The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-11-09
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NJ. Guillemin by Miss Mead, and edited.
with additions, by Miss Maria Mitchell of
'assar college. 1t is designed for popular
reading and viii find favor with those for
whom it is intended, that large class who
hunger for knowledge but cannot for loci, 90
time or means search out in larger scientific
works what they eagerly take in cor,ro.
shape like this. The contents. after a., 80,
lent preface and very sprghtIy introdnc-
ton, are ''The appearance of the Moon .
the naked eye, then Through the tale.
scope" ''Its volcanic construction" ats
Meteorology'', SITS Motions, 'and lastly ..Its
Influences" Forty three illustrations add
their interest to this volume and the TYNE
paper and binding are worthy of especial
praise.
Published by Scribner, Armstrong & Co.
For sale by Loring, Short & Harmon.
THE ORDEAL FOR WINES" by the antbor
Archie Loyelf' de-, &c. Sheldon & Co
publishers. ''
Many who have enjoyed the pleasant pro
auctions OF the pen which gave ''Ought we to
awrence Yeoman," ETC..
VIII gladly welcome this new claimar, of
'neir laVor' The subject is of universal inter
est' more to those who have not passed the
terrible "OrdeaP' than to the old settlers in
the land of Beulah.
for sale by Loring, Short & Harmon.
IHE GIFT OF THE KNEEs.v
"A small, neatly bound volume, written with
great religious fervor to bear testimony to the
eiiicacy Oh prayer. The singular title is bor-
'omeu rom African phraseology and its sig
hiicahce easily understood. The copten+s
al'er the introduction, are two papers bv Mrs
symptom and an interesting story from, tbo
life OF tie German Poet Gellert
Published by American Tract Society
FOR sale by Loring, Short and Harmon.
SERMONS ON LIVING SUBJECTS By UoR-
ACE BUSHNELL.
Several OF these discourses were written
Ior delivery in the Chapel at Yale. and are
specially adapted to raise and influence vouno
men oy their style of manly directness and
FAMILIAR appeal. The sermon on s'Tbe Dis
sowing OF Doubts, and also that entitled
'oelf Examination Examined; we can readily
peneVe might come, with nspeakable help
ana wholesome comfort to morbid mind
and leave it in almost fervor of gratitude to
MN who by the breath of his month hos
dispelled the low mists that had sbut bono
rom the soul. The Thoughts ON s.AIilitarv
Disclpllne" on "Trade'', Routine Obse1v-
ahce and other topics cannot fail to find
Iodgement in the mind of his hearers and
bring forth fruit in their time.
Yet one can hardly see without regret that
the author violates most wise rule laid down
ny himseH upon page 1S2 where he saws
one OF the greatest talents in religious dis
covery is the finding low to hang I'D oues-
tons and let them hang, without being at all
anxious about them. \ y 1t will not hurt
tne truth II you should have some few oues
tlons left to be carried on with YOU when Won
go hence, for in that more luminous state
most likely they will soon be cleared
surprise and regret are certainly justifiable
when We find that he feels himself called m
on TO reason forth in such unsatisfactory
manner, The wherefore of the Trinity He
says 1T is indeed fault of any single name
or symbol for God that it presents him too
easily, in too definitely bounded foure
Notnlns, In free use, will save his dimensions
winch does not leave us to behold him in a
maze, Dy That to be magnifed. And ie three
persons, or more, are employed to create the
maze we have nothing to complain of, pro-
vlded both the dimensions and the PERSONAL
allty are practically saved" And again. paoe
44o-"lf 1T should be demanded since three
nnlte persons, or images of such, are wanted
10 preserve the magnitudes of God why not
SIX or sixty? it may fairly be answered
1st. that too great number would produce
distraction. Probably three persons
coihe ABOUT as near producing distraction as
" may De advisable to go, creatlD5 a maze
that being carried further might fatally unse,
tie the composure of our faith" The MANY To
whom the doctrine of the Trinity in Unity is
sacred mystery to be held in the silence of
adroing faith will hardly welcome such adyo-
cacy as this.
There are other passages open to criticism
from which we gladly pass to quote one of the
peautlful thoughts in the sermon on ''Mary
the Mother OF Jesus. I'm speaking of her gift of
silence he says "Oh ye lilies and other white
harbingers of Spring, culled so often by art TO
be symbols of her unspotted motherhood.
what can ye show of silent Towering in the
white of purity, which she does not much
better show herseip'
And again especially to be recognized is the
liberal stand made upon the subject of amuse-
ments, than which it almost seems, consid
erng whom he addresses, few topics need
more careful treatment, in order that the
young may feel the full sympathy with which
religion recognizes the need and gives its
sanction.
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York. For sale by Hoyt, Fogg & Breed.
THE POET AT THE BREAKFAST TABLE,
By DR.. o. w. Holmes.
DIR. Holmes stands in the foremost ranks of
American humorists-and yet notice ofan
OF his writings from this standpoint alone.
would be very incomplete, for side by side
with h's richest and brightest flashes of wit
are lines full of tenderest and human svmna-
thy, and sayings, terse and true, where
Wnoie essay IS compressed into one telling
sentence. His wit is refined and genial. there
is no bitter sting in his satire, and his natbos
is very real. DIR. Holmes is constantly saving
something that either we have felt and didn't
know how to say-or something that we have
always said and wondered no one else ever
said so too. His knowledge OF human nature
seems the result of insight through ouicl,
sympathy and psychological study. Ofcourse
DIR. Holmes books have their faults-else
they would be so far removed from the mem
tai orbit OF the ordinary reader as at once to
prove the theory ofthe Poet at the Breakfast
Table that it does seem as if eternal somno-
lence was the price of listening to other peo-
pies wisdom. And the faults are very par
donable ones. 1t is not, perhaps, according
to popular prejudice for an orator 20 appear
in dressing-gown and slippers-but if the
Poet, talking to his friends at his brealxf,s+
table, chooses to appear in morning attire
shall we refuse to listen to wisdom whose
garb is not dress-coat, and whose feet are
encased in easy slippers rather than in those
best boots whose shine is patent TO the nublic
eye, but whose pinch is best known TO the
"earer? DIR. Holmes writings are egotisti-