The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-02-16
Note. and Announcements.

Emilio CASTELAR, is putting into Spanish Vic
tor Hugo's History of Crime
A new uniform edition of the elder Dumss's
works is to be issued oy Messrs. Routledge.
An interesting fragment of an historical
papyrus, recording the fifty-fourth and fifty
fifth years of Rameses IL, has been lately ac-
quired by the British Museum.
Prof. Huxlsy's recent lecture to workingmen,
or how best to educate for handicraft, will be
published in the March Popular Science Month
ly.
The next book in the "Cobweb Series" by
Estes & Lauriat, will be "Dosin" Russian
story translated from the French of Henry Gre
vile by Mrs. Mary Neal Sherwood
Houghton, Osgood & Co,will issue soon a vol
ume on Gothe aud Schiller by Professor H. H.
Boyessn of Cornell University. "Marmontel''
will be the subject of the next volume of auto
biography.
Professor Stanley JevoDs is at work on an
abridgment of Adam Smiths Wealth of Ma
tions for the use OF students, adding important
notes and calculations. Macmillan 81 Co. will
be the publishers.
The March-Apr number of the North
American Review will contain a discussion of
six prominent clersymsn in the country, rep
resenting as many sects.
Most remarkable relics of Oiinic myths, still
current as folklore rhymes, have reached Karl
Blind from Shetland, and will be published ard
discussed by him 10 an essay, showing their ORR
gin and connection with the ancent Teutouic
creed.
Westminster Abbey is the subject OF an Illus
trated contribution, to appear in ths coming
March number of St. Nicholas, which will de.
scribe the Shrine of Edward the Confessor,
The Tomb of Handel, aud the Wolfe Memo.
rial, beside the monuments of men of mora
modern fame.
Canon Farrar, who has baen studying the
Jewish Talmud, which some have imagined to
be mysterious mine of literary treasures, says;
"There is more beauty and poetry in single
book of Homer had almost said in single
ode of Horace-than in the entire Misns.
There is transcsndentally more wisdom and
depth in single chapter of St. John or st.
Paul than 10 all the folio volumes of the Tai
mud put together"
Professor w. g. Sumner sounds in the March
Scribner note of warning TO parents on the
subject OF What our Boys are Reading, being
presentation of the contents of soms of the
flash stories so widely current among boys. The
code Of co1duot inculcatsd BY these stories is
condensed by Mr.. Sume Ger Into few terse par
| agraphs, and the parent is left to draw the
moral.
Nj. Francis Parkmaa's latest work receives
exceptional attention 10 the Atheneum, which
regrets that he ''did not alter his original plan
| to the extent of writing a complets and CO.
| ordinate history of the French ia Canada"
| The writer of the review makes an extended
| and most favorable comparison of Mr.. Park
| mans merits with those of other American
| historians.
| A religious story called Ernest Qlest, or the
| Search for Truth, by Mrs. s. II. Ford, author
| OF Grace Truman and Mary Buuyap, the
Dreamer's Blind Daughter, Will soon be pub
lshed by Sheldon s. Co. The hero is young
man of wealth and culture. but whose head
has been turned by much reading of modern
science. until hs fiads himself in sea of doubt
aud despair, from which he is rescued after
long struggles, by return to the simple faith of
his childhood.
Of Mrs. Louise Chandler Moulton's recently
published volume of poetry the London Taller
| says: "We have read Mrs. Moulton's poems
with the inevitable result of finding 10 her
well nigh tue one absolutely natural singer 10
an age of 'esthatio' imitation. Shs gives the
| effect of sudden note of the thrush heard
through chorus of mocking-birds and piping
bull-6nches. And it follows that poems which
| give this effect must needs have something of
! their own not to be found elsewhere. This quail