The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-03-07
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THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 2, 1879.
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| LIS anu DanKerS Almanac Tor lS1Z
One volume octave. Published at the Banker
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tains list of $50 national and 500 State Banks
capital and names of President and Cashier of
each; 2,200 Private Bankers in the United
States, January, 1872; 1900 Bankers and Bro
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Stock Exchange and Gold Exchange; 800
Banks and Bankers in Canada; 120 Banks and
Bankers in London; Daily Premium on Gold
186S-1871; List of 1000 Insurance Companies
in the United States, President and Secretary
of each; 900 Railroads in the United States
and Canada-length and cost of each name of
President, &C.; Review of the Cotton Market,
four years; Fluctuations in Railroad Shares
and Bonds, State Bonds, Government Bonds,
City Bonds, &C., QS6S-1S71), with numerous
engravings. Price So.
Two hundred thousand of the first edition of
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The To-Morrop of.Deah is one of the most
curious books ever published. Its author is French
sauant an author whose attention was turned
to the subject of the destiny of men by the Sc
we're domestic aiiction he suffered in the loss of
a beloved son. From that hour he began to
ponder on the new life that opens to man be-
yond the grave He called to his aid in making his
investigations all the facts of science that art
calculated to throw light on his subject. Yet
his conclusions seem to be those of dreamer
But we have received from 81. n" review of
the book which is decidedly good reading:
Translation excellent; and the book itself
worthy OF general attention. To be sure the
author IS Deist, a devout and conscientious
Deist and many of his speculations are as
tonishlng; but then he is man of enlarged
science and evident sincerity, and many of his
conJectures and suggestions, though startling,
are about as much OF demonstration as the
subject would allow. Take an example or two:
Plants have life and nothing more, says Lin
nseus. But M Figuier contends for sensibilty
and gives not only satisfactory but conclusive
reasons; for he says ''The mode of multiplied
! i
in plants and animals that it seems impossible,
In view OF this astonishing resemblance in the
most important function of all to refuse sensbil-
ity to plants, while we give it to animals
But mlsanthropical, though religious, uncom-
planning, though bereaved and childless, he un-
dertakes to say, and to say on the authority of
passage or two in scripture that 'sMan is here
only to sufer-a if sorrow and suffering were
not the exceptions we are so familiar with-and
then adds: "He suffers in his affections Does
he not also enjoy in his affections?- ?-''in his un-
satisfied desires?' And how will his satisfied
deslres?-1n the aspirations and soarings of
his soul, continually driven back, bruised and
broken BY innumerable resisting obstacles.
| The few agreeable sensations that we
transiently feel are paid for by the most cruel
grief; we have affections only to lose and regret
their dearest objects? We have fathers, moth
ers and children only to see them some day die
in our arms
Now this will never do Although under
some aspects, the world we live in is indeed a
vale of tears, and AL the inhabitants have their
trials and sufferings and disappointments and
separations, under others, it is vale of re-
joicing sunshine, since our blessings are as
millions to one, if compared with our sorrows.
] But OF them we never think till they are with
drawn or threatened or tugged at. How many
OF rs ever dream OF thanking our Heavenly Fa-
ther for eyesight, or hearing, for appetite or
| the capability of reasoning? For memory, fore
sight, or the common faculties of body or mind?
For our fathers and mothers, our sisters and
brothers, for our children and friends, till they
are snatched away? Our greatest blessings are
the commonest-bread and water and air, the
| gift of speech, the power of moving at will, the
sunshine and the rain; but if cloud comes up,
II the rain keeps away, if we are touched with
paralysis, or with dullness of hearing or sight,
then we begin to find fault and murmur, and
forgetting all that makes life desirable, begin
to believe-or to say, if we do not believe
that this world is but a vale of tears. Out up
on such theology say we! Out upon such phi
| lOSODlVI r W. put hara lxy 10
what must we think of God? Our author is
devout, he is full of wondrous reverence for the
Creator, and yet, would have us believe that
Pooh!
TRANSLATED by s. r. Crocker, editor of the
Literary World. Published by Roberts Brothers.
Boston, and for sale by Loring, Short and Har-
mon.)
The Infinite and the Finite by Theophilus
Parsons is little volume in which some of the
most important questions that can engage hu-
man attention are discussed from the Sweden
borgian standpoint. Mr., Persons does not hold
that Swedenborg was inspired, OF that he even
gave revelation of the spiritual sense of the,
scriptures. He merely discovered that the BIZ
BILE has hidden meaning, and declared the ex-
istence of the science of correspondence by
which that meaning can be determined. pub
lished by Roberts Brothers and for sale by Lor-
ing, Short and Harmony
Poor Miss Finch a novel by Wilkie Collins,
is published in thin octave volume, cloth COW
cred, by Harper s. Brothers. This is one of
the freshest and best of the works of the emil
nent novelist. For sale by Loring, Short &
Harmon.
Another of the novels of Mrs. Schwartz, the
Swedish novelist, entitled Itco Family Mothers,
has been published by Lee & Shepard, Boston.
The translation is by Selma Birg and Marie A.
| Brown. (FOr sale by Loring Short & Har-
mon.)
The Lovers Of Arden, by M. E. Braddon, has
been added to Harpers' Library of Select
Novels" 1t is unnecessary to say that this is
not dull book, but it may be necessary to say
that it has not the Objectionable charataristics
of many of Miss Braddon's novels. For sale
by Loring, Short & Harmon.
Barnes Notes, now in course of publication
in a revised edition, has become standard
work. The notes on the first epistle of Paul to
the Corinthians constitute the last volume is
sued. Harper & Brothers. For sale by Lor-
ing, Short & Harmony
Two new novels have been issued in resplend-
ent covers by Carleton of New York. The first
is Heart Hungry, by Mrs. Maria Jourdan
Westmoreland, of Atlanta, Georgia. The OBJ
/ ject of the book, the scene of which is laid in
the South, is to teach that happiness in the
married relation comes only from constant tend
erness and care The other novel, Fernando
de Lenos is also by Southern author Charles
| Gayaree of Louisiana. Itis series of drama
tic episode of biographical nature. For sale by
Bailey & Noyes.) 7.l u
The Theory of t,e Modern Scientific Game of
Whist, by William Pote F. r. s.. is reprinted
from the last London edition in fine little
volume by G. w. Carleton & Co., New York
For sale by Bailey & Noyes.)
NEVER MIND RISING EARLY.-All this
talk about early rising is moonshine. The
habit Of turning out of bed in the middle of
the night suits some people; let them enjoy
it. But it is only folly to lay down general
rule upon the subject. Some men are fit for
nothing all day after they have risen early in
the morning. Their energies are deadened,
their imaginations are heavy, their spirits are
depressed. 1t is said you can work so well in
the morning. Some people can, but others
can work best at night; others, again, in the
afternoon. Long trial and experience form
the only conclusive tests on these points. As
for getting up early because Professor Gam