The Portland daily press., 1876-02-12
Notes,

Series have been issued by Osgood & Co.
These are Tennyson's "Encch Arden and w.
d. Howells' GA Days Pleasure" Mr.. Tenny-
sons wine needs no bush, and Mr. HowelPs vnt-
age s becoming widely known and appreciated
by connoisseurs. His "Day's Pleasure is
charming and graceful sketch. The next
volumes in the series, to be soon issued. are
Longfellow's Courtship of Miles Standish,"
and James 7. Fields essay on Hawthorne.
For sale by Bailey & Noyes.
The american Architect for Feb s. contains
several articles of interest to members of the
profession, the most important of which are,
Fire Proof Construction, by N. FL. Hutton, and
Sewage of Boston. The illustrations are,
plan of Hillsborough (Ohio) Town Hall, by
Anderson & Crapsey; pulpit aud screen in Old
South Church, designed by Cummings & Sears;
First Presbyterian Church, Irontop, Ohio,
j. X. Wilson architect; and hotel at Prince
ton n. j., Potter & Robinson architects.
The second book of Daniel Derouda, called
Meeting Streams" will be given entire in the
March Harper's, which will not be ready before
Feb. 20.
Charles Francis Adams, ir., will give in the
next issue of the Atlantic chapter on the
state management of railroads in Belgium and
France, which is PREDATORY to treatment of
railroad management in the United States
DR.. Edward Eggleston, author of the Hoesier
Schoolmaster, who has lectured good deal on
the Kindergarten and is known as one of the
principal advocates of the system in this coun-
try publishes in Scribner for March an enter
tanning paper on this most important subject
accompanied by some very curious illustrations.
The proposed new buildings of Trinity College,
Hartford, are described and illustrated in this
number; they will be on a plan new in this
country, and their construction will occupy
many years..
The new centenary" revised edition of Mr..
Bancrofts History will be issued in six vol
umes, at 1926 EACH monthly beginning with
February.
Mr.. T. B. Aldrichs poem in the March At
lantc is product of his recent European trip.
1t is founded on Roman legend, and will
occupy nine pages.
Bayard Taylor is now said to be writing a
combined biography of Goethe and Schiller,
which will occupy several years in preparation
and form several volumes.
Mrs. Antoinette Brown Blackwell, NJ. d. =,
has written volume ON The Physical Basis Of
Immortality, which G. P. Putnam's Sons will
publish, 1t takes strong scientific position in
favor Of the doctrine of Immortality
Mr.. Howells' policy of printing papers on
opposite sides of current questions is attract
ing much attention in the Atlantic. General
Garfield's article in the February number, on
the hard-money side of the currency question
will be followed in March by plea for the In
flation side, by Henry Carey Baird, under the
title of "Money and its Substitutes.
Mr.. Curtis says of George Elot's new novel:
The spell is laid upon the reader with the open
ing chapters in the succession of vivid scenes
and clearly cut characters. There is no throng
or confusion of persons, and each is drawn
with that incisive skill and individuality, with
out eccentricity or extravaganza, which show
the master-hand. The movement is decidedly
swifter and more positive than in Middlemarch
and the shrewd perception, the witty comment,
the intellectual richness of resource, which
characterize the author, are constantly aud de-
lightfuly evident.
The story related by Mr.. Robert Browning
in his recent poem. ''The Inn Album" is said
to be a real one in its main outlines. A cores
-
pondent of the London Academy says that the
story made great sensation in London 80
years ago, and that he has heard its details re-
cent?! from one who we'll remembers it.
Lowelps new volume of essays is dedicated
as follows: so R..W. Emerson. A love and
honor which more than thirty years have deep
ened, though priceless to him they enrich, are
of little import to one capable of inspiring
them. Yet cannot deny myself the pleasure
of so far intruding on your reserve, as at least
to make public acknowledgment of the debt
can never repay
The persistence with which the public, in
| Guiding host of writers who know better, call
, the leading French critic of our time Henri
| Tane is somewhat curious, and having our
selves permitted the error to appear in these