The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-07-22
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should procure the removal of good, faithful
and quiet men, whatever may be their political
opinion.
"BrawlerS of any party, who make politics
instead OF attention to their official duties
tneir constant occupation, l mean to cut
atL aarllt from the public service, if L cannot
otherWSe conquer this propensity. All the
support L ask for the administration from
postmasters Is faithful, polite and obliging
performance OF their duties, contenting them
serves Win the exercise of their own rights
without attempting to proselyte others. y
Inese are the principles upon which he
steadfastly acted, and upon which. as he
always maintained, every public officer of the
government should act.
In several instances, when OBLIGED 70 ro-
move clerks for inefficiency, causing apparent
hardships and distress, he made contributions
for their relief from his slender private purse
having them conveyed indirectly to the parties,
who never knew or suspected their benefactor.
AT the breaking out of the late rebellion,
MIR. K. took strong grounds against secession
and the course of the South, and no man
labored with more zeal in behalf of the
Union.
The book is one of interest, not only ON
account of what relates to the life of Mr. K.
but as giving history of the prominent men
and times, of this and a past generation.
published by Lee d Shepard, Boston. For
sale by Loring Short & HARMONY
Humphreys HOME opATHIc MENTOR or
Family Advisor in the use of Specific
Homeopathic Medicine. By f. Hum
phreys, NJ. ID.
This work is the embodiment of twenty
years experimentation and use of specific or
combined Homeopathic medicines
Polypharmacy has been the rule of the old
school for centuries. The rule of Hahnemann
was exact and vigorous-one medicine, in its
highest attenuation, given once, and permit
ted, undisturbed, to expend its action-form-
ed the ideal of Homeopathic practice.
DIR. Humphrey maintains that this well is
buried IN sea so deep as to be practically
fathomless, and that the 'Ldp of cure is lcii-
er than zoe knOw." So the possible law of
combination is sought out and the specific
'similia" adapted to Pathological Individual
ty. published by Humphreys Specific
Homeopathic Medicine & Co., New York.
SAILING ON THE NILE, by Laurent Laporte.
translated from the French, by Virginia
Vaughan.
A charming account of trip into Egypt.
The descriptions of the scenery, rufus, mon
uments and objects of interest all along the
Nile from Cairo to Thebes and the Pyramids
are wonderfully graphic. The tone of the
book is good, and the style of the writer
graceful and bright. The translation by
Miss Vaughan" does her great credit. Pub
lished by Roberts Brothers, Boston. For sale
by Bailey and Noyes.
The LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN From His
Birth to his Inauguration as President.
BY Ward III. LamOn.
This is certainly what the author claims it
to be, "a faithful record of the Life of Abra-
ham Lincoln ...r.f
So long as Mr.. Lincoln was President and
while the dreadful incidents connected with
his assassination were fresh before the peo-
Pies mind, whole loads of 'sbiographies''
came teeming from the press, and out of the
whole mass it was impossible that there
should be one of more than tolerable merit
This work, however, is not one of the class
to which have referred.
The author had at his disposal the collec-
ton of materials in the hands of Mr.. w. HI.
Herndon, the partner and intimate friend of
Mr.. Lincoln for more than a quarter of a
century. He had also an acquaintance with
many of the nearest and dearest friends of
the President, and from all this rich material
ha has made a book full of anecdotes illus
trating the everyday life and the real charac-
ter of Lincoln.
Mr.. Lamon has not made garbled or par
tial record; he has told the plain truth. But
it is the truth that everybody wants to read
about this great man. And nobody can come
away from the book without a greater ad-
miration for the character of Lincoln. 1t
has good portrait of the President and fif-
teen other engravings. The type is clear and
distinct, and the general style of the book is
neat and solid. published by James r. Os-
good & Co. For sale by Loring, Short &
Harmony