The Portland daily press., 1865-10-13
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- The list of autumn announcements of
Messrs. Tieknor and Fields comprises many
Interesting and valuable works. of books.
now in press, and to be issued by them immedi-
ately, we may mention the "Atalanta in Caly-
don" and "Chastelards of Mr.. Charles Swim
burne, "A Summer in Skye and q "Sequel to
Alfrei Hagarts Household" by Alexander
Smith, a new and complete edition Of Brow
nelrs splendid @War Lyrics" 1.-THE Freedman's
Book, by Mrs. Child, and the "Life and Let
ters of the late Rev. F. w. Robertsonsp They
have also in preparation choice series of illus
trated volumes, which will include @The Way
side Inn," of Longfellow, Seaside Studies in
Natural History" by the Agassizs, Tennysong
'1dyls of the King Holmes aHunlorous Po-
ems" Patriot Boys and Prison Pictures" by
Edmund Kirke and "Good Company for Every
Day in the Year." very richly illustrated with
steel plates. In addition to these we have
"Gulistan, or Rose Garden of Saadi." with In
PRODUCTION by R. w. Emerson, Poems" by T.
B., Aidrich, atlantic Tales" being choice seg
lections from the Atlansie Monthly" aStories of
Many Landsg by Grace Greenwood, stamping.
and TraInping," book for boys, and aWin-
ming his Way by Carleton, Mrs, stoEe's
Religious POEMS" and aLittle Foxes. aThe
Flower Of Liberty" already noticed, the "Le a..
gends and Lyrics Of Adelaide Proctor. Prot.
Felton's Lowell Lectures on aGreece, Ancient
and Modern," new edition of Keightley's
Shakespeare, "Hereward," by Charles Kingsley,
4Afoat in the Forest" by Mayne Read. aThe.
Biglow Papers" Second Series, and transla-
ton of the Journal of Eugene de Guerin,"
whom the EdiR6asgh -Rsview has styled the
|Antigone of France" and in whom, as well as
in her scarcely more gifted brother, all readers
Of Mr. Matthew Arnoldss recent volume win
take lively INTEREST," Oh ea9A
M Theirs, is about to publish history, of
Florence.
1T is says The Nation, a significant in
stance of the vitality of real work of genius,
in spite Of all the encumbrances of antiquated
form and obsolete manner, that Richardson's
aClarissa Harlowea should appear in the coliec-
ton Of new light reading alongside of Miss
Braddon, G.. A. Sala, Anthony Trollope, and
the latest followers Of the last sweet thing"
not in millinery, but in the literature Of fic-
ton.
"A new monthly magazine called the Freed
man has been started in London. II is pub
lished by the Freedmen's Aid Society Of which
Sir T. Powell Buxton is president, and is "de-
voted to the interests of the four millions of
freed people in the United States Of America"
The society have already raised the sum of
100000, and propose to mike it q quarter of a
million. The first number of the Freedman
appeared on the LIST Of August aud the price Is
Init two Denoe. adj ..st- - Fs.ts-. 49,, .. 81 Ia
The latest work which has appeared in
England onrthe favorite land of art. is entitled
"a Spring Holiday in Italy" The author Is
Alexander Maclaren, of Manchester
The author of the Adventures Of Verdant
Green" has published new book called 0,The
Rocks Garden. - 4 y BAessssskN
Among the choice books. soon to be issued
is one now in press by Derby & 1iiller. New
York, COMPLIED BY Frank G. Goodrich, and en-
titled '"The Tribute Book a Record of the
Munifcence, Self Sacrifice and Patriotism of
the American People, in Defence of their In
tegrity as q Nation, during the War for the
Union" 1t is a narrative of the contributions
made by the people to- the national cause dur
ing the late war;, 1t contains over five hum
dred royal octave pages is deliberately illustrate
ed, and Is sold py subscription at twenty dollars
o copy. 800 slii Al sia4atsesalHm s8d adf inaaE
Eugene Pelletan has lately published in
London the first volume of a work, the object
of which is to describe the family, its constitu-
ton, the various duties and privileges of its
respective members, and the reforms necessary
to makeit what Christianity originally meant
it to be. The emancipation of woman, as advo-
Gated by the Socialists of'1s4S, finds no favor
with the author The several chapters of the
book contain the history Of woman in the vari-
GUS stages of civilization, and under the inhu-
ence of the most opposite political and relig-s
ious systems. ,sAnss,vr tAs,tr.rr
Harriet Martineau is in her sixty; fourth
year. She was deaf from childhood, and is
now almost blind yet retains her mental pow
ers, writes able editorials for the London Ddizu
Neacs, contributes TO various periodicals, and
has just sent to the press two volumesof elabo-
rate history y 4 III = st -