The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-02-17
Recent Publications.

Plautus, one of the two profane authors that
Lnther took TO the monastery with him,-the
author that Moliere, Dryden, Addison and
even Shakespeare initiated and Cicero praised,
is not usually embraced among the Latin wri-
ters of American academic courses. The great
comedian who died 1874 years before Christ,
and long before those authors of the golden
age whose writings are the standards of ele-
giant Latinity, has been known in this country
mostly by professional teachers alone. But
Professor Harrington, of the Wesleyan Uni
versity, Conn, believes the old Roman worthy
of the acquaintance of American school boys,
and has accordingly edited the three most cell
ebrated of his twenty-cne plays that are known
by moderns to be genuine, viz, the Cdptiui,
Rudens and Trinunnaus. There are expana-
tory notes, grammatical references and all else
necessary to facilitate the study of the author.
Published by Harper & Brothers, and for sale
in this city by Loring, Short g. Harmon.
Messrs Hoyt, Fogg s. Breed, No. % Middle
street, have just issued the second (February)
number of the Literary Gazette. 1t is an ex-
cellent periodical, intended to keep people in
formed of what is going ON in the American
book k-publishing world, and give its readers an
occasional taste from the best new books
This number contains the opening chapter of a
new book entitled Harry Mertoun,'' which
will be published in this form in monthly in
stalments and be afterwards published in book
form by Messrs. Hoyt, Fogg & Breed. We
are glad that one of our own publishing houses
has undertaken so good work as issuing a
publication like the Gazette and hope they will
c oroGtobIa in every way.
From Loring, Short & Harmon we have re-
ceiyed The Andes and the Amazon, by James
Ortop. A. NJ, Professor of Natural History in
Vassar College,-published by Harper Bros.
Professor Orton, commissioned by the Smith
sonian Institute, headed an expedition across
the continent of South America. They as
cended the western slope of the Andes to Qui-
to-; thence they descended the eastern slope on
foot, until they reached tAe Napo, Que of the
great tributaries of the Amazon. Down this
river they padded in a canoe for five hundred
miles to the Amazon, which they followed for
two thousand miles to its mouth. OF the i'm
mense region thus traversed, hitherto almost
unknown-in every respect,whether as re-
CARDS the interest of the subject or the man
ner Of treatment-it is valuable addition to
our store of geographical knowledge. The
book is finely illustrated.
HireU novel by John Saunders, author of
''Abel brakes Wife, &c, is No. 3i4 of Har-
per's Library of Select Novels The English
press speaks of it as work of wonderful dra-
matic power and idyllic grace, abounding
with lile-like portraitures. It can he found at
Loripg, Short & Harmon's.
The Adventures Of Caleb Williams by Wm.
Goodwin, is in paper covers and sold at the
low price of 81 cents. This also can be found
at Loring, Short s. Harmon's
The third part of The EdTthy FaIaotSe, py
the English poet William Morris, has been
pu5lished by Roberts Brothers, Boston. 1t
will be eagerly sought by all who read the tales
in the first and second parts. The modern
Chaucer," as Mr.. Morris is not inappropriate.
ly called, has made friends rapidly aud in
great nun bers, and though he may fail to win
the enduring fame of his great prototype,
Dan Chaucer, he has certainly obtained the