The Portland daily press., 1877-12-08
Notes aud Announcements

Notes aud Announcements.
Mr.. Farieon has written the Christmas story
for the weekly edition of the London Times, of
which 100000 will be printed.
The London Quarterly Review for October,
repubiished by the Leonard Scott Publishing
Company, presents the following table of con-
tents: Memoirs Of Udilloa-Barrot; History of
the Monsols; C9sarism, Romanism, Socialism /:
the Three Extreme Ideals; Carriages, Roads
and Coaches; Contemporary Italian Poets;
The Lobster Grab and Oyster Fisheries; Al
fred Austin's Poems; The New Republic and
Modern Philosophers; Ordination and Confess
sion and The Liberal Party and Foreign Pol
itics.
The chief literary Interest of the moment CEN
tres arou0d Dr.. Schliemann's Grecian re-
searches, as the time for the publication of the
complete and authentic account of them draws
Nigh 1t is very much heightened by the pur-
port of Mr.. Gladstone's Introduction (soms
forty pages in leugthl, fully indorsing the work,
the full title of which is Mycena; Narrative
of Researches and Discoveries at Mycene and
Tiryns. The American copyright edition
printed from duplicates of the Euglish plates,
will bear the imprint of Messrs. Scribner, Arm
strong & Co., and will bs issued simultaneously
with Mr. Murray's London edition, The vol
ums is among the most splendid and copiously
illustrated books of modern times, containing in
all including maps aud colored plStesl over
seven hundred illustrations.
u. w. Carleton & Co. have in press A Pleas
ure Trip from New York to San Francisco" by
Mrs. Frank Leslie, and That Comic Primer.
by Frank Bellew. who dedicales his book to his
publisher, saying: $50 you, my friend, dedi-
cate my book. which, IL part, owes its style and
character to your efforts. We have toiled over
its pages hand ia hand. Whatever in this
oook1s untrue or uncertain or incomplete be
longs to you; whatever is true or noble, or help
Iul, is minep'
Parts 15 and 16 of Mrs. Martha j. Lambs
Illustrated History of New York, published By
A. s. Barnes 81 Co., are now out These COM
plete the first volume which is now ready for
delivery to subscribers. Tue volume is devoted
to the Early History of New York, from .hc
time when Manhattan Island was known only
to the Abori2nes until the year IVA, and con-
tsins nearly eight hundred pages, including
sixteen full page Engrsvings, one hundred and
thirty-three text illustrations, and niue maps.
10 a. Iioeo oA0 Akc w OOuWATQ, nr0Q-
sricks, Sol Eytinge, White, c. S. Reinhart
Thomas Beach, Abram Hosier, John Ksrst,
Jos. Harley, j. P. Davis, E. Clement, and 9TH
ers. The style of the book is 10 every way
worthy of the subject and the city. The paper
Is delicstely toned and of the best stock; the
printing is done with evident care and great
elegance; the Typography is clear and type new,
having been procured for this work expressly.
OF the literary merits and historical value of
the work we have repeatedly spoken and can
only reaflrm our commendatioD.
d. Appleton s. Co., New York, have in press
new Textbook of the Elements of Geology,
by Professor Joseph Ls Conte, designed both
for college students and for general readers
Sir Joseph Hooker, president Of the British
Royal Society, recently expressed his admira-
ton for the literature of the United States
surveys, which he thinks surpasses anything
yet done in older countries, and it has been
Professor Ls Conte's purpose to embody in his
manual the results of these surveys, so far as
they relate to geology and palaontology, and to
present themi in form conveniently accessible
to all readers.
The japanese have the story Of Rip Van
Winke in another form. A young man fishing
| in his boat on the ocean was invited by the
goddess of the sea TO her home beneath the
waves. After three days he lesired to see his
old father aud mother. On parting she gave
him golden caskst and key, bat begged him
never to open it. At the village where he
lived all was changed, and he could get no
trace of bis parents until lan aged woman rsco.-
lected having heard of their names he found
their graves hundred years old. Thinking
that three days could not have made such
change, and that he was under q spell, he
opened the casket A white vapor rose, and
under its influence the young man fell to the
ground. His hair turned gray, his form lost
its youth, and in few moments he died Of old
age.
&c. P. Putnam's sous have in press Nettie
Cruikshanks. novel by Florence NJ abel Hartt
novelist Of the mature age of eleven years
The same house add to their announcements
for Immediate publication q monograph By DR..
Hammond on Brain and Nervous Exhaustion; |;
two essays by David A. Wels-oue entitled
The Dollar of the Fathers versus the Dollar of
the Sons, and the other Why We Trade and
How We Trade; Prometheus poem by the
Rev. Samuel ?. Patnam; The Paradox and
Other Poems, By j. Albert Wilson. and b.
hGme, collection of poems by Charles Stuart
Wellss. Early in 1873 this house will publish
a series of art manuals, edited by Mrs. Robert
Carker.