The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-11-01
Recent Publications.
The xach, Club. BY oiiverop,;c.

The Yacht Club. By Oliver. Optic.
"Optic" is eagerly welcomed; whenever he
chooses to make his appearance, or in what
ever form he may appear, and is read with
avidity by boys and girls whose judgment is
hardly formed enough to admit of their read
ing indiscriminately. There is too much ex-
aggeration, and everything is too improbable
to make his stories good reading for young
minds. We make the 'sYacht Club" no ex-
ception.
Published by Lee & Shepard. For sale by
Bailey & Noyes.
Doing His BEST. ny J. II. Trowbridse.
tunes." etc. etc.
Here is book which we heartily recon-
mend to boys and girls. 1t is a companion
volume to "Jack Hazard and His Fortunes, :"
and "a Change for Himselg'' Those of the
young readers who have followed Jacks for
tunes thus far will want to knoY how he sue
ceeded in ''doing his best.'
Published by Lee & Shepard For sale by
Bailey & Noyes.
John Godsoe's Legacy. by Elijah KEEL
loas.
That Kellogg has written some entertain
ing books for boys cannot be denied. But we
hardly think this volume, which is the fifth
Of the pheasant Cove Series'', ranks in mer-
it with some of its predecessors. 1t may be
that the author is getting tired, from contin-
ual writing, and needs rest. Possibly his
young friends may not agree with us. and
may take the same delight in "John Godsoe's
Legacy that they have in all that he has
previously written.
Published by Lee & Shepard. For sale by
Bailey 6 Noyes. ,
Literary and sociaIiJ dgments. By w II.
Greg.
The English essayist furnishes seven Of his
characteristic papers, all very readable, all
abounding in flesh matter and judgments pc
cularly his own. Indeed Mr.. Greg is nothing
if not startling and he astonishes us in the
first paper of this volume by taking up the
cudgels for Talleyrand, for whom he has a
strong and unconcealed liking. Among the
judgments passed are those on Madame De
Stael, on French fiction, on the false morali-
ty of lady novelists, on Chateaubriand, on
British and Foreign characteristics, and on
the redundancy of women.
Published by ]. R. Osgood G Co. For sale
by Bailey & Noyes.
The Boy With an idea. E8y nErs. Eiioart
The boy with an idea, like other boys who are
cursed with opinions of their own,was consid-
cred a good-for-nothing scamp with much au-
dacity and no common sense by those re-
spectacle people who hate to have precon-
ceived notions overturned or the good old
way of doing things disregarded. OF conse-
quence the boy dsliked and was disliked, suf-
fered much disquetude and caused much.
Fortunately his class is not numerous and the
misery it entails upon much-suffering world
proportionately small. Generally, being Wig
orous youths, with much push and discred-
table tendency to survive the misfortunes
which the PRONUNCIATION of their ideas bring
upon them, the members Of this class grow
up to become men and startle the world out
of its old ruts by such reprehensble discover
les as the motor power of steam or the pro-
phylactic qualities of vaccine matter. But
frequently the world, very properly, lets them
starve or eat their hearts out in disappont-
ment, and so has its revenge after all. John
Ashdell, of whom Mrs. Eiloart so pleasantly
discourses in this volume, is representative
of this Glass; very conceited, very trouble
some, the occasion of many mishaps to him
self and others, making mistakes without
number, but withal clever, warm-bearted
courageous and original; in word boy ia
ted to become leader of thought. The sto-
ry of his adventures is a thoroughly healthy
one, and can be safely commended as book
fit to be read by chdren--and it takes a very
good book to deserve that recommendation.
Published by G. P. Putnam's Sons. For
sale by Loring, Short & Harmon.
His Marriage Vow. by Mrs. Caroline
Fairfield Ccrbin, Author of "Rebecca
or n Woman's Secret" etc.
In this book the author makes the man
true to his marriage vow for truths sake and
although he has, in moments of weakness,
strong temptations to disregard it, he con-
quers them, outwardly at least, and becomes
grand, moral hero in the eyes of woman
other than his wife, who loves him, and has
the charming frankness p to tell him OF 1T.
As natural sequence he must have his re-
ward, and so his wife, who was beautiful, in
tellectual, but an invaliu before he married
her, dies, and he is free to marry "his souls
affinity,"-which he does at the proper time.
Despite its somewhat extravagant sentiment
talism, the book is really quite readable.
Published by Lee and Shepard. For sale
by Loring, Short and Harmon.
The Oxford Isefhodists. by l.. Tyerman,
author of Ehe Life and Times of John
Wesley.
Mr.. Tyermar has the same reverence fer
a scrap of paper on which the name of Wes-
ley is written as the devout Mussulman has
for one bearing the name of the Deity. Hay-
ing mass of various collateral information
left over from his voluminoIs Life of Wesley,
he has made new volume with the above
title, wherein he follows up the career of til
more obscure persons associated with the
founder of Methodism in his first essays to-
ward reform. Whitefield is omitted because
he already has his biographers. Though this
is leaving Hamlet out Of the play, the book
has an uncommon interest nevertheless. Of
Wesley's Oxford associates it is curious to
note that nearly all separated from him IN
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