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The Portland daily press., 1881-11-05

My First Holiday. BY Mrs. Caroline FL. Dali.
Boston: Roberts Brothers; Portland: LoriDg,
Short & Harmon) This recital OF the author
ess's adventures and experiences in the course
of tour through Colorado, Utah and Caiiior-
mia is minute in observation and record. But
the reader is led to consider how important is
clear atmosphere in a book as in landscape.
Mrs. Dalls observations seem made through
cloud Of alkali DUST such as besets the travel
Ter in traversing certain section OF cou"try on
the road to the Pacific. She sees mountains
in their grandeur, prairies like sea with How
ers for foam-but the irritating particles are
not gotten away with In plain terms the writ
er appears quite too apt to notice annoyances'
to resent little lacks of courtesy, to expect peo-
pie and things to conform to her convenience;
and-fnal fault of a tourist-to be more I'M
pressed with the evil seen than with the good.
Unless subsequent outings are more genialiy
and winningly recorded than this oAe writer
and readers may be well enough content that
her first holiday should be her last SO far as
literary enjoyment is concerned-though her
work contains good degree of information
and-where the prospect pleases and there are
no inhabitants to be delineated some very
agreeable pages of descriptive writing.
The Portland daily press., 1881-11-05


An Italian has gone into the prophecy
business His plan is a tremendous one.
1t is published in the ill-starred Aurora of
Rome, which was founded at th beginning
of last year as the Pope's personal organ.
According to Leonardo Aretino, the name
of the prophet, the world will begin to come
to an end on the 18th of this month. His
prophecy reads like a fireworks programme.
On the day named the sea will overflow the
coasts. Second day: The lowlands will
be submerged. Third day: All fresh water
fish will die. Fourth day: All salt water
creatures will perish. Fifth day: All the
birds will expire. Sixth day: All the houses
in the world will tumble down. Seventh
day: All the rocks burst asunder. Eighth
day: General earthquake. Ninth day: The
mountains VIII collapse. Tenth day: All
human beings will be struck dumb. Eley-
enth day: Graves will yawn. Twelfth day;
A shower of stars. Thirteenth day: De-
mise of the entire human race. Fourteenth
day: Heaven and earth will be consumed
by fire. Fifteenth day: Universal resur-
rection and last Judgment. AS facetious
advertisers say, ''Cut this out and paste it
in YOUR hat.''
The Portland daily press., 1881-11-05
Politics and Business.

Many morals have been drawn from the
the Newark defalcation, and much good adj
vice is offered to bank directors by the news
papers. II is nowhere suggested, however,
that banking is a dirty business with which
honest and prudent men do not care to med
die, and that consequently it has fallen into
the hands of professional cashiers who run
the banking machine to suit themselves.
Men engaged in mercantile affairs, those
managing benevolent and educational enter
prises, and those who till the soil are fond
of talking, in time and out of time, of the
debasing effect of politics, of the venality of
officeholders, of the alleged corruption and
jobbery in National and State and municipal
administration. In those rare cases where
government officer is found short in his ac-
counts, or convicted of abusing the opportu-
mites of his position for the sake of pecuni-
ary gain, it is the fashion to throw the en-
tire blame upon "politics," and to treat the
offenders misdeeds as necessary outcome
of the political system as much as the
result of his own weakness and wickedness.
In fairness those so hasty to condemn the
shortcomings of government service ought
to saddle upon trade the misdeeds of the
shop-keeper who swindles his creditors or
defrauds his customers. They ought to Wis
it upon religion the sins of the ministers
who make it cloak for wickedness.
This, however, will not be done. The Sc
verest and most voluble denouncers of the
civil service will be found in that class which
weekly furnishes long list of breaches of
financial trust and mercantile honor. Not
withstanding the fact that government SER
vice shows far less per centage of financial
wrong-doing than any other branch of busi-
ness, and, considering the opportunities for
peculation and the money it handles, far
more fidelity on the part of the servants
than other monied institutions, the honest
merchant, and bank cashier, and treasurer
of this or that charitable association, will
continue to cry aloud against the corruption
of politics. Great is cant.
The Portland daily press., 1881-11-05


SIR CHARLES GAvAN DUFFY, once
known as one of the EXTREMIST of Irishmen,
has published pamphlet in which he says,
speaking of the land act: ''Now, my friends
this not measure to be received grateful
ly, and to be utilized to its utmost possibili-
ty of good? mean. nothing is clearer than
that all the productiv We energy, all the gen
erous enthusiasm of the people should be
Immediately directed to this task; that we
should seize all points of vantage without
delay. If were bishop would write
pastoral; if were priest would preach
discourse; if / were journalist would
make myself heard from the rostrum OF the
profession; if could do no better wonld
beat drum on the highway to command
the ear and fix the attention of the Irish
people ON the splendid opportunity they
possess of becoming prosperous and happy
The Portland daily press., 1881-11-05

