The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-03-19

New York Illustrated. Price ri. lfo OF sale
by Bailey g. Noyes.)
The Memoirs of the United States Secret Ser
rice is sensational work that will meet with a
ranid sale 1t is compiled by permission from
the records of the department by Capt. g. L.
Burnham. 1t is made up of curious adventures
and experiences in tracking male and female
offenders against the laws OF the United
States such as counterfeiters, forgers, safe
blowers, smugglers, &c. 1t contains portraits
of the most prominent members OF the detec-
tive force and some of the most notable persons
who have fallen into their hands. 1t also con-
tains a brief account of Col. H. C. Whitley,
Chief of the Division. 1t is a large book of
43O pages, well bound and well printed, and if
it is little suggestive of Claude Duval and Sir-
teen-String Jack there are many people who
will not, on that account, refuse to read it.
There are Is illustrations. published by Lee
& Shepard. For sale by Loring, Short & Har-
mon.) --+ 't' i--t--
Oliver Optic, "the author of sixty juvenile
books, has just issued the second volume OF
the second series Of ''Young America Abroad"
1t is called Northern Lands; or, Young Aneri-
ica in Russia and Prussia. The author half
apologies to his young friends for the useful
information in this book But there is we'll
defined story running through it, and good
one at that. 1t is one of the best of Optics
stories of travel and adventure. published by
Lee g. Shepard. Fur sale by Loring, Short &
Harmony .T1l s.f.-- .r- ,-.,-
d .Slauer's Aduentsres on Land and Sea, by
w. H. Themes, is an addition to the Ocean
Life Series" OF course it is full of hair
breadth escapes, the most tremendous perils on
sea and land, love, war and crime. The execu-
tioi, of the filibuster Lopez in Cuba is one of
the incidents described in this wide-awake
book. 1t is large, thick volume, and the fifth
of the series. The illustrations do not strike us
as especially meritorious. published by Lee
& Shepard, and for sale by Loring, Short &
Harmony 1880 -lfatq.r, s,. r.
An, american Girl Abroad by Adeline Traf-
ton is lively record of trayelin the well-beaten
paths of European tourists England, Paris,
Belgium, Holland, the Rhine and Switzerland
are the places which Miss Adeline Trafton, the
author, paints for the ten-thousandth time for
the reader But her sprightliness and humor
prevent the narratives becoming tiresome. H.
Illustrated. published by Lee and Shepard and
for sale by Loring, Short and Harmony
lar Science called The Craaaial Abinities of
Man and the Ape is a very nicely printed pamp-
phlet from the press of Lee and Shepard. 1t is
by Prof. Rad Virchow. (For sale by Loring,
Short and Harmony -2lI 9i
ID. Appleton & Co. make most important
announcement DR.. Edward L. Youmans has
projected an international Scientific Series" to
Se edited by him and published simultaneously
in New York, London, Parish and Leipsic. 1t
is designed to embrace popular treatises which
will embody the results of the most recent in
quiry in the most interesting departments of
science All the dill nlqjores, of science like
Huxley, Tyndall, Spencer, Lockyer, Lubbock,
Virchow, Carpenter, Helmholtz, will .contri-
! bnte The volumes are to be crown octave
and are to be sold at not more than So each.
The Complete Photographer, by james E.
Munson, official stenographer to the Surrogate's
Court of New York, is an inductive exposition
of photography, with its application to all
branches of reporting, and affording the fullest
instruction to those who have not the assist
ance of an oral teacher. Is is also intended
for school-boek. The author explains that
his book is written in the interest of reporters,
and that he has given no attention to the ''cor-
responding style. which he regards as calcu-
lated to do more harm than good to those who
want to acquire the art ON account of its prac-
teal utility Photographic reading lessons are
appended, so that the volume contains 236
pages. Harper & Brothers. For sale by Lor-
ing, Short & Harmony ll9.e 3R 3f3i
Ceci's Tryst, a novel by the author of Carl
yor's Year, has been added to Harper's Libra
ry of Select Novels" Paper covers; price 80
cents. (For sale by Loring, Short & Harmony
Appleton's Library of American Fiction"
has all addition in Mabel Lee, a novel by the au-
thor of Valerie Aylmer, sc. 1t is illustrated
Paper covers; price ST.. Cd. Appleton & Co.,
! New York For sale by Bailey & Noyes.)
| Three Centuries Of English Literature contains
sketches of the leading English writers, includ-
| ing those who are natives of America, since the
| Elizabethan PERIOD with specimens of their
work The author is Charles Duke Yonge,
Professor of Modern History AMI English Lit
erature in Queens College, Belfast. His pur-
pose is to give the young student of English
literature an idea of the very best modern au-
thors for these alone, in his opinion are proper
subjects of study. 1t seems kind of perversi-
| ty that induces him to reject Chaucer' and
| Spencer from the body of his work, on account
of the obsolete language which they wrote.
1t appears to us that an intelligent learner can
| not do better than to study Chaucer in order
that he may see the language in its early plas-
| tic state, when it was taking it's form and was
more flexible than now But the authors of
the Canterbury Tales and 'sThe Faerie
| Queene" are to be found keeping each other
company in the dignfied retirement of the APP
| pendix. The book is q most pleasant and in
structive one-one of the best since the holt
days. Beginning, in the order of nature, with
Shakespeare, the author passes rapidly in re-
view Wycherly, Congreye, Farquhar, Gold
smith, DR.. Robertson, Earl of Clarendon,
Hume, Gibbon Macaulay, Milman, Prescott,
Alison, Napier, Arnold, Grote, Evelyn, Pepys,
Southy, Milton, Dryden, Pope, Wordsworth
and the rest of the Lake School," Scott, BY
ron, Bacon, Addison, DR.. johnson, Lamb,
Gray, Burns, Moore, Campbell the orators,
preachers and finally the novelists. This is a
feast for king. ID. Appleton & Co. For sale
by Bailey & Noyes.) $500. 1.rv a.l
A series of sermons preached in St. James's
chapel, London, by Rev. Stopford A. Brooke,
Honorary Chaplain-in-O ordinary to the Queen,
has been published under the title of Christ in
Modern History. The idea underlying these
sermons is that the doctrines of Christ are ca
pable of endless expansion to suit the wants of
men in every age. ID. Appleton & Co. For
sale by Bailey & Noyes.) -.
| There is hardly another author whose postum
nous works are SO extensive as those of Haw-
| thorne. His ote-books have been mine of
unparalleled richness, which have been worked
with the most valuable results ever since his
DEATH Finally we have passages from his
French and Italian Notebooks in two Volumes
which are sent out into the world without a
word of preface or comment, by James r. Os-
good & Co. These two volumes cover the time
from January 9th, 1858, to May, 1860, the au-
thor being at the latter date in London On
his return home he published Our Old Home
and began a romance, two chapters of which
had appeared in the atlantic when the break
ing out of the war caused him to discontinue
this kind of work. He then, in August, 1862,
came to this State on an excursion. The editor
closes the second volume with note dated at
West Gouldsboro, in which Hawthorne speaks
of the military spirit pervading the whole
country and of the volunteers astir at Halo
well and all along his route to Maine. These
volumes are not at all inferior in interest to
those that have preceded them. (For sale by
Hall L. Davis.) tf
Music and Morals, from the pen of Rev. H.
H. Haweis, an English writer, is published by