The Portland daily press., 1878-10-12

form the subject of another series, to run
through the year, the first Of which will b
embellished with carefully prepared portrait
of Modjesks.
80 large was the demand for the October
Atlantic Monthly that second edition has
peen issued. 1n the November number will be
apaper by the author of Dangerous Tendeu-
cles, upon the origin and aim of the Nationals
or Greenback party. 1t will give the result OF
tne conversation Of the author with promlnent
Natlonallsts In New York, New Jersey aud
pennsylvania, and show hos wild aud fanat-
lcal are the doctrines held by these Green
DacSers. The author is an Indiana man. ard
mas had wide opportunity to leara the extreme
views of the party
u. Lothrop Il Co. will issue the following
DOCKS soon-Eyes Right, by Adam Stwiu. a
story for boys; Four Feet, Wings aud Fins,
| oy MRS. a. e. @. Anderson Maskel, a book of
tacts and talks about the animal kingdom.
overhesdj What Harry aud Willy discovered
In the Heavens, boys book on astronomy:
Royal Lowrie, boys book, by Charles r. Tai
bot; Sidney MsrtIn's Christmas, by Pausy;
and True Blue. story of real life in the North
west, by Mrs. Lucia Chase Bell. The firm has
in preparation Johnny's Vacation, by Miss NJ.
e M. Hathaway, resident of Taunton.
Io-daS's publications by Houghtou, O,good
q 20. will be The Europeans, by Henry J.nss
Jr., The History of Indian Lter.ture. bv
Albrecht Weber; the poems on Africa in Long
fellows series, and five volumes Of Southey in
the riverside edition of British poets Next
week saturday will appear The Story of q
Cat, translated by T. b. Aldrich from the
french of Emile de la Bedolliere, an abridse-
ment OF James Sp ,ddiug's Life and Times of
Lord Bacon, and the biography of Turner in
the Artists series.
There has appeared in London, under the
title. 'Ths Problem of the Homeric Poems"
work by Professor W. ID. Geddes of the
Univerity of Aberdeen, in which he claims
tnat part OF the Had was the production Of
an early poet who lived in Asia. and used Thes.
salian traditions, while in the mainder Of the
Iliad and the whole Of the Odyssey belong to a
latter Ioet, full of Southern sympathes and ac-
quanted with the work of his predecessor
This later poet took the earlier wosk and
grated on it splendid and vigorous saplings
OF his Own, Transforming and enlarging it into
an Iliad. but an Iliad in which the migrating
ia not absolutely complete, where the 'sututes'
are still visible" DIR. Geddes thinks the inter-
val between the first composition and the
second was so long that there was time for ,hs
rise and spread of a second series of names of
stars and consultations. He also says that for
a considerable period after the Homeric poems
were composed, writing for ordinary literary
purposes was unknown. One of his critics in-
quires how, ii writing was then unknown this-
complex litara-------
Prof. d. j. Hill, Of Lswisburg University,
the author of two very successful textbooks on
Rhetoric, has just undertaken q very important
literary work. 1t is the preparation of . series
of brief biographies of our great American
authors, such as Irving, Poe, Hawthorne
Prescott, Bryant, Cooper, and Others Sheldon
& Co. will bs the publishers.
Next Tuesday Messrs. Roberts Brothers will
publish Louisa NJ Alcott's Under the Lilacs,
which has beeo RAINING in serial form In st.
Nicholas; Philip Gilbert Eamsrton's Mod
ern Frenchmen, book of biography Of
Victor Jacquemot. Henri Perregue, Francois
Rude, Jean Jacques Ampere and Henri Reg
nault uniform with TIE Intellectual Life;)
Robert Lowelps A Story or Two from an Old
Datch Town and Religio Medici, and miscella-
neous writings of Sir Thomas Browne, with a
life and portrait on STEEL Contributions to the
Masque of Poets, the forthcoming No Name
book, are still received, but the volume will be
published in November. Guy Vernon, q COM
plete novelette, in verse, will occupy nearly
third of the volume. Well known British and
American poets have written for the book and
ii will excite wide curiosity to learn who are
the anonymous writers.
Messrs Lee s. Shepard will issue Immediate
ly A Womau's Word and What Game Of It,
an edition of the poems of Wordsworth, the
book of Riverdsle Stories, Lake Breezes, The
Golden Shore, Elementary Course in Geometri-
cal Drawing, Live Boys or Charles and Nasho
in Texas, Select Poems of Harvey Rice and
Unity of the New Testament. The Hymn
chosen by the firm for their annual illustration
as a holiday gift-book is Nearer. My God, to
Thee. The engravings are artistic, and the
stanzas will be printed on one side only Of fine
paper.