The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-10-19
e,'ms $500 per a,assssns, In at,,once.

"shl 1 might have known by the c,a,,a,-
ing it WASN'T the football of that noble steed
| A peasantP
The despised rustic rides on, as he passes
making awkward obeisance, by spasmodic
pluck at his forelock.
-Four hundred mortal pages Of such stuff as
'nis! We were unable to get beyond the first
enapter. Perhaps our readers may have more
courage (Received by Bailey & Noyes.)
~ appleton & Co., New York, have added
'ccoo FotthJau to their neat fifiy cent edition
'"rryatts novels. 1t is one of the most hu-
nuorous Oh the series. (Received by Bailey 81
Noyes.)
Two delightful books for young folks are inst
| issued by Lee q Shepherd of Boston. These
| are The Little Spdnidrd; or Old .Joss's Grand.
son, by May Mannering; and Deity Dimple Out
West, by the charming author of the "Prudy'
books. Sophie May is acknowledgedly at the
head of writer's for chi dren in this country
and her stories always find many interested
readers among the grown folks as well. Her
children are real children. She has seen and
studied the funny unconscious ways Of the
small people with loving and observant eye,
and she has a rare faculty of presenting them.
Little Miss D'mple is one of the most attract
i've of the little circle to which she has intro
duced us. (Received by Bailey & Noyes)
HurJ & HOughton, New York, publish The
1ragedidra, an essay on the histrionic genius Of
Junus Brutus Booth, by Thomas r. Gould
1t describes Booths peculiar conception and
personation of such varied characters as Rich
ird, Hamlet, Iago. Othello, Shylock, Lear, Sir
Giles Overreach, Brutus, the Stranger, and
many more; comments critically on his genius
and his manner, and gives some interesting
sketches and incidents connected with his sim
gular career. 1t is a book which will have a
peculiar value for all interested in dra natio
art and in the traditions of the stage (Re-
ceived by Short & Lorng.
The Appleton's publish, in a neat, compact
Volume, Mental Science; Compendium of Psy-
choIogy, and the History of Philosophy, by Alex-
ander Balm, M. A. Mr.. Balm. wno holds the
position of Professor of Logic and Mental
Philosophy in the University of Aberdeen.
has high reputation in Europe as an original
inquirer and as an authoritative expounder of
the most advanced views in relation to the
science OF mind. Some years ago he brought
out two elaborate works on "The Senses and
the Intellect" and THE Emotions and the
Will" of which Mr.. John Stuart Mill, writing
in the Edinburgh Review, remarked: "Bain
has stepped beyond all his predecessors, and
has produced an exposition of the mild, of the
school OF Locke and Hartley equally remarkable
in what it has successfully done and in what is
nas wisely refrained from-an exposition which
deserves to take rank as the foremost Of its
class, and as marking the most advanced point
which the posteriori psychology has reach
ed."
The present volume is the first OF bis works
republished in this country. 1t is designed az
text book for high schools and colleges, and
= for the most part an abridgement OF the au-
thor's larger works on the same subject. frum
he imperfect examination which we have
been able 10 give it, we should judge il to be
well adapted for its purpose. It's principles
ire clearly stated, and suppo ted by iudicious
citations Of fact. Ii contains also a great
mount of information with regard to the va
rious theories OF eminent metaphyncians,
which is especially valuable. (Received by
Bailey & Noyes.)
The Old Farmers Almanac, for 1869, Is pub
lished by Bailey & Noyes of this city. This is
the seventy-seyenth issue, and il is the same
old familiar calendar that has hung in go
many farmers kitchens for three quarters Of q
century, and which has come to be as indis-
psnsable in many houses as the kitchen fire.