The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-08-18

low. Frobers kindergarten SYSTEM for teach
Ing with children has recently taken new
start In this country, and under the auspices Of
urs' horace Mann, the translator Of this vol
ume' and of Miss Elizabeth Peabody, veteran
worker Tor the improvement of our systems Of
education, is likely to be generally introduced
The author of The Four Girls AT Cbataoua.
one OF the most successful Sunday school novels
of late years, has written story entitled The
Chataqua Girls at Home, which d. Lothrop 8
Co. will bring out in few days The new story
advances the girls from their fresh experiences
at Sunday school watering place In the woods
OF Northern New York to their home life, and
shows how they attempted to put their new ex-
perments to practice. 1t is Presbyterian
religious novel, written by minister's wife.
The Queen of Sheba," whom readers Of Mr..
Aldrich's story in the Atlantic thought thew
left in New Hampshire lunatic asylum. an.
pears in the September number to have gone 10
Europe; but one never knows what sudden
turn Mr.. Aldrich will take.
Hon. d. A. Wells discusses an important
question in the September Atlantic, care titles
and Debts Property?" A good many people
would cheerfully part with their debts for a
consideration.
The Hon. e. W. StoughtoD will have an az
ticle in the September number of the North
American Review in reply to Judge Blacks
paper entitled The Electoral Conspiracy.
DR.. j. G. Hollands latest novel. Nicholas
Minturn, will be published soon BY Scribner.
Armstrong & Co.
The Hon. Robert G. Pitmsn has prepared
work entitled Alcohol and the State, in which
ne considers the losses the state sustains in
various ways through alcohol, and what is its
duty is concerning the liquor traffic.
The breaking up of the Constellation of the
Dlpper'' is prophesied in an article by Pro-
fessor Richard A. Proctor, in the forthcoming
fSeptember) St. Nicholas. The Professor finds
logical reasons for his belief in the motions of
the stars composing the constellation, and Illus
trates these with careful diagrams of his own.
In one map the "DipDer'' is shown as it was
100000 years ago, and in another, as it will be
100000 years hence. Five of the seven stars
the Professor claims, form one family and
travel together; but the other two have dis
tinct motions of their own, and are slowly
drifting out of their relative positions in the
"Dipper.''
Miss Blanche Willis Howard's One Summer
is to appear in popular series in Germany.
Hon. Alexander H. Stephens has sigualized
his return to health by preparing q literary
essay on The Letters of Junius, denying the
authorship usually ascribed to them, which
Will appear in the International Review.
Estes & Lauriat place so high an estimate
upon Alphonse Daudets LIE Nabob, which has
been translated by Miss Lucy n. Hooper. that
they have paid the author 81 900 in gold for the
exclusive use of the advance sheets of this Few
story in this country.
The Life and Times Of Stein, which Prof. J,
K. Seeley has in hand, is rapidly approaching
completion. The Memoirs of Hardenburg
have been incorporated into it, and the work
will contain the history of the regeneration of
Germany after its breaking up by Napoleon,
and the working out of STEMS great reforms 10
the present time.
The best and wisest book Harriet Martineau
ever wrote was that entitled Household Educa-
ton. 1t is as useful to-day as when it was
written, and j. r. Osgood & Co. have done the
public favor in preparing Little Classic
edition, which is nearly ready for publication
In the October Atlantic Mark Twain will be-
gin series of new papers. A travsl-sketch by
s. G. W. Benjamin on Portugal and the Por-
tuguese; an article entitled Can Pompeii be
Excavated? Some Old-Fashioned Ghost Sto-
ries, by H. B. K. and Kathern; besides the
continuation of Mr.. Aldrich's popular novel,
The Queen of Sheba,- render the number
rich in travel and fiction. Criticism will be
represented by Ten Years in Early English, by
Arthur Gilman, and G. P Lathron's paner ON
De Quincy, deferred from the present mum:
Der. Mr.. Howell's A Counterfeit Presentmsnt
will be completed in the October number.