The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-12-09
Tes'nss $500 per annuna, in adrance.
Recent Publications,


Songs Of Home is in every respect a beau
tiful book, and reflects the highest credit
upon the celebrated publishing house of
Chas. Scribner & Co., from which iC is issued.
These 'Songs" are selected from "many
sources" but are the purest and best sources
IN the English language. Gems from Ten.
nyson, Longiellow, Burnes, Holmes, Bryant,
whittier and Lowell are scattered through
out the book, and many sweet poems more
familiar to the last generation are reproduced
,: ,or the delight OF this. OF these may be men,
.loneu .s, The Bucket" by Samuel Wood.
o" dear 70 tnis heart are the scenes of my child
When fond recollection presents them to view,
The orchard, the meadow, the deep tangled wild
And every loved spot which my infancy know,
The wide-spreading pond, and the mil that stood
The bridge and the rock where the cataract fell
The cot of my father, the dairy house nigh 1t,
And cen the rude bucket that hung in the well;
The ne old oaken bucket, the iron bound bucket,
The moss covered bucket which hung In the well.
The Illustration of "The Bucket" by Girls
void is singularly beautiful and affords scarce
ly less pleasure than the poem itself, while
that of "The First Snow Fall' by Fem is
strikinsly true to nature and fifty prefaces the
beautiful poem of James Russell Lowell. The
illustration of "Those Evening Bells,n "The
Fishers Cottage" "Maud Muller" and "The
FISHERMEN are exquisite specimens of art
and genius, and cannot fail to satisfy the
most fastidious. There are many other fine
Illustrations by such distinguished artists as
Hennessey, Macdonough and Mast, but we
have not time to speak of them in detail
Quite an interesting feature of the book is
number OF autograph verses by TennysoD,
Holmes, Payne, Bryant, Lowell, Kingsley and
Whittier. Persons in search of chaste and
elegant present for the Christmas HOLIDAYS.
may be assured that this book will meet every
Just expectation. For sale by Bailey &
Noyes.
The same publishers have issued another
volume of the ILLUSTRATED Library of Won
ders", entitled strength and Skill" translated
and enlarged from the French of Depping by
Charles Russell. This book treats of athletes,
pugists, wrestlers, boxers, swimmers, divers,
skaters, stiit walker, ,leapers, ,lemae racers and
in short of the various games with which
men In all ages and countries have diverted
themselves and developed their "musce."
We regard this volume by far to be the most
interesting and readable of the series and
well worthy the attention of the book BUYERS.
It is well illustrated. For sale by Bailey &c
Noyes.
Messrs Lee & Shepard of Boston have not
forgotten the boys and evidently do not mean
that the boys shall forget them-certainly, not
if the publication of boys books at once in.
structive and fascinating can prevent it,
Among their latest publications is Lost in the
Fog, by James De Mile, author of the "B. o.
w. c." "The Boys of Grand Pre,p etc. As
its title indicates, it is salt water story and
abCunds in incidents and adventures that can
not fail to captivate the "boy of the period"
1t seems that several of the boys of Grand
Pre- concluded to go home by water and so
chartered the schooner Antelope, and the SER
vices Of captain Corbett for that purpose
The narrative of the voyage is exceedingly
interesting, lifelike and natural and while
some passages are quite exciting there is moth
ing exaggerated or sensational. The quaint
and hcmely language of Captain Corbett is
made the vehicle of conveying to the mind
of the youthful reader many valuable truths,
and the book is in all respects unexceptional.
For sale by Bailey and Noyes.