The Portland daily press., 1868-12-04
Recent Publications.

d. Appleton & Co., New York, publish two
volumes OF their cheap, large type edition OF
Marryatt's novels. They are JdpLet in Search
ofa Father, and The Kings O,0n each in sin
gle stout paper-covered volume, sold for fifty
cents. RedgduRtIet has also been added to the
tartan edition of the Waverley novels, sold for
twenty-five cents each. Our Mutual Friend,
Little Dorrit and Reprinted Pieces make up
the contents of the latest volume of the Illus
trated Library Edition of Dickens, published
by this firm. (Received by Bailey & Noyes.
From the Appletons we have also a small
volume of Home Stories by Mrs. Alice B.
Haven, known as "Cousin Alice" This writer
is deservedly great favorite. Her stories
have the charm of reality; her personages are
common men and women and she deals main
ly with the common experiences of life. The
lesson that she teaches is always good one
though she does not thrust her moral obtru-
trusively forward-and her page is free from
any stain of coarseness.. These Home Stories
are good reading for young people. (Received
by Bailey & Noyes.)
Appleton's JuUenile Annual, for 1869, is a
handsome volume of some $50 pages, small
quarto, richly bound in green and gold, and
illustrated with numerous engravings on wood.
1t is intended as Christmas and n ew Years
gift for young people, and is filled with choice
collection of stories, poems, brief biographies,
and miscellaneous articles, some of which are
instructive and others amusing The book
will rejoice the heart OF the child to whom
Santa Claus shall bring it. (Received by
Bailey & Noyes.)
\ "a Inv Aru &c n
Hundredh Volume on the first OF January
next, which fact sufficiently attests its do
served success, The numbers for the coming
year will contain the new romance of "The
Country-House ON the Rhine" by Berthold
Auerbach, the most eminent ofliving German
novelists. This work, which is now appearing
serially in Germany, has been pronounced
"the most remarkable novel that has come to
us from the home of Goethe during the pres
ent century," 1t will appear from week to
week in The Living Age until completed.
The publishers make liberal offer to new
subscribers of the year 1899; viz, to send them
the weekly numbers of The LiUing Age, from
the beginning of this story to January next,
free Of charge.
Besides the above attraction, The Living
Age will continue to present to its readers its
usual COHtptett TtStCUtt VI tlt NdlVdDle uLcTa-
ture of the day, embracing the best Reviews,
Criticisms, Tales, Poetry, Literary, Scientific,
Biographical, Historical, and Political infor.
nation gathered from the whole body of En-
glish periodical literature and from 1.-THE pens
of the ablest living writer's. Issued in weekly
numbers of sixty four pages each, making
more than three thousand double column oc-
tavo pages year, it is one OF the cheapest, if
not the cheapest magazine that can be had,
considering the quantity and quality of liter
ary matter furnished.
A leading daily paper says, that "if a man
were to read Littell's Magazine regularly, and
read nothing else, he would be well-informed
on all prominent subjects, in the general field
of human knowledge" 1t is similarly indors-
ed by the best writers and thinkers OF the day,
and commended by the press as "ths leading
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1t is issued exery Saturday oy LltteIl q gay,
extra copv sent gratis to any one getting up a
club of FIVE new suoscriDers'