The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-12-17

| nam & Son, New York, the third land last)
volume of Washington Irving's Life and Let
ters edited by his nephew Pierre NJ Irving,
containing his biography and selections from
his correspondence from the time he was min
ister to Spain in 1912 till his death toward the
| close OF 1859. 1t is uniform with the we'll
known Knickerbocker edition OF his WORKS.
No further commentator OF Its typographl-
cal execution can be desired
Bailev 3, Moves have 1.-TWO Lives in One" by
Viepx Morstache printed at the Riverside
Press and published by Hurd & Houghton
| Price 81 So In it the life of Robert Trulyn
blends into that OF Hudson, under which pseu-
| donym the hero has wonderful adventures by
flood and field until be redeems his life by
Eazaroing it in battle Tor his country and-alI
ends we'll.
Edward Hopper has written "Old Horse
Gray and the Parish of Grumbleton," respect
fully dedicated to Henry Bergh, President of
the New York Society for Prevention of Cru
city to Animals. 1t contains a rhymed &C.
count of that parish, its horse market,with full
details of the Deacon's duel and of the parson
of the parish; and with the life and fortunes of
Old Gray in that rural district" are mingled
those of his master, the village parson afore-
said. The book will not be likely to survive
the epics of Homer or of Milton. but will
serve to amuse an idle hour 1t is handsome
ly printed at the Riverside Press, and can be
had of Bailey & Noyes.
Denison's Astronomy without Mathematics,
which has SO large sale in England among
those who had some curiosity about the Heav-
emily bodies but no taste for figures, has been
republished in New York by G. P. Putnam &
Son and can be had here of Bailey & Noyes
for 81 IS. 1t IS an elementary work teaching
in familiar words what it is essential for every
| one to learn of the earth, sun, moon and stars,
as well as of the more erratic bodies that at
distant intervals come within human ken It
tells us the main facts about them and slso
how these facts are ascertained.
Bailey & Noyes also have the sequel TO
Thoughts on Personal Religion by DR.. Goul-
burn, Dean Of Norwich. This little volume is
published by D. Appleton & Co., and is en-
| titled Pursuit of Holiness.
From the same New York publishers Bailey
& Noyes have received another religious work;
the first volume of S. Barring Gould's Origin
| and Development of Religious Belief This
volume treats of Heathenism and Mosaism.-
We call it religious, though its discourse is
rather pbilosophic, and we doubt, from the
tone of this volume if the succeeding one up
on the origin and development of religion in
Christianity will meet with favorable consid-
| GRAFTON at the hands of the protested followers
OF Christ. 1t will we'll repay careful perusal
and is entitled to it by the manner in which it
discusses these subjects.
One of the most timely gifts of the
season is "Our New Way Round the
World" by G. G.. Coffin. 1t is beauti-
fully printed and has nearly one hun
dred engravirgs illustrating the social habits
| of the communities visited, besides fourteen
maps The information to tourists is minute
and authentic, and the volume is a library of
| itself
Another most valuable gift book is "Studies
in Bible Lands" by w. L. Gage, from the
Tract Society, Boston, is most valuable gift
for teacher or parent 1t exhibits the geogra-
ply of Palestine as related to history, and SO
| is greatly helpful to Biblical study. The views
of places are from photographs on the spot The
volume is accurate in matter and beautiful in
style. rt
Not to be behind in the race, Loring, Short
& Harmon offer their customers an elegant
book from the great publishing house Of Har-
per & Brothers, entitled Old Testament Shad.
ows of New Testament Truths, and if anybody
canrot afford to buy it, our advice is, don't
look at it. 1t is printed and bound in such
faultless and attractive style and would
look so well on ones centre table that twill
prove great temptation, from which we all
pray to be delivered. The author of this book
is Lyman Abbott, author of stJesus of Maya
retb," Sc, and is illustrated with designs by
Dore and other celebrated artists. All the il
| lustrations are good but those entitled 1.-THE
Wanderers" and '"The Hebrew Founding"
| are superb. We wish the latter had been nam
ed "Moses in the Bulrushes" The book is
finely written and is admirably adapted for
the holidays. Says the author in his preface,
"The light that shines from the Old Testament
is that of the Star of Bethlehem, which con-
ducts the reader to the manger of his Inear-
nate Lord. That star seek to follow
The same firm has also received from the
Hsrpers the two following named books. Lord
Lytton's translation of the codes and Epodes
of Horace" and Bound to John Company"
The first has already attracted the attention
of classical scholars on both sides of the Allan
tic. The metrical English rendering is given
with the Latin text, page for page; and Lord
Lytton has written an introduction "On the
Causes of Horace's Popularity and prose
comments upon the poems as they are given.
Bound to John Company; or the Adven-
lures and Misadventures of Robert Ainsley,"
is novel which has appeared serially in Miss
Braddon's magazine, Belgravia, and which has
been ascribed, though it seems enormously, to
that lady's own pen. 1t is story, told in the
first person, of life in England and in British
India, in the last century. 1t is now reprinted
in pamphlet, with copies of the original il
lustratons.