The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-07-24
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FREEDOM AND FELLOWSHIP IN RELIGIoN.-A Col
lection Of Essays and Addresses edited by q Com
mittee Of the Free Religious Association. Boston:
Roberts Brothers. For sale IN Portland by Lorine
Short & Harmon.
The ttle-page of this neatly gotten up vol
ume is sign that therein may be found ideas,
some fresh, some very old and very good, all
radical in the best meaning of that word. The
essays embraced within its covers are written
by John Weiss, Samuel Longfellow, Ednah d.
Cheney, 7. W. Higginson. O. B. rockingham,
John w. Chadwick, David A. Wasson, Samuel
johnson, William j. Potter and Francis L.
Abbot They cover wide range, are pregnant
with thought, and advance the latest views en-
tertained by the free religionists. What
ever opinion may be held of the theories of
these men and women none who know them
will doubt their sincerity or their love of
truth The essays, too, are of interest as stud
les in style.
The purpose of, the book is set forth in the
following extract from the preface, written BY
the Rev. o. B. Frothingham:
This volume of essays printed under the
auspices of the Free Religious Association.
written by different minds, in different moods
Tor dlnerent occasions, working without the
least reference to each other, and associated
here by no other bond than that of a common
feeling of intellectual need, a common persua-
sion OF their personal responsibility to meet it
as they can, and united conviction that soon.
er or later it will be met triumphantly,
thrown out as their contribution towards the
religion of the future"
LITTLE CLASSICS. Fourteenth volume. Poems
Lyrical. Boston: j. R. Osgood & Co. Portland:
Bailey s. Noyes. ..--
The fourteenth volume of the Little Classics,
which is as delightful as any which have gone
before it, contains some of the best lyrical
poems in the language. The selections are
thirty-eight in number. and, among them
may be mentioned the Allegro, Penseroso.
and Lycidas of Milton; the Alexander's Feast
OF Dryden; Pope's Messiah; The Passions
OF Collins; Gray's Elegy; Scott's Dundee
CampbelPs Lochiel; Hoods Bridge of sighs;
Wordsworth's Intimations of Immortality; Ten
nyson's Locksley Hall and Lotus Eaters; Jean
Ingelow's High Tide; MotherwelPs Jeanie
Morrison; Thackeray's End of the Play; Long
fellows Lost Youth; Poe's Sleeper; Emerson's
Problem; Macaulay,s Nsssby; 3rowning's
Ride to AK; Whittier's At Port Royal; Mrs.
Browning's Mother and Poet; and Lowelrs-
Harvard Commemoration Ode Surely a bet
ter collection could not be made.
A SUMMER PARISH: Sabbath Discourses at tina
Twin Mountain House. By Henry Ward Beecher
New York: j. B. Ford & Co.
1t has long been known to those who haye
been so fortunate as to visit the Twin Noun
tain House during the months of August and
September that Mr.. Beecher has put some of
his best work into his morning discourses at
that place, and that he has taken great inter-
est in what has not inappropriately been de-
nominated his summer parish. Relieved from
the wearing cares of ordinary pastoral work.
and drawing new strength from the fresh
mountain air, he has found leisure to elaborate
his best thought and to put it into that attract.
i've garb OF speech of which he is master. The
present volume, made up of discourses preached
In the year 1874 and of the morning service of
prayer during that period, will find wide and
grateful appreciation with the host of Mr..
Beecher's admirers, s,-admirers whom his trou-
bles have converted into the fastest of friends
CHILDHOOD The Textbook of the age. By Rev
W. F. Crafts. "Uncle WILL" Boston: Lee and
Shepard. For sale by Loring, Short, and Harmon
every age has its trademark" says the
author of this work, "and the deepest and most
tion and influence and importance of child
hood" As illustrations of this influence two
hundred and more pages of anecdotes Of chill
dren and transcripts of their sharp sayings are
given, interspersed with elucidation and COM
ment The book will prove entertaining to all
interested in childhood and its ways
ELENA, AN ITALIAN TALE. By L. N. Comyn.
Boston: Estes & Lauriat. For sale by Lorng,
Short s. Harmon.
Messrs. Estes & Lauriat here present in at
traetive print, and bound in paper covers,
"Elena," charming story in character, plot
and description, which has commanded the
warm praise of accomplished critics. The
scene is Italy, the heroine of Naples, the hero
of Piedmont and the book is pervaded by the
passionate longing for national unity which
found realization five years ago.