The Portland daily press., 1868-07-18
AGRIcOLA.


BURNss PoETIcAL WORKS. Complete. With
a life of the author by James Currie NJ D.
New York. ID. Appleton & Co. Price fifty
cents.
These publishers seem determined that tbs
public shall not be forced to subsst upon trash,
and following their cheap editions of Dickens
and Scott, they now give US he popular edi-
ton OF the standard poets, at the low price of
fifty cents per volume. They see no reason
why Burns, and Dante and Chaucer should be
monopolized by few literary aristOcrats, and
hence, bring the fruit of genius within the
means of all, hoping to displace literature of
the lighter class. We welcome to our table all
cheap editions of standard authors, believing
them to be step towards the popularization
of art and literature.
The same publishers have issued Heart of
Midlothian" the tenth volume of the popular
series.
For sale by Bailey & Noyes and by Hall L.
Davis.
Coon STORIES. Part Nv. Price 80 cents
Boston Ticknor and Fields.
This little volume contains four stories en-
titled From Hand to Mouth, ,""Count Ernest's
Home" Little Peg O'shaughnessey," and
"A Shabby Genteel Story" the latter by A.
W. M. Thackeray. Neither of them contradicts
the title-they are all "good." This volume.
is printed on fine paper and clear type and
we know of no better book, to take along as a
travelling companion these hot days. Hall
L. Davis has it.
DvRT's FREIGHT COMPUTATIONS NewYork.
ID. Appleton & Co.
This is one of the most valuable works of
the day, and should be in the possession Of
every shipping merchant, forwarding house,
shipmaster, railroad agent, and business man
In the country. 1t embraces Lightweight
thousand two hundred and twenty three cal
culations from one inch to four thousand feet,
at rates from twenty-five cents, to twerty dol
lars per ton of forty cubic feet, and equivalent
rates per foot measurement, calculated for ev-
cry mode of transportation coastwise and in
land, throughout the United States, and also
for every class of storage. There is no doubt
but that the tables will come into general use
By their aid ---iI.. i'----~-Is or calcula-
Vrous whatever are required TO determine at a
glance, the exact sum of any amount of cubic
freight, at any price. For sale by Bailey and
Noyes and by Hall L. Davis.
THE PRoDIGAL SoN,-Four discourses by the
Rev. W. Morley Punshon A NJ with preface
to the American edition by Gilbert Haven.
Mr.. Punshon is, with possibly one exception,
the best pulpit orator, in England. These lee
lures tell the same old tale, in new suggest
iveness, and in words of beauty and power.
The CoRNHILL MONTHLY AND LITERARY
RECORDER is the name of a new periodical,
published at Boston by d. Lothrop. 1t is
semi-religious in character, and presents quite
fine appearance. We wish it success, but it
appears to us that the field of periodical ltera-
ture in this country is pretty well occupied
Its literary gossip is spicy. Hall L. Davis has
it.
THE GALAXY, New York: Sheldon & Co
The August number of this excellent periodi-
cal is received with the following table of con-
tents: "Kit Grale;" "a Journey through Mon
gola," by Thomas W. Knox; "a Ghost in
State-room," by Samuel Blotter; "Feast:" "a
Few Words about the Times" by W. A. Ham,
mond, M. D.; "A Tropical Morning at Sea-"
by E. R. Sill; "Saved by Bullet" by James
f. Fits; ''Adam and Eve;" Literary Transfer
Work." by George Wakeman; "Beechdale,"
by Marion Harland; "Words, and their Uses,"
by r. G.. White; "Two Artists of Comedy,"by
L. Clarke Davis. The Galaxy maintains Its
high reputation.