The Portland daily press., 1867-12-19
Recent Publications.

Lee s. Shepard, of Boston, have published
Seek and Find, sequel to Breaking Away, by
Oliver Optic 1t recounts the adventures of
preternaturally smart and immensely good
boy,-iust the hero OF whom boys like to read
He rescues oppressed damsels, outwits all the
sharpers in the book, and comes out magnifi-
cent conqueror in the end. The book is full
OF adventures told in a lively way, a little
slangy, but with plenty of moral prscepts in
troduced at convenient Intervals very fair
specimen, on the whole, of Juvenile sensation
al literature. (Received by Short & Loring. J
From the same publishers comes Tommy
Hickup; or a Pair Of Black Eyes, story by
Mrs. Rosa Abbott Parker, whose productions,
for some inscrutable reason, are bought and
read in grea. numbers. Their literary merit
is small; and they represent real life in no
known region of the habitable globe; but they
are exciting, and unfortunate children devour
them with avidity. (Received by Short s. Lor-
ing.) 9,
Harper & Brothers, New York, publish in
their "Select Library" series, Mabers Progress,
novel by the author of Aunt MargarePs
Troubles. Miss Dickens, the eldest daughter
of Charles Dickens, is understood to be the
author Of these stories which have been wide
ly admired. (Received by Hall L. Davis J
Hurd & Houghton, of New York, have pub.
lished very bright, original and entertaining
little book entitled The Diary of a Milliner, b1
Belle OTIS Itpurports to be veritable diary
its entries jotted down at the moment on odd
slips of ribbon-paper and the like; and from
an examination of it we are convinced that it
| is just what it pretends to be. In no other
way than by actual observation from behind
the counter could the writer have got such an
insight into the ways of shoppers" Its reve-
| lations Of the small weaknesses and meanness.
esof customers could only have been made by
one who has seen them; and the moralizing
with which they are interspersed is of kind
to rather strengthen this impression. But
/ this philosophic milliuer does not confine hel
revelations to one side of the counter. The
| little "dodges" of mlliners themselves,-the
way they import elegant hats from the back
shop, and sell French flowers that are French
only in the lakeland the price behold, all
these things are here put down. the book i.
a good mirror for shoppers to see themselves
in, and any lady who has REID it will bewr IRE
how she cheapens her next bonnet. (Receivet
by Short 8 Loring.)
| A very handsome volume, just issued from
the press of Harper & Brothers, is a reprint O.
Samuel Smiles's historical work on The
Huguenots. 1t contains very well-written
account, from carefully prepared materials, Of
the last great migration of Protestants from
France into England and Prussia; and de.
scribes its effects upon French and Prussian
but especially upon English history. The i'm.
portant influence which this great exodus
and the events which flowed from it, have ex
erted upon the industrial history of differen
parts of Europe is forcibly exhibited. The
work is printed and bound in very handsome
style. (Received by Hall L. Davis.)
d. Appleton & Co., New York, have issued
Ella; or Spain Fifty Years Ago, translation
from the Spanish of Fernan Caballero. The
translation is very well made; but the story
which is religious romance of mild type
hardly seems to be OF sufficient interest to re.
pay the translator's trouble. (Received by
Bailey & Noyes.)
| The BRITISH QUARrERLIEs.-We call at.
tention to the advertisement in another col.
| uLuh VI tuC IcpElutS ny tuo AeOuaEQ OCOlt
Publishing Company, of the English and
| Scotch Reviews. Though some of these peri.
odicals have perhaps receded in degree from
their commanding position of generation
ago, they still contain some OF the best fruits
of the scholarship, wit and genius of the lit
erary mel of Great Britain, and are Of great
value alike to the scholar, tie professional
man and the general reader. Their pages
abou-d with careful criticisms, brilliant ESSAYS
profound speculations. and with discussions O,
| whatever is freshest in science, literature
morality and religion. The most widely infiu.
ential of them all, though one of the young
est, the Westminster Reuie,c, is the recognized
| organ Of the most advanced and liberal think
ers in England. Mr.. John Stuart Mill Is
among its constant contributors, ana us
moulding influence is discernioie IN ies gen
eral conduct and spirit. Ihe Eo"ou'g" ne
vie,o, though Tot what it was when It's pages
were the field to which Jeffrey and Sidney
Su;,h ord Rrougham brought their cleaning
1o,,.os % 6rbt the battle of the Wings, is still
~ ahIe exponent of Wing principles and a
h;ab literary authority. The North British
Psrie,c is the organ CT the Free Church. 1t
was founded by DR.. Chalmers, and has contin-
ued since his death under the editorial charge
of DR.. Hanna and more recently of Prot. Fra
ser. It's literary essays, criticisms and scien-
tiic papers are of the highest order. The
London Quarterly Revie,o and Black,oood's
Magazine are representatives of the btterest
Tory sentiment, and the sworn foes of progress
of every kind.
THE New York World is paper Of consid-
cradle pretensions, yet in leading article it
speaks ofthe procession Of the equinoses.