The Portland daily press., 1869-10-01
Recent Publications,

STHUGGLES AND 1h1UMfho IL ou >P'N~S ~ |
the busy and eventlul life OF FL. barnum as
a merchant, manager, banker, lecturer and
successful Snowman on TWO comments.
tt shows him to US at the foot of the ladder
and gives, with many other narratives, an &C.
count of his struggles for livelihood, his i'm
prisonment and release, his earlier ventures as
a Snowman, his hair-breadth escapes, his saving
the life of Jas. Gordon Bennett, his brave en-
counter with Capt. Judkns of the Cunard
steamer, the trap laid for him in Philadel-
phia, lthe Jerome Clock Company entaHgle-
ment and his failure, and the troops of friends
to his rescue with offers of unlimited capital.
1t relates Gen. Tom Thumbs courtship and
marriage, showing that it was real affair OF
the heart; how Mr.. Barnum came to be lee
turer, and his plans Of public Improvements
in Bridgeport. 1t shows him to us at the top
of the ladder, revealing the method OF getting
there, amusing and delighting the reader at
every step of his progress. 1t records his ex-
tensive travels in this country and Europe,
with the results OF his large acquaintance with
men; his "reminiscences of Victoria, Louis
Philippe, King Leopold Of Belgium, VIM. NJ.
Thackeray, Samuel Rogers and many other
persons of note. New light is thrown upon
the character of Jenny Lind, the Swedish
Nightingale. The war with Bennett is mar
| rated, and how the Yankee Snowman was an
overmatch for the shrewd Scotchman, the full
history of Benefits purchase of the Museum
| lease, being now made public. All this forms
| but part of the personal and historical recol-
| lections of this autobiography, narrated in Mr..
Barnums unique and felicitous way.
| In addition to this, the work contains his
celebrated lecture Carefully revised) on the
cart of Money Getting" with the "Rules for
| Success in Business" Published by j. B.
Burr g. Co., Hartford, Conn and sold only by
| subscription.
every MAN HIS OWN WAsHERwoMAN," or
"every man his own lawyer" which means
that, in serious, or important cases, he, who
undertakes to be his own lawyer, "has fool
for his client, according to all the authorities;
just as he, who prescribes for himself, in most
cases, may be said to have fool for his patient
But in the hurried, every day business of life
a man may be his own lawyer, not only with
out risk, but with positive advantage to him
self and others, and great saving of time and
money. --.-...t..
May-but how?-law being a science, accord
ing to the universal concurrent testimony OF
lawyers; and the knowledge of law neither in
tuitive nor instructive?
Let him get copy of book we have just
been overhauling and eviscerating,or in whole
some English, disembowelling- book of near.
ly thousand pages, entitled american Com
mercial Law-for Business Men," and run
through it leisurely, as he would through a
favorte newspaper, SO as to get general no
ton Of its character; having it always within
reach for reference, commercial questions
arise. In every counting-room, in every brok.
erage, real estate, or insurance agency, in ev.
cry private house where the proprietor has
anything to do with contracts, purchases o,
sales, this book-this very book-ought to find
place. sssls4@5J
1t covers about the whole field of what used
to be called the "Ler Mercatoria,' or Law
Merchant, superadded to what may be called
Business Law, and with its well arraycd index
its untechnical forms, and its simplicity of ar
rangement, and clearness of enunciation where
leading principles are involved, will be alike
valuable to the lawyer and the business man.
1t is prepared we see by franklin Cham
berlain of the United States Bar" and former
law partner OF Chief Justice Chapman, and
published by Case and Co., Hartford, Conn.
.-. in.
We have received from Loring Short & Har-
mon Nos. 1914 and 1923 of Harpers Library Of
select novels "Found Dead' and g'shs Silk 1T
tire" by William Black We have only had
time to glance at these novels but their very
title shows an improvement in the public taste
over the Aramintas' and An,elias of former
years. The high reputation of the publishers
and of the gentlemen who offer them for sale
| here show that it will not be a bad investment
to put fifty cents into either of Them