The Portland daily press., 1874-11-21
TERMS $500 PER ANNUM IN ADVANCE.
arguments of this able exponent of the Free

arguments of this able exponent of the Free
Trade doctrines.
AMONG THE TREES. By William Cullen Bryant.
Illustrated from designs by Jervis McEntee. en-
graved by Harley. New York. G. p. Putnam's
Sons; Boston, Lee & Shepard. From Loring.
Short & Harmon. l. .9-..--
A beautiful holiday gift book, gilt edged,
with the cover elegantly illustrated in black
and gold: twenty pages of blank verse en-
shrined in full page illustrations and twice as
many blank pages; square octave; very
heavy tinted, sized and calendered paper.
Lovers of Bryant's hymns Of nature will well
come this poem in its elegant dress as they
did his "Song of the Sower'in 1871, although
the size in inferior and the illustrations not
quite so high in merit. ''Strange shudder-
ings' run through the fibers OF Maine read
ers, as well as through those of the tree,
when they see the woodman cutting
"scarf'' six feet above the ground to ''fall a
tree" or boys Shining up trees which
they cannot half encrcle, bat the artist
atones for these trifling errors, by his ex-
cellent conception of the white woodman
opening the fields to sunshine, while buried
beneath the text at the foot, relic OF "an
unremembered past" the ''Indian hunter
draws the bow in the dim woods" and in
the charming little sketch of February with
the sOng-sparrow sitting on a birch bough
over an icy brook,
Warbling from her perch that spring is near
or the old oak,
Leaning to shade, with his irregular arms,
Low-bent and long. the fount that from his roots
Slips through bed Of crosses toward the bay.
The poem is not so attractive as the "Song
of the Sower," perhaps because 1t. lacks the
charm of rhyme. The fine contrast drawn
between the life of the tree and human suf-
ferings suggests the old sad strain of scripture,
''There is hope of a tree if it be cut down
that it will sprout again, and that the tender
branch will not cease, but man dieth and
wasteth away" .
MORE BEDTIME STORIES. By Louise Chandler
Moulton. Boston: Roberts Bros. From Loring,
Short 81 Harmon. -.s-.- .. -l 4. -n
Everyone who has read and admired the
Bedtime Stories" will be ready to do as
much for this neat little volume by the same
graceful writer. 1t is full of short stories,
very simply and lovingly told, but with an
earnest and thoughtful purpose showing the
writer's aim to be something more than sim
pie amusement and so delicately is it done,
that the influence must be decidedly improv-
ing. 1t is just the right kind Of a book to
read aloud to the family group, by bright,
cosey fire and shaded light when the wild
play of the day is over and ''sleepy tme''
drawing near. The illustrations ale by Ad-
die Ledyard, and are good.
A SYSTEM OF LOGIC RATIoCINATIvE inductive be-
ing connected view of the principles of evidence
and the methods of scientific Investigation. BY
John Stuart Mill, eighth edition. New York: Har-
per Brothers. 1874. For sale by Loring, Short g
Harmon.
1t seems hardly needful to do more than
call attention to the new edition of this well
known and highly appreciated work 1t is a
successful attempt to embody and systematic
the best ideas which have been either pro-
mulgated on the subject by speculative writ
ers or confOrmed to by accurate thinkers in
their scientific inquiries. This new edition
has the benefit of the last corrections of the
author who never hesitates to avail himself of
any new light cast upon his book by the COM
ments and criticisms of others.