The Portland daily press., 1875-07-31

sales having been made at $1.19 for both Au.
gust and September delivery. Corn also went
up two cents per bushel. The rise is chiefly
owing to the reports of more or less damage to
the wheat crops in Illinois and Indiana.
Recent Publications.
THE WOMAN AND THE QUEEN. A Ballad, and 9TH
or Specimens Of Verse. By Arthur W. Austin
Cambridge: John Wilson and Son.
This is small volume of verse by Arthur
w. Austin of West Roxbury, Massachusetts.
The poem which gives the title is pleasing in
treatment and theme, and contains many mu-
steal lines and some fine imagery. Shorter
poems and several translations from the Latin
and Greek follow. These show the work of
scholarship, taste, and command of metrical
form. and win be appreciated by the cultivat-
ed class to which they are practically address,
ed
THE TREAsURE-TRovE SERIES. Edited by R. n,
Stoddard. Compiled by W. s. Walsh. Burlesque.
Boston: William F, Gill 8 Co. For sale by Lor-
ing, Short g. Harmon.
The Treasure-Trove series appears in its gem
eral design to be patterned after the Little
Classics, and aims to be, as the editor says ga
collection of readable little volumes, which one
may take up at odd intervals with the GER
tainty of finding some things in which he can
not fail to be interested" The initial volume,
which bears the subtitle "Burlesque," GER
tainly carries out this aim admirably. 1t fur
nishes both amusement and variety. The con.
tents embrace Dickens Noble Savage; an ar
ticle from Curtis's Potipher Papers; Hoods
Parish Revolution; Thackeray's Painters Bar
gain; one of Barham's Ingoldsby Legends; an
extract from Irving's Knickerbocker; Addi-
sons Will of Virtuoso; Lambs Mrs. Battles
Opinion on Cards; Mark Twain's Encounter
with an Interviewer; The Insanity of Cain, by
Mary Mapes Dodge; and other good things.
The volume is o little larger than those of
the Little Classics, and is neatly gotten up.
SERMONS OUT OF CHURCH. BY the author OF
"John Halifax, Gentleman" New York: Har-
per &Brothers. For sale by Loring, Short & Har-
mon.
The Harpers issue in their new, neat and
cheap edition of Miss Muloch's works her
Sermons Out of Church." series of short
essays on some Of the shortcomings of domes.
tic life. The book is shrewd and practical, and
the author treats in lively and vigorous man
ner the problems with which she has set her.
self to deal. The sermons" are marked by
that clearness and sweetness of style which
haracterize her works, and will prove very
acceptable to her admirers.
Recent Novels.
Miss Angel, by Anne Thackeray, published
by the Harpers and for sale by Loring, Short &
Harmon, is the story of the once overpraised,
now underpraised artist, Angelica Kaufman.
The story is captiyatingly told, and though the
daughter does not aspire to rival the great his
toric pictures by the father she has contrived
to clothe her ghosts in flesh and blood and in.
vest them with lively, human interest The
sketch is delicately and charmingly done, and
is certainly the highest effort yet of Miss
Thackeray's art. Besides Angelica Kaufman,
Reynolds, Fuseii, DR.. johnson, and other his
torical characters figure in the pages.
In Playing the Mischief, published by. the
Harpers and for sale by Loring, Short & Har-
mon j. w. De Forest treats once more of that
not altogether charming class of people whom
he depicted in Honest John Tdne. The story is
quite as entertaining as that novel, and like
it touches sharply upon the political corrup-
ton of the day. Though the picture is perhaps
drawn in too dark colors there is much of truth
in it. In some Of the characters the reader
will have no difficulty in recognizing we'll
known public men.
piece to the celebrated Camille, by the younger
Dumas, is republished by Peterson Brothers,
and for sale by Chisholm Brothers. 1t requires
no introduction to American readers. In it M.
Dumas pictures adultery as an exceedingly
fascinating occupation.
n Nine Days Wonder, by Hamilton Aide,
published by Osgood and for sale by Bailey &
Noyes, is story written in slovenly but pic
turesque English, thoroughly dramatic in spirit
and exceedingly rapid in movement. The
characters are broadly and strongly sketched,
and the plot sufficiently entertaining. The
story has SO much dramatic incident that it
might easily be shaped for the stage.
Ward or Wife, an anonymous novel published
by the Harpers and for sale by Loring, Short
& Harmon, is written in the dialect of Rosa
Broughton, that is in superlatives When its
characters are not hysterical they are slangy.
The story, however. is lively and entertaining,
but written in the worst English possible.
Jettatrice by Madame Augustus Craven, is
published by Estes & Lauriat, and for sale by
Loring Short & Harmon. 1t is an excellent
novel as might be expected from the author Of
Fgeurdnge, pure and elevating in tone, artistic
in construction lively in narrative, and instruc-
tive in the development of character.
In The Way We LiUe No0. published by tho
Harpers and for sale by Loring, Short, and
Harmon, Mr.. Anthony Trollope has given us
another batch of photographs in entirely new
frames. We have sqnires, curates. baronets,
uncertain Young men, two kinds of women, and
for variety Catholic priest. All these people
are astonishingly natural, some very entertain
ing, and others unspeakably embarrassing,
just as we find them In real life. They all be-
have naturally too, some going to the
good, some to the bad, as their
inclinations lead. The story drags a lit
tie of course, but livens up at the end and
concludes rather unsatisfactory, which is also
natural. In short the story is very true to ma
ture and by consequence trife dull, but pos
sesses much matter worth rea ling.
Edmund Yates Silent FITNESS, published by
William f. Gill & Co., and for sale by Loring
Short, and Harmon, confirms his position as
the head and front of what may be termed
legitimate sensational romancers. The story is
intricate in plot and exciting in incident, and
the Characterization is strong if not natural.
There is murder in it of course, for Mr.. Yates
never enjoys writing book without killing
somebody, and decidedly original heroine.
Byzantine, by Eliza Tabor, published by the
Harpers and for sale by Loring, Short and
Harmon, is tender and pleasing story, pure
in conception and finished in execution, sufici-
emily rapid in incident to please the habitual
move, reader, and sufficiently delicate and dis.
eliminating In characterization to satisfy those
who care for something besides the unravel-
ling of o plot
Books Received.
The Treasure-Trove Series. Edited by R. H