The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-09-15
Terms $500 per o',nuns, in adraace.
not stop to mention, suffiees to show that
there is to be no stagnation in the book trade
this wear
RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

there is to be no stagnation in the book trade
this year.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS.
or books already published the accumula-
. ton upon our table is becoming alarming
many OF these have a beauty and ,valne
"hleh entities them to careful and extended
REVIEW but the pressure upon our columns
u other matter eompels us 20 pass them with
orleIer notice than we could wish.
Mr.. Albert ID. Richardson has at 1enotb
finished his Personal History of IJI,,sses g
Grant, and the book is published by the
American Publishing Company at Hartford.
Connecticut. OF the general scope and
purpose OF the work we have already
poken. Mr.. Richardson has executed his
task with taithfulness and care If
he had intended to publish mere cam
paien document, instead OF biography of
lasting value, he might have had it ready be-
lore; but as he said himself he "was deter
mined to have it accurate if he did not get it
| out till after Grant was elected and served
his time," and his facts and figures are almost
| always reliable. He has increased the value
of his work by the introduction of many i'm
portant documents never before printed which
throw light upon the character OF the Gen
eral and the great events in which ne has
Deen an actor. The book is a substantial
volume of $50 pages. coarsely printed though
IN PLAIN type. 1t has numerous illustrations.
which are not so good as they ought to be.
The Harpers have issued the second vol
ume OF Professor John w. Diapers History
Of the american CicII Var, the first volume
OF which appeared something over year
ago. The period dealt with in this volume
is that extending from the 4th of March,
1901, to the lst of January, 1868, or the time
which elapsed between Mr.. Lincoln's imam
guration and his Proclamation of Emancipa-
ton. 1t narrates the political and military
history OF that important period, the author
presenting his facts with much clearness.
bodness and yivacity, and devoting much
less space to philosophical disqnsition than in
the preceding volume. 1t is divided into seven
sections, each treating under an appropriate
head, somewhat distinct phase in the prog
resS OF the rebellion. Head lines and marei-
nal references aid the reader, and plans of
campaigns and battles illustrate the text. IL
is impossible with our limited space to at
tempt any adequate criticism of work of
such extent and Importance. We can only
say that this volume, though differing widely
from the one which went before it, does not
fall below that in power and value, and re-
commendit to our readers as work full of the
results of acute observation, patient investiga-
n
candor in comparing them; and rendered in
teresting by unusual skill in delineating the
characters Of prominent individuals and a Wv
I'd style OF narrative. The mechanical exc
cution OF the work is excellent. Received by
Augustus Robinson, under Falmouth Hotel.)
The Harpers have also reprinted from the
English edition, Lord Lytton's recent col.
lection Of his miscellaneous works. They are
issued in two duodecimo volumes under the
title of Miscellaneous Works By Ed,card BuI-
acer, Lord Lytton. The first volume contains
the more recent papers, being essays contribut-
ed to various English Reviews, on Goldsmith,
Charles Lamb, Pitt e Fox, Ppm and Falk-
land, The Reign of Terror, &C., and also the
biographical sketch Of the poet Schiller which
was originally pre6xed to Bulwers transla-
tion OF Schiller's Poems and Ballads" The
contents of the second vol olume comprise those
papers written in the authors youth and or
ieinally published under the title of @The
Student; and also an essay on "The Influence
of Love upon Literature and real Life,o
which has never before been in print. The
charming papers, called "Caxtoniana," are
not included in these volumes. (Receved by
A. Robnson.) =
Mr.. 5. s. Randall, for many years Superin-
tendent of Public SchoO OILS in the CITY of New
York, is the author OF short treatise on
First Principles of Popular Education and
Public Instruction, which the Harper's have
published in neat duodecimo of 250 pages.
The authors opportunities of becoming prac-
tically miliar with the subject he discusses
have been unusually good, and though we
have been able to give the work but cursory
examination it is sufficient to show that he
handles his important theme with vgor and
ability. A general idea of the plan of the
work may be gathered from headings of tho
vorious chapters. These treat of the Philos-
ophy of Education; the Family; Intellectual
Culture; Moral and Religious Instruction:
Female Education; the Teacher; science and
Revelation; land the Objects, Means and Ends
of Education. 1t is a useful book to all inter-
ested in the question of education. (Receiy-
ed By Augustus Robinson.)
From the Harpers we have also The Dotc-
er House, the latest novel of Miss Annie
Thomas, Mrs. Pender Cudlip) and one of
her best. . The American reader will be
somewhat amused with one passage where
the author quotes admiringly from Whittier's
| well known ballad of "Maud Muller" and
credits the extract to SOLVER Wendell
Holmes poem of The Judge and the Hay
makerp" This is not quite so bad, perhaps,
as another English novelist, Mrs. Edwards,
who describes some one as acting like
"an overseer in a Massachusetts, cotton-6eld,"
but it is hardly pardonable in lady Of Miss
Thomas literary = pretensons. (Received
by A. Robinson.)
Quite number of books OF more or less
interest are lying upon our table, notice of
which is unavoidably deferred.