The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-08-25
Note. and Announcements.

The Ninety and Nine, hymn written BY
Miss Elizabeth G. Clephane, and rendered SO
popular by Sankey, the Song Evangelist, is to
be illustrated by Robert Lewis and brought out
as gift book by d. Lothrop & Co.
A Counterfeit Presentment, by w. d. How
ellis, now publishing in the Atlantic, is to be
put on the stage.
The Rev. Philips Brookss lectures on
preaching. delivered at the Yale theological
seminary early in the year, will be published In
the fall by E. P Dutton & Co.
Appleton s. Co. have in preparation Dr. Cum
ningham Geikie's Life of Christ, which they
will publish in two volumes octave, with maps.
Dodd, Mead & Go. will begin their autumn
work with the Rev. E. P. Roe's new story, A
knight of the Nineteenth Century, and
an entirely new edition of j. s. G. Alb
botrs American Pioneers and Patriots.
Scribner Armstrong & Co. will publish Dr.
Hollands new novel, Nicholas Miuturu, very
soon, and Jules Vernes story, Hector Serva-
doc. They will add to the series of Epochs Of
English History, a history of The Age of
Queen Anne, by E. E. Morris.
Messrs. Lee & Shepard have in press That
Wife of Mine, the companion to That Hus-
band Of Mine, by the same author.
Dom Piatt finds fault with Bret Harte be-
cause he writes slowly. There is a growing
disposition to find fault with Dom Piatt be-
cause he writes at ALL
G. P. Putnam's Sons announce the following
Important works on subjects connected with
political and social science: l. How shall the
Nation Regain Prosperity, discussion Of the
alan1nOfa nd Of natt 81
and of the causes of and remedies for the
present industrial, commercial and financial
depression. by David A. Wells; H., Money and
Legal Tender in the United States, by Henry
r. Lindemann, Director of the United States
Mint; I'LL, Economies or the Science OF Wealth,
treatise on political economy for the use Of
higher classes and for the general reader, by
Prof. j. M. Sturtevant, of Illinois College; w..
Labor and Capital, by the veteran engineer
John B. Jervis; ", a new edition of Smiths
Wealth of Nations, in compact shape for pop
ular sale; VI, new edition Of Prof. Summers
Lectures on the History OF Protection .in.the
United States.
The New York Times tells stories of the
frauds practiced in the subscription book busi-
ness; Wanting representation of one of the
giant cedsrs on Mount Lebanon, and not hav-
ing any cedars on hand, the publisher sabsti-
tuted therefor the Charter Oak at Hartford,
and the trick escaped detection. On another
occasion, it is said that n an illustrated vol
ume Of the theological order an old cut of the
Matterhorn was compelled to do duty for
Mount Ararat, and an Erie canal boat with
some alterations, was put forward as fac
simile of Noah's ark. Cuts of common New
England gardens have been paraded in place
of Gethsemane, and Monnt Holyoke In the
place of the Mount of Olives. In vo.ume on
notorious criminals the portraits ran short, and
supply was drawn from an old book of illus
trated biographies of venerable clergymen.
The pictures of the ministers were horrible
wood cuts and so badly done that it was
thought they would pass current for villains of
the deepest dye. But the fraud being discovered
the descendants of the good folk thus trans
formed were horribly. .shocked-but their expo
sure was only made the occasion for an en-
larged sale of the volume.