The Portland daily press., 1871-08-30

The latest addition to "Appleton's Library
of Choice Novels" is My Heroine, by an an
onymous author. Paper covers. Price so cents
D. Appleton & Co, New York. For sale by
Bailey & Noyes.
d. Appleton & Sons have now reached
Donabey and Son in their new edition of Dick
ems Works This Handy Volume, edIt1on
OF DIcKeuS -~---h~-a nr4A.s advantages its
convenient form, its illustrations, its brown
cloth flexible covers and its cheapness. 1t will
be completed in fourteen volumes. Price rs
cents volume. For sale by Bailey & Noyes.
Behind the Bars is a volume in which are re-
corded the experiences, or rather of the opin-
ions, of person who has spent some time as
patient in an asylum for the insane. The au-
thor, as might be expected is bitterly opposed
to the prevailing systems of dealing with per-
sons Of impaired mental faculties, but there is
wanting the violence of language so often
characteristic of similar works. Persons curl
Gus in matters of morbid mental conditions
will read it with great interest. Published by
Lee & Shepard, Boston. For sale by Loring,
Lhort & Harmon.
Richard A. Proctor, the distinguished Eng
lish astronomer, has written one of the most
hooIuCeNC anu suggestive UOOkS OF LQ6 times.
His latest work is volume of scientific essays
entitled Light Science for Leisure Hours 1t
will undoubtedly to even more popular than
Other Worlds than Ours, being composed as it
is OF papers made up. in light and readable
form and originally printed in English reri-
odicals. The range of subjects is large and ex-
remedy popular. There is something de cided-
ly appetizing to the literary taste in such titles
to short essays as "The Earth Magnet" 1.-THE
Secret of the North Poe," "Is the Gulf
Stream MYTH "The Usefulness of Earth
quakes," "The Oxford and Cambridge Rowing
Styles" ''Squaring the Circle" and ''New
Theory of Achilles's Shield" The essays are
all fresh and have attracted much attention as
they have appeared. Mr.. Darwin quotes from
that on the Influence of Marriage on the
Death Rate'in his great work s.rhe Descent of
Man." Published by D. Appleton & Co.
New York. For sale by Bailey & Noyes.
Old and New for September comes suspi-
oously early, as if the publishers were firing
of their experiment OF issuing it ON or near the
first of the month. The table of contents is as
follows: Old and New; A Tress of Hair, by Is.
abella Grant Meredith; Some Words about
South, by Joavuin Miller; To my Wife's Sill
ver-Popar; To Tudis by Railroad, by Gail
Hamilton; St. Jerome, by II. G. Spaulding;
Hymn of Faith, by r. s. P; Immortality, by
G. G. Everett; Oamaralzaman, by Rose Terry;
Ups and Downs. (Chap. Wiz by Edward E.
Hale; An Idyl of Midsummer and Middle
Age, by Julia Ward Howe; Looking Across
the Wal. Gulf, (No. IV.) by Robert d. Owen;
Sonnet, by II. L. Spencer; "reminiscences of
Brook Farm, (No lily; A Response, by L. In
the Examiner" we find long review of
Washburn's Paraguay, and an enthusiastic
notice of Joaquin Millers Poems by Harriet
Prescott Spofford. That excellent department
the Record of Progrsss'' is not so full as usual.
Next month George Mcdonald. the English
novelist begins new serial entitled "The VI
cars Daughter"