The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-11-28
Terms $500 per amnxna, d, odrancc.
Recent Publications.

IT. HoIands monthly" as it
snouiu oe called, has now also taken into its
capacious nav the charming Riyerside Maqa-
ztne for young people. So far as it does not
take its tone from its editor, whom we abbor
as the worst of all quacks-a quack moralist-
Scr'oner is worthy OF place among our best
montblies. The illustrated articles remind one
oil HdIper, though the old readers of the latter
VIII hesitate long before abandoning the ven.
eraole friend for its deserving young competi-
lor' The Street-Venders of New York;
'Jai Birds and their Flight and ''The Hoosac
Tunnel are all finely illustrated. The article
on the Hoosac Tunnel is particularly interest
ing and valuable George Mcdonald, the dis.
tnguished English author has second install
ment of his serial entitled ''Wilfred Cumber-
mede." The etchings illustrating "Thanksgiv-
ing Eve, an Honest Fairy Story are amusing
published by Scribner & Co., N. W
Good Heath for December contains the usual
amount of interesting matter on medical top.
les. The first of series of articles on "Con-
sumption" by Carl Both appears in this num-
Der. Published by Alexander Moore, Boston
for 50 year.
No. of the University Series of Education
"a "hu N'SiS hhhC AACCtuIcs, AuuTeSSeS ant
Pamphlets, published in pamphlet form by
Charles c. Chatfield s. Co., New Haven, is a
paper on the hypothesis of Eoolution, physical
and metaphysical, by Prof E. d. Cope In
this pamphlet will be found an interesting re-
same OF the Darwinian doctrines, besides many
'ssSesas1ieassin regasd to the development the
ory which are both new and striking. The
whole series is valuable, the three previous
numbers being as follows: No. 1, Huxley's fa-
nous essay on the Physical Basis of Life; No
2, Prof. Baker on the Correlation of Vital and
Physical Forces; No. 8, Sterling's reply tn
Huxley on the subject of protoplas,n.
Social Eoils, their causes and cure, is a PAM
phlet by Mrs. Maria NJ King, and is published
at the Banner Of Light office, Boston, by Will
liam Willie & Co. Mrs. King is Spiritualist
and her opinions are those entertained by her
sect.
Jennie Collins Natures Aristocracy, pub
lished by Lee s. Shepard, Boston, confirms her
claim to be called the "workingwoman's
ffiend"-or the workingman's friend, either
for the authors sympath;es are broadly eatho-
lie, and not capable of being affected by any
considerations OF sex, race, color or previous
condition" Though altogether without liter
ary pretension, it is one of the most pathetic
books ever written. "The short and simple
annals of the poor" are here presented in de-
tail. Poets and novelists have often enough
taken the same people in hand, but they have
looked at them as so much raw meterial, and a
thick atmosphere of sentiment has enveloped
them They have been admired and wept over
but not helped. Jennie Collins, Icing work
ingwoman herself, and knowing personally
the women that make shirts for 81 cents
dozen, that suffer a genteel slavery as house
servants in the mansions of the rich, that work
with the needle eighteen hours a day and
starve, that wear themselves out in factories
knowing personally all these as well as jour-
neyme1 tailors and other workingmen, she
paints her pictures from the life. These
sketches are evidently not idealized much, or
ornamented in any way, but drawn by few
homely touches, they are all the more effective.
The authors natural arstocrats are heroic sew
ing girls, queenly cooks, sanity men servants
apd inspired factory girls. These fine adjec
tives were probably never before yoked up
with such mates as we have given them, but
have been saved for people who could pay for
them, The aim of Jennie Collins, as every
body knows, is practical She wants the State
of Massachusetts to aid working women to lead
lives of just tolerabie ease. She is not a the
mis-, but genuine philanthropic worker. Such
people are so rare that one is glad to meet them
after surfeit of the political workingmen and
genteel reformers who are so common, and,
we might add, "unclean." For sale by Bailey
and Noyes.
Plane and Plank, the last of Oliver Optics
boy books; has been sent to US by Messrs.
Bailey s. Noyes 1t will be welcomed by Mr.
Adams hosts of juvenine admirers as eagerly
as the previons ones have BEEN
The Nursery.for December closes the eighth
volume. Published by John L. Shorey, SO
Bromfeld street, Boston, at 81 80 per year.
The youngest class Of readers prize this book
very highly.
One of the daintiest volumes of the season
comes from A. D.lF. Randolph s. Goa mar
vel of typographical beauty. The familiar
story of 1.-THE Changed Gross, is told in most
musical measure, illustrated with elegant en-
cravings. Margaret Brown and Coming are
the titles of two accompanying poems, both
treating in the same artistic manner. Hoyt
Fogg and Breed have it.
Who WAS SHE? or The Soldiers Best Glory
Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen & Haffel-
finger
This story is certainly as readable as nine
tenths of the novels published nowadays; but
whether that fact can be regarded as embody-
Jog an oppressive amount of praise we must
leave the reader to determine. who Was
She?' contains the copyrighted heroine and
hero. Around the fair Imogene hangs a mys-
tery-that of her birth. The solution of this
resolves her into the daughter of blase French
marquis. Our hero is West Point graduate
named Philip, an evident caricature Of Gener-
al Sheridan. Imogene and Philip possess tre-
mendous tempers, which flash out on occasion
with astonishing force. Now and thea Imo-
gene assumes the attitude of Follow Despair,
for the course of true love does not run smooth
with her. In one of her meetings with Philip
the gallant soldier flies into an uncomfortable
wrath and absolutely knocks her down, as any
other lofty minded West Pointer would have
done. But we object to the blow. 1t was pre-
mature, to say the least. As a general rule,
during betrothal, and, let us say, during
month after marriage, women are pure, undiu
ted sugar-plums; subsequently they occasion.
1
must be admitted, but not wholly so. True
enough, history records what mauling Will
lam the Conqueror gave the choice of his heart
because she refused to marry him, and how she
was SO pleased with the spirit he displayed
that she ever after idolized him. But this case
is happily quite exceptional. Heaven forbid
that the practice of men knocking down their
betrothed should ever become general! The
blows would ami hilate all the romance of
courtship, and novels would soon describe lev-
ers in a sylvan grove Lengased in boxing
match, with the odors of flowers imparting
strength to their spirits and the songs of night
ingales cheering them on to victory. For sale
in Portland by Hoyt Fogg s. Breed.
From Dresser and Aver we have received
Hordrd's Book Of Drdlring Room Theatricals,
published by Dick and Fitzgerald of New
York. 1t contains dozen pleas ant and anus
ing dramas, confined in the number of dranaat-
as asrersonde to not exceeding eight in any case.
and some important explanations of stage bus
mess, and some valuable hints to amateurs.
The same house also publish Marines DToH
Dialogues, and Laughable REGULATIONS, for
school celebrations and home amusements.
Dresser and Aver have this also.
Double Plan, a new book for boys, by William
Everett. has Preface that is stroke of gen.
ius. and worthy place in any collection Of
literary curiosites. 1t is one of those unique
specimens of playful sense that appeals both
ro the readers humorous and critical taste.