The Portland daily press., 1881-05-21
Recent Publications.

Rome and Carthage. By r. Bosworth
Smith, NJ. A., Assistant Master in Harrow
School, &C., (New York: Charles Scrbner's
Sons; Portland: Loring, Short & Harmony is a
recent addition to the compact and useful Ep-
ochs of Ancient History Series. Mr.. Smith
evidently sympathizes with Carthage in the
desolation and ruin which the Roman victors
left behind them, rather than with the con-
querors; and he traces in graphic and strong
fashion the history of the doomed city from its
beginning to lis destruction, closing with a
sketch of its pathetic and ghostlike loneliness
of the present.
Christ and Modern Thought, Boston: Rob-
erts Brothers; Portland: Loring, Short g. Har-
NOM is a volume containing a series of ten
lectures, delivered by various doctors OF drvini-
ty in the Boston Monday Lecture course. They
are introduced by preliminary lecture by DR..
joseph Cook, concerning The Methods of
Meeting Unbelief. His system is somewhat
homeopathic, he is apt to dose people who do
not believe with things that no one can believe
for he is as loose as to facts as he is stringent
in setting forth statements. He is species of
theological Jules Verne, embroidering a small
piece of truth with elaborate and effective mis-
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES and charming in
the novelist. Unlike previous volumes of the
Monday Lectures containing Mr. Cooks ad-
dresses-these, by gentlemen certainly not less
wise or eloquent than he, include no demon
strations of the delight of the audience. Just
here neat paragraph from the Shoe and
Leather Reporter inserts ITSELF
The Boston Globe pursues Rev. Joseph Cook to
Scotland That paper thinks it discovers in the
bracketed applause and Sensation in the report
of lecture given by Mr.. Cook at Dumfries, evil
dences that he has recuperated his brain sufficient
ly to ''read his own proofs again.
Cooperation as Business. By Charles
Barnard. New York: G. P. Putnams Sons;
Portland: Loring, Short & Harmony This in
teresting and apparently very practical treatise
is rearranged and expanded from papers con-
tributed by Mr. Barnard to Scribner's Maya
zine, the New York Spectator and Indepen-
dent, and from an address before the Ameri-
can Association of Social Science. Mr.. Bar
nard is a particular, ingenious and agreeable
writer, something after the fashion of Mr.. E.
E. Hale, but less fanciful and more simple in
imagination. 1t is by no means with any de-
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nomy that the words apparently practical
are applied to them-but only to suggest what
Mr.. Barnard not less than another knows, that
well-planned theories are sometimes hindered
in their actual working by factors which could
not have been foreseen or counted upon. Mr..
Barnard draws sharp line between his views
of cooperation and any communistic theories;
his scheme is merely to simplify and render
more direct the processes of trade, and by CO.
operation and union of interests between buy
er and seller to save money for both. 1t is
written with moderation and in pleasant
style and deserves large circulation among
right-minded thinkers upon social economy.
How to Tell the Parts of Speech BY E. A.
Abbott Boston: Roberts Brothers; Portland:
Loring, Short and Harmony This is capital
little manual, which is able to make the drea.
ry paths of English Grammar delightful and
fowery for young feet. Noun, verb, adjective
are no longer the dry and lifeless chrysalis
that they seemed to little students of the gram
mars OF former years-but are seen to instruct
with the winged life of words. DIR. Abbott
from his experience as Head Master of the
sympathy with young people-without which
no man ought to be master of any school-has
prepared one of the best of grammars, lively,
clear and reasonable 1t will not fail to please
pupils and teachers equally.
Giorgio and Other Poems By Stuart Sterne.
(Boston: Hougbton and Miffiin; Portland:
Loring, Short and Harmony The poem which
gives its name to this volume is setting of an
unpleasant and somewhat commonplace tale Of
medieval Italy, with love, treachery and re-
venge in sensational contrast and proportion.
1t was not a story worth the telling and not
profitable when told. 1t might-if told at all
have been outlined in short poem and gained
in strength what it lost in length. Stuart
Sterne writes smoothly and is quite capable
of composing many good lines and expressing
strenuous, if not especially novel, sentiment.
The movement of her verse is often harmoni-
Gus though usually too slow; and no trait OF
notable musical worth makes up for the delay.
Her shorter poems are better, some very good;
while the same over-huency and lack of mo-
ton and too subtle thought render them some
what monotonous and not quite healthful.
Blessed Saint Certainty. By the au-
thor of His Majesty, Myself, Col. Dun
woddie Millionaire, etc. (Boston: Rob-
erts Brothers; Portland: Loring, Short & Har-
mon.) This is vigorous story in which the
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