The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-03-20
New Publications.

NEGOTIATIONS ON DEATH AND ETERNITY Trans
lated from the German by Frederick Rowan
Boston /: Ticknor & Fields. l6mo. PIP. Ala
For sale in this city by ii. L. Davis.
The history of this volume is interesting. The
German devotional work from which the Medi-
tatioDs are selected, was published in the begin
ming Of the present century and generally as
cribed toZschokke. 1t was fayorite book with
the late Prince Consort of England. After his
death the Queen found comfort in her grief in
selecting those passages which be had preferred,
employed Miss Rowan to translate them, and
had them printed in a volume for private distri-
button last June. " They have been selected for
g translation" says the original preface, " by
one to whom in deep and overwhelming sor-
row. they have proved source of comfort and
" edihcation." Her Majesty afterwards grant
ed her permission to have them published for
general use; and it is in the belief that they will
bring consolation to many mourners in this I'M
happy country, that the American publishers
have issued their edition.
of Hope" and " A Present Heaven" Boston:
Ticknor Fields. l6mo. PIP. l67 For sale in
this city by H. l.. Davis.
This is the latest work by Miss Dora Green
well, which has appeared in this country. though
her American publishers have in press volume
of poems by the same author. Miss Greenwell
has already achieved reputation in England
and America as writer of deep Christian feel
ing and rare delicacy of expression. She is not
logical writer The plan of the present work, a
series of dialogues between two friends, affording
opportunity for the half utterance of intuitions
touching the profoundest subjects of human
contemplation, suits admirably her habits of
though. We look with interest for the forthcom-
ing poems, expecting to find them rich in devo-
tional feeling and not without grace of well cho-
sen words, yet fearing to find them blurred by a
certain fatal indistinctness of conception.
TACTICS; or, Cupid in Shoulder Straps West
Point Love Story. By Hearton prille, U. S. A.
New York: Carleton. limo. PIP. $50.
Mr.. Carleton has published some excellent
books of late-novels by Charles Reade, Antho-
ny Trollope, and Rufini, TRANSACTIONS of Niche
let's recent works, the extravaganzas Of " Ar
temas Ward and " 0rpheus C. Kerr &c.,
but " Tactics is great mistake. The forlorn
joke of substituting article for Chapter in the
subdivisions and adopting in some obscure. usu-
ally inscrutable, metaphorical sense such mot
toes as 81 Arguments in Open Ranks" drags
YEARLY through the book, which is not even
written in good English She knew well
enough rho he wanted,'' is an instance of con-
struction which occurs too frequently to be
attributed to accident " He put one strong
arm around her, and swan to the beach; phen
reached he found her almost lifeless." The wri-
ter of that sentence is no swimmer, but admit
ting the feat to have been performed in this odd
way, who or what is it that was reached-the
gentleman, the lady, or the beach, The volume
is dedicated to the flag of our great Union,''
=" Whose stars benign illumine our dark night,
Where rush the cohorts like mountain torrent
From every sacred niche in broad land
Even one cohort rushing from niche must
afford singular spectacle.