Martin Luther. (New York: G. P. Putnams
Sons; Portland: Loring, Short& & Harmony. This
is the most recent addition to the New Plu
tarch Series, and contains an interesting and
circumstantial account of the life of Martin
Luther; the writer rather choosing to observe
the character of the great reformer in his etfic-
lent and practical work as an apostle OF liberty
than as viewed from the ground of polemical
differences and technicalities. The power and
tenderness of Luther and the stirring events of
his life are clearly described; and the memoir
is both interesting and valuable.
The Portland daily press., 1881-11-05

Franl Fort Henry -, -Gerissth-Rg lInnM
F. Force, CNew York: Scribners; Portland:
Loring, Short & HARMONY is another volume oil
the Campaigns of the Civil War Series, cover
ing the period from the Summer OF 1861 to
May, 1862 Col. Force was in command OF the
Doth Ohio regiment at Shiloh, and gives rap
id and solderlike narrative of the compaign in
the West Nine volumes will complete the
series, indispensable to every patriotic citizen
who desires clear, authoritative history OF
the Rebellion. And it may here be added that
the substantial form and low price OF the vol
umes are further recommendations to popular
acceptance.
The Portland daily press., 1881-11-05

THE Washington Post proposes for that
city statue to ''the wisest statesman, the
most profound lawyer, and the grandest or
ator of his generatiou,' Daniel Webster, and
suggests the Tooth anniversary of his birth
next January as fitting occasion to be-
gin the project. 'Eyen," it says, 'if we
were obliged to melt up few of the horses
which paw at us from so many elevations,
the sacrifice would not be too great.
The Portland daily press., 1881-11-05

THE Gar has postponed his coronation
until April. Spring has been pronounced
by competent authority the most beautiful
season of the year, but it is not probable
that this fact influenced the Gar in his ac-
ton. The longer he postpones his corona
ton the less chance there will be of his as
sassination on that occasion.
The Portland daily press., 1881-11-05

Before and After the Presidents Death. By
Henry w. Bellows, d. D. New York: G. T.
Putnam's Sons; Portland: Loring, Short q
Harmon) This pamphlet contains two SER
mons, delivered by DR.. Bellows in All Souls
church, New York city, upon the Sundays i'm
mediately before and following the death OF
President Garfield. The large faith, pious con-
fidence aud warm humanity and patriotism OF
these sermons commend them to the nation that
mourns its greatest and best beloved citizen.
The Portland daily press., 1881-11-05

"THE failure of the Mechanics Bank of
Newark, N. j., recalls" to the Baltimore
American, ''that of the Glasgow Bank.
There is the same rottenness and the same
carelessness and negligence on the part of the
responsible authorities of the institution.
Here is fine chance for Jersey justice
The cashier confesses himself to be forger,
liar, perjurer, thief. What confession are
the Directors going to make@'
The Portland daily press., 1881-11-05

THE venerable Archbishop of Tuam has
Joined hands with his colleague of Cashel in
denouncing the anti-rent manifesto of the
Land League. This is denunciation
which will carry with it even greater weight
than that of Archbishop Croke. The aged
prelate of Taum, now past his nintieth year,
has won the affections of the Irish Catholics
by life of beneficent labor. He is deeply
and deservedly reverenced, and with many
what he recommends will have all the
weight of law.
The Portland daily press., 1881-11-05

Massachusetts in the Woman Suffrage
Movement. By Harriet FL. Robinson. (Bos-
ton: Roberts Brothers; Portland: Loring,
Short & Harmony This volume recspitulates
the history aud progress Of the Woman's
Rights movement in Massachusetts,. 1t con-
tains, as the substance of the book, SIX chap
ters and an appendix of fourteen sections-af-
ter the usual proportion of the feminine letter
and postscript. 1t is most gratifying, indeed,
to see how large field has been opened for
woman's work, and how the community is
gradually and healthily arousing to sense of
Justice as to pay, protection and social admis-
sion for women who can work well. But the
women who insist upon the ballot as the uni
versal remedy-and the over-strenuous and
too-vocal sisters are many and Suffrage is the
badge of all their tribe"-do much less to bring
about happy solution of affairs than may be
hoped from the moderate, intelligent and hu-
name efforts of good men, who are used to leg
islation and to affairs, and who, having In
mind their own mothers, wives and sisters,
NAV be safely trusted to do well by all women.
The Portland daily press., 1881-11-05

