The Portland daily press., 1875-06-12

tracts us because he has the good sense to love
the heroine. Miss Leigh Doane is of the class
of fashionable young ladies, aud has some
brave and true words to say for her class People
who have horror of this sort of person will
| be surprised t. learn that Miss Leigh has
| brains In short the author has made a sue
cess of her. She has beauty and wit and good
temper ascribed to her, aud not one who reads
the book will acuse the author of partiality.
The book is we'll written, having some nat
ural touches of pathos, no little wit and some
dainty sketches of locality and abounds in
those impOssibly bright conservations which
make so entertaining reading that we forget
their unnaturalness. The boy "Gem," Miss
| Leigh's little knight, is well done piece of
| work.
| THE MARITIME PROVINCES. A Handbook for Trav-
ellers. Boston: j. r. OsgoOd s. Co. For sale by
Bailey & NOyes
OsgOods American guide books, modelled af-
| ter the handbooks of Baedeker, have met with
| great favor among tourists They are compact
and portable, the maps and plans are prepared
with great care, and the descriptive text is live
| ly and picturesque The New England and
| Middle States guides brought the cherry colored
| volumes to the notice of the public, and were
| generally welcomed as the best American
| guide books ever published.
The present work is guide to the chief oit-
les, coasts and islands of the maritime prov
| irces of Canada, and to their scenery aud his
toric attractions, The records and traditions of
the early French and Scottish colonies, the his
tory of the Jesuit Missionaries, the legends
and mythology of the Micmac Indians. and
the events of the French and Indian and Revo
lutionary wars are treated of in accounts Of the
places made known by them. The coast seem
cry, including Newfoundland and Labrador, is
described, and all the information in regard to
routes, hotels, etc, which tourists desire are
given.
THE WORK OF GOD IN GREAT BRITAIN. By Ru-
fus W. Clark, d. d. New York: Harper 81
Brothers. For sale by LoriDg Short & Harmon
The wonderfully interesting revival work
accomplished in Great Britain during the last
two years by Messrs. Moody and Sankey forms
the subject of this volume. No other revival
in this century has been attended with such
astonishing results Conversions have been
estimated at tens of thousands in single cities,
churches and public halls have been crowded,
and great open air meetings have been held.
ers throughout the United Kingdom with new
zeal and force, and has given an impetus to
proselytism in all the Protestant world. An
account of the mission of these two great
preachers must be int eresting to all. Such an
account, very full and very entertainingly
written, is furnished in this So bstantial vol
ume issued by the Harpers.
MAN AND BEAST HERE AND HEREAFTER. By the
Rev. j. G. Ward. New York: Harper and Broth
ers. For sale by Lorlng, Short and Harmon.
This neatly gotten up volume is based on the
theory that belief in the Immortality Of beasts
is not unreasonable and that the lower animals
possess those mental and moral characteristics
which are admitted to belong to the immortal
spirit, and not to the perishable body. The
author sets out to prove that the scriptures do
not deny future life to the lower animals.
He then shows that animals share with man
the attributes of reason, language, memory, 4
moral responsibility, unselfshness and love. all
of which belong to the spirit and not to the
body; and that as man expects to retain these
qualities in the next world, there is every rea-
son to presume that the lower animals may
share his immortality here after as they share
his mortality at present
In order to prove that animals really possess
the above mentioned qualities more than three
hundred original anecdotes, we'll authenticated
are given. The reasoning is ingenious and
the anecdotes certainly very entertaining.
THE VICTIMS OF THE MAMERTINE. By the Rev. A.
j. O'Reilly. New York: ID. and j. Sadlier and
Co. For sale by I. P. M'Govan.
10 Rome where the church of st. Martina
stands near the Forum was once the gloomy
prison of the MameItine, building seven hun
dred years older than the Pantheon. In its
dungeons some of the noblest martyrs in the
records of the church suffered. This volume
gives full account of the prison, and of that
portion of its history most interesting to
Christian readers. The martyrdoms from the
persecution by Nero to the trial of Cyriacus are
set forth with amplitude of detail. and the le-
gends which have clustered round the records
of those evil days are brought to the notice Of
the reader. Those interested in martyrology
will find the work of use.
TIE LAST JOURNALS OF DAVID LIVINGSTON. New
York, Harper and Brothers. For sale by Loring
Short and Harmon.
The Harpers have just published q cheap
edition of Livingston's travels which will be
found very acceptable TO those of the public
who cannot afford or do not choose to buy the
more expensive work. The extended review
which has been given in these columns does
away with the necessity of a notice of the
work. The popular edition is complete, re-
tanning the portraits, maps aud illustrations,
and is well printed and handsomely bound.
WOLF RUN, By Elijah Kellogg. Boston, Lee and
Shepard. For sale by Bailey and Noyes.
The Forest Glen series needs no introduction
to the younger portion of the reading public.
Elijah Kellogg is an established favorite with
the boys. This time he has selected the period
| of Braddocks defeat and has placed his charac-
ters on the frontiers of Pennsylvania, where
they make themselves home out of the will
derness. The story in its progress, develops
| the peculiar relations existing between the
Quakars and the Indians, and the wonder
| full influence exerted by the former over their
avage friends.
SocIALIsTIo CoMMUNIsTIc, MUTUALIsTIo AND
FINANCIAL FRAGMENTS. By William b. Greene.
Boston, Lee and Shepard. For sale by Bailey and
Noyes.
The author of these fragments has, he says,
added such other fragments as may seem to
render them more Ineligible. The reader
will be apt to differ with him, and to think
that they darken obs ,urity. The scope of the
book is indicated by its title, and the style is
not more fragmentary than the thought.
The writer has frequently covered his meaning
under heap of words, and when the meaning is
clear tits crude speculation better unthought.
A WOMAN IN ARMoR. By Mary Hartwen. New
York: G. W. Carleton s. Co. For sale by Bailey
& Noyes.
This is a story of two hearts that learned to
beat as one, and of the villain who stepped be-
tween. The love-making is rather stupid, but
| some brave words are said on the disposition OF
children under the divorce laws. The argu-
ment in favor of change of statutes Is the
| chief merit the book possesses.
| News and Other Items.
| The St. Georges herring fishery is falu
] and there is much distress among the people.
George Brown, the Halifax oarsman, is very
| i'll.
Tho New York Oranpemen will have a mir