The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-04-20
Recent Publications.

Among the latest enterprises of the Apple
tons is the establishment of new monthly pc
riodical called the Popular Science honthly.
The first number contains an instalment of .
series of what appear to be original papers by
Herbert Spencer on the 'tStudy of Sociology
''The Recent Eclipse of the Sum-" by r. A.
Proctor, one of the most prominent of living as
tronomers, is selected The greater part of
the remaining articles are selected from
the leading scientific periodicals. The
Popular Science Aoathly supplies a well
defined want, and its success is assured from
the start. 1t is edited with great care, and both
its original and selected articles will be valu-
able means Of keeping the public well informed
as to the freshest theories and discoveries of
scientific men. price So year; single num-
bers 80 cents. Published by d. Appleton &
Co., New York, and for sale by Loring, Short
& Harmony
Harper & Brothers have added to their new
illustrated edition of Miss Mulocks Works a
Womdn's Kingdom. Those who have enriched
their libraries with the preceding volumes will
not fail to secure this. (For sale by Loring,
Short & Harmony ~
The average American finds it hard work to
read Martin Chuzzleoit even after the lapse Of
nearly thirty years, without a grimace The
postscript which the inspired author caused to
be published with every edition of the book
issued subsequent to his second visit to Ameri-
ca, and which contains that ever memorable
retraction in his speech delivered at the press
dinner given in his honor in New York, ought
to be printed at the beginning instead of at the
end of the volume For in spite of the rever-
ent love for the author which most of us feel,
and of the enjoyment we get out of Pecksniff,
Mark Tapley and Mrs. Camp, it is difficult to
reconcile ourselves 10 Gen. Choke, Elijah Po-
gram, Jefferson Brick, Col. Diver and Gen.
Paddock as fair representatives of the Amer
ican people even a third of century ago. But
who can afford to discard Martin ChuzzLetoit,
after all? Practically nobody does discard it,
and as at least one edition of Dickens is indis-
pensable in every home where the smallest cul
ture has entered, we can heartily recommend
"Harper's Household Edition as among the
best to be had. Martin Chuzzlelon in this edi-
tion has fifty-nine illustrations by ]. Barnard,
and is in all respects a beautiful book. (Har-
per & Brothers. For sale by Loring, Short &
Harmon.
So"tCAbo II ESt UcTUtuH heUueF Is IQLenQeQ
especially for those who have studied the au-
thors First Book in German 1t is little vol
ume in flexible covers and contains selections
in prose and verse from the rich and charming
juvenile literature of Germany. Harper &
Brothers. For sale by Loring, Short & Har-
mon) ar....-s, ....... .-s.... ... .... ...
The Rise and Fail Of the Slace Po,cer in Amer
icd, by Senator Wilson, referred to editionally
at length, a few days, ago will be completed in
three large octave volumes, comprising two
thousand pages in the aggregate. The present
volume and the second, to be published next
year, will bring the history down to the time of
the civil war. The third, which will appear in
1874, will complete the work Mr.. Wilson has
done his work conscientiously, and has produc-
| ed history that will be absolutely indispensa-
BILE to the politician and statesman, while it has
great attractions for the general reader q. r.
Osgood & Co., Boston. For sale by Hall L.
Davis ...-..r-. -....--
For Better for Rorce is precisely the kind of
story its name indicates 1t gives an account
OF the joint joys and SORROWS of good husband
and wife, and of the marriage and domestic
life of their children. In the end it is all ''For
Better" like all well regulated novels. A yery
pleasant book. Published by Graves & Ellis.
tFor sale by Loring, Short & Harmony
The same publishers have issued capital
book for boys, entitled Richard Peters, A book
OF good moral tendency, and also entertaining,
being filled with graphically detailed incident
and description of school and home life, and &C
counts of the experiences of boy on a whaling
ship, where there was a mutiny and a rescue
(Loring, Short & Harmon have it. ....
Rhoda Broughton, the author of ''Red as a
Rose is She and several other novels of eccen-
trio names, has written another called Good
bye, S,oeethedr0 1t is of course sensational, but
is not SO immoral in its tone as some of her
other books. 1t is decidedly the best she has
made. published by ID. Appleton & Co For
sale by Bailey & Noyes.) r-.aa.l..- b.
True as Steel-a novel by Marion Harland
author,of "Alone," Hidden Path" &c. Her
former books have attained a considerable sale
and this seems to be fully as good as any.
published by G. w. Carleton & Co. For sale
by Bailey & Noyes