY OF THE PEARLS. By Alexander Dumas
(the younger), author of 'La Dame aux Camelias; or, Camille, the
Camellia Lady.' Translated by Mrs. W. R. A. Johnson. Frederick A.
Brady, publisher and bookseller, 24 Ann street, New York.
A novel in the Eugene Sue, Dumas, father and son, style. The plot is
complicated, and the translation flowing and spirited.
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