The Portland daily press., 1864-09-15
New Publications.

tne PROTESTANT Episcopal Cnurch W Cnna
Edited by her brother, VIM. Z. Tenney. New
York: d. Appleton Co., 1864.
This is q 12mo volume of 1872 pages, put vi
in Appleton s. Co.'S usual neat style. 1t give
the quiet, christian life of an American woman
who laid upon the altar of Humanity and HUI
manity's God all the comforts, associations
pleasures and luxuries of life among friends anc
in the land of her birth, to become an humbl
instrument of God for the conversion of his ig
norant children to knowledge of his will and
obedience TO his laws. Miss Tenney was born il
New Market, N. H., in 1921, became a missioner,
to China in 1850, was married to Rev. Cleveland
Meth IN 1894, and died in San Francisco in 1862
her husband persisted in the terrible copfiagra.
ton OF the steamer "Golden Gate, ON the
coast OF California, two months following her
own DEATH For sale in this city by Bailey s
Noyes.
HE TRIAL MORE LINKS OF THE DAISY CHAIN.
by the Author of 1.-The Heir of Radcliffe. y
Two volumes in one. limo, pp 800, paper
covers. New York: Appleton Co. 1864.
Appleton seldom publishes poor book. He
has not in this instance. We have not had time
to read "The Trial. in course, but from a cur
sorry examination of its well printed pages we
are satisfied that it will be found a work of no
small merit, and one that will make severe
draft upon the readers time from the moment
he commences till he shall have reached the final
page. We commend it to the admirers of pleas
ing fiction. For sale in this city by Bailey &
Noyes.
neutrality-suspicious. or THE SCIENCES To which
are added reasons for dissenting from the Phi
losophy of NJ. Comte. By Herbert Spencer,
author OF illustrations of Universal Prog
ress, &c. Pamphlet, IS pages, l2mo. New
York: D. Appleton & Co. For sale in this
city by Bailey & Noyes.
The RIVAL bellies: By ]. b. Jones. author of
wild Western Scenes 1.-THE War Path
&c, Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Bros,
1904. Paper covers, go pages, price Sl.50.
OF this work the Philadelphia Evening Tele-
graph says: "The author has given US an Amer
lean novel of real merit, and considerable dra-
matte power. The scenes are laid in the National
Capital, in Philadelphia, New York and Balti-
more. and the delineations of real life, manners.
principles, eleyating and defective morals, are
drawn witha master hand in very pleasing
style. Plot and Passion are interviewer so deli
oately and naturally as to carry the interest of
the reader through the work, and enable the
true thinker to weigh and appreciate its teach
ings, The false pride Of some of our people re-
ceives truthful depletion, and at almost every
turn scathing rebuke. The frivolities of the
period-causes of some of our internecne heart
burnings - are also sarcastically disposed Of
This novel is well writtes, and is gotten up in
the usual excellent style that characterizes the
publishers, and we have no doubt it will meet
with very large SALE" For sale by Bailey &
Noyes.
The DEyorED BRIDE: By St. George Tucker.
Philadelphia: 7. b. Peterson & Bros, 1864.
Paper covers, 370pages, price Si.50.
popular metropolitan paper, whose literary
editor has read this book, says: st is story of
several lives in the odd Dominion The heroine
is of that Huguenot-like, cavalier blood, which
coursed through the veins of the noble early
settlers of Eastern Virginia. The tale is admir-
ably narrated, and here and there we observe
historical catches, which take us back to our
hoyhood on the Peninsula. Tt is story of love
among those who fed the fame with chiyalric
-''-f t>AN NH~ s.S'AN1s PianStptcc- lHts Is u
novel which, in perusal, will remind us Of the
day of Vhginia's prime. in delightful MARIA
tive of real life, and make Us forget, for little
while, at least, this civil war of ours We heart
lily commend the book in every way, and hope
1t may be well received" For sale by Bailey &
Noyes.
NIcToIRE, novel. New York: Carleton. i2mo,
PIP. 800. For sale in this city by Hall L.
Davis.
The writer or this novel is not announced, but
we learn from one who knows, that the author is
well known in newspaper literature by charming
letters from NewTork and Washington, to yari-
GUS leaiing journals. and for occasional brief
poems of deep feeling and exquisite intellectual
expression. FioroIRE. itself, was published
several years ago the Springfield Republican,
and made strong impression upon its readers
The distinctive individuality of the novel las in
the luxuriance Of the style which is word-paint-
ing; and il the exquisite fidelity and fervor
with which the finest sensibilities and passions
of our nature, its conflicts and triumphs, are
portrayed.