The Portland daily press., 1870-08-23
Lt,ier from Rosien.
BosToN, Aug, %, 1870.
THE WEATHER.

of the righteous have availed, and we are hav-
ing the most glorious weather that can well l,e
imagined. The sky is no longer brazen, nor
the breeze like the breath from a furnace. ice
water and Ottawa beer have sunk in popular
estimation; bedcothes are no longer voted a
nuisance, and the voice of the turtle-if there
were any turtles, and they We're fond of fine
weather-would certainly be heard in the land
For the last two months it has been too hot for
anything to happen worth happening. People
have gone about the streets of course, and
have kept up half and-half sort OF existence:
that has been ALL wonderful change has
been worked within the last week.
BUSINESS.
Business has increased, and Washington
street is crowded morning aud afternoon with
the fashionable fair, who have been denied thai
pleasure SO long. There has actually been
more genuine business transacted in this city
since Tuesday last than in the preceding three
weeks. The prospects are most favorable for
brisk fall trade, and several of our prominent
dry goods firms are buying largely in advance,
confident of heavy demand. The ebb tide
from the sea shore and watering places has
commenced, and many we'll known faces, abb
~~-e 80 WINS Paot, dIC seen upUu OuT SbTGclS
once more.
POLITICAL.
The birth of the new political parry in this
State last week made a slight sensation for a
day or two but the whole thing seems to have
died out from the memory of the general put
lie. The city journals made their comments
upon it the day following the Convention,
since which time it has been utterly ignored
The leaders of the movement, with two or
| three notable exceptions, are undoubtedly hon.
est, and if there were the slightest chance of
| their succeeding hundreds who now stand
aloof would bid them God speed. But that no
| such chances exist is a fact palpabe to the
most fanatical. The new party. to man, is
| made up from "cOme-outers" from the Repub-
| lican party-men who have always been ed
| genderers of strife, and who have time and
| again placed the party in danger. The only
| possible result of the movement, if it have any
effect will be to throw the State into the hands
of the Democracy, when every barrier which
\ now stands between the people and free rum
will be broken down. 1t is suggestive fact
that the State Temperance Alliance repudiates
the movement, and that the strongest temper
ance men of the State stand aloof from it,
| FUNERAL.
| Charles s. Holmes, the young man who
was drowned in Portland barbor last June,
was yesterday buried from St. Johns Episco
pal Church in Charlestown. The services were
conducted by DR.. Bartlett. The procession to
Woodlawn Cemetery was led by Faith Lodge
| of Free Masons, followed by the Prescott Light
Guard, Edmunds' Band playing dirge to the
grave. The beautiful and impressive Masonic
service was read at the grave. The attend.
| ance was very large.
| BOOK AND BOOK PUBLISHERS.
Our city publishers are doing little as yet
though we are promised much the coming sea-
son. The main reliance of readers Just now is
on the New York and Philadelphia publishing
houses. For solid reading Harper has just
given US in one volume the Life, Letters and
Lectures of Frederick W. Robertson, M. A.
and in another the "Sermons" of the same dis
tinguished theoogian. These two volumes
have attracted large amount of attention in
England, where the author during his life &C.
cupied an eminent position as thinker, a
theoogian and moralist. They are full o.
tender, humane thought, of subtle and delicate
feeling, and of tried and suggestive expert
ence. Constant alluson in the pulpit and
press of this country, to the life of the distin-
guished author and the effect of his teachings
has led to the present edition. "The Rob Roy
on the Jordan" fresh from the press of the same
publishers, has just appeared on the shelves o,
our booksellers, and is evidently meeting with
a large sale. 1t is really one of the most read
able books that has found its way into the
market this season, and gives one a more per.
feet idea of the country through which that
| ancient river flows, than any or all of the mat.
ter of fact narratives written npon the subject
the past ten years. Hepworth Dixon's new
volume, 'Free Russia" contains a perfect
fund of information concerning THE present
| status of that remarkable empire Its publica-
ton at this time is peculiarly fortunate, fol
the public are curious to know something more
of power which promises to play SO import
ant part in the great drama now going on on
the battle fields of Europe. If one wishes to
drop gently from solid to light literature, a
good half way step is "The New Timothy
which many of the readers of the Press have
doubtless followed chapter by chapter as it ap
peared in Harper's Monthly. The story which
is simply and naturally told, is full of interest
| and full, too, of instruction. The New limo.
thy is young pastor, whose experiences show
the failures of this profession and their causes
but who eventually learns wisdom, and thus
imparts it to his fellow laborers. The lovers Of
Miss Thackeray have the same publishers to
! thank for newly issued volume containing
the complete works of that lady. Miss Thack-
| cray is not dependent upon her name for her
popularity. She has, by her own efforts, won
worthy place in the annals of current litera-
ture. Several of the tales in his compilation
have been published in separate form and are
already accepted favortes with the people,
| Those who seek more sensational and highly
spced style of literature will find ''Kilmeny,''
! by William Black, an exceedingly well writ
ten and interesting novel. The same may be
said of '"True to Herself" ''Gwendalne s
Harvest" and John, a Love Story the lat
ter by Mrs. Oliphant, all forming numbers of
Harper's Select Library of novels. The" Speech
es, Letters and Sayings of Charles Dickens
| issued by the same firm has already reached an
enormous sale.
| Everything relating to Dickens is caught up
with the utmost eagerness by the reading pub
| lie who are anxious for every available crumb
of information respecting his private as well as
his public life. The most interesting by far, as
| we'll as the most reliable of these four "Mem-
oirs" of the illustrations dead is that issued by
T. b. Peterson & Bros, of Philadelphia, from
the pen OF Dr. r. Shelton Mackenzie, contain
ing, beside full history of his life, his uncol-
lected pieces in prose and verse, characteristic
letters, his last will and testament, and Dean
Stanley's funeral sermon. DR.. Mackenzie fol-
lows with loving pen the great author
| through his early career of usefulness, impart-
ing much interesting information concerning
his habits of work, how he conceived his won
| drous stories, and how faithfully he labored to
| be just to his readers. In the future set
| of Dickens works WILDE cons idered complete
| without the addition of Mackenzie's "Lite. y
The public are also indebted to Messrs. Peter
| son for the publication of another volume from
| the pen of Mrs. Ann S. Stephens" Married In
Haste" Mrs. Stephens, if 1 recoliect Alright,
began her literary career in Portland, and TO
no community are her writings better known.
Her stories marked by an almost masculine
strength, and are immeasurally superior to IL
bulk of the light literature of the day
ART.
Just now the city is almost empty of artists,
though a few out of the many are struggling
back to their studios, laden with the fruits of
their summers sojournings at the differen mt To-
calities in the var ious parts of the country. A
score or more among the mountains, half
dozen "dowD East" several at Nantucket and
Lake George, while dozen more of the
hardest workers haven't left town at all, but
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