The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-11-24
New Publications.

LETTERS 70 THE "JoSESE5. by Timothy
Titcomb New York Charles Scribner. II
mo. DID. BAT. For sale In this city by Ii.
Packard.
Ii need only to be announced that this is one of
Dr. j. G. Hollands best productions. Some of our
readers have already had the pleasure of perusing
some of the letters and will be eager for the others
The letters addressed to different members OF the
family OF Joneses, commencing with Dea Solomon
Jones. concerning his system of family government.
Each of these letters abound in good wholesome
truths for home consumption. 1t is work that VIII
bear reading the second time.
RUMoR. BY the author of "Charles Auches-
ter.r "Counterparts" de-, Boston: L. y.
II. P. Burnham, 12mo. PIP. PIP. Price 80
cents. For sale in this city by Bailey 4
Noyes.
This novel by Elizabeth Sheppard, if it equals
those she has heretofore written, will be extensively
read. The Atlantic Monthly says of one of her
works-"N othing can be more perfect, nothing more
beautiful 1t was worth having lived, to have thrown
broadcast such handsfull OF beauty"
THE RED ERIC, or whaler's last cruise. A
tale by r. NJ. Ballantyne, Boston: Crosby
& Nichols. 16mo, PIP. APO. For sale in this
city by II. Packard.
This is graphic description of the tolls depriva-
tions dangers, excitements, amusements and adven-
lures of whaer 1t begins with shipping the crew,
with which it connects many aughable scenes, fol-
lowing up with the accidents and incidents that at
tend the whaers' long voyage, closing up with the
affecting scenes of unexpected return, The low
ers of high wrought descriptions of life upon the
deep blue sea" will read the book with interest.
SOLDIERS OF THE BIBLE, for the young.
BY Rev. William NJ. Thayer, Boston: Cros-
by & Nichols, 16mo. PIP. 3OS. For sale in
this city by ii. Packard.
Mr.. Thayer has already endeared himself to the
youth of America for the interesting and sparkling
works he has written for their amusement and profit
His "Bobbin Boy" and pioneer Boy" are among
the most useful that be placed in boys hands,
as they show what can be done under adverse cir
cumstances. This volume is the third Of Biblical
series for the young in which scriptural narratives
employed to teach the duty and value of patriot
ism and expose the heinous crime Of treason. 1t
may be read with value and profit not only by the
youth of land, but by every American citizen OF
whatever age.
HOME LIFE, what is it, and what 1t needs.
BY John +. W. Ware, Boston: w. V.Spen-
Ger. 16mo. PIP. $50. For sale in this city by
Bailey d Noyes.-
This work should be in every home, and il read
and regarded would make every home what it is now
rarely found to be, happy home. 1t lays down ex-
celent rules for the construction of home and fur
nishng and ornamenting the same; speaks Of its in
tercourse its influences, aud closes by giving vivid
description of model New England home, compsr-
ing favorably with any other home in the world.
WILD MAN OF THE WEST, A Tale of the
Rocky Mountains, by r. NJ. Ballantyne,
Boston: Crosby & Nichols, 16mo. PIP. 4l9.
For sale in this city by II. Packard. .
The reader, in this work, is introduced to a mad
hero, a reckless lover, and q runaway husband. 1t
is exciting representation Of and incidents
in the wilds of the far West in which inter~oven
the most daring adventures, hair-breadth escapes,
strategic movements, while attacking wild animals,
winding up with a great destruction of house.
hold goods, a double wedding and tremcn.
dous excitement and leaving the wild man of the
West to dwell in Pine Point settlement the kindest
the wsest the gentlest the heartiest, the widest
and the most courageous Of the men who dwell there.
DICK RODNEY, or the Adventures Of an Eton
Boy, by James Grant, Boston: Crosby e.
Nichols, 10 no., PIP. 424. For sale in this
city by II. Packard.
This story sends Dick Rodney to sea at early
age; he nearly drowned by falling from the fore
topsail yard in gale of wind - wished himself at
home-got into dangerous company - cast away on
tho island of Alphonso-saled for Europe-mutiny
board &C. He is carried through all the exciting
scenes of q sailors life and returned to London to
find that he had long been given up lost, and a
rich Uncle or somebody else had erected q monu-
ment TO his memory.