The Portland daily press., 1876-12-30
Magazine Notices.

The Library Table for January fully sustains
the high reputation which that critical periodi-
cal has won for ITSELF by hard labor and excel
lent quality of work. The long reviews in the
number are of Dean Stanley's History of the
Jewish Church, Rolano's Selections from the
Talmud, Wilkie Collins Two Destinies, Busk's
Roman Legends, Medieval and Modern Saints
and Miracles, Mercy Philbrick's Choice, The
Home at Greylock, ard Meg's Own Child and
there are short notices of gift books and chill
dren's books, &c. The editorial matter is as
always good. The monthly index to periodical
literature and record of new books are indis-
pensable to librarians, collectors of books and
all people interested in current literature. The
publishers have in view the striking eff of the
index on slips printed on one side for presenta-
ton in scrap books or otherwise. The idea is
an excellent one.
Published by Henry L. Hinton & Co, 744
Broadway, New York.
OF the superb imperial edition of Knights
Shakespeare, published by Virtue s. Yorston,
II Dey Street, New York. forty-three numbers
have been published, bringing the work near
its completion. OF the many and great merits
of this edition we have too frequently spoken
to need to say much now. OF the steel engrav-
ings in the latest numbers may be mentioned
Gerome's Cleopatra and Caesar, Bertrand's
Ophelia, and Johnston's Macbeth. In compli-
ance with the request of new subcribers the
publishers are issuing a supplement containing
Knights copious and exhaustive Biography of
Shakespeare, work which is standard con-
tribution to English literature 1t is uniform
with the Works and suitable for binding with
it. 1t will be completed in six parts Each
part is illustrated by an engraving on steel of
some celebrated American actor 10 Shakes
pearian character. Two numbers are now out
one containing a portrait of Edwin Booth as
Hamlet, the other Of Ben De Barr as Falstaff
Christmas, in the superlative degree, per-
vades tue holiday plumber of Vide AUake.
Mrs L. G. Wilton opens it with one of the
loveliest of this years Christmas poems. Op-
poste is the frontispiece, an engraving of
Raphaels Sistine Madonna. Edgar Fawcett
and Mrs. S. NJ B. Pratt are also represented
by holiday poems, Children's Faces, and About
Magician. Fl. R. Hudson furnishes funny
Christmas tale, Two Days Before Christmas
Margaret Eyttnge's What Happened to the
Baby is still funner. But the ''star'' story is
LilPs Travels in Santa Claus Land. 1t is mag
niicently illustrated by A. r. Waud, with
scenes in Santa Claus Land, Santa Claus and
his Reindeer appearing on one of the pages
Mrs. Handy, of Richmond, Virginia, writes
about A Confederate Christmas Tree, while
VIM. M. f. Round opens his Child Marion
Abroad with Child Marion's jolly Christmas on
shipboard. Sophie Mays serial Quinnebasset
Girls, opens well. Good-for-nothing Polly,
who is growing in character, is still the same
good-for-nothing boy in his daily practice.
The Little Folks all over the country are rep
resented by the letters whi,h they have sent
with their dolls to the Dolls Fair, as Christ
mas gifts to the children in the hospitals
ID. Lothrop & Co., publishers, Boston, Mass.
The Leonard Scott Publishing Company,
New York, will continue during 1877 to reprint
the great British quarterly reviews aud Black.
GOODS Quarterly Magazine as they have done
for the last thirty years, furnishing these lead
ing periodical publications in full for about one
third the price at which they are supplied to
English subscribers. This company's reprints
are authorized republications, the American
publishers voluntarily paying the British pro-
prietors fair share of the profits made on the
American editions, both for the sake of secur-
ing advance sheets and as recognition of the
moral law of copyright, which is, unfortunate.
~, only moral law.
BtackWood'S Magazine for December opens
with the continuation of a Woman Halter
This is followed by A German Bath; Preieval-
sky's Mongolia and Solitudes of Northern Thi-
bet; The Secret Chamber; Devious Rambles
with Definite Object, continred A Winter
Revere; and timely and interesting article up
on The Conference at Constinople. An Index
to Vol CXX accompanies tbis numhar