The Portland daily press., 1877-10-27

Mr.. Habberton has written preface to a
little book entitled How we Raised our Baby,
commencing the volume as containing hints
winch VIII tend at once to lessen the -sSrtality
among children, and to prevent those of them
VINO i've to mans estate from becoming Grim.
inals, writer's for the press or members of Con-
gress.
| a new study of Thoreau is to appear in
England, from the pen of H. A, Page. the
writer of the recent memoir of De Ouiucey.
1t will deal particularly with Thoreau's rela-
tons to the anti-slavery agitation.
| Harper's Monthly proposes to delight its
readers with a number of brilliant continued
stories. Mrs. Thackeray Ritche's Da Capo is
to begin in December. IT deals largely with
Italian life. Owing to the illness of Mrs. Mu-
lock Craik, her new novel, Young Mrs. Jar
dine, will probably not begin with the num-
ber following. A new serial by Thomas Hardy
| will start in the February num mber.
The International Review for November will
contain the Hon. John jays answer to the
recent final action of the New York Historical
Society on Motley's appeal to history. The
same number will contain sonnet to the mem.
ory of Motley by Brya Mt, Hamerton's twelfth
art letter, an article on Islam and the Of
toman empire, by a chaplain in the United
States navy, and Horace White on the present
phase OF the currency question.
Green's History of the Englsh People-the
library work into which he has expanded his
Short History-will be comprised in four vol
umes, of which two will be published this sea-
i son.
Lockwood, Brooks & Co. will bring out in
few days the second volume of the Wayside
Series, (Nimport being the frst) Sir Randall
Roberts's Harry Holbrook. The third volume
will be Bourbon Lilies, story whose scene is
| laid in France, by Miss Lizzie W. Champney.
About Christmas will appear the first volume
of the Children's Art Series, book by the same
author. 1t will be illustrated by "Champ,"
the artist and will be entitled All Around a
Palette. Fourth in the Wayside Series, ap-
| pearing about December 1, will be Pillone, a
translation from the Danish, and the fifth will
| be Summit by Mr.. George Parsons Lathrop.
The report that volume will soon be issued
from the pen of Nimport's author is incorrect
yet second time book from that source will
come in due time, About the middle of No
vember the firm will issue the Life of the Rev.
DR.. Kirk, the former pastor of Mount Vernon
church.
In November, j. R. Osgood & Co. will pub
lish new volume by Charles Dudley Warner,
Being Boy, with illustrations by "Champ;'
Transcendentalism, by Joseph Cook, uniform
with his Biology; The Jimmyjohns and other
stories, by Mrs. A. M. Diaz; The Queen of
Sheba, by Aldrich, now running in the Altar.
tic; The Bride of the Rhine, by Colonel War
ing to be illustrated, and Frithiof Saga, trans
lated from the Swedish of Tegner, by L. a.
Sherman
The Hon. David A. Wells will have q third
paper in the forthcoming North American Re-
view, concluding his series on How Shall the
Nation Regain Prosperity? 1t will deal es-
pecally with American shipping The three
papers will be published in volume form by G.
P. Putnams Sons, as soon as Mr.. Wells COM
pletes his revision Of them.
The Polytechnicl Review, issued weekly at
No. 119 South Fourth St., Philadelphia, is one
of the few publications in this country which
are devoted to science and yet seek gener al
circulation Its pages are especially devoted
to applied science, though not absolutely ex-
Guiding theoretical topics. Hence its leading
features bear reference to our useful industries
and to those public as well as private enter
prses which require the aid of the engineer,
the chemist, or the expert in any branch of
physical research. The aim of this periodical
is to supply knowledge that shall be of use to
its readers in the practical arts of life, and it
appeals to mechanics, manufacturers and
tradesmen, as well as to members of the learned
professions. An effort is made to free the
treatment of each subject, as far as possible,
from technical terms and phrases. All the
important articles are signed by their authors
names or initials, practice which insures
care of statement and a responsibility other
wise scarcely attainable. The tone of the ed-
torial articles is straightforward and decisive,
as becomes those whose studies have been
directed to practical science.
The North American Review. so long an in
stitution of Boston, is to be transferred to New
York after the publication of the next nmuber,
which completes the current volume. 1t is to
be published by the firm of d. Appleton 8
Co. This move Is made purely as q matter of
business convenience. Mr.. Rice, the present
owner and editor of the Review, is q resident
Of New York and has found the difficulties of
conducting it with the headquarters of publica-
ton more than 200 miles away SO great, that
he has determined upon this change.
The almost panic" that has been created
among our large publishing houses-particu-
larry among those making a staple of foreign
fction-by the success of ten-cent libraries of
standard novels, receives a striking illustra-
tion in the statistics of the trade sales this fall
into which volume of standard literature has
been poured that represents at least a million
of dollars invested.in composition paper, bind
ing and other material interests, to say nothing
of the generally forgotten interests of authors.
To illustrate theiawhols mass of data with
single item, $4,000 worth of popular edition
of standards issued by one of our most promi-
nsnt houses.ihas been put upon the market
through the medium of the auctioneer. The
first days instalment brought twenty seven
cents q volume, while on the second day the
day the price fell to eleven cents-a fiuctua-
ton almost unprecedented IN literary statis-
tics. Standard fiction in expensive binding,
Moulding the works Of Dickens, Thackery,
Charles Reade and many others of similar
celebrity, has gone at the same low prices,
owing mainly. no doubt to an apprehension
that the daysof expensive editions has passed
by, although the general scarcity of money has
prob ably had some influence in determining
the resalt; and thus our large houses have
pretty thoroughly relieved themselves of
mass of materials that bade fair to become
rubbish upon their hands. The only remedy
for this ruinouS competition is of course the
long but vainly agitated international copy
right law, giving to authors the same property
lights in the market of the world as are ac-
corded to other producers of marketable COM
modities.-LibraTy Table.
The current number of Littelrs Living Age
contains Professor Proctor's paper from the
Contemporary Review son the discovery of
Oxygen in the Sum- "The Science of Electric
ity as Applied in Peace and War;" from the
Quarterly Review;s Green pastures and Picca-
dilly," and 'Doris Barugh," by the author of
"Patty."