The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-11-09
So LlTERARY GOSSIP.


.-Messrs. 4. E. Tilton g. Co., the well known
Boston publishers, have recently been making
some Improvements and additions to their pop
ular establishment at No. 161 Washington St.
The store, familiar to every person of literary
taste who visits Boston, now presents a very at,
traetive and handsome appearance, and is as
pleasantaresort for the Willing away Of an I'M
occupied hour as can befound in the good City
of Notions. Neatness, order and system pre-
vail throughout the large establishment at
once facilitating the dispatch of business, and
banishing all disturbing hustle. Tilton 8 Co.
pride themselves on three specialties. viz: fine
" illustrated works for presents, bibles and
prayer books, and juvenile publications. Each
OF these departments is large, admirable and
complete. Their Illustrated works are not sur
passed, and in some respects are unequaled.
Instances of these are Tennyson's complete
works, and Goldsmith's Deserted Village
both of which are to be issued in about ten
daysc The engrayings in these, as well asthe
letter press are of the most exquisite style, and
will not only do credit to this house, but to
Americanart and artizanship. Other publiea-
tons of equal attraction and merit are in
course of preparation. a0f thebibles and pray
er books they have between three and four hun
bred varieties, ranging in price fromshalf a dol
lar to one hundred dollars Many are bound
in the most beautiful manner after original de-
signs. The juvenile feature of the establish
ment is not less noticeable. In these modern
golden times the young folks are munificently
provided for in the way of books. Boys and
girls are in high clover nowadays. Books are
not only printed in the fairest type but are il
Illustrated in the incest and most profuse man
ner, thanks to such go-ahead folks as Tilton &
Co. Everything is pictorialized and the path
7of life thereby made all the pleasanter. -.
The Saturday Press says: ia ag1unsta J.
Evans, the author of "Beulah"-a work which
Miss Ada Glare once had the audacity to call
"a leather-and-fndin imitation Of Jane Eyre
has new novel nearly ready for the press"
Quite "a number Of English publishers are
establishing branch stores, or agencies in the
principal cities of the Union.
: 1t issaid that NJ Theirs has completed a
history Of Florence in ten volumes, and that he
has sold it for 100000. f7s TsaFKE 80 rs q
That swashbuckler hero who calls himself
'Heros Won Borcke," still continues in Black
wood his veracious history of the Confederate
War for Independence" In reading the ac-
count of his achievements one rather wonders
how it could happen that any cause which was
sustained by this doughty champion and his
wonderful Damascus blade" could have failed
Aof success. From the style of these articles
we are inclined to thinN that they were origin
ally intended for the New York Ledger, but be-
ing rejected by its editor, have found their way,
in the paucity of other matter, into the pages
of "Old Ebony The literary taste Of English
readers must be at a low ebbif such dreary
drivel as this can find admirers.
H91 -------- - - 49, Xxi IL agae
Gen. sherman's Respect for Copperheads.
AT political meeting in Brooklyn few,
nights since, Gen. fitzpatrick, the famous cav
airy raider, and almost equally famous raider
upon modern Copperhe read a letter re- q
lceived by him from Gen. Sherman. The letter
is rendered doubly important by the fact that
the Democrats have been trying to make CAPT
tai out of Sherman, and have threatened to
make him their standard-bearer in the next
presidential campaign. We commend the let
ter to our Copperhead friends, and shall exlF
pect to see it. copied into the argus, with
marks of approval, tomorrow morning. 1t is
as follows:
General Judson Kilpatrfck: bna 4aV
r, "Dear sir:-I have observed with interest
your political conflict in New. Jeasey. 1t is
really provoking, hardly worthy of la serious
thought, but rather of satire and ridicule, the
squirming Of the politicians called Copper
heads, who opposed the war from every CON
ceivable motive. Some from sheer cowardice,
others to oppose political party Some be
cause they thought we could not whip the
South, and now that is reduced to a demon
ssration, have hard work to explain their con-
u ,n;.a' even to themselves. have no patience
Win ~ mat class ofmen, and believe the people
fah sne south have more respect for us who be-
baade tnem soundly, than for the Copper
a aeaus VINO aominaily their friends, led them
z w. 1. SHERMAN, Major-General. 70
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