The Portland daily press., 1879-02-08

meets the real, where the rainbow touches the
earth Bot to return to the Boy Captain.
DICK Sands courage, fidelity and readiness will
have po weriul bold of the mind of the reader,
the perils he escaped, and from which he saved
mis- friends, are of the most exciting character;
and the variety and astonishing turns of tho
story may only be imagined in recalling M.
Verne's usual wonders Of ingenuity in that
line. The very elegant biuding, paper and
type and the spirited Illustrations add to the
attraction of the volume.
Messrs ID. and j. Sader: New York, publish
avolume, translated by Mrs, Agnes SAdisr
from the French of Paul Fsvsl; and entitled
the Jesuits. 1t is written with much zeal; aud
is In defense of the society of Jesuits. For
sale By T, P. McGowap.
The volume of Spiritual Songs, compiled by
Rev. Charles S. Robinson New York: Scribnsr
s. Co. is an exceedingly elegant, attractive
and uscfol volume. 1t contains large num-
ber of choice hymns, with accompanying mu-
sic, selected with care and fitness for purposes
OF church and family worship. The music Is
generally we'll selected, including melodies Of
Mozart, Haydn, Handel, Purcell, Tullis, Men,
delssohn. Barnby, and many other good tunes
OF more or less popular character. DIR. Robin
son has struck happy medium In his work.
making it very suitable for devotional purposes
aud also including a few revival hy mus to please
the less fastidIous taste. The volume IS bJund
very richly in dark brown Cheney silk; and Is
handsome in every detail of type and material.
II may also be had in less expensive form.
Little Dorinda New York: d. & j. Sadlier)
is lively little story that one likes despite It's
shortcomings. 1t is foil of the animal spirits
of literature AMI is as entertaining as squirrel.
As 1t May Happen philadelphia: Porter
& Coates) ia story of some power and orIgi-
Dslity, and of at least average merit The am
btious lawyer and his comic clerk are tiresome
after awhile; the heroine Is very prettily drawn;
the old miser is to be praised for uniting affec-
tion TO his avarice; and the minor parts are
fairly taken. The story is earnestly written
and merits share of praise. 1t will have many
interested readers.
Messrs. Harper of New York, publish In
their franklin Square Library portland,
Loring, Short & Harmony Balwers Last
Days Of Pompeii Through Asiatc Turkey, an
interesting account Of Eastern travel, by Mr..
Grattsn Geary; Sport and Work on the Nepaul
Frontier, very fresh and unaffected piece Of
writing, fall Of valuable and interesting par
ticulars, including indigo-planting and tiger
hunts, from q writer who names himself
maori " Also, q reprint Of Jsne Eyre, with
its tremendous, hard rhetoric, its colorless
heroine and rough hero-that created so great
diversion from the claims Of conventional
beauty aud chvslry in fiction. After all, was
this change heslthfa? It Is not fne in
stinct that asks for some ideal qualities In the
psrsonages of the fiction to which We turn for
rest and recreation?
Mrs Merriam's Scholars iB ,ston: Roberts
Brothers; Poftlsnd: Loung, Snort s. Fl ,rmon.)
is one of E. E H.les well known and favorite
stories of the work of the "Wadsworth Club"
Messrs. Hougbton & Osgood cortland: Lor.
ing, Short s. Harmony publish another volume
of Rev. Joseph Cooks Monday Lectures, en-
ing style is so well known as to need no de-
scrlption here. Each Of the ten lectures in
cluded in the group has Prelude on Car
rent events. The lectures were reported for
the Boston Advertiser, and though revised by
the speaker, contain the incidental notes Of
applause, &C., the publishers believing that
the signs of the sentiments expressed BY the
hearers of the lectures will interest their read.
ers
Messrs. Harper's excellent series of biogra-
phies of English Men of Letters Portland: Lor.
ing, Short & Harmony receives q valuable ad-
ditiou in Prof. Huxley's memoir of David
Hume. 1t is q strong portraitufe OF the sub
ject; his concsit-as apparent as that Of Mr..
Pepys thoagh in jss dignity and sslf-rsspect,
widely differing from the curious chatter of the
communicative author of the Diary-,eems
rather the ribute to truth and his own identity
than deslrs for praise. He ordered that to bis
name, simply cut upon his gravessone, should
b. added only the dates of his birth aud death
and Leaving it to posterity to add the rest.
NJ. Huxley is an excellent leader Of the
chorus CT posterity in it's comment upon the
dead philosopher; and follows the life and
works of Hume with much sympathetic ap-
precistoD.
The youth Of Hume was full or fsAaiv am.
bitions: aud 10 his letters be showed tendency
to inflated diction-lsss reprehensibe, however,
in those days Of stately periods than 10 our own
time. His mother, from whom be Inherited
his intellectual gifts. is said to have spoken Of
him in terms that did not edo equal credit to
his heart and head" 'Oar Davies Q in,,
good natured crater, bat UNCOMMON wake
minded" This comment, Mr.. H1xley is glad
60 believe, is somewhat apocryphal. II is readi-
ly understood that the biographsr of Hums
has b1en we'll selected for that duty; and that
the biography is Of great iaterest and value.
Mr.. William Blacks contribution to the
same series is biography OF Oliver Gold.
smith, Of whom he draws charming Hseness
1t is natural that Mr. Black in his quslisy Of
novelist, should fesl vary ksealy the beauty of
such fms WORK as the V,oar of Wakefield, aud
should greatly appreciate the clear and genial
quality of Goldsmith's talent. It is unneces-
-ary to add chat Mr. Blacks easy, winning and
dramatic style gives great liveliuess aud fresh
ness to his portrait of the very interesting sub
iecs he has choseu. The memoir is foil Of
readable and q iotable things.
Messrs. Harosr's franklin Square Library
portland: Loring, Short s. II rmon) now in-
cludes Colns's Man and Wife. p dI and
Ingenious noyaI1-written against the injustice
OF Brltssh statutes concerning marriage. The
sketelh of Geoffrsy Delsmayn, the athlete, with
his enormous brute strength aud pitiable COL
lapse, is a word 10 time for the pedestrians who
ara VFearyiug ths world with overmuch walk
ing. Another volume of the same series is
Aa Eye for an Eye, by Anthony Trollope, an
unpleasant story, neither worth wstiug nor
reading. M. Trollops has been criticised for
too lpttle incident aud too great proixlty iu his
storYes-but when hs exsrts himself to bs SEN
satiooal he is api to bs disagreeable. He
is ssn excellent and infinitely faithful de-
lines,tor of English life, wish its social
relations, its duilness, its lawn-:ennis, its
politics. For them that like his novels
his aovels are what they like; and until re-
Gently he has, very sensby, kept to his natural
gait. The franklin Square Library Is won-