The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-06-03

IS given to the consideration of ainsects az
mlmics. The value of these pamphlets is
too well-known to need setting forth. For
sale by Bailey s. Noyes
The Warfare OF Science, by President White
Oh Cornell, is the reprint of paper first made
public as Phi Beta Kappa grafton, and then
published in the Popular Science Monthly.
where it called forth: much comment and
praise As now given in pamphlet form BY
~ appleton & Co., it has been carefully re-
Vised and considerably exterd ded. As an i'm.
partial history and temperate discussion of the
so-cailed conflict between Science and Religion
1t is worthy of all praise. For sale by Bailey
& Noyes
Having purchased the plates of "Osgood's
Library of Novels" Estes & Lauriat have be-
gun issuing the series in the attractive s,yle Of
paper covers in which their own novels are
gotten up. A uniform set of Emile Gaboriou's
novels is now ready, and File No. 49," one of
MS striking and most improbable stories of de-
Iectlve experiences, is at hand. For sale by
Bailey Il Noyes.
10 Buddlecome and Back is not ore of
Mr.. f. G. Burnand's happy thoughts, and
scarcely deserves reprint By Roberts Brothers.
IL might do very well for magazine story, but
Is not worth habitiug in suit of good cloth.
For sale by Loring, Short & Harmon.
The Publishers Weekly for May 20 tabulatss
the answers received to its prize question
Which are the fifty most salable noyels?''
buiwer, Dickens, Scott. Thackeray, and George
Lhos were expressly excluded from the terms
Oh tnis enquiry. What follows is full of sur
prises. We give the first twelve titles ad-
Judged most salable: John Halifax, Jane Eyre,
Ihe Wooing or, st Elmo, One samwer, Soar
let Letter. Uncle Toms Cabin, My Wife and +,
fhncess OF Thule, Infelice, Barriers Burned
Away, Opening of Chestnut Burr.
Harper & Brothers will publish soon DR..
onarles Rau's Early Men in Europe, the two.
volume edition Of Professor Draper's grea
oook on the Intellectual Development of Eu-
rope, and Mr.. Gladstone's work on Homeric
Synchronsms.
A work on the folklore of China, and on ths
afinIties of its people with the A-yan and
Seminc races, will shortly be published. Its
author is Mr.. N. B. Dennys.
An article from Professor John Fiske On
cataloguing and classification may shortly be
expected in the North American Review.
Bret Harte's Gabriel Conroy and Mark
Twain's Tom Sawyer are announced for i'm
mediate publication in England.
A book on funeral rites and the DISPOSAL of
dead bodies in all ages and nations is soon to
De published in London, edited BY William
Tegg. Its title is The Last Act.
Norwegian literature has met with sad loss
in the death of the yeung drama.i.t, Thomas
krag Thoresen. He had written half dozen
plays, which were very popular He was ouly
twenty eight years old. His father is known as
famous novel writer.
Mr. Robert Buchanan has in press new
poem which is said to he the most ambition,
one he has ever written. .s
A new dramatic poem by Aubrey de We're.
st. Thomas of Canterbury" is soon to be pub.
lished.
M. Emile Soldi, well known art Student
and critic, has published the first of series of
volumes illustrating the history of art from the
earliest times. The volume is on "Egyptlan
Sculpture" and is largely illustrated. And
another work of the same general character \.
the classified Dictionary of Architecture, and
kindred; Arts and Sciences which Didot is
publishing in serial numbers. The editor is M.
Ernest Bose.
The London Academy for May has q long
and interesting notice of the edition of the
"Epstes of Clement of Rome" published In
Constantinople from the manuscript recently
found in the library of the Greek Fanar of that
city, The missing portions from the Alexan-
drine manuscript are in this copy. 1t has been
edited with great care and thoroughness by the
Metropolitan Archbishop of Serrhae. Canon
Lghtfoot will make use of it in his new edition
OF the epistles soon to appear, with an English
translation