The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-10-27

RECENT PUBLICATIONS Hdrper's Weekly for
October 80 has fine picture of Henry Ward
Beecher and his sister Mrs. Stowe, with some
interesting facts about them. We question
the taste of picturing the Pantin tragedy
afresh We have enough here to minister 70 a
prurient curiosity.
Root & Cady publish the Barefoot Bow !" a
song suggested by Prang's Chrome, comnosed
by L. H. jackson; "Some Sweet Day." SSH,
thy tumult, wild, wild waves,n.-ana ssIn
Dreams of My Childhood by j. P. Webster.
attractive and not difficult songs.
The Dartmouth for October is full of oood
things, among which is readable. article ON
"Forms of Salutations." Address Boy 40
Hanover, N. H.
G. p. Putnam, whose return to the bns;pess
which he understands so thoroughly was hail
ed with pleasure by every lover of standard
literature in its various departments, publish
es Wonders Of the Deep by Prot. Schele De
We're. This is campanion to the former work
of the same author entitled Stray Leaves from,
the Book of Nature. 1t is written in Prof
VS. agreeable style, and is upon topic which
always possesses degree of fascination for
most people. Those who are born within
sound of the oceans roar are never easy if
compelled to live beyond the reach of its
echoes. When "the old man of the sea" once
fastens upon us he holds us with death grip.
To the magic of its influence we are indebted
for some of the most powerful of Byron's vers-
es, and the Lecture of Rufus Choate upon "The
Sea" Qost or stolen from his pocket in New
York and hence never published) was the
finest product of his genius. Much informal
ton is given us in the present work about the
myths and mysteries connected with the ocean.
and we need not go down upon the sea in
ships to see the wonders of the great deep. but
can find them wildly and faithfully depicted
upon the pages of Prof De We're. He treats
of the composition of its waters as well
as of the habits and lives of its
multitudinous inhabitants, and if the
gems of purest ray serene born and borne
within Its dark (but not unfatbomed) caves;
not 'unfathOmed,' for their secrets have been
wrested from them and here we find hints of
the thrilling adventures of those who have PEN
etrated their internal recesses. Tales are told,
too of those guardians of the coast that through
the long dark nights and perilous storms of
winter hold up the torch to warn the tempest
tossed mariner
The same veteran in the book trade publish
es good novel in neat form for those whose
taste leads them to prefer the tameness of fic-
ton to the mysteries of reality. It is entitled
christopher Kenrick, and written by Joseph
Hatton. 1t purports to be an autobiography of
Kenrick's wandering life and fuctnating for
tunes till he reaches the snug harbor of his own
do xpI,o l.
and safety. Loring, Short & Harmon have
these books.
The North american Reuieao is out at last, but
the old saying, Better late than never is
especially applicable in this case. 1t has six
articles, more or less spri Chilly, ranging from
Genesis to Paraguay. The paper of the great
est practical Importance is on "Civi Service
Reform" by Henry B. Adams, third son of
Charles Francis Adams. Pref. Fisher of Yale
devotes his attention to the Writings of Mr..
Rowland G. Hazard Mr.. John Fiske, one
of the seven wise men recently appointed to
lecture on philosophy at Harvard, discusses
the "Genesis of Language" through sixty-two
pages. Lewis H. Morgan, who wrote so wisely
and well on the Beaver contributes an ex-
haustive paper on Indian Mgratons." Mr..
d
the "Suez Canal" which is made more yalua-
BILE by two good maps. Rev. S. G. Bulfnch
writes as extended a history of Paraguay as
any one will ever need to throw light on the
causes and progress Of the present war;
The Woman Who Dared; by Epes Sargent.
Boston, Roberts Brothers. Epes Sargent,
though far from being an old man, has been
connected with American literature as long as
almost any author now living. He began to
write when very young, and was one of that
brilliant bevy of young authors Whose brains
Mr.. S. G.. Goodrich turned to account almost
forty years ago, in which were included Haw
thorne and George S. billiard also. He wrote
play for Fori est when that tragedian was in
the zenith of his fame, and a song for Henry
Russell which is still heard as often as almost
any melody in the language. He edited a
newspaper with Park Benjamin, John Neal
and Henry G. DemiDg, and a magazine will
Mrs. Mowatt. He was the friend of Irving,
and the intimate associate of Willis, as we'll as
of Baleck, Paulding, Percival, and the
Knickerbocker IL % -
"The Woman Who Dared" is the work of a
reformer, and reformer of the advanced
type Mr.. Sargent, in his retirement of the
last dozen years, has been thoughtful as re-
CARDS all projects for the advancement of ind-
viduals and of society, and has accepted con-
victions which place him clearly in the class to
which this volume assigns him. He has given
evidence of views not in accordance with
those that are conservative, ON another topic,
in book published from his pen a few months
since. This successor to it is the vehicle for
conveying ideas still more unconventional
''The Woman Who Dared was defiant enough
of the opinion of society to propose to the man
whom she desired for a husband. This was
the elimination of her daring, but it is only
one incident in her career, as set out She is
made up of "strong- traits (as the
vulgar like to term i) in her character, and
they develop themselves in all her life. 1t
was even worse with the mother before her
She faced society SO far as to live in it without
the legal sanction of marriage. This was not
wantOnly, but of necessity, and as an admitted
hardship. But the disregard of the marriage
tie, at the dictate of an assumed higher law,
will be the chief stumbling block with readers
The author does not shrink from defending it;
indeed, it is probable he wrote the poem almost
as much to convey his views of the wrong that
is done in compelling uncongenal souls to re-
main in the marriage relation, as for any other
purpose. T he subject is not one to be discussed
with justice in a notice like this, and we leave
it with the statement that Mr.. Sargent has put
his own side of the case adroitly, but without
even limiting as to what may be said on the
opposite. His other illustrations of elfreliant
womanhood, asserting its rights as against the
obstacles placed in its path, both in the domes-
tic circle and in wider sphere; are admirable
and will be read with no ordinary satisfaction
by those interested in this branch of reform
He puts the argument for woman's right to
make the best possible use of her faculties and
to Judge for herself what their sphere shall be-
10 a condensed, nervous,p ungent form of state
ment and of logic, which IS much to be COM
mended. He declares for the suffrage to woman
also-but on this point he is meager--indeed,
he scarcely argues it at all.
a Little Boys Story; by Julie Gouroud
Translated from the French by Howard Glyn-
don; New York, Hurd and Houghton, publish
ers. This is Julie Gouroud's excellent story
for the juveniles, entitled "Memoires d'nn
Petit Garcon." Of course it is story OF
French life, and for this reason, will be in
structive as well as entertaining. 1t is told in
a lively, pleasant, and graceful style, and