The Portland daily press., 1873-11-22
Recent Publications.

Child Life i'm Prose. Edited by John
Greenleaf ~ hitter.
This is companion book to Whittiers
''Child Life in Poetry" and is a collection
from the best stories of children from many
languages made with Whittier's own exqui
site taste. Dickens. Hawthorne, Allrich
st. Pierre, Auerbach, De Quincy, Grimm
Lamb, Hans Christian Andersen, and other
of the very bes' authors are all represen'e,
here, not forgetting ''Sorhie May'' with he
darling little ''Prudy Parlin.''
1t is pleasant to fl.d our child literature
growing richer year by year aud clearin if-
self of the pious little Sunday -schoo. book
children, who live just long enough to "pont
moral and adorn tale," dying in the nich
Of time, before they grow up and spoil it al !;
and that The children are beginning to b,
ch chldren-sometimes 9ood-oftener not
these stories are mostly of just such children.
With all their toys and griefs, natural aud
lifelike.
The illustrations are numerous and excel
lent, though the name of the artist is net
given; they attest the rapid improvement in
wood engraving that is INV being made and
they show that the University Press is equa-
ling the best English work The fronts
piece is from Corcgcio's "Study OF Head.
in the Loudon National Gallery.
Published by J. R. Osgood & Co. For
sale by Bailey & Noyes.
The Lives Of the Chi,f Justices Of Eng
land by Lord Campbell, q her .si
''The Lives ofth Lord Chnace,Iors Q
Eusln 1d'' in ur v"lumcs. Vol.
Boston, Estcs & Lauriat, 143 Washin..
ton street .SJ3.
After life of great activit in his pre-
fession during which he had attained to
many and high honors Lord Campbell sal
dowr at the ripe age of sixty to win literary
fame. The publication of his owr speeche
was followed by that of he "Lives of tn
Lord Chancellors." During his life time two
editions of this work in seven volumes were
published in this country and sold, and any
copies which find their way INTO the o!d-
book stores are held at price as high il not
higher than they brought at the time of pub
lcation.
Among the Lord Chancellors were mary
of the greatest men of England and most of
the famous lawyers; yet there were famous
lawyers ike Sir Edward Coke who had never
sat on the bench but had held the Great
Seal. The Lives of the Chief Justires was
a natural sequel to the Lives Of the Chan
cellors and with that work mad a Complete
and noble tribute to the profession % which
Lord Campbell belonged. Opinions have
differed as to the literary merits of these
works but there car be no doubt of their per-
manent value and interest. There are no
books that can be more safely recommended
to the young lawyer ambitious OF preferment
in his profession, for they are full records
of the ruggles of men who began as far
from the goal as he does. To those who are
not lawyers they have no less interest; for
the lives of many of the foremost men OF
their time are narrated here with skill, judg-
ment and discrimination. In the volume
before us is the life of Sir Edward Coke,
worthy of careful perusal by all. BY the
lawyer because it is the biography OF tne
most learned man and the most steau'a''
Judge that has sat upon the bench. oy 'ne