The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-05-06

IN Ills preface that "only an insufferably vul-
81, ou.iosity would seek to penetrate the secret
VI his iuehtity; and we hasten to assure him
lroin Such vulgar curiosity we are wholly free
IN MS concluding paragraph he informs this
"befiattered, befooled and dying land" that
he does not care how it treats his hool, .sr, -
he says, "isy your concern, not mine. Howl q, :,
as you choose till you are called to how, :,
your own pereition grin at 1t till the burning
tongs of hell shall pull your foolish face,
straight; laugh at it till the ieers of the de-
mons in the pit to which you are sinking shall
rouse you to know that you can be laughed at
too" If this is not the raving of an escaped
Bedlamite we are at loss to decide what it
can be. ir7r 4s I t1
Bailey Il Noyes have the book for sale.
G. P. Putnam and Son, New York, have just
published in a single handsome volume Of 376
pages, "Benedicite; or Illustrations of the Pow
er, Wisdom, and Goodness OF God, as manifest
ed in His Works." Its author is Mr.. G.. Chap
lin Child, an English physician, and its pur-
pose is to show how the Great Architect of
Creation is magnified in all His works, how all
external nature IL eloquent of praise and wor-
ship of its Almighty Builder The plan and
arrangement of the book are somewhat origi-
nal, the style easy and flowing abounding in
illustrations and incidents, and the whole cal
oulated to interest a. well as instruct. 1t for
sale by Bailey and Noyss. ir.''L ' E... n
From G. w. Carleton & Co., New York, we
have "How to make Money, and How tokeep
I" by Thomas A. Davis, the author of an "An-
swer to Hugh Miller" and of book on "Cos-
mogony." The work before US claims to be
comprehensive and exhaustive treatise on
the art of making and saving money From a
necessarily cursory examination we are inclined
to believe that it really does contain consid-
cradle amount of practical, common sense on
business subjects. The chapter on trades
unions, combinations and strikes, is full of
suggestions worthy to be we'll laid to heart by
the class interested in these matters There
are special chapters on manual labor, farming
and growing, mechanical business, retail and
wholesale merchandising, manufacturing
business, brokerage and commission, lawyers,
physicians, professional salaried persons, in
vestments, earnings and savings, banking and
insurance. on all of which there is given
much good advice and useful information.
(For sale by Bailey and Noyes.)
G. P. Putnam & Son have also issued two
additional numbers of their Railway Clas-
scs." The first contains Mr.. a. T. Tucker
mans "Papers about Paris" published from
time to time during the last dozen years in
Putnam's Monthly, the Atlantic and other peri
odicals. In view of the great changes which
have since occurred in the French metropolis,
and the special interests which at present at
tach to that city, these retrospective papers are
, very seasonable, and will be read with as fresh
a pleasure as they were on their first appear
ance. In an appendix the publisher has add
ed, as matter of interest connected with the
Universal Exposition of this year, the Report
of the Advisory Committee on the American
contributions. oi'l'iH Na-A 3hHi i'' 'At"" l'Hl
The other Of these two pleasant volumes of
Railway" reading contains 'Maga' Stories
a collection of short tales originally published
in Putndm's Monthly. They are seventeen in
number, and were contributed to that maga-
zine by some Of the best writer's in the coun-
try. They are extremely pleasant reading,
and excellent specimens of our modern light
literature. (Both these books are for sale by
Bailey and Noyes. Price, in paper covers, 70
cts.) 'l '' aD' 'l' '''H ' -+-'