The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-07-23
Recent Publications.

William White & Company, Boston pub
lisb in a small duodecimo volume, very beau
tifully printed and tastefully bound, Three
Voices, poem by Warren Sumner Barlow
1t is in three parts, namely: "The Voice OF SUI
perstition," "The Voice of Nature" and "The
Voice of Pebble" and embodies the authors
views ON the popularity accepted theology o.
the Christian Church. Mr.. Barlow is Spirit
ualist, and handles received creeds with very
little ceremony. AS a poem, Three Voices is,
like most poems written with polemical in
tent, failure; but as shrewd statement OF
the views of a respectable and increasing class
of thinkers it will repay perusal.
There are things in it that will shock the ad-
vocates of that theology which it arraigns;
but which they nevertheless find it hard to
answer.
Ticknor & Fields have put The Tale of Too
Cities and Great Expectations into the same
covers, and the volume makes the twelfth Of
the "Charles Dickens edition" of Dickens. 1t
has numerous illustrations selected from the
original designs. (Received by Hall L. Davis. }
THE RIVERSIDE MAGAZINE, for August, is a
beautiful number. 1t has a frontispiece in
Stephenss best style, illustrating the dirty, at
was once upon a time when Jenny Wren was
young" &c. The letter press gives us more
about Hunter and Tom," and "The Young
Virginians"; some further account OF the fun
| nv doings of Ainslee and SHINY; Two Lives
| in One" BY Vieuc MouStdche;" "Stories from
| Shakespeare" and lots of other things enter
| tanning and instructive.
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THE NORTH AMERICAN REvIEw-The July
number of this ancient and honorable quar-.
terly is received from the publishers, Messrs
Ticknor & Fields, Boston. 1t opens with an
essay on the character and writings of Lau-
| renee Sterne, contributed by Mr. Adams S.
Hill, whose interesting paper on Swift, in the
January number OF the Review, attracted so
much attention. In that article Mr.. Hill Ia
| bored ably and, ON the whole, successfully to
| clear the fame of the wise and witty Dean
from the injurious imputations cast upon it by
| prejudced or misinformed writer's: and in this
| he has undertaken the same service for the
author OF Tristram Shandy and the Sentiment
tai Journey. 1t is grateful task for litera-
ry preu1 cheUalier this defense of genius
against the assaults of mediocrity This wri-
| ter enters upon it with vigor and evident rel
ish and does good execution. There are sew
eral other ill-used regulations in whose behalf
we hope to see him yet break lance. A
graphic sketch of the appearance and doings
OF the Chicago Convention is also the produc-
| ton of Mr.. Hill. Commercial immortality
and Political Corruption" is the title of a
| "a H. r. Tbo
| writer handles this important theme with bold
ness and vigor, and forcibly indicates some OF
| the dangerous tendencies of our rapid mod
| ern life.
Professor Lowels contribution to this num-
Der is carefully finished essay on Dryden
G. E. Norton writes of John Hookham Frere,
illustrating his article with liberal citations
from the works of that too little known poet,
scholar and humorist; John Fiske discusses
Liberal Education," taking Farrar's Essays
for text; w. d. Howells furnishes a charm
ing and appreciative essay on George William
Curtis; the course and progress of the Reli-
gious Reform Movements in Italy are describ-
ed in paper by Henry c. Lea; G. H. Brig
ham graphically sketches the Lumber Region
of Michigan, and Simon Newcomb contributes
paper, full OF interest and information, on
Meteoric Showers.
The Critical Notices in this number occupy
something over one hundred pages. Among
the " orks reviewed are Motley's United Meth
erlands, Macom's Theological Index, Samuel's
Ornithology of New England, Stoves Origin
of the Bible, Darwins latest volumes, and
Demands Report of the Progress of Physio-
logical Science in France.