The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-05-22
New Publications.

Nothing indicates the educational tendencies
of the times more plainly than the eagerness
with which all classes seize upon books that
profess to afford information on scientific top
les; and it is very gratifying to those who have
the education of the masses at heart, to see the
worlds best scientists engaged in the work of
elementary instruction. Two Science Primers
lie before us, one on Chemistry by Prof. Roscoe,
the other on Physics by Prof. Balfour Stewart.
As their titles indicate, they are intended to
present the principles of their respective sci
ences in manner adapted to very young schol-
ars, and it is not often that a design is so per-
fectly carried out. The method is excellent,
every point being experimentally illustrated;
and the style is familiar and attractive, with
out being weakly,-an excellence frequently
missed in instruction books for beginners.
For sale by Bailey & Noyes.
The annual Record of Science and Industry
for 1871 is composed mainly of abstracts of ar
ticles on subjects of more or less general inter-
est which appeared in the scientific journals
of this country and Europe dnring the year.
Of course, with SO vast field, and one in all
the departments of which the laborers have
been SO active, it is hardly possible to more
than briefly mention the discoveries and i'm
provements; but the work undertaken is well
done, and the book will afford much satisfac-
ton to that large and trapidy increasing class
of readers who have taste for scientific mat
ters, and but limited time and means for its
qualification.
For sale by Loring. Short & Harmon
THE GALAXY for Jnne is an admirable num-
Der. Justin Mccarthy has a paper ON ''Sir
Charles Dixie and the English Republicans"
Part second of "Faust'' is furnished by Ivan
Turgenief. General Custer writes 'Ny Life
on the Plains" A paper on ''the Woman
Movement in Wyoming" by Edward M. Lee.
"Brahmins and Swell" ''The English at
Home" "Hero Worship" continuation of An
thony Trollope's "Eustace Diamonds ga
Case of Conscience" The Cave of the Winds,
Modern Languages in the American Col
leges," "Drift Wood, Scientific MISCELLANY" !"
Current Literature" The Galaxy Club
Room, "Nebula," and poetry by Nora Perry
and Constance Fenimore Woodson, make up
the number.
SCRIBNER's for June contains: Travelling by
Telegraph, Northward to Niagara, H-James
Richardson; An English Art Reformer, Ford
Maddox wn-W. j. Stillman-with por-
'i"i'' Daoh-hoS otuuies, NI.-Cinio'
Warner; In the Garden, sPoem-Harrlet NC
Even Kimball; At His Gates, Chapters XIV
XvI-Mrs. oliphant, author of miss Mar,
ioribanks," John, etc, with illusfra.I1s; ms
The City of Warwick (ilustratedpM;hI . PoS Dg
Dr,axy D, MiIler's Dowrs, Part II.-Saxe Holm
Statas"J b. Hilgard; Her Sphere, Poem
Elizabeth Akers Allen; suTly VII. Tins s Trouble
w V;'nri'e e Wilkinson; A Message, Poem-Mary L.
Ritter: Topics of the Time, Theaters and The
ater-going, The Loneliness of Farming Life in
america; The Old Cabinet-Cousn Bertha;
| Our Standing Among Our Friends, Talking
| Afterglow," Imitation, The Big Picture; Ma.
ture and Science; Home and Society, with il.
lustrations;. Culture and Progress; Etching
\ Blue Ribbons-Laura w. Ledyard. With de-
signs by Addie Ledyard.