The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1871-12-15

| is daily visited by connoisseurs in pursuit of
rare and meritorious works of art.
Schumacher's gallery on Congress street, also
has its large crowd of daily visitors. The we'll
lighted walls support the work of celebrated
painters, and the portfolios are crammed with
German, French and American pictures-litho-
graphs, photographs, line and mezzotints and
chromos, of all sorts of subjects, copies of tho
great masters having prominent place. The
counters display elegant carved wood goods;
among the variety are some elegant albums
with carved wood covers, book racks, bracF cts,
corner shelves and procelains while the show
cases are literally crowded with articles of taste
suitable for the season. Artists come here for
their supplies, and the tyros in drawing and
painting get their pencils and colors here Out
of his immense variety you are sure to find
something that will please you, be your ideas
modest or your means unlimited.
But some of you have expressed preference
for
BOOKS,
and we must 90 down to Loring Short g. Har-
mons, under the Falmouth Hotel, where we
shall find many ladies turning over the leaves
of the most elegant publications of the year.
This old establishment makes speciality of fine
books, and here upon the counter is collection
which it will be hard to surpass. Here is a
German folio edition Of the Schiller Gallery, il
Illustrated by the master pencil of Kaulbach-fit
for the daintiest lady in the land-the Goethe
Gallery, Schiller's Song of the Bell, Herman
and Dorothea, embellished with those match
less acknowledgements; full line of Dore
MISUNDERSTANDING Fables, Don Quixote,
Tom Hood, and Tennyson's Idyls rich in en-
cravings and binding; triumphs of the me
chanic arts. Here are some more attractive
things; Bryant's Song of the Fountain, uni
form with the Song of the Sewer, which was so
popular last year; Shakespeare, in trec calf
binding; Charles Mackay's Thousand and One
Gems of English Poetry: Songs of the Heart:
Household Book of Poetry: Poet and Painter;
Gems of Modern Belgium Art, series of car
bon photographs from the pictures Of eminent
living artists. One of the rarest and most
beautiful books is Raphael of Urbino, and his
father Giovanni Sante, containing copies of the
most celebrated pictures Of these artists, inclu-
ding all these famous Madonnas This is also
in the collection; and when these costly books
are in such abundance, one may find, as a ma
tural consequence, all the standard dramatists,
novelists, essayists, poets and historians, with
bibles and prayer books, and bewilderins
amount of juvenile publications; consequently
also fine stationery, and fancy articles. And
one must not forget to examine the almost end
less variety of initials and monographs, which
the firm put gratis upon the packages of note
paper and envelopes which you will buy here
for Christmas gift -.
The mind of some of our company incline to
JEwELRY AND WATCHES,
and we drop into the pretty little store of Ger
IRISH & Pearson, in the Canal National Bank |
building-an old establishments, that dates |
back further than your conductor can remem- |
Der. 1t is pleasant place to visit to-day, for the
attractions are numerous. One side the heavy |
black walnut wall-cases and the cases on the !
counters are full of silver plated and solid silver
ware table cutlery, napkin rings, fruit knives, Sc
On the opposite side are mantel clocks, pocket |
cutlery, opera glasses, silver spoons, of tho man
ufacture of the firm from the ightest to the |
heaviest weights, and marked in plain figures. |
The jewelry cases are worth careful exami- |
nation. Here are sets in Roman, Etruscan and |
Egyptian styles, stone canoes, and the simpler
forms of ornament The stock of opera, neck |
and vest chains is unusually elegant, and |
rival the display to be found anywhere and |
an examination of the figures show them |
to be afforded at comparatively small prices. If |
our lady friends should indulge in feeling of
envy at the sight of those elegant watches yon-
der they might be pardoned for it; for they are
tempting in appearance and as good, no doubt, !
as any made. The guarantee of this firm for |
the quality of their goods cannot be questioned.
ITO be continued |