The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-08-14

secure his social success; ana III is pleasant 10
read, through all this brilliant period he kept
up his home affection most warmly, never
failing to write to his mother twice a week
| and showing her the most constant and devoted
love and admiration. Moore's good and bad
traits were equally obvious he wore his heart
upon his sleeve, says his biographer, and the
world grew tired Of. looking at it. In 1908 he
| had an appointment to Bermuda, where he
| staid only short time then he visited the
| United States, his entire absence from England
covering only fourteen months. In 1912 he
| began to write Lalla Rookh, of which the in
teresting account written by himself, is trans
ferred to his biography. Moore's fame in
creased till 1928, writes Mr.. Symipgton, and
was then at it's height when he published The
Loves of the Angels His later years were
shadowed by the L IS of his parents and his
children. In 1913, softening of the brain be-
gan his death. Mrs. Moore, who is described
as most lovely and loving woman, cared for
him with the utmost devotion until his death
in 1852.
The popularity OF Moores works was not
limited to Engish-speaking lands The princi-
| pal scenes from Lala Rookh were represented
| bY tableaux at the court of Berlin in 1922, and
imperial and royal personages we're the actors
Alexandra Feodorowna, afterward Empress of
all the Russias took the part Of Lalla Rookh,
| and at her suggestion the Baron de la Motto.
Fouque translated the poem into German.
| Many extracts from Moores poems are pub
lished in this biography, with some critical
remarks showing how intimately connected
| were his gifts of music and verse, and how
| this inherent tunableness gives his songs their
wide and lasting popularity. Four poems read
at celebrations of Moore's centenary are ap-
| pended to the volume.
| Mr.. Richard Grant Whites volume on
Everyday English Boston: Houghton, Mifflin
q Co.; Portland: Loring, Short & Harmon is,
as may be supposed, a lively and entertaining
contribution to the literature of philology
He says many bright and sensible things, some
bright and unreasonable ones, and executes
fantastic dances around the strange
altar of Worcester's Unabridged. He
| first examines popular pronunciation, COM
pairing notes with Professor Whitney's work,
and stopping once in a while for remarks
such as his ingenious criticism on novelists
and poets who say that the warder lcound his
horn" when ,cinded is the word they mean,
the horn being filed with wind, not wound up
like clock or ball of cord. He speaks at
length of the proposed reform in spelling, but
considers that it would only add to the confu-
sion OF English written language. He makes
close distinctions, which it is useful to have
formulated, between will and SHALL should
and would. The latter chapters of the volume
upon common misuses of words technical cant
and popular phrases and elegant English
are particularly entertaining and often profit
able. MIR. Whites manner has the insistence,
the jerkness, and lack Of appreciation of the
relative value of his pet topic to other human
interests, which are apt to characterize the
writings of Jealous reformers, but he collects
interesting points and comments upon them in
his lively sub-acid fashion. After all, it is
worth while to study the right handling of
speech, and Mr.. Richard Grant White is an
active aid to such study.
Appetons Handbook of Summer Resorts
New York: ID. Appleton & Co.; Portland:
Hoyt Fogg & Donham) is an attractive and
full description of the principal pleasure and
health resorts of the United States. 1t is full
of reliable information, and its frequent wood
ties of our country. 1t is an indispensable vol
ume for Summer travellers and to the COM
pany of stay-at-homes it is the next best thing
to pleasure trip. Reading its pages, under
the shade of the nearest attainable tree, should
give fairly imaginative person quite sense
OF travelled experience. Messrs. Appleton's
guide books are fresh. reliable and subject to
such annual revision as is made necessary by
changes of timetables prices &c.
Messrs. Harper publish in their Franklin
Square Series Cross Purposes, a bright and
graceful novel by Cecilia Findlay; David
Armstrong, story of some power, but evil
IDENTIFY by young and inexperienced hand;
reprint of Charles Kingsley's Hypatia; several
excellent stories by Charles NoIdhoff, col
lected under the title of Cape Cod and ALI
Along Shore; The Pennant Family, very
beautiful story by Anne Beale; Poet and Peer
a novel by Hamilton Aide, in which the poetic,
and esthetic young reformer of the period is
handled with Skill and the moral of his selfish
and affected course held up with genuine art
of the novelist; Mrs. Oliphant writes an illus
trated biography of Queen Victoria, with many
illustrations, and describes the career and the
home life of Englands sovereign very agree
ably. Miss Bouvrie is bright and pretty
novel by Mrs Molesworth Anthony Troll
lope's new novel, The Dukes Children, is
return to his best vein of fiction The reader
meets the personages of his former novels, the
Duke of Omnium, and Phineas Finn, whom he
will be glad to shake hands with again. and
the story moves on in Mr. Trollope's slow,
minute and pleasant style. All the Franklin
Square volumes are for sale by Loring, Short
& Harmon.
Messrs. L. X. Funk add to their solid and
valuable Standard Series two volumes of the
Orations of Demosthenes; The Salon of Nine.
Necker, one of the graceful memoirs of society
at present SO much enjoyed by the reading
public. These notes taken from documents
preserved in the archives of Coppet, are edited
by NJ. Othenin d'Hausonville, great grandson
of Nine. Necker. Mister Horn and his
Friends, by Mark Guy Pearce, is a quantity
written popular tract; Lamartine's brilliant
Joan of Arc and Mr. Ruskin's poetic Frondes
Agrestes make up the varied list of the recent
numbers of this admirable SERIES
Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom and Wick
edness, collected and translated by j. de Finod
New York: d. Appleton & Co.; Portland:
Hoyt Fogg and Donham) does itself an inius-
tice in the last word of its title. 1t is happily,
rarely Objectionable in the least degree-it is
sometimes witty-but collection of epigrams
loses the individual brightness which singly,
some of its paragraphs would possess; and re-
sembles, rather than brilliants long string of
glass beads.
Appetons Summer Book New York. d.
Appleton; Portland Hoyt, Fogg g. Donham)
is an attractive pamphlet in cool, sky-blue cov-
ers, and containing many illustrations. 1t
describes some of the most picturesque pleas
ure resorts, and alternating with these are
essays upon the wonders of the sea shore, and
the beauty of light and air, directions for
shooting and fishing, and several excellent
stories and poems. 1t is precisely the book to
be taken on Summer journey, and enjoyed