The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-03-08
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line ILLUSTRATIONS III the March number OF the
Aldiae are more beautiful than ever The only
full page engraving is by r. e. Pignet, and rep
resents Blowing Rock. The other large en-
cravings are the "Brdge of Signs by G. A.
Davis, and '.Man's Unselfsh Friend by C.E
Townsend. Both of these last are uncommon
ly fine. Even the minor engravings are ex-
quisite, and there are no less than twelve in
all. 1t seemed impossible that the Aldiaae could
sustain itself at the pitch at which it begun,
out it actually improves. James Sutton & Co.,
Publishers, % Liberty street, New York. Sim
gle copies 80 cents. ae5la 3h
Round The World relates to what is becoming
trite experience enough, but Rev. DR.. E. D.
G. Prime, its author brings to light in Its
pages the possibilities of modern travel in a
way that will astonish people who are not per-
fectly well informed on the subject. Though
his entire journey occupied only year, he took
it rather lesurely, on the whole. For it now
takes only seventy-five days of actual trapel to
make circuit of our little planet, since the
railways have been built across our continent
and through the heart of India, and lines of
swift steamships plow both the Atlantic and
Pacific. But the most wonderful part of DR..
which he was able to carry out all his plans for
being at all places in exactly the right time Start
ing from New York in July and returning home
in the July of the subsequent year, he saw no
frost and experienced no heat above SO degrees!
SO much for the prescence which modern OBJ
servation and science have enabled men to ex-
ercise! DR. Primes book relates chiefly to his
experience in Utah. California, Japan, China
India, Egypt Palestine, Turkey and Italy. 1t
is bright, cheerful volume, calculated to make
one think better than before of the world which
any Doctor of Divinity may now SO easily cir
cumnavigate. 1t is handsome octave of 45O
pages. illustrated. published by Harper &
Brothers and for sale by Hall L. Davis IA
C. Scribner & Co., have issued popular edi-
ton of the second series of Froudes Short Stud
les on Great Subjects, which we have previously
noticed in these columns. (For sale by Hoyt,
Fogg s. Breed)
Whoever wants powerful intellectual tonic
should buy c. A. Bartors Rddical Problems To
these daring thinkers of the Boston
''RadicaliClub' all,subjects are open questions
even those which most men have been educated
to believe are closed 'forever and day." Radi-
cal Problems is a book made up of brief essays
with Emersonian titles. They are epigramma-
tic in style, adventurous in spirit and wholly
radical in doctrine In the course ofithe seven
teen papers, which discuss characterization,
Radicalism, TheorismN aturasm, Materialism
Spiritnalism, Faith, Law, Origin, Correlation,
etc., one learns something of the views of
the -thinkingschool on most subjects. pub
lshed by Roberts Brothers, Boston, and for sale
by Loring, Short & Harmon, -as.--
A TALENTED SwINpLER.-The New York
Tribune has an expose of numerous swindles by
Ellis Elias, of the so-called Great Geneva Watch
Company, including gift enterprise for the relief
of the orphans of Cuban soldiers; another for
the projected paying of the French debt; anoth-
er for the sale of bogus Milton jewelry; and he
is also the father of the sawdust game, besides
that of the smuggling game by which so many
country merchants have been vlctimized in.
Another concern, called the Merchants Ameri-
can Tea and Spice Company, of Liberty street.
is also of his invention. Still he manages to
keep out of the hands of the law, although the
detectives believe him to be the virtual head or
great counterfeiting gang.
Early Monday morning two men entered q
tenement house in Buffalo, near police head
quarters, and found Patrick Markham living ON
the hall floor drunk and unconscious They
reused Markham and carried him into his room
where they found the dead body of his wife on
IA lounge. She had evidently been beaten to
death with chair. An investigation showed
that the woman had been dead since Friday last
1T is objected to Grant that she is fond of
horses" But no one ever accused him of lik-