The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1864-04-11
New Publications.

OF Trial and Travel. BY Lady. New
York: ID. Appleton & Co. l2mo. PIP. 1876.
For sale in this city by Hall l.. Davis.
This work is picture cave life, during the bonn
bardment of yicksburg by General Grant. 1t rur-
ports be faithful description of the condition of
the people of yicksburg during that bombsrdment,
and its results from day to day. 1t is very inter
estipg account of one of the most important move
ments of the war and will be read with interest by
those who desire to obtain a more detailed account
of the siege of vicksburg than furnished by the
newspapers.
HINTS TO RIFLEMEN, by II. w. S. Cleveland
New York: ID. Appleton d Co. II mo. PIP.
260 For sale in this city by Hall l.. DAYS.
These hints the contribution Of old
sportsman who desires to promote general interest
in a subject of National Importance. The opinions
put forth drawn mainly from practical expo
rience. and the author induced to prepare the
work from the fact that the only recent publications
in this country relating 10 the subject scientific
treatises, not calculated to interest the general
reader. The works treats upon the improvement in
fire arms-the great principles of rifle practice = of
the target practice-modes of testing force-the d.
ferent kinds and qualities of rifles, with the compar
alive accuracy of each--danger of accidents, &c.
ILLUSTRATIONS OF UNIVERSAL PRoGREss;
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Ger, author of the principles, OF Psycholo-
gy," &c. New York: ID. Appleton d 20.
II mo. PIP. 446. For sale in this city by
Hall l.. Davis.
Mr.. Spencer is the aui hor of a work entitled New
System of Philosophy" which proposes TO unfold a
complete philosophy of Nature, ply sical, organic,
mental and social.
The essays contained in this volume first pub
shed ia the English periodicals. chiefly the Quarterly
Reviews. They embrace the LAW and Cause of
Progress manners and Fashion," The Genesis
Of Science;" Physiology of Laughter" &c. The
British Quarterly Review says of the works of Mr..
Spencer: ''widely differ from the author on
some poiuts we very sincerely hope he may succeed
in accomplishing the bold and magnificent project
he has mapped out" This is a work Of much depth
of thought, requiring great deal of mental labor
to prepare it for the prose. Whether not its
theories sustained by fact and sound argument,
the careful reader can judge.
CHURCH ESSAYS. By George Cumming Nc
Whorton, author of the popular Hand
Book of the New Testament. New York:
ID. Appleton IL Co. ~ mo. PIP. ia. For
sale in this city by Hall L.. Davis.
These essays were published in 1861 = GO in the
Church Monthly Magazine" Boston. They treat
upon the Liturgy. Trinity, Grace, Truth, Love and
Charity, Conscience, Prayer and Death. They are
published in the present shape with the assent of the
Rev. Dr. Huntington formerly senior editor of the
"Church Monthly" and will undoubtedly prove ad-
vantageous to those who may peruse them.
The RED TRACK, by Augustus Amard, has just
been issued by T. b. Peterson and Brothers, Phila-
delphis The writer is Frenchman, who in his
youth was adopted by tribe of Indians, with whom
he lived for some years, studying their habits and
characteristics, and acquiring fund of knowledge
concerning them which, since his return TO civilized
life he has industriously turned to account in tho
manufacture of Indian stories, of which he has
written quite large library. the list the cover
before us extending 10 twenty For sale in this city
by Bailey Moves.