The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-04-14
Recent Publications.

How TO CAMP OUT. By John M. Gould. New
York: Scribner, Armstrong & Co. For sale by
Loring, Short & Harmon.
Young people who are preparing for summer
camping excursions will thank Major Gould
for giving them in this little book manual
which will remind them of everything needed
in their preparations, and teach them all the
difficulties to be met with and how to overcome Q
them. Those who have never tried it will be
surprised to find how many things are to be
thought of. The chapter on cooking, with
statements of his army experience, illustrated
with sketches of portable stove, frying pap,
coffee-pot, ETC., by his friend Professor Morse,
is capital, and will instantly commend itself. If
the reader has ever found himself at the Islands
struggling with coffee-pot that would not
stand on a damp-woCd fire, perhaps he will re-
member the blessed relief which came over
him when an angel came along (he knew he
was an angel though he simply Appeared an old
veteran) and showed him how to sling it on a
pole over crotched stick. That very puzzling
problem, the tent question, is exhaustively
treated, and shows varied experience on the
part of the author. The suggestion about the
misery of having tent blown down in storm
will show the value of the advice. The various
methods of travelling, small parties afoot, large
parties afoot with baggage wagon, clothing,
marching and camping have each chapter.
The HYGIENE notes are valuable, and the part.
ing advice is so quaint and happy that it will
bear quoting: 'Be independent but not impu.
dent. See all you can and make the most of
your time; time s money and when you grow
older you may find it even more difficult to
command time than money"
The chapter on keeping Giaries although
short will be one Of the most significant to
those who know the author through his regi-
mental history, for they will appreciate that in
this, as we'll as other points, he gives no crude
theories but the result of many years solid ex-
perience such as few men have, and such as
the young reader Can better afford to obtain for
the reasonable price of one dollar, than to give
fifteen years OF labor 10 find out for himself.
The pAPAcY AND THE CIVIL POWER. By r. W.
Thompson. New York: Barper & Brothers
For sale by Loring, Short a. Harmon
Secretary Thompson's work is a strongly
| written protest against the interference of the
Papscy with the civil power, given under the
guise of historical sketch of the long struggle
which has been waged between sacerdotal
Rome and the. secular governments of the
world. 1t evinces great research and talent fol
| presenting the fruits of that research, and well
| fills loDg-standlng gap in history books
| There has been need of a work like this, giving
an account of the fight, IN whose tbckest We
| DOW are, between the Church and civil govern
ment. 1t would be well if al citizens should
| acquaint themselves with the history of the
struggle, with the aims Of Rome, with the
| peculiar methods which characterize her tor
tuous and far-reachiDg policy; and they car
| find the needed information no better nor more
entertainingly presented than in Mr.. Thomp
sons volume.
| The author avows in his pref zee that he ha:
| prosecuted his labors from the Protestant
standpoint. but processes that heis not aware
| of bavDg been influenced in either investiga'
ton or conclusion by religious sympathy. His
| professional training, he thinks. has led &c
| judicial examination of evidence and Judicial
| comment. In the main this appears to be true
| but professional training" has in one or two
instances led to special pleading, to an unmis
takably professional use of technical points
| For example, in his haste to make poin
! against the Papacy he questions the right oi