The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1871-02-15
Recent Publication.

Roberts Brothers, Boston, go on with con.
siderable rapidity in repubishng George
Sanc's novels. Mauprat, Artonia and Mor-
sier Sylcester have in time had their share
of applause and admiration. They are now
followed by the Snoav Nan, translated from
the French by Virginia Vaughn. In many
respects this book is better calculated 10 be
generally popular than others of the same au-
thor with which Roberts Brothers transla-
tions have made the American public iamil-
lar. George Sand, since the death Of Charles
Dickens, disputes with Charles Reade and
George Eliot the position of the first living
novelist. (For sale by Bailey & Noyes.)
The New Haven publishers, Charles G.
Chatfeld G. Co., are doing the public genuine
favor in publishing monthly in little 25 cent
pamphlets, the latest scientific lectures, ad-
dresses and essays of men mos. distinguished
in the different branches of philosophy. No
of this series contains Prof. Tyndall's cele-
brated addresses on the "Methods and ten
1encies of Physical Investigations" ,""Hsze and
Dust and the Scientific Uses of the I'M
agination." The previous numbers contain
the most important papers CT Huxley and
others. The records OF our public libraries
show that there has been recently developed
a remarkable tendency toward this kind OF
literature, and we repeat that Chatfield & Co.
do well TO bring it within the reach OF al.
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A new text.b book on chemistry that has
nothing new TO tell would certainly be re-
garded as gross impertinence. But the
claim of "new evidence is just the 'one put
forward in favor OF a Textbook of Element
arg Chemistry, Theoretical and Iaorganic,
by George F. Barker, Professor of Chemistry
in Yale College. The author claims that the
science has been completely revolutionized,
and, in fact, has for the first time become a
proper science instead of a heterogeneous
collection of facts within the last ten years.
The discovery that each element has def
mite combining power or equivalence, and
that in a chemical compound the arrange
ment OF atoms is of quite as much import-
once as their kind or number. The nomen-
clature of the science and the formulae of
compounds have also been changed within
that time. All this being true, il is of course
as absurd TO study an old work on chemistry
as it would be to adopt the Indian cosmosony.
published by Charles G. Chatfield Sc Co.,
New Haven, and for sale by Loring, Short Il
Harmon.l
Cauferts German Reader is designed for
colleges, academies and high schools, anC COM
pletes the authors German course. The Sc
lections are made from the German writers OF
present century, the preponderance being in
favor of those of the first half of that period.
Care has been taken to give as great variety
as possible. and still to select topics relating as
far as practicable to Germany and German
literature. But the chief novelty is the no es
and references at the end of The volume, alter
the manner of the editions of the classics used
in our schools. There is also a vocabulary
containing all the words used in the Reader.
On the whole it is the best text book of the
kind that we have ever examined, and II
it would be valuable addition to any library
on account OF the literary excellence of the
selections. Published by Harper q Brothers,
New York. Fer sale by Loring, Short d Har'
mon.
Rawlinson's Ancient History, just ptoiish-
ed by Harper & Brothers, New YORK. Is
manual of over 600 pages. Within these mar
row limits George Rawlinson, NJ. A. camden
Professor of Ancient History in the Univer-
| sity of Oxford. England, has conGehseu tne
| history OF Cbaldoee, Assyria, Media, Daoy.o
mia. lydia, Phenecia, Judaea, Lsyp'; and
tbaoe Persia Greece, Macedonia, m aI', ,atI
Rome from the earliest times dowh ~. ~ ,nI,l;ca-
~ u the western empire. Before tne Pu9,..'ea
oi tn this hook there was no compendlous
lI,,al lIon of ancient history, OF any reputation,
in existence in the English language. For
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