The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-06-11


George w. Carleton & Co, New York, are
the publishers of volume entitled Folly as at
flies; hat at by Funny Fern. 1t is collection
of those short, spirited little papers, brimfull of
sense and sharpness, for which the writer is
well known. Fanny talks of the common af
fairs of every day life, of husbands, wives, SER
wants, of the mistakes and discontents of wo-
men, of the blunders of men about women, of
working-girls, of babies, of preachers ana
preaching, of travel and hotels, and hundred
other common topics; and always in shrewd
and vigorous fashion, often wittily, and with
more of kind illness than used to character re
her pithy disquisitions And she has one rare
merit;-she is always brief. Few people have
the happy art of concentrating all the sub
stance of loag moral lecture into one pun
gent paragraph as Fanny Fern can do. IRE
ceived by Bailey & Noyes.)
The same publishers have very promptly
brought out a translation of George Sands
latest novel; Mile Merquena, which has just
been completed in the Re0ue de Deu1 Mondes.
1t is less intensely wrought and less brilliant
than some of the earlier novels of the writer;
but there is the same grace and freedom of
knowledge of the more hidden springs of mo-
tive and character which may be found in all
her books. The heroine Celie, is very beauti-
full creation, being such as this "large-brain-
ed woman and large-hearted man" loves to de-
pict and to believe in. Her husband says of
her:-"Cele is a sage with the infinite tender
ness of woman and mother, with the enthu-
siasm of poet and lover" And he adds: 1T
is perhaps not yet known to what height of
charm gifted woman may elevate herself, if
she is allowed to mature, and if she herself
VIII have the patience to wait her complete
development to enter into complete life. But
they are married too young; they are mothers
before they have ceased to be children" The
translation is very fairly made (Receved by
Bailey & Noyes.)
From Ticknor and Fields we have two more
volumes of the autograph" Dickens. One of
these contains Barnaby Rudge and Hard Times,
the other Oliver TtUist, the Pictures from Italy
and the american Notes. Each contains nu-
merous illustrations from the original plates.
The price is only $3.50 per volume. (Received
by Hall l.. Davis.)
The same publishers have issued neat pa
pOiT oo'SiSu SuieAou VI AOot L tuy, ny Slni iCo
Reade and Dion Boucicault, which is sold for
IS cts. We shall take occasion to refer to this
work at greater length at an early day. IRE
ceived by Hall L. Davis.)
The Appletons issue another volume of their
cheap edition of Scott, containing The Black
Dacarf and the Legend of Montrose. Price %
cents. They have also put The Unconamercial
Traveller the Pictures from Italy and Reprint
ed Pieces, into single volume of the cheap
Dickens series, selling at IS cents. (Received
by Hall l.. Davis.)
Beadle & Company, New York, have issued
Dime Biography Of Ulysses S. Grant, written
by Edward Willett; and The Base Ball Player
comprising the proceedings of the Eleventh
Annual Baseball Cow ention, the rules for
the formation of clubs, and the baseball aver
ages for 1867. (For sale everywhere.)
Fanny Ferris new book, Folly as it Files, %
published by G.. w. Carleton & Co., has al
ready gone into the third edition, although
but two weeks published. 1t is dedicated to
Robert Bonner of the Ledger, in the following
horsey way: For fourteen years, the team Of
Bonner and Fern has trotted over the road at
2.40 pace, without snap of the horses or a
hitch of the wheels-Plenty of oats, and a
skilful rein, the secret"