The Portland daily press., 1868-01-15
Recent Publications.


d. Appleton & Co., New York, have issued
els, which will doubtless meet similar sue
cess to that which has greeted Its predecessors
IL is called Napoleon and BlueheT, and the Be-
ries OF real events to which 1t is supposed to
relate viii be readily perceived from the title.
(Recelved by Bailey & Noyes)
From the Appletons we have also two more
volumes of their cheap edition of Dickens.
which somebody has appropriately dubbed the
"plum-pudding edition." from the noble like
ness of that Christmas dainty which adorns
the cover Of each volume The latest issues
are Great Expectations and the Amerieon
Notes, sold for twenty five and fifteen cents re-
spectively. (Received by Bailey & Noyes.)
Hurd & Hougton. New York, have printed
a very handsome edition of Salome, u Dran.at-
ie Poem, by j. G. Haywood 1t is a book
which well repays careful reading Its scene
is laid in Jerusalem at the time of.the siege by
Titus. The principal characters are Salome,
the daughter Of Herodias, now become Chris
tlan, Sextus, her Roman lover, who is vsinly
seeking her, various Christians concealed In
Jerusalem, and the Wandering Jew. The lat
Sot AONOo odiOLuc, boil6 uoF Ln6 story OF his
crimes and wanderings, and finally in a frenzy
of disappointed hope, stabs her and her lover
in the very dungeon where at her request be
had beheaded John tho Baptist. The chorusses
OF the Christians and Jews are especially good.
(Rseeived by Short & Loring.)
BLACKwooD's MAGAZINE, for December, has
the following table of contents: LINDA Tres
sci, Part Three; "The Church, her State and
Prospects; Nina; "Sir Charles Woods Ad-
nlinistration Of Indian Affairs; "rhe Con-
version of England; Cornelius ODowd";
"Grimm's Law; "Brownlows," Part Twelve;
"rhe Government and the Press"
The writer on the Church lifts up the voice
Of warning. He believes that II the Irish
Church be successfully assailsd, the Church OF
Scotland is also doomed. Count Montalenl-
bert's work on the Conversion of England IL
reviewed from the extreme insular stand
point. "Nina" is graceful poem from the
sculptor, Story. ODowd rattles away, In his
peculiar fashion, of Garibaldi and Pho Mono,
of cheap nobility, of growing old and other
matters; while Toryism comes bubbling TO the
surface in the article on the Government and
the Press. The capital story OF "Brow nlows"
approaches completion.
Reprinted by the Leonard Scott Publishing
Company, 140 Fulton Street, New York.
The NORTH BRITISH REVIEW, for December,
Is number of uncommon interest 1t opens
with an article on the Relations Of Heather
ism and Judaism ito Christianity" which con y
tains some original suggestions. Following
this is an interesting paper ON Modern
Proveneal Poems dealing principally with
the productions Of Jasmin and FredeIi
Mistral; well written essay on Ralph
Waldo Emerson" which will be read with
interest by American readers; paper ON
the Natural History of Morals" reviewing
Buckles History Of Civilization in England;
another, full of information, ON the Military
Systems of Europe;" statistical article ON
Population" "Italy in 1861" and short but
strongly written paper ON Il. The Social Sores
OF Britain, to which we propose to refer more
at length at some future time.
Reprinted by the Leonard Scott Publishing
ComDanv