The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-05-25
Recent Publications.

Harper Bros. publish another volume of
their new edition of Mrs. Mulock-Craiks'
works. ga Brave Lady, is printed in the
quiet neutral tints in which Mrs. Craik de-
lights, and like all her novels, depends for its
interest on the careful delineation of charac-
tiers, variously influenced by circumstance,
and not in any dramatic events, or startling
denouemen,s. To those who have not read
ga Brave LaI.::-," we recommend it as an in
teresting novel of pure and elevated tone.
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''The Lords Prayer Nine sermons
preached at Lincoln's Inn Chapel. By
Frederick Denison Maurice, late Professor
of Casuistryl and Moral Philosophy in the
University of Cambridge. New York.
Hurd & Hodghton. Cambridge, The Riv-
erside Press.
This book will be received with additional
interest on account of the recent death of its
author, the Rev. f. D. Maurice The perso-
nal friend of Tennyson, Charles Kingsley,
John Sterling and George Macdonald, he had
also a very powerful influence over many of
the most earnest minds of England. The in
PRODUCTION to this volume, including the very
interesting notice of Mr.. Maurice from the
London Spectator, sketches with clear and
appreciative touch, the outlines of his life and
work. These nine sermons present original
and living thought, expressed in powerful and
unexaggerated language, and the wide scope
Of the authors sympathy, with all humanity
renders his writings acceptable without re-
gard to sectarian limit. For sale by Bailey
& Noyes, and Loring, Short and Harmon.
A WoMAN's EXPERIENCE IN EUROPE. BY
Mrs. E. d. Wallace.
The only manner in which this book differs
from all other commonplace notes of Euro
pean travel, is in the remarkable mental SEN
sations which the authoress, with gushing
abandon that is quite refreshing, kindly allows
us to enjoy with her. In the Introductory
chapter she informs us that she has written "a
congestion of her views" on Bayard Taylor's
account of his travels. Symptoms of cerebral
congestion are apparent throughout this book.
At last, after various struggles with Destiny,
as she grandiloquently remarks, adding par
ticulars as to the Furies, the Platonic oracle
and Jonah, which we spare our readers, she
is fairly afloat. Her description of storm
at sea eliminates in this extraordinary state
ment: 81 could have thrown myself into the
foaming ocean with the enthusiasm of a
Fire Worshipperp' Why an F. w. any more
than any other exuberant pagan? In the
course Of her stay in Paris she discovers that
Grain falls from heaven as it does in Ameri-
Ca" We mention this out of consideration
for probabilities" We suspect that 'the
ragged novel; for which she sighs on p. 81,
is accountable for some of her peculiarities.
''Should the drama" says our authoress,
Franco-I Italian comedy with Spanish hero
ine." This ought partially to console critics
for the decadence of the legitimate drama.
The acquaintance with foreign languages, on
which the writer evidently prides herself, does
not prevent her from constantly converting
the common phrase, ga la bonnie heure" into
| the enraptured "Ah! le bonheur," or from
| assuring us that strap" is Roman for coupe ,
which our slight knowledge Of the Italian
idiom justifies us in denying Indeed, al
though the book is readable one and con
tains some pleasant pages, the fiippancy, ego
tism, and at times coarseness Of its style
fairly challenge criticism.
Published by Appleton Co., N. Y. Fo
sale by Bailey & Noyes.
/
STUDIES IN POETRY AND PHILosoPHY. B.
J. q. Sharp, Principal of the United Col
lege Of st. Salvador and st. Leonard, st
| Andrews; author of ''Culture and Relig
ion." Hurd & Houghton, New York. In
Riverside Press, Cambridge.
A volume of thoughtful and appreciativ
essays on the life and writings OF words
worth, Coleridge and Keble, followed by ON
ON the ''Moral Motive Power" without en-
tering into any laborious comparison of tn
merits of the poets of whom he writes, Mi
Sharp describes their modes OF thought an
exnression and the influence of their writing
in English literature. In his preface the al
thor says: "This volume is published chief
in the hope that it may reach some OF tn
thoughtful young" and this sentence and th
modest title of the book are examples Of th
simple and unpretentious style of the autho
For sale by Loring, Short e. Harmon an
Bailey & Noyes.