The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-05-05
emit time to the debonair tradition of prince
Charlie"
Notes..


Among the novels forthcoming in the Leis-
ure Hour Series are Pauline, by Mrs. L. B.
Waitord' author of Mr.. Smith, and Vivienne,
by the author of Miss Molly.
Sesman's Mythology, German work treat
ing OF the Greek and Roman myths with spe-
ciai reference to their use in art will shortly be
published in translation by &. 81. Bianchi, by
Harper & Brothers.
Philip Bourke Marston, the blind poet has
written novel called The Price She Paid, Of
which literary man of great and acknowl-
edged critical ability says no man Of this CEN
tury could do better work than some portions
of it. Roberts Bros. will publish the book in
this country.
1t is stated that % different English publish
ers take hand in the general spoliation of Mr..
Longfellow abroad.
The Age of Queen Anne will be the next
volume of the Epochs of History series, pub
hshed by Scribner, Armstrong & Co.
George Sand is said by Mr.. F. Myers in the
Nineteenth Century for April, to be ''the most
noteworthy woman, with perhaps one excep-
tou, who has appeared in literature since
Sappho."
The subjects of Rev. Leonard Woolssy Ba-
cons Church Papers are Articles Pertaining to
Current Congregationalism, How Rev. DR..
Stone Bettered his Situation by Becoming
Roman Catholic, Papers on the Old Catholic
Movement, The Mistakes and Failures of the
Temperance Reformation, and other articles on
the relation of the Church to modern society.
The author, from his home IN Geneva, Switzer-
land, speaks rather hopelessly of book which
is sure to provoke criticism and which contains
much acute and unusual thinking. He says:
I'm my unwilling seclusion 1 have decided to
put some of my thoughts on the social relations
OF Christianity into such shape that they may
reach the eye, not of the public-that is beyond
my hopes-but of some of those whose high
privilege 1t is to speak to the public and be
heard" The book will be published by G. P.
Patnam's Sons in asfew days, and deserves at
tention as much for its antagonism as for It's
common sense.
The first number of the new Radical Review
will be ready by the middle of May, and will
contain, among other papers, The Discovery,
by E. c. Stedman; The Two Traditions, Eccle-
sastic and Scientific, by VIM. J. Potter; and
Theodore Parker as Religious Reformer, by
d. A. WATSON.
The Foreign Classics for English Readers,
edited by Mrs. Oliphant, promiset to the
public series of very interesting bio
graphical and critical works. The first vol.
ume will be devoted to Dante, and is from
the pen OF the distinguished editor herself. 1t
will be published in May, and the other vol
umes of the series will appear at short inter-
walls. Col. E. B. Hawley writes upon Voltaire;
Principal Tulloch upon Paschal; A. Hayward,
the famous critic, upon Goethe; H. Reeve, the
editor OF the Edinburgh Review, on Petrarch;
Mrs. Oliphant takes Cervantes; and Rev. W.
Lucas Collins, the editor of Ancient Classics
for English readers, concludes the series with
study Of Montague. The subjects are ex-
celleutly chosen, and the writers in each case
are persons qualified by personal studies or
tastes to treat them with freshness and good
Judgment. Scribner, Armstrong s. Go. are to
to bring out these works'in this country
The Boston Public Library is just now devot-
ing special attention to the fremen, upon whose
hands time hangs heavy sin the intervals of
business" Every week wagon of the Fire
Department drives up to the library and car
lies off the IA green boxes il which the clerk
having special charge of this delivery has
placed the books for the IA engine houses.
There is catalogue in each engine house from
which the firemen make their selections; about
One-quarter of the borrowers prefer to leave the
choice to the library clerk, who fills out
the blank orders from the most popular
fiction. Only one-third of the orders
however, are for novels, and of 200
titles on recent weekly list, but four were
specially concerned with the fireman's calling,
all these relating to the horse. Among the
other books called for were The Pentateuch
Critically Examined, Lees Preadamite Man,
Fosbrooke's Arts of the Greeks and Romans,
Lowelrs Study Window, Buignet's Manpula-
tons de Physique, a report of the French Gov
eminent to the Philadelphia Exhibition on
Points ct Chausees, and So id's Sculpture Epyp-
tenne. Truly literary people, these Bos-