The Portland daily press., 1877-08-04
Recent Publications.

"a Odugnter OF detu Is alreaOy IaIlHar tO
The readers of Mr.. William Blacks novels,
and now appears in the tasteful and substan-
tial form of Messrs. Harpers' Library Edition
of fiction. 1t is finished, brillisnt-but above
all, pathetic story; indeed, it is very painful
one, Notwithstanding the grace and vividness
of its execution. To those readers who have
fortitude to withhold their symp pathy from over-
much participation in the sorrows of the poor lit
tie beroine-a lily of France whose bloom soon
faded in an alien soil-the novel commends
itself as an exquisite work of art. For sale
by Loring, Short & Harmony
Mrs. Arthur New York: Harper Brothers;
Portland: Loring, Short & Harmony is from
the untiring pen of Mrs. Oliphant 1t is of
course carefully and well written, refined and
practised in style; and although it is not one of
the authors very best efforts, the plotis original
and we'll managed. The heroine is an inter-
esting one, and the hero is fairly well drawn;
while Lady Curtis, Lucy and Durant are in
Mrs. Ophant's best manner, that of easy,
delicate character drawing from subjects that
one meets and is glad to meet, in social life.
The latest additions to Messrs. Harper's
Half-Hour Series portland: Loring, Short &
1A"Ah hVhI ohO wv SAaCOAul 5tOtios Wy 0cKdiuiu0
Butt, The Time of Roses and Dieudonnee; the
latter is simple and lovely story of the siege
of Paris, and relates how little girl, longing
to find her brother who was in the Military
School in the city, left her home and wan
dered many miles, passing unharmed through
the Prussian camp, and reached Paris in safety.
The House on the Beach, by George Meredith,
also included inthe Half Hour Series, is con-
fused and rambling story, with elabor ate at
tempts at humor which are rarely successful.
1t is the embarrassment of riches that the
reviewer is called upon to encounter in the vol
umes just published in Messrs. Osgood & Co.'s
Vest Pocket Series. Such wealth of matter
and manner, such variety of style and interest
never was contained in such small space before.
Lord Macaulay's fine essays on Milton and on
Byron; DR.. John Browns genial and appre-
ciative sketch of John Leecb, and his cappy
essay upon Health; Professor Lowelps Moose
head Journal, q book fit for the summer vaca-
tion, or to bring back the green leaves of
summer to the winter season itself; and Haw-
thorne's Virtuosos Collection, Celestial Rail-
road and A Select Party-,re the prose vol
umes recently added to the series. Poetry is
represented by Shakspeara's Sonnets; Miton's
Allegro, Penseroso, the Christmas Hymn and
Sonnets; Tennyson's s Maud and Locksley Hall;
Whitters Tent on the Beach; Favorite Poems
by Cowper; Thompson's Summer, Favorite
Poems by Burns; Favorite Poems by Kingsley;
and Favorite Poems by Owen Meredith.
Mr.. George E. Warnings work upon Village
Improvements and Farm Villages Boston: j.
R. Osgood s. Co., Portland: Loring, Short s.
Harmony is made up of Articles which have ap-
peared in recent numbers of Scribner's maga-
zine, with the addition of paper upon East
ern Farming, originally printed in the At
lantic Monthly. The chapters upon drainage
will interest our citizens whose attention is at
present directed to the subject by the eloquent
representations of DR.. Gerrish, as well as by
the appeal, not less urgent, of their own noses
The remarks upon the beautifying OF streets
and dooryards, upon the art of rendering the
outside as well as the interior of our homes
tasteful and suitable, hav worth and interest;
while experience will prove how far Mr. War
ing's theories are practicable and advisable.
Perhaps the best work that such books do is of
a suggestive kind, in awaking thought upon the
subject, and leaving the attainable results to
Individual capacity and taste.
To the Students Smaller Series Harper &
Brothers have added Cox's General History of
Greece, work which, with the exception of
Grote's elaborate account, is the best history of
the ancient HeIlas in the English tongue. The
present volume has been reduced from the
larger by the omission of all illustrations and
some notes of little general interest. port
land: LorIDg, Short & Harmony
At the time of his death DR.. Charles Anthon
left ready for the press the text of the four
books of livy generally used as a textbook ia
our higher educational institutions He also
eft notes on the first and second books and the
first twenty-five chapters of the twenty-frst
book. The text and commentary are given
without any alteration in volume (unform
with the others of the Anthon edition of the
classcs) published by Harper & Brothers, and
for sale in this city by Loring, Short & Har-
mon. The introduction to the work, and the
notes on the remainder of the twenty-first
book and on the twenty y-second book, are fur
nished by that eminent scholar, Mr. Hugh
Craig, OF the University of Cambridge.
The Centennial Gazetteer of the I'm ted
States philadelphia; J. u. McCurdy & Co..
is volume of 1O16 pages, and appears, on cur
sorry examination, to be work of value, con-
else and accurate and conveying much infor-
nation in regard to the geography and educa.
tional and business statistics of the Union.
The work has been prepared with the especia
view of presenting the wonderful growth of the
nation during the first century of its existence
1t opens with general sketch of the country,
its history and its present condition and fol-
lows ttis with IKE alphabetical list of states,
counties and towns after the usual gazetteer
manner. Two supplements give all the facts
gathered by the publishers since the first edi-
tion of the work was issued.
Notes and Announcements
Roxy" DR.. Edward Eggleston's new novel
will be published in numbers in Canada, stimuli