The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-09-17
Recent Publications.


George'W Carleton & Co., New York, have
issued pretty little duodecimo volume EMIT
led hboa,t Womda, Lore and Mar7iage The
author is Mr. F. Saunders, whose pleasant
book called salad for the Solitary had quite
a success a year or two ago We are inclined
to think Mr.. Saunders present venture not
likely to add much to his regulations. He is
not very profound philosopher, and it is a
pity he should think himself capable Of indi-
eating the sphere and assigning limits to the
development of half the human race. He has
neither the earnestness nor the mental grasp
worthiy to treat the theme he has chosen; he
can only repeat in somewhat flippant man
ner, the old sentimental inanities to which
Doctors Todd AID Holland have accustomed
us. His book is, however, largely made up OF
quotations and much of the selected portion
Is good. The whole will doubtless be read Tor
few days, and then pass into that dreary
Limbo of forgetfulness TO which SO many books
on the same subject have preceded 1t. tke-
ceived by Bailey and Noyes.)
From Carleton's we have also Smoked Glass,
nv Orpbeus c. Kerr with illustrative an
aebropisms" by Thomas Worth The volume
contains the results of the writer's observa-
tons at Washington during the past year, re-
lated in the humorous fashion for which he is
so widely known. Reconstruction and the
impeachment proceedings form the subjects Of
several of the letters. There are some shrewd
things in the book, and great many laugha-
bic ones. The illustrations are more than u.s.
ually drol (Received by Bailey and Noyes
+ The same publishers send us The PhiloSo-
pliers of Fogfouville, by Radical, Freelance,
Esquire, not particularly brilliant satire on
reforms, reformers and "New Utopias." The
study of dead languages, the admiration for
pictures by SO called cold masters" various
forms of superstition Or credulity the wom-
ans rights and other modern movements are
ridiculed in it. (Received by Bailey and
Noyes.)
One of the most compendious and valuable
handbooks of political information that we
have seen is the Voters Test Book published by
Asher, Adams and Higgins, Indianapolis, In
diana. Those documents and events, from the
early history of the government down to the
present time, that have bearing upon the po-
litical questions of the day are selected and
arranged in convenient order for reference
Among other valuable features it has the cleo
toral vote of the States from the first Presiden-
tial election down to the present time, and the
platforms OF the two parties ior 1860, 1854 and
1868. The campaign in Maine is not yet over,
and all persons who desire to keep themselves
we'll informed in regard to political matters
should by all means avail themselves of the
aid afforded by this volume Agents for the
sale of this work are wanted in every county
in the State. Send for circular giving full de-
scription to Asher Adams & Higgins, publish
ers, Buffalo, N. ", or, indianapolis, Indiana,
who offer very liberal terms. 1i-
EMINENT WOMEN OF THE AGE S. NJ Bits
~ Co, Hartford. ..s.a t raE .te gur
Here we have what has long been wanted
always wanted, we might say, in handsome
volume of 628 pages, illustrated with sixteen
portraits on steel, no less than forty seven un-
exaggerated life-like representations of wo-
men, well worth canonizing; few only out of
hundreds, the world is anxious to know more
OF, as aoonaen, apart from their achievements in
art or science. 'st '...l-. - p . ~,
Among these are mothers and wives--house-
hold companions, who in the hurry and whirl
as musicians, actresses, nurses, physicians and
statesmen (of piece with King Maria Theresa)
women who have made their own way in the
world without much help from their brother
man. and often through barriers, and over hin
drances, dIseeuragments, disadvantages and
.disqualfications what few men would be able
to overcome, have never unsexed themselves
and who, in all the intoxication of triumph
and applause, never forgot they were women.
The sketches, which are by some of our best
writers-Parton, Greeley, III igginson, Abbott,
Hoppin, Winter, Tilton, Fanny Fern, Grace
Greenwood and Mrs. Stanton, are not only
conscientious and discriminating, but exceed
ingly just and characteristic. Judging by
some of the originals with whom We happen
TO have been personally acquainted, sucn as
Mrs. Harriet Beecber Stowe, MIS- Lydia Sig
Quincy, Mrs. Margaret Fuller Ossoli and Mrs
Julia Ward Howe, and by others of women
we have all been hearing of, and wondering af
ter, for many long year, they are all, so far as
We can see, both mastery and truthful. y
In short-we are disposed to recommend this
large gathering of Eminent Women to their
sisters throughout our country, and especially
to the husbands and fathers, who would like
to know what women are good for outside. of
their households, what they are capable of, and
what they are made for? Whether to go hand
in hand, and step, by step with their other
halves, up TO the common Father who created
them in his own image, male and female; or on
,ly ''to suckle fools and chronicle small beer"
PORTLAND. Sept. Is, 1868. l 3'so j. N.
T. 5. 1t seems that the agency for this work
is IN the hands of the Rev. Charles Soule, who
has been obliged to leave the ministry on ac-
count of his voice, and has now betaken him
self to preaching in another field. I-f ..