The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-08-03
Recent Publications.


D. Appleton and Company, New York, have
issued the first two volumes OF an entirely new
| edition of the works OF Charles Dickens. 1t is
| called Appleton's Library Edition. and is to be
| completed in six volumes, printed on fine pa
| per, bound in purple and gold, and illustrated
with designs by George Cruikshank, John
Leech and Fl. X. Browne. The price of the
volumes sold separately is $1.75, or $1O5O for
the set making this one of the cheapest as well
as one of the handsomest editions of Dickens
yet offered to the public. The second volume,
which has just appeared, contains Nicholas
Nickteby, Martin Chuzzleaoit, and the american
Notes. (Received by Hall L. Davis, and Bailey
and Noyes.) 1853
The German lady who calls herself Louisa
Muhlbach seems to be fred with an ambition
to produce as many tales as the Princess
Scheherazade. Already a thousand and one
nights would be none toe much time to COM
plete the perusal OF all her novels, yet the Sc
ries grows. The latest OF these so-oalled his
torical romances is Goethe and Schiller, a story
dealing manly with the fortunes of the latter
OF these two great German poets. 1t is publish
ed by the Appletons in the same neat and con-
venIent style as those which have preceded it.
The translation is by Chapman Coleman, aud
there are several fttustratteas- by efasedn Fsg
which can hardly be said to add much to the
beauty of the volume or the interest OF the
text. But it is the fashion to illustrate every
thing nowadays. (Received by Bailey and
Noyes and by Hall L. Davs.) ,asx.
The Appletons, encouraged by the marked
success which has attended their cheap edi-
tions of the works of Scott and Dickens, have
commenced the publication of a milar edi-
ton of the always popular sea tales OF Captain
Marryatt, to be published in rapid succession.
They printed in large clean tppe, more
legible than the Scott and Dickens, and sold
for forty cents volume. The first of the Sc
ries is already out. 1t contains the adventures
of Mr.. Midshipman Easy, that type and prince
of boy heroes, beside whom even Oliver OPP
tics youthful prodigies appear tame and COM
monplace. This series is sure of a large sale.
The same publishers send us The Monastery it
being number eleven of the tartan edition Of
the Waverly novels. (Received by Bailey s.
Noyes and by Hall l.. Davis.)
Punch's Pocket-Book of Fun, published by
the Appletons, may be said to contain the es-
sence of Punch, being made up OF selections
from twenty-five volumes of Punch, with some
seventy or eighty illustrations from drawings
/ by Leech, Tenniel, Doyle, Cruikshank and
others. 1t is enlivening little volume to
put into the pocket for amusement in these
murky dogdays. (Received by Bailey and
Noyes.)
Lee & Shepard, Boston, have issued for pop
ular reading, biographical sketches of the
Lives Of Grant and CoJdx, by Charles A.
Phelps, late President of the Massachusetts,
Senate. The book is written in very readable
style, and is a timely contribution to the cam
paign literature of the season. 1t is a small
duodecimo, very handsomely printed and
bound, and the illustrations, including two
| fiue steel portraits, are OF superior order.
| (Receved by Short & Loring.)
| Loring, the Boston publisher, has added to
| his popular series of ''Tales of the Day." a
short story of everyday life entitled Lucy; or
Married from Pique. 1t is translation from
the German of E. Junker, is pleasantly writ
ten, just long enough to read at a sitting. and
| has " hat all stories intended to please should
have, a happy conclusion. (Reeeived by BAR
| ley & Moves.