Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1858 — BOOK NOTICES. [ARTICLE]

BOOK NOTICES.

Wc have received from the publisher the Hi | terry of the Itningn YVir, elite,! |>y Russ-it, to well-known Crimean correspondent of tin- Lnn- \ dun 'l'imrs. The book gives a brief account of the origi 11 of III" war. ami a most graphic d -si-ri ;*- lion ot tile battles fought by the Russians- amt ■ tiie Turks uiif tic- banks'of The Danube, and of ; the great battles in. tiie Crimea and before Scbaslipol between tin- Russians and tin" Allied armies. Tin- book is iutenselv interesting. Trice ,<1t,05. ; Agents Wanted. Address Mack T. Barnitz, Ru'.i- ---: lislu-r, Cincinnati. ] XV'e have received from Henry Hnvve,' Publish'- ] er, No. 11l Main street, Cincinnati, a copy of ! Travels, and Ai/e irturrs of Crlchratcd Trae- ler* in I !be Principal Coitnl.ries of the World. b\ Henry flo'.vc. 'Tliis work comprises twenty-seven inj teresting narratives, in all parts of. the* World, such as “Tcrilotis Journey- of Three Americans jin Koordistan,” “A Summer in Scotland,” | “Cocliro.iie’s Journey through Russia and Lilte-r I ria,” “Mungo Park's 'Travels in Africa,” “t!:iv--1 ard Taylor in Europe,” “Five in China,”, j “Lynch's' Expedition to the Dead Sea,” &v., \ and in fact sketches ot travels ii: almost the whoio j inhabitable globe. No kind of reading is niore j interesting than tile travels, in (ar-dislant lands, of intelligent men, who write a description of | new and Wonderful scenes, and of tin- habits.and | manners of strange nations, w ith personal ad- | ventures, ot ten amusing, and • sometimes wild j and terrible, hut at ways entertaining. YV'licii I such travels are published, the reader enjoys all ■ the excitement of romance, at the same time that 1 lie is storing liis mind with substantia! knowledge of permanent value. Trice .‘■53,00. We have, received from the same publisher Religious Emblems and A lie:nodes, • price §1,50. | This is a thick duodecimo volunle of seventy-live I engravi ngs,~ and a large, folding, colored plate, I representing, allegorically, the road to heaven : and the road to hell. In it are shown the Jl.imo and smoke ascending front the “baftouiless pit,” I and on the other hand is seen the road to heaven, j while high above all stands the “New Jerusalem.” Agents wanted to sell,both works. Cfj7"Reniember that Popular Sovereignty has been continually and grossly violated in practice by the National Administration, and is now rep.udated in the theory by tho Tempera ey at large. Therefore, whenever any of their speakers or editors talk about the right of the people of the Territories to regulate their own domestic institutions, they do so only to “tickle the ears ot the people” and to gain votes. OY?'Remember that Buchanan has made his Leeoiitpton policy a test ol Democracy, and has removed office-holder after officeholder for disapproving that policy, and filled their places with those who advocated it: ami yet Colonel Walker has “unbounded confidence in Buchanan’s Administration.”