The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-05-27
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j. R. Osgood s. Co. head their Spring list of
publications with two volumes of the Little
Classic edition of Emerson. This form of vol
ume has established itself as favorite, and
since the appearance of the Hawthorne
there has been a general demand for others of
the American classics in the same dress. EN-
erson is particularly well suited to this handy
volume edition, for the reader can open at
almost any page of the essays and fall at once
upon the pleasantest and most instructive Of
reading, and this too, without being obliged to
turn back to the first of the volume to get his
bearings Emerson is like the Chinese box
collection-each thought, though enclosed in
another.and larger, is complete and DISTINCT In
itself. The two volumes are The Conduct of
Life, and Society and Solitude, the first con-
tainipg with others that wonderful essay on
Illusiops which by itself is liberal education
for the delighted reader These volumes are
for sale by Bailey & Noyes, at $3.50 each.
They are soon to be followed by others.--In
the convenient ard attractive Vest Pocket Sc
rles, James T. Fields Barry Cornwall and
Some of his Friends is reprinted. This volume
of entertaining gossip is enriched by por-
traits of the noted men described. II is for
sale by Bailey s. Noyes at fifty cents.--
OF the Centennial edition of the poets, Whit
tier and Tennyson have been published. The
latest volume, Tennyson, includes the Queen
Mary, certain hitherto uncollected poems, and
all his poetical works up to date. 1t is hand
somely illustrated, and will naturally command
large aud rapid sale. For sale by Bailey &
Noyes, price one dollar. The next to be pub
lished is the centennial Longfellow.-Of
Osgood's Handbooks for Travellers, the Middle
States is the latest issued, and fully sustains
the admirable character of this excellent series
of guide books. 1t is volume of FIVE hundred
pages, bound in the now familiar roam, fur
nishes all the information which the tourist
desires about routes Sc, gives an epitome of
the histories of the old river land border towns
descriptions of the principal scenic attractions,
full industrial statistics, reconnts the legends
of place and person, and is enriched with valu-
able plans and maps. For sale by Bailey &
Noyes at two dollars-Osgood s. Co. an
nour ce a series of four volumes in the Little
Classic style, Poems of Places. edited and coll
lected by Henry w. Longfelow. These will
refer to places in England, Subsequent vol.
umes, to follow rapidly, will contain poems on
Ireland and Wales, Scotland, Italy, Switzer.
land, France, Spain, Portugal Germany, Bel.
GUM, Holland, Scandinavia, Russia and Tur-
key, Greece, Asia, Africa and America. In
his preface introducing the series Mr.. Longfel.
low says:
Madame de Stael has somewhere said that
travelling is the saddest of all pleasures"
But We all have the longing of Rasselas in our
heart We are ready to leave the happy valley
OF home, and eager to see something of the
world beyond the streets aud steeples of our
native town. To the young, travelling is a
Doundless delight; to the old, a pleasant men,
ory and tender regret
have of en- observed that among travellers
there exists sort of freemasonry. To have
visited The same scenes is o bond of sympathy
between those who have no other point of con
tact A vague interest surrounds the man