The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-03-02
Notes and Announcement nts.

Professor A. j. Schem has in preparation a
book on the Turko-Russian war.
"Dr. Mortimer's Patient" novel, by Fannie
Bean, is announced by G. W. Carleton g. Co.
"a Paper City," Petroleum V. Nasby's novel
is nearly ready for publication by Lee s. Shep-
ard.
Another translation Of Faust is announced
in England, by G. II. Bowen, who renders il
into English verse.
The story of Bsryn, originally from the
Gesta Romanorum, has been dramatized in
England by DIR. Averlng.
We are promised a translation in English
of Jacob Grimm's great work, Deutsohs Ny
thologie.
The hitherto imprinted works of Wyclffe
are in the press of the Early English Text
Society.
The next volume of the Artist Biographies
to be published by Houghton, Osgood & Co.
will be Claude Lorraine
A life of Pope Leo Kill, in pamphlet form.
is being printed. The author is father Berna I'd
OReily, Jesuit priest, who has contributed
many very interesting volumes to Catholic lit.
erature.
Professor 81. III. Boyesen Of Cornell Universi-
ty has in preparation commentary on Faust
with chapters on Goethe, Schiller and Lessing,
for use in colleges, which will appear in the
spring from the press of Houghton, Osgood g.
Co.
Constantinople will be the subject of book
soon to be published by G. P. Patnam's Sons,
by Edmundo de Amicis, young Italian an-
thor of books upon Spain, Holland and other
countries. The translation is by Mrs. j. R.
Tilton, an American woman in Rome.
E. T. Dutton & Co. will soon reproduce
'Some Difficulties in Belief" volume of SER
mons, by the Rev. 7. Teignmouth Shore which
has reached the fourth edition in England. The
house will also publish Dr.. Farrar's work on
Language" and his volume of sermons en-
titled Eternal Hope"
The new volume of travel by Ubiaue, Par
ker Gilmore, The Great Thirst Land, does not
treat of Maine as might be supposed, but will
contain description of the unknown lands be-
tween the Lmpopo and the water sheds of the
rivers recently explored by Stanley and Came
ron, and also the scene of the present war on
the frontier of Cape Colony.
Mother Goose is the subject of another book.
Lee & Shepard will publish it under the title of
The Lawrence Mother Goose, and the rhymes
of the nursery will be arranged for dramatic
evening entertainments. consisting of tableaux
pantomine and vocal and instrumental music.
Full directions for acting and the music will be
given, and Mistress Elizabeth Goose will have
new lease of power in home life.
Lee & Shepard will give to the trade the last
OF next week The Historical Students Manual,
a small, thin volume by Mr.. Alfred Waites, an
Englishman who has lived in Worcester for
several years. 1t is really an extended table
presenting the coutemporaneons rulers and
leading events in England, France, Germany
and the papacy from the time of William L. of
England to the present
Mr.. W. 81. Bishops "Detmold" the eleventh
and twelfth chapters. will have the first place
in the April Atlantic. and will be- followed by
sonnet upon "Pigeons," by Mr.. Edgar Faw-
cett. "A Persian Poet will be devoted to a
review of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
lately issued by Osgood & Co. A sketch of his
life is also given, but it takes little space for if
he had been Shakespeare he could not have
had more meagre biography A subtle an
alysis of his lfe-philosophy explains the quail.
ty of the poetry.
Professor Luigi Monti has written for Lee g.
Shepard, book entitled ga Consul Abroad"
which will show the absurdities in the American
consular service. His consul" is man,of good
abilities, with fair amount of book knowledge
bus who is ignorant of the three essentials-the
methods Of commerce, French and Italian (for
he is supposed to be consul to an Italian city).
He has salary of S15OO out of which is to be
paid $500 for clerk hire, $500 for rent and the
expenses of servants and an establishment.
Consequently he is driven into mean quarters
Stunned by other diplomatic representatives,
and is their laughing-stock.
Houghton, Osgood & Co. will conclude the
first group of the series of artists biographies
with the lives of Sir Joshua Reynolds and
Washington Allston. 1t will be observed of
the series thus far, that it has included
painters OF several nationalites and closes with
an American. A like method may be followed
with subsequent issues, variety and interest
oelng thus secured with recognition of merit
IN European countries aud our own. Mr.. Long
reiiow's twentieth volame of poems of places
Will not clear the bounds of Europe, but will
gather the gems of verse about Russia. Then
ne will cross over to Asia, where there is aDun-
dant material among the Persians and Hinaoos
for future volumes