The Portland daily press., 1876-01-08
Magazine NOficpe.

IN.
contains The True Eastern Question, by Ed
ward A. Freeman, Fortnightly Review; an in.
stalment of The Dilemma, one of the remarka-
BILE stories of the time; Walt Whitman's Poems.
by Peter Bayne, Contemporary Review; The
Curate in Charge, by Mrs. Oliphant; In a Stu
dio, by w. W. Story, Blackwood; West India
Superstitions, Contemporary Review; Hindoo
Proverbs, The Globe; and the usual choice
paetry and miscellany; making all together a
very attractive and valuable number for the
week.
Centennial Edition of the Semi Centennial
Grafton on american Independence will COM
mend itself to all lovers of the absurd, and to
all who are curious to learn what surprising
feats the india-rubher rhetorician can accom-
plish with language. The grafton was dely-
cred in Dayton, Ohio, on the 4th of July 1926.
by Peter p. Lowe. The editor of the present
edition assures that the address is still quoted
in Ohio as frequently as either Shakespeare or
the Bible, and it certainly is perfect bonanza
of quotations. That such production should
be delivered in good faith seems Incompetent
sble, for it reads like capital burlesque. The
spendor of its bombast and the loftiness of its
oratorical flights with the consequent abysmal
falls into the ridiculous render it curiosity of
literature. The judgment has been passed
upon it that it is ''ioo funny for anything
but people will not find it too funny for read
ing. 1t will prove capital aid to digestion,
and TO use the expression which the editor has
appropriated to it, will help to keep the merry
heart that doeth good like medicine.
IF a 60,
one does, for it is sprinkled with barbarous
law-jargon and with words to W hich unusual,
affected, or obsolete meanings are attached.
The work of annexation is pretty thoroughly
done. The editor has failed, however, to give
any note on one passage which needs elucida-
tlon for the ordinary reader. Speaking of the
Indians, Mr.. Lowe says: "They invoke their
Areouski, Whit the calumet of peace, and on
de noUo custer mingle their dlthyrambic re-
QUEEN with the bland breeze which sits itself
through the rush and supplejack of the words. "
Unless the lay reader consults his Unabridged
Webster he will not know that "ouster'' is a
legal term for "ejection," or 'dispossession;" ;"
de noUo is mere pedantry for renewed"
The pamphlet is published by the Centennial
Publishing Company, Portland.
Through the Fessenden Brothers, Portland,
the New England News Company furnish a
complete account, printed under the direction
of the clerk of the court, of the Trial of the Men
implicated an the Jefferson Border Nutany. The
trial was one of the most important criminal
trials ever had in the courts of the United
States, and the stenographic report presents
the evidence exactly as given, as we'll as the
precise language of the decisions upon The
many closely contested points of law argued.
James r. Osgood & Company have begun
the publication of The american architect and
Building Nescs, weekly journal published in
the same style as that of the well-known Eng
lish architectural papers, and meant to cover,
in America, substantially the game ground
that they do in England. Each number will
contain from eight to sixteen pages of letter.
press and at least four pages of plates exc
cuted by the heliotype process. 1t is intended
that the journal shall give a complete ard
trustworthy record of all events of professional
importance, general review of architectural
matters at home and abroad, critical notices of
buildings, notes of discussions in archaeology
and other departments of the history of art, &c.
The first number, which is handsomely printed
on tinted paper, contains in addition to notes on
current topics in the profession, articles on the
necessity of unity in design and on sanitary
engineering, report of the ninth annual con-
vention of the American Institute of Archi.
tects (of which association the journal is the
official organ) and a review of Violet LIE Due s
"Annals of Fortress" The illustrations
handsomely done, are of the clock-tower Of
Bergues, of the Rock Street Central Church at
Fall River and of theyresidenoe of Mr.. T. G..
Appleton at Newport. The subscription price
is SO year.