The Portland daily press., 1867-08-02

our readers will all want the book for them
selves, and we leave them to pick out its beau
ties. They will find it full of the evidences of
atrue poetic spirit. healthful, sweet and strong.
N woinanly spirit, too, tender, reverent and
pure. 1t has been customary to speak of Miss
selow as filing the place left vacant Jy
m browning. To this we can hardly agree.
As p,'ee has not been-is not likely to be
n'leu' put u is no slight praise TOR Miss Inge-
10" TO Sax that she is the only woman in our
day whocan even be named as sacond 20 ,ho
author OF Casa Guidi Windows, and the Som
nets from the Portuguese.
Short & Loring have the book.
| BLAcKwooD's MAGAZINE, for July, has an
article on "rhe American Debt and the Finan-
cial Prospects of the Union," which is even
more amusing than the disquisitions of Black
| rood ON American affairs usually are. The
amiable tory writers who contribute to that
not very lively magazine are convinced that
this country ought to go to the dogs, and they
can't see why it doesn't. They kept predict
ing through the war that we were on the brink
of destruction, and they enjoyed the thing so
much that they still keep up the practice
Our readers will be interested to know that
the danger we now stand in is the total loss of
our credit through the reputation of our ma
tonal debt. This, we are told is inevitable not
because We cannot pay it but because it is "just
like us" not to. The article before us relates
that on acertain occasion an eminent Judge was
asked to "run" for the presidency in opposition
to Mr.. Lincoln, and was presented with a plat
form OF war principles. ST don't want to be
President" said the judge, sand don't spprove
IT your platform; but if 1 did want to be Pres
ident, 1 should wait for four years after the
conclusion ofpeace." "Well, and what them"
inquired the spokesman of the deputation.-
why we shall all be ready for reputation by
that time, and / should run on the reputation
ticket and carry all before me- The writer
thinks the formation of a reputation party in
the northern states, strong enough to sweep
all before It, something likely to occur soon.
ABrownlows," an admirable novel by Mrs.
Oliphant, is continued in this number; Corne-
Illus ODowd reappears; there is graceful po-
EN- by Mr.. Story reprinted by us few days
since, and a variety of other papers. Reprint
ed by the Leonard Scott Publishing Co., 14O
Fulton St., N. Y.
HOURS AT HOME, for August, contains a
careful and appreciative review of Mr.. Long
fellows Dante; an article entitled "Diary and
Letters of Sarah Pierpont," purporting to fur
nish an interior view of the character and ex-
perience oft the wife of Jonathan Edwards. 1t
seems not very happy imitation of the "Mary
Powell class of papers. DR.. Bushnell gives
another chapter ON ''The Moral Uses of Dark
Things" in which he considers the c4Se of
musketoes, spiders, ants, flies, cockroaches
centipedes, and other unclean little beasts
"reminiscences of Sierra Leone, ""Rambles
Among the Italian Hills" "Athens," and "Bra-
zl and the Amazon" are readable articles con-
sisting of popular descriptions of interesting
scenes in foreign lands A paper on "The
Queens English and Brother Jonathan's," by
the Rev. f. w. Shelton, is pleasant reading,
only that we are rather tired of the Dean of
Canterbury. On the whole this is one of the
best numbers OF this excellent magazine. For
sale by Hall L. Davis.
The AMERICAN NATURALIST shows a steady.
improvement. The range of topics is constant
ly widening, and new features are being intro
duced which add greatly to the value and at
tractiyeness of the magazine. The illustra-
tions are drawn with fidelity, and engraved
with the utmost skill. The number f,r August
opens with paper on "The Quadrupeds of
Arizona" by DR.. Elliott Coues of the U. s.
Army, which will be read with much interest.
The subject of "Fish Culture" which is Just
now attracting very general attention, is intel
ligently treated by Mr.. Charles G.. Atkins. DIR.
Packard writes pleasantly of the dragon
Fly" illustrating the subject by a beautiful
plate; Mr.. Morse continues, quite too briefly,
his accoant of the "Hand Snails of New Eng
Pubfs6etaf tafA Apyy pyyATisys and Natural History
Mass.
THE LITTLE CORPORAL for August contains
Chapter Of "Camp Bruce" splendid story,
by Mrs. Miller, the associate editor; No of
"The Chickea Little Stories" by Edward Eg-
glestoH Science for Children" by Prof.
Hooker. of Yale College; Music, by the famous
Geo. f. Root; and large number of other ar