The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-12-04

RECENT PUBLICATIoNs.-"Songs of Life"
recently published by Charles Scribner & Co.
New York, and for sale by Loring, Short s.
Harmon, is, without doubt, one of the finest
books of the season. We should say that the
publishers in issuing it had Struck twelve. T"
Certainly they can never send out book
printed on more beautiful paper, better illus
trated, or more faithfully bound. The outside
of the book is exceedingly attractive, and one
must have a deal of philosophy who can look
at it lying on the counter without wishing to
transfer it to his own centre table. We fear
the binder had it in his heart to tempt people
when he designed the style in which it should
appear. At any rate, such is the effect But
the outside of the book, though very beautiful,
is by no means the most attractive.
Just think of a selection Of "gems" from
such authors as Tennyson, Longfellow'
Lowell, Campbell, Browning, Milton, Bryant
Willis, Holmes, Burns, Aldrich and many
others, among which is to be found the Bugle
Song, The Bridge of Sighs, Song of the Shirt,
Charge of the Light Brigade, The Forging of
the Anchor, Excelsior, He Standeth at the
Door and Knocketh, The Old Contnentals,
etc. ETC., the whole illustrated in the highest
style of the art by such renowned artists as
Hennessy, barley, Griswold Fem, Eytinge,
Herrick, Ward and Hoppin. If the book
lacks anything either. in matter or manner, we
confess our inability to detect it. If you want
book for your mother, wife or sweetheart,
our word for it you can find few books more
beautiful or suitable and if the donee have
any appreciation for the beautiful in ltera-
ture and art nothing could be more accept
able
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accuracy, one of the greatest epochs in the
world history.
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