The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-03-21
Terms $500 per on,aun,. S,, oa,.o..
"ecent Publication

Bailey Noyes have rece;,o,
runners hanssnax-a work which 4. t,n,,, .
marKaDle for the profundity of its sta,au..s
and the immense amount of condensed as,.s
nomcal and meteorological information - 49,
tans. There is more fun in cne of .Josh,s
months, than in whole cycle of other alma.
macs. Published by Carleton, N Y.
Bailey & Noyes have also received Gail
Hamiton's The Battle of the Books. As our
readers already know, Miss Dodge has had a
quarrel with her publishers, Messrs Fields.
Osgood & Co. She began to write for that
house in 1860, and for several years left the
matter OF compensation entirely in the hands
of Mr.. Field. Afterwards she found, as she
alleges, that she was receiving less than the
ten per cent. on the retail price of her book
winch was paid to other authors for theirs.
Aneh ensued very long correspondence be-
'"een Gaii on the one hand and her counsel,
anu inherent members of the publishing firm
on tue other. The whole matter was finally
se'.,eu oy arbitration, the referees awarding
oaii t"eiVe hundred dollars. The bulk of the
0otte o' he Books is made up of the corres
pondence above referred to. We have rarelv
read anything more repulsive than this book.
The egotism of presuming that business diff
ficulty ending in quarrel could in its mi
nutest details be interesting to the public is
objectionable, and the rough edge of this pre-
sumption is but slightly taken off by the triv-
ial devices of ante-dating the transaction a
hundred years and furnishing the dranatis
persone with fictitious names The controll-
ing motive in the publication of the book
saams q to 2 h have been q disinclination on the
part Oh daii TO let so many sharp, personal let
ters as she imagines. She has written remain
unknown to the public, she. appears as the
publisher of the book which is printed by
Fl. q. Houghton.
The North British Revie,o, for January, re-
published in New York by the Leonard Scott
publishing company, has papers on the follow
ing topics:-Babylonian and Assyrian Libra
ries; Swift; The Origin of American State
Rights; Auto5iographies; Decentralization in
in France and Prussia: History of Irish Land
Tenures; The Repentance of the Tory Party;
and Contemporary Literature.
1t is known that Garabaldi, during his i'm
version Of the story of Italy and her trials dur
ing the period in which he has been a chief
acter. For obvious reasons he covered it with
thin guise of fiction, and the manuscript,
which went to England to be translated, got
in its new garb the title of "IAe Rule of the
Monk, or Rome in the Nineteenth Century"
The translator's name is not given, but he is
confident that the Italian reader if the oppor-
tunity is ever offered of reading the original,
will find more eloquence, more vivacity and
power of description in the Generals own
words than in this TRANSMISSION into another
tongue. The narrative is not over-long, at all
events, and an appendix to it gives some ac-
count of the family of the famous soldier, and
and two or three recitals about recent histori-
cal transactions; while few pages of notes
close the volume, which has been issued by the
Harpers in fifty-cent shape. For sale by Bal
ley and Noyes.
Our Saturday Nights, by "Brick' Pomeroy,
with thirty illustrations by Stevens. "The
versatile genius of this author has won for
him worldwide reputation as a facetous
and strong writer. This new volume is re-
plete with the most touching pathos and heart
stirring appeals to the best and finest elements
of human feeling. The lover of the beautiful
and gentle and pure in thought will find many
a passage so fraught with deep pathos, and
genuine humanity and heaven-taught benevo-
lence, so much real Good Samaritanism, and
and love, and charity, all expressed in win
ming and charming style, that the best or
worst of its readers will, after its perusal, lay
it down with kindled heart and moistened eye,
and blessing upon its author. 1t is profusely
illustrated by drawings from one of our best
artists; is printed handsomely and bound ele-
gantly, uniform with the same authors other
successful books" Published by Carleton,
New York, and for sale by Bailey & Noyes