The Portland daily press., 1874-10-03
THE PRES S.
SATURDAY MORNING, OCT. 3, 1874
Recent Publications.

Inc present volume will be found decided,
entertaining. A very full description of tn,
game of North America is given, with an ac
count of personal adventures in their pursuit
After devoting chapter to his TOOLS gun
rod &C., the author goes right to his work
beginning with the king of all American
game, the bison. The moose and the
caribou are next taken up, and
then others of the deer tribe. The
smaller quadrupeds, the birds and the fish fol
low. Full descriptions are given of the ap.
pearance and habits of these kinds of game
ank the proper way to hunt them down.
These descriptions are enlivened by gossipy
accounts OF personal adventure. The book
will be found very entertaining to those inter.
ested in the matters of which it treats.
The THIRTY YEARS WAR. By Samuel Rawsou
Gardiner. New York: Scrbner, Armstrong " Co.
For sale by Loring, Short s. Harmon.
This volume, the third of the admirable
''Epochs OF History" series, is deserving of as
high commentator as its predecessors. A
comprehensive, philosophical and graphically
written view is given of that remarkable con-
flict extending from 1918 to 164s, which re.
suited in the establishment of religious liberty
intGermany and of an order of things in
Europe which lasted from the treaty of West
phalia to the Conference of Paris with the
brief exception of the French Revolution and
the Napoleonic Conquests.) Of course the
history of Germany, during the periodIof the
Thirty Years War is in effect the history of
Europe. This epoch of history isIso little under
stood and so bewilderingly treated by most
writer's on the topic, that this little volume
with its clear statements, picturesque style
and admrable grouping, amply supplies a
long-felt need.
LITTLE CLASSICS. Edited by Rossiter Johnson
First volume Exile. Boston j. z. Osgood & Co.
For sale by Bailey & Noyes.
Unless we are greatly mistaken the series
OF handy, neatly printed and gotten up vol
umes issued by Osgood under the title of
'Little Classics" will become very popular.
The design is to collect those gems of tales
and sketches which have been floating about
in the magazines and other periodicals and
to put them into convenient and pleasing
shape. The first volume, published under
the caption of Exile" evinces rare judge
ment and taste in the selection. The con-
tents embrace Hawthorne's "Ethan Brandt,
Gerald Grifins "The Swans of Lir," James
Greenwood's ga Night in Workhouse,'
Bret Harte's 'The Outcasts of Poker Flat,''
Hale's ''The Man without Country" and
De Quincey's "sFlight of Tarter Tribe. -
LITTLE CLASSICS. Edited by Rosetta johnson
Second volume, Boston; j. R. Ossood s Co. For
sale by Loring, Short s. Harmon.
The second volume of Osgood's "Little
Classics" series will be gladly welcomed by
all lovers of good stories, and the collection
will commend itself to all. The first given il
Bulwer's wierd story of "The House and the
Brain," originally published under the title
of s'The Haunters and Haunted" Follow
ing this is Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spoford's
characteristic ssD'Outre Mnrio. ono of hsr
best magazine stories, and noticeable for IFS
splendid word-painting. Poe's fantastic
"Fall of the House of Usher" is the third in
the volume. Then we have Dickens "Chops
the Dwarf" Hawthorne's "Wakefeld'', De
Quincey's ponderously humorous 'Murder
Considered as fine Art" and sThe Cap
tain's Story by Rebecca Harding Davis. A
better collection of short stories could not be
gotten up.
THE ScHooLMAsTER's TRUNK, containing Papers
Eon Home-Life in Tweenit By Mrs. A. M. Diaz.
Boston: j. R. Osgood s. Co. For sale by Loring,
Short s. Harmon.
The papers in this neatly gotten up volume
were originally published in "Hearth and
Home," under the title of ''Papers found in
the Schoolmaster's Trunk" They were fa-
vorites with the readers of that periodical
and will be likely to meet with warm greet
Ing from the public, particularly the juvenile
public, in their present attractive form. The
quaint humor and keen observation displayed
make them very entertaining reading, and it
is easy to believe the authors statement that
they embody observations made from actual
life by teacher residing in country village
The volume is illustrated with pleasing wood
cuts.
UNCLE JOHN. A Novel. By G. j. Whyte Mel
vile, author of skate Coventry SC. SC. New
York: d. Appleton & Co. For sale by Bailey g.
Noyes.
Mr.. Melville gives us story of English
life, quite entertaining, and sufficiently easy
reading. "Uncle John," who gives the name
to the story, and whom his niece calls "a
dear old DEAR" appears to be sort of fox
hunting saint, with no regard for the etern-
al fitness of things, for he insists on having
a wedding and d funeral within three weeks
Of each other,-in one case giving away the
bride and in the other kindly consenting to
take the role of corpse. There is an impossi-
BILE woman in the book, and several very
possible and very ordinary ones. The men
are mostly well drawn and there is "cub''
from Elton who is really quite character.
The FoRGIv1NG KISS; OR, OUR DESTINY. A
Novel. By Moritz 10th, New York. G. w.
Carleton & Co. For sale by Bailey s. Noyes.
"The Forgiving Kiss aims to be tran
script of American society, and is failure.
The author says it has been written during
The intervals of busy life, intervals which
could have been much better employed the
reader will think. The characters are un-
real, talk in stilted language and do things
which no people under the sun ever do. The
places and scenes have absolutely no reality.
After fashion current nowadays written
music figures conspicuously in the pages.
SALEM; A TALE OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.
By D. r.. Castleton, New York: Harpers g.
Brothers. For sale by Lorng. Short s. Harmon.
The terrible story of the Salem witchcratt
delusion is made use of by Mr.. Castleton as
the theme of his tale. That fearful time is bet
ter suited for tragedy than for any ordinary
though the author has made good
use of his material and has relieved the shad-
ows by picture of charming young girl
who comes out, of course, all right in the
end. Still we think the field has been better
gone over by John Neal in his powerful novel
of "Rachel Dyer"