The Portland daily press., 1878-11-02
SATURDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 2.

AmcItCd VI MS duoptiOu1 OIIou appear WIittOh
In haste, for journalistic use or for anniversa-
ries, and become in this way less lasting in
their quality: but in any poem OF his it is easy
to recognize warm-hearted singer, with more
than common voice and art; ready, practised,
with fine dramatic power and knowledge OF
the musical resources of verse that he can, at
need, postpone to the movems sn5 and vigor of
narration.
The present volume of Mr.. Longfellow's
Poems of Places Boston: Houghton & Oagood;
Portland: Loriug, Short g. Harmony takes the
reader on song-pilgrimage through Africa,
the Barbary States, Egypt, Nubla, Abyssinia
and the Great Desert of Sahara. Naturally,
much of its verse has been inspired by Egypt,
the land of the sun. "a land Swallowed with
WINGS" Among the poems included in
the volume may be noted Egypt, as sung
by Mr.. Longfellow himself and by
Mr.. r. III. S.oddard-the first in his
charming Keramos, ths other in his largely
designed and finely wrought Centennial poem:
Mr.. Bayard Taylor's sonnet, Nubia, song
like lotus.hower laid on lids asleep; fine
poem by Mr.. George Wilson, entitled the
Sphinx and the Pyramids; Hymn to the
Nile, translated from the Egyptian by Mr.. f.
U. Cook, poem with the slow swaying mo-
notony and haunting cadences that Verdi has
transferred from the traditions of the Egyptian
music to his opera Aida 1t may be readily
understood that this volume is one of the
choicest of its SERIES
Mr Joaquin Miller's Songs of Italy Boston:
ROBERTS Brothers; Portland: Lorng Short Ss
harmony deepens the impression made by the
'oiune OF MS poems which Immediately pre-
ceded 1t: that as poet Mr.. Miller is more
thoroughly dead than any other maker of
verses; that as obseques his publications are
wholly successful; and that the reviewers of
his country will cheerfuly assist at the inter.
ment OF his literary remains. What was
Iondis deemed awildwood SAVIOR in his early
western verses, now, to use his own choice
phrase, "smells loud' of coarseness and stale
ness. All sorts of comical over-assonances,
anu aIn I've rhymes in midst of lines, allitera-
tions, verbal reese mblances that BILE on the
DrlhK OF puns, wholesale plagiarisms-for
instance, note Princess Maud, aud endeayor to
enter into the probable state of mind of the
English Laureate-all these and the far more
serious faults of coarseness and mproprietv of
A.. 'ght and language destroy the life, once ex-
,.,na with much luxuriant promise. of Mr.
~ |sa.. A 'ler's poetic future.
Nr,se,u Rhv,.s and Melodies of Mother
Goose, illustrated BY ). F. Goodridge (Boston;
Ice & Shepard; Portlan.' BAILEY q Noyes,
Is poorly gotten up in cheap s..yie' with Illus
trations that are unreffned in design and badly
executed.
Recollectisns of Writers, by Charles and Ma
ry Cowden Clarke tNew York: Charles Serb.
ner's Sons; PortlaC {; Loring, Short & Harmony
is one of the choicest, most pleasurable and best
worth the reading of lte-sry memoirs. The
happy, clear and unaffected ma nner OF writing,
and the notable subjects of the skeetehes, COM
bine to produce most valuable and tteilghtful
result. The preface by Mrs. Cowden Ci Ci.>rke is
full of the most genuine feeling; and the CHIP
ter of the general "reminiscences of these lives,
so rich 10 choice friends, and the chapters sew
orally devoted to recollections of Keats Charles
aud Mary Lamb. Leigh Hunt, Douglass Jerro.
and Dickens, abound in interest Iti volume
of which the worth and enjoyment are not to be
described, but proved by each reader for him
SELF Ii is one of the choice publications of the
year.
England from Back-Window Boston Lee
& Shepard; Portland Bailey & Noyes) is the
title that Mr.. Bailey, more widely known as the
Danbury News Man, gives to his volume of
travel. 1t has precisely the merits and the
faults that might be expected: it is often elabc-
rately humorous, with much effort; again, the
fun is natural and even laughable; the observa-
tion is keen, not seldom commonplace and
wanting in refinement; but the work is through
out well intentioned, honest and readable when
1t is not trying to be funny.
Messrs. Appleton of New York portland:
Bailey g. Noyes) publish very attractive and
convenient handbook for the use of those pro-
posing to visit American winter resorts for
health or pleasure. Many good illustrations
give an idea of the picturesque points of the va
rious routes ard the information as to soil, cli-
mate, situation, best modes of arriving, hotels,
So, is given with care, accuracy, and in pleas.
ant manner. This guidebook will be found in
dispensable to winter tourists.
American Colleges: Their Students and
Work, by Charles F. Thwing, New York: G.
?. Putnam's Sons; Portland: Loring, Short &
Harmony is volume devoted to the coDsdera-
tion of every aspect of college life in America.
and will greatly interest those who are in any
way connec ed with our universities. The ex-
penses of the collegiate course; the moral, re-
lgous and social conditions, Athletics, Fellow
ships, College ] ,urnalsm, &C., are among the
topics treated. The style of the work is unaf
fected and business-like.
Notes and Announcements
In January next The Literary World which
has been published as monthly for more than
eight years, will be changed to a fortnightly,
and will thereafter appear under date of every
other Saturday. The subscription price will be
raised from 81. so to So 90 year; but the price
of single copies will be reduced from fifteen
cents to .en. The general character of the pa.
per will remain unchanged.
A suit has been brought by the Harpers in
the United States Court at Cincinnati against
Robert Clarke & Co. of that city for an in
fringement of copyright laws in the sale of an
edition of Stanley's work, which was printed
in Toronto, Canada. OF this edition Robert
Clarke & Co. sold thirty five copies before Har-
per & Brothers had published the work, and
suit is brought to test the validity of Mr.. Stan
ley's copyright for America
Emile Zo'a's new book, Helene; A Love Epi-
sode. tale of Love, Passion and Remorse, is
In press and will be published in few days by
7. B. Peterson & Brothers, Philadelphia.
The author of the very clever Political Ad-
ventures of Lord BsacoDsfeld turns out to be
Mr.. Frank Harrison Hill, editor of the London
News, already known as one of the most vigor-
ous of literary portrait painters.
The Noyem ber- q Dacem bar number of the
North American Review will contain an arti-
Gle by Hobart Pasha, Admiral of the Turkish
Navy, on System of Ofense and Defense in
Naval Warfare, which will give the result of
his experience in the late European war
Matsuyama Makota, of JAPAN will present in
the same number the views Of the people of his
country in relation to the course that has been
pursued towards Japan by the United States
and the European nations.
Mr.. Roe's new story, which is entitled A
Face Illumined, is 10 the hands of the printers,
and Will be issued by his publishers, Messrs.