The Portland daily press., 1880-11-20

In1CE CENlS.
School Physiology. By Richard j. Dungli-
son, A. NJ NJ. D. philadelphia: Porter &
Coates; Portland: Dresser & McLellan), is a
volume written in a style suited to school pur-
poses, with view to teaching the general
structure OF the human frame and its sanitary
conditions. The work is illustrated
The Brain as an Organ of Mind. BY III.
Charlton Bastian. NJ. A. NJ, d. f., r. S. New
York: d. Appleton & Co.; Portland: Hoyt,
Fogg & Donham) is an elaborate work upon
brain and nerve processes as relating to the
action of the mind. Professor Bastian, in his
clinical experience at the London Hospitals, in
his experiments concerning the analogies be-
tween the brain-action of the lower animals
and that of man, and by comparing notes with
other scientists has collected materials for this
volume, which will interest specialists in the
department to which it belongs.
Health. By w. H. corfeld (New York: ID.
Appleton & Co.. Portland: Hoyt, Fogg &
Donham). The author of this volume is Pro-
fessor of Hygiene and Public Health at Lon
don University, and holds a similar position at
Cambridge, England, together with govern
ment office in the Health Department at Lon
don, so that the lectures of which the work is
composed, come with the authority Of an ex.
pert. The notes upon sanitary arrangements
for dwellings, and the general drainage ETC. of
cities will be read with interest by Portlanders
in their hand-to-hand struggle with the mala-
If RaoIx pax "a
theories merit careful consideration.
Cooking and Castle-Bulding. BY Emma p.
Ewing Boston: j. r. Osgood & Co.. Portland:
Loring, Short & Harmony. This is a cookery
book, baked in very thin puff-paste story.
The recipes are given with great minuteness
of detail-always comfortable to inexperienced
housekeepers-and certainly are in many cases
practical and good. But the directions for
testing whether bread be sufficiently baked
cast gloom and doubt over the volume
What will the neat-handed Phillises think of
lady who gently touched the tip of her nose to
the new-baked loaf, and il it burned the fea-
ture-the bread was either done or not, the
PRESS does not remember which, "the subse-
quent proceedings interested it no more"
What is woman's imagination and delicate
instinct worth if it does not teach her to be
dainty in her household processes? The ro-
nance of the volume is not half so sensational
as this recipe, and may pass unnoticed.
The Young Lady's Friend. Edited by Mrs
Fl. o. Ward, philadelphia: Porter & Coates;
Portland: Loring, Short & Harmony is a re-
print of an old volume upon etiquette. The
hints given are such as good sense ought to
suggest to any young woman and the dressing
room door is set open with an unreserve that
is hardly advisable, certainly not agreeable.
Greek Mythology Systematized. By 8. A.
Scull philadelphia Porter & Coates; Port
land: Dresser & McLellan). This is very
elaborately arranged work, and one which
must have given great pleasure to the author
in process of writing, and will be found useful
to the student of classical lite rature. 1t un-
dertakes to set Olympus in order, and give a
catalogue raisonee of the unreasonable deities;
and its careful arrangement gives it worth as
a reference book. 1t is not wholly free from err
rors; but evidences much scholarly comparison
of authorities and comprehension of the plan
| and scope of the classic myths.
A most interesting volume of the Epochs
of Ancient History, is one by Mr.. S. G. W.
Benjamin, concerning Troy, as known by le-
gend history and literature. CNew York:
Charles Scribner's Sons; Portland Loring,
Short & HARMONY The ''tale of Troy divine
is forever new; the immortal beauty of Helen
hovers about the place; and the winds of to-
| day blow the battle cry of the ancient Greeks
| to our ears. Prof. Benjamin has compared
multitude of authorities and singularly COM
plete picture of olden Troy, and full, learned
| and valuable series of comment upon the lit
erature and history relating to the time and
| events, and exact and valuable typographical
notes are the fortunate result of this combina-
| ton Of literary enthusiasm and scholarly ac-
| curacy.
| Methods of Teaching. By John SWEET, (New
York; Harpers; Portland: Loring, Short 4
Harmony is practical and very suggestive
volume concerning the matters of his profess
sion by the principal of the Girls High School
and Normal Glass, of San Francisco. 1t con-
Germs itself little with theories but rather pre-
fers by example, to suggest to teachers various
methods of drawing out the individual powers
of the scholars, of holding their interest. and
making lessons, instead of dry book-routine,
| an awakening of the natural intelligence of
the pupil and an opportunity for him to sharp
| en- his wits against facts, instead of turning
their edge on the hardness of 'schoolmaster-
| isms." The author considers that school study
should prepare the young mind to take hold in
lively and effective fashion of real affairs; and
all his hints tend to this desirable result 1t is
an admirable work, and should be in the
hands of every teacher.
Among recent numbers of Messrs. Harper's
Franklin Square Library portland: Loring,
Short & Harmony are a Memoir of Sidney
Smith, by his daughter, Lady Holland, which
is of course full of sparkling anecdote as we'll
as of valuable detail of the life of this witty
and wise man; pamphlet containing three
volumes of the English Men of Letters series,
viz: Principsl Shairp's Life of Burns, Mr..
| VIM. Blacks Goldsmith and Prof. Froude's
| John Bunyan-which to mention is to praise:
| another contains Mr.. Leslie Stephens Samuel
johnson, Sir Walter Scott, by R. II. Hutton,
and Trollope's Sketch of Thackeray cheap
reprint of Mr.. Trevelyan's Early History of
| OuaiiOo u duOo Il VA uuioo auotouS IEtu0 duQ
! Prejudice, so greatly admired by Sir Walter
Scott, and a very classic of duietness; A Sail
or's Sweetheart, sea-story by the author of
The Wreck of the Grosvenor, and not less per-
feet in vraisemblance and minut detail; Lord
Brackenbury picturesque novel by Mrs.
Amelia B. Edwards Just as Am, an interest
ing story of English society, by Miss Braddon;
Three Recruits, a fresh novel by Joseph Hat
ton; and From the Wings, specimen of the
novel which young English ladies Of unlimited