The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-01-11
Recent Publica lions.
THE WANDERING HEIR.-By Charlie

eeoiuihg TO the bent of the reader. ''The
"Anaering Heir will prove n, exception to
.,e' IL is the most improbable of
'oaue novels, and ore of the most interest,"
ing. VI course the heroine js an ;mnu,s;vs
creature, running over'' with ...a ,;.,,
siace' anu WIN mother-wit She is a dark
woman, and her name is Philipua Th.
trinlng diferencesof name and comn,o~;o,,
are all that ditferentiate her from Maro.ra.
anu Kate and Grace and Julia and a ba,s
score other OF Reade's women, and she il a.
ioVeabe as any ofthem. The hero, for a
wonder, isn't perambulating Textbook OF
any trade or art
published by Harper & Brothers. For
sac oy Loring, Short 6 Harmon.
AN % ONLY SISTER. By Madame Guizot De
Ihis volume is one of Mrs. Craik's series
for girls, and is a beautiful picture of French
home life, simply and patheticaly told, and
OF more value than roomful of aver, 90
modern French fiction. If it disabuses our
people of the prevalent idea that the French
are essentially an immora people in their So
cial rela ions, and kills the cant about the
word "home' being wanting in their Ian
guage, it will DO good work.
Published by Harper 6 Brothers. For
Sa'e oy Lorlng, Short & Harmon.
JOURNALISM IN THE UNITED STATES FROM
l69O to 1872. By Frederick Hudson.
The above mentioned wor,, 10 a ns,rlv ex.
haustive view OF American journalism from
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It's earliest beginnings up to the present time.
written by gentleman who is an oc.o,r.
piished journalist, having been for manv
years managing editor of the New York
Herald. The work is entertaining as well as
instructive, and its literary execution is de-
cldedly "reportorial" in stye, by no meas
classic but full and animated. 1t brstles with
statistics enough to satisfy the exactin. appe-
tite OF Gradgrind. and its variety of anecdote
would please the most incorrigib.e raconteur
that ever lived. The work is divided into six
parts; 1st, from 1890 to 17O4, the establish
msnt and history OF Harris's PubIick Occur
rences the first American newspaper; End,
from 17O4 to 174S, the Colonial Press; Sd.
from 174S to 1888, the Revolutionary Press;
4th, 1888 to 1882 the Political Party Press 9th,
from 1882 to 1885 Journalism in transitory
state; 9th, from 1885 to 1872 the Independ-
ent Press. Naturally majority of the il
lustrations are drawn from the history of the
Herald, though that journa, has no undue
share OF space given to it. The volume is
well gotten up, but evidently passed through
the hands Ct sloyenly proof reader.
Published by Harper &.Brothers. For sale
by Loring, Shor: & Harmon.
FLASHES OF LIGHT FROM THE SPIRIT
LAND, through the mediumshiu of Mrs. J.
H Conant, compile by Allen Putnam.
Boston: William White & Co., "5laner
OF Light" Office, 15S Washington St., 1872.
This very neatly got up volume, compiled
by well known clergyman and scholar,
cannot fail to be interesting, not only to those
deromnated Spiritualists, but to all denom-
nations ofwhatever creed, who feel it duty
to know what Spiritualists bel eve and teach,
and in what respects they differ from other
religionists. We have room only for short
extract from the comp ler's preface, which
will sufficiently indicate the spirit which pre-
walls through the book:
"Many scores bright intelligences, who
| carried with them. some one-and soma
other, ofthe various and conflicting creeds Of
earth as talisman or panoply, when they
passed through the portals of DEATH are COM
ing back, clad with the authority of personal
observation aud experience in spirit life, and
unitedy teaching that all faiths in special
creeds are now hindrances instta ad of helps to
tn If happiness and progress, and that mans
only useful and his all-suf6cient rel. gion is,
the keeping himself unspotted from the world,
and doing justly by others, in the m st plain
and common sense way possible. Pref p. 13
We would call the attention of our readers
to the opinion at the close of the book, of
once distinguished physician in New York,
now in the spirit land, on the treatment Of
small pox, and the dangers of vaccination
which he now, as spiri utterly condemns;
and says that DIR. Jenner, with him, mourns
over its advent upon earth.
| LITTELL's LIVING AGE.
With the first number for January of this
| popular hebdomadal is begun a new series.
atfording favorable time for the beginning
OF new subscriptions. In this number we
find the opening chapters oil two new serials,
one by NM. Erckmann-Chatrain the distin-
guished French duality in authorship and the
other by Fritz Reuter-, the popular German
novelist. Others are promised and the
promises of the Age are always amply fulfill
ed. Littell & Gray OF Boston are tine pub
fishers and So per annum the subscription
price.
North AMERICAN REVIEW.
The North American Reriew opens the
year and the current number with an exceed
ingly able and interesting review OF the Rise
of Napoleonism, by Charles Kendall Adams.
The article is based to to great extent on
Lanfrey's work, and labcrs to demon trate
that the first French emperor was an anachro-
nism, holding the views and pursuing the
policy of feudal chieftain. "Ireland from
Swift to o'ConnelI," by George L. Phillips,
is panegyric on Henry Flood, whom the
writer declares to have introduced tn, great
est reform bill ever proposed ia Britain.
Capital and Labor" by Isaac Butts, is the
piece de resistance of the volume, and is one
OF those remarkable essays on political econ
omy for which the Review is so Justly cele-
orated; it exposes the fallacy of the argu-
ments in favor of "strikes," and utterly ex-
plodes the lunatic theory of the benefits 10
be derived from the demonetization of the
precious metals. A. s. Hill contributes a
strong article upon that much talked about
and little understood matter. the causes OF
the Commune. In his opinion the inefn-
cheney OF the Government of National De-
Tense, and the foolish and irritating measures
of the Assembly were the determining causes.
Hjalmar Hjorch Boyesen furnishes an article
of much critical force on the Norwegian poet
Biornsop. E. S. Nadal speaks some strong
words u opposition to capital puni hment,
and N. S. Shaler contributes paper, full q
facts. new information, and inferences. on
the mixed populations of North Carolina,
These articles, with the usual book reviews
make up very entertaining number. Pub
lished oy james r. Osgood & Col
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