The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-10-19
New Publications.

GALA DAYS. BY Gail Hamilton, author of Country
Living and Country Thinking. Ticknor Fields.
Boston, Publishers. For sale 10 this city by Bailey
Noyes.
The writer of Gala Days has already estab-
lished an enduring reputation as brilliant
and pleasing writer, her Country Living"
having passed through eight editions. The
sections Of Gala Days have already been pub
lished in the Atlantic" where they have in
terested the numerous readers ofthat sparkling
monthly. This work is full of the best char
acteristics of the authors style, and will find
place in many Of the most select libraries,
land will be read with interest by all classes.
NEGOTIATIONS ON LIFE AND ITS RELIGIOUS DuTIrs.
Translated from the German by Frederick Rowen.
Icknor Fields Boston, Publishers. l2mo. Pr.
1874. For sale in this city by Bailey Noyes.
This Is series of some twenty-eight distinct
and independent sections, of heightened re-
ligious character, that will be found interest
ing to the thoughtful, elevating in their in
1uence, and an aid to devotional feelings. 1t
should find place in the library of every
Christian, and especially every Christian min
lister, and may be read with profit by all class
es, as it contains practical truths that are of
Importance in everyday life.
LRvASA or the Doctrine of Education Translated
from the German of Jean Paul Friedrich Richter,
suthor of Flower, Fruit and Thorn pieces"
Ticknor Fields. Boston. Publishers. limo pp.
400. For sale in this city by Bailey Noycs.
This work contains the thoughts of one OF
the greatest Germans on the subject of Educa-
ton, and especially on that department of Ed
ucation which is most neglected and needs
most care-home training. A patient perusal
of the whole work will richly reward all who
are interested in the intellectual training Of
youth. Much of the work is devoted to the
education OF girls, in which there is evidently
very great opportunity for Improvement.
Hawthorne and his new book of 39s pages. entitled
"our Old Home" by Ticknor Fields
We are very glad to meet with this just now.
Hating the word genial as we do, and all
other catch-penny and conventional words,
which lose their meaning in the wear and tear
of common life, we find it no easy matter to
characterize these sketches with a single
phrase or single word. Genial they would
have been two or three years ago, before the
corruption we speak Of which has quite spoil
ed II for honest purposes-like handling a
butterfly, till
Every touch that woos its stay,
Hath brushed Its brightest hues away"
but now We must speak of them as pleasant,
sunshiny, warm hearted and picturesque
Most of the writing is very beautiful, and
clear and happy, without OVERLAPPING or ex-
travagance, and the sketches of scenery and
character both just and captivating, sprightly
and impressive. But-and we have always a
6ut, you know-what the plague does Mr..
Hawthorne, areputed American by birth and by
lifelong education in the heart of New Eng
land, and resident OF Old England for some
years, what the plague does he mean by say
Ing that the English Invariably pronounce the
word been so as to rhyme with greenland
that we Northerners always say bin! Was
the man ever in England? or in this country I?
Here, at the North. most people say ben, rhym-
ing with men; at the South, they say been :
but in England the established pronouncia-
ton is bin. So say the educated, SO say the
people there, and SO say the dictionaries.
And again-why say tit-bi, instead OF tid.bit ?
jim.