The Portland daily press., 1869-02-27
Recent Publicatiops.
APPLETONs,

u. Appleton & Co., New York, have pub-
hshed in handsome duodecimo volume of
some hye hundred pages, Letters of a Senf,-
mental Idler, written from Greece. Turkav
Egypt, Nubia, and the Holy Land. by Harry
Harewood Leech. The writer is eyidentIv =
| young man, and his handsome, boyish and in.
teiigent, though certainly sentimental" face.
which appears as the frontispece of his book
suits well with theletters he writes. They are
tne ilght-hearted, off hand effusons of q youpe
man, eager for novelty, interested in all he
sees, honest in his statements if not particu.
iariy profound in his reflections, and on the
very Dest of terms with himself and all the
world. Quite number of spirited sketches
Illustrative of Oriental life adorn the volume.
winch IS handsomely printed and bound. IRE
ceived by Bailey & Noyes)
The Appetons have added 10 their eleeant
Globe Edition of the poets The Poetical Works
Of Alexander Pope, edited and carefully revised
by the Rev. H. F. Cary, with biographical
notice. These volumes are beautifully printed
on toned paper, bound in muslin and gilt. and
form the most convenient, elegant and desira.
BILE popular edition of standard poetical works
ever published in this country (Received by
Bailey & Noyes)
The same publishers have issued a new edi-
tion (the twelfth) of Phenixiana, a collection
of burlesques and comic sketches by the late
Lieutenant Derby, better known as "John
Phoenix." Nothing better of the kind has
ever appeared in this country than these
squibs by the inimitable "Phenix" They
bubble all over with fun and drollery, and
their unabated popularity after a lapse of
ten years time 10 good evidence Of the fact
that their wit is not wholly dependent On
their reference to the passing topics of tie
hour. paper covers; fifty cents. Received by
Bailey & Noyes)
SEVER & FRANCIS.
Messrs. Sever & Francis, Boston and Cam
bridge, have issued new handy edition" of
their Golden Treasury, edited by Mr.. Francis
Turner Palgrave. This collection "of the best
songs and lyrical poems in the English Ian
guage" is doubtless well known 10 many of
our readers, having been before the public for
eight or ten years. 1t contains nearly three
hundred poems in all culled with skilful hand
from the whole range OF English verse, from
Chaucer down. One can scarcely open to a
page without finding there some old and well
beloved iavorite. The volume has been so far
reduced in size-without taking anything from
its contents-as to make it convenient pock-
ct companion, just what one wants in a book
of this kind. 1t is clearly printed and taste
fully bound. (Receved by Loring, Short &
Harmony
The same publishers have reprinted from
the English edition Arne; a Sketch Of Norace-
gian Life, translated from the Norwegian Of
Bjornstjsrne Bjornson. 1t is short story, Of
peasant life in Norway, emphatically one of
the short and simple annals of the poor;'' but
so quantity and truthfully told, with so tender
and poetic grace; it is so rich in pithy ex-
pressioDs and in local coloring; it represents
for us SO vividly the rude but picturesque life
of the Norwegian peasant that one reads it
with really fascinated attention, and is at no
loss to understand that it has done much to es-
tablish the reputation of lis author as one of
the foremost among Scandinavian writers. OF
Bjornson himself we know very little. He is
still quite young man, the son of a village
clergyman in Norway. His boyhood gave NO
particular promise, and at the University of
Upsala, where he studied, he was not greatly
distinguished. He has travelled extensively,
has been editor, dramatic critic, theatrical
manager, and various other things; but of
late years he has devoted himself to the writ.
ing of novels which have attained wide cir
culation throughout Northern Europe, and
have been winning for their author fame and
fortune. This is the first of his works to ap-
pear in this country, and will give pleasure to
large number of American readers. IRE
ceived by Loring, Short & Harmony
Harper & Brothers have put that portion of
Trollope's novel, "He Knew he was Right"
which has arrived in this country, into a neat
pamphlet with illustrations ON wood by Mar
Gus Stone, and sell it for thirty cents. 1t is
received here by Loring, Short & Harmony