The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-06-04
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will find this an interesting addition to the
literature of the kitchen; and the American
woman, fated to make daily pies, will learn
lightness of touch and consequent fiakiness of
pastry from Mrs. Ovens minute and emf
inently good suggestions in that respect
What Shall We Do with Our Walls? By
Clarence Cook. New York: Warren, Fuller
Il Co.; Portland: Loring, Short & Harmony is
another volume Of household art, this time
concerning the wall-decorations of dwelling
places. Whether considered as to their own ca
liabilities of beauty of color and design, or as
background for objects of art, or for pictures
the walls of room certainly require apt treat
ment Mr.. Cooks suggestive volume includes
some very elegant designs, printed in gold and
colors, from originals by Messrs. Tiffany &
Coleman
Tigers and Traitors. New York: Scribner's
Portland: Loring. Short & Harmony is the Sc
quel to M. Jules Verne's thrilling story of
The Demon of Cawnpore. The illustrations
are dramatic; and the translation, by Miss Ag-
mes ID. Kingston, is faithful and spirited
Those who have followed the fortunes of the
Steam House and its inhabitants thus far, will
have awaited the sequel with impatence to
enjoy the amazing invention, the admirably
graphic style, the manly, direct and exciting
narrative which are sure to be found in NJ
Verne's work. He creates a fairyland of to-
day, he demonstrates by scientific deductions
of which the fallacies are hidden with delici
Gus address-that the impossible exists every
where, he has seized upon the fruits of recent
research and theory with the hand of a magic
ian and converted them into the most brilliant
and fascinating fiction. Peerless in the line Of
books of adventure, Mr.. Verne's stories may
be placed without hesitation in the hands of
young persons-if the hands of their elders can
so soon relinquish the enhancing volumes.
Switzerland. By Harriet Slidell- Mackenzie.
Boston: D. Lothrop) This attractive and en-
inently readable volume is included in Messrs
Lothrop's Library of Entertaining History,
edited by Mr.. Arthur Gilman of Cambridge.
switzerland, with its ice peaks made white
and clear for home for Freedom, its ancient
glaciers and deep lakes has always been nota-
BILE in the worlds sight; and the history of its
people and political progress seems in harmony
with its natural features. Artist lover of ma
ture, political observer find Switzerland full
of interest The illustrations of this volume
are OF remarkable merit; and Miss Mackenzie's
clear and unaffected style we'll conveys to
the reader the results of her familiar and thor
ough study of Swiss history.
A History of the Christian Religion to A.
n on0 Rv Cb r1ao u yUo;ta /NI;o.ro. n Vt
Waite & Coz is laborious and careful study
upon the early history of the Gospels, canoni-
cal and apocryphal. A chapter is devoted to
the Lost Gospels. Rea ders will differ as to
the worth of the authors conclusions concern
ing some tenets of faith; but will appreciate
the amount of material collected and rendered
available for comment and comparison.
A Story of a Growing Boy. By William o.
Stoddard. (New York: Charles Scribner's
Sons; Portland: Loring, Short s. Harmony is
capital story for the older boys, and is re-
printed from recent numbers of the St. Nicbo-
las Magazine. 1t is full of fun, liveliness and
entertainment. Dab Kinzer will DO voted a
good fellow, whether at home, at school or out
fishing.
The New Nobility. BY J. W. Forney New
York: d. Appleton & Co.; Portland; Hoyt,
Fogg & Donham,) is a comical specimen of the
spread-eagle style of American fiction. If the
reviewers columns were elastic, and time and
opportunity seryed, the readers of the PRESS
should have their share of the fun which copi-
Gus quotations from the New Nobility would
not fail to afford. The free and easy fashion
with which family of Americans mako them
selves quite at home among the rulers of effete
monarchies the various extraordinary para
phrases of the poets diction that kind hearts
are more than coronets, are in the richest vein
of unintentional humor.
The Students Dream (Chicago: Jansen,
McClurg & Co.. is stated by the author to be a
Horoscope of Mental Growth, Containing a
Metaphysical Discovery. AS no one, after
reading the book; will be any the wiser or
more able to define its contents than he was
before that experience-it may be as we'll to
agree beforehand with the author that it is a
Horoscope and let it go at that
Messrs I. K. Funk of New York add to their
valuable Standard Series of pamphlets Lothian,
by Disraeli Principal Shairp's Culture and
Religion; Carlyle's Sartor Resartus; Part and
of the Diary of a Minister'S Wife, lively and
severe sketch by Almedia M. Brown; and the
Nutritive Cure, which seems of the nature of
an advertisement for the sanitary establish
ment of its author and thus appears rather
outside the limits of the series to which the
volume belongs.
The "Spoils" System and Civil Service Re-
form is published for the Association for Civil
Service Reform by Messrs. Putnam of New
. York portland; Loring, Short & Harmony and
conveys Mr.. Dorman B. Eaton's tremulous
conviction that the country is going to the bad
generally.