AT the coming election the voters OF Ne
braska will decide whether women of that
State shall have the right to vote; Wisconsin
will pass upon the question of biennial cleo
tions and legislative sessions; Maryland will
decide upon the time of electing judges;
Minnesota will consider three amendments
providing for equal taxation, prohibiting
special legislation, and regulating the pay OF
legislators, and Colorado will fix the place
for her canitol
The Portland daily press., 1881-11-05

THE Readjuster leaders in Virginia ex-
pect to poll about 10000 white votes and
from 5000 to 10000 colored votes, which
will insure them a majority of from $4,000
to 10000 They are confident of the Legis-
lature, which will elect United States SEN
The Portland daily press., 1881-11-05

EVERY regular attache Of tho PR is furnished
with Gard certificate signed by Stanley Pullen,
Editor, Ali railway, steamboat and hotel managers
will confer favor upon us by demanding credentials
Of every person claiming to represent our Journal
The Portland daily press., 1881-11-05
THE PRESS.
SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 5

We do not read anonymous letters and commun
cations The name and address Of the writer are in
all Indispensable, not necessarily for publiea
ton but as a guaranty Of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or pres We com
municstions that are not used.
The Portland daily press., 1881-11-05

THE latest on dit is that if the South is to
have representative in the Cabinet Of
President Arthur, ex-senator Spencer of
Alabama will be the person chosen.
The Portland daily press., 1881-11-05

The Candle of the Lord and Other Sermons.
By Phillips Brooks. CNew York: E. P. Dutton
& Co.. Portland: Hoyt, Fogg & DonhamJ
The many hearers who have enjoyed the stir
ring power, the large magnetism, the earnest
conviction and rich, impetuous torrent OF Mr.
Brooks's oratory will recognize in this selec-
The Portland daily press., 1881-11-05

Our Little Ones. Edited by William T.
Adams (Oliver Optic.) (eoston; Lee & Shep-
ard; Portland: Loring, Short & HARMONY.
This charming volume, with its artistic cover
of dainty design by Miss O. A. Northam, con-
tains the numbers for 1881 Of magazine edit
ed by the familiar friend Of young folks, Oliver
Optic 1t is designed to please the wee ones,
that like pictures and iingles and stories about
dolls and kitties-on the way to promotion to
st. Nicholas stories 1t is good praise, and
none too good for this little magazine, to say
that it is perfect in its way. The stories are
bright and brief, the illustrations remarkable
for their aptness to teach little children to like
beautiful pictures by accustoming their eyes to
correct and spirited drawing; and the authors
of the songs and stories are among the best
writers for young people
The Portland daily press., 1881-11-05

The Outbreak of Rebellion. BY John G.
Nicolay New York: Scribners; Portland: Lor-
ing, Short & Harmony. This is one OF series
of volumes entitled Campaigns of the Civil
War, which are to be written by experts in
military affairs and men prominent in the
fields of war and military history. The time
is ripe now for such books; the smoke and
heat of war are past, but its events are fresh IN
the minds of men. The writers employed
upon this series have the advantages OF their
experience, of official records, of journalistic
reports, and various other authorities. Mr..
NicoIay, in his capacity of private secretary to
President Lincoln, had, of course, remarkable
opportunities for observing the course OF the
Rebellion, and his work is compact, vigorous
and able. Eight maps illustrate the course OF
the war, recorded in this volume as far as the
disaster of Bull Run
The Portland daily press., 1881-11-05

THE net funded debt of New York city
now amounts to $99,26l,000
The Portland daily press., 1881-11-05
new Gazetteer of rEaIne.

a GENTS wanted In every town to sell this splen
IA did book. 1t supplies a real want; every citi-
zen needs it. Exclusive territory and no competi-
ton. For particulars, address the publisher
B, B. RUSSELL, 81 Cornhil, Boston.
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The Portland daily press., 1881-11-05

Boston Town. By Horace e. Scudder.
Boston: Houghton & Mifiin; Portland; Lor-
ing, Short & Harmony. Although it is fair to
suppose that this book is prepared especially
for holiday gift to Boston boys and girls
their young contemporaries all over the coun-
try may well take an interest in the historic
stories told so delightfully."- by Mr.. Scudder.
Two boys and their grand!ather-who must
be of kin to the energetic, merry and wise
Bodley family, so fresh and contagious is their
interest in everything worth knowing about
visit the old landmarks of Boston, and the
boys learn about the early days when Indians,
pirates, Tories and teapots that held harbor
full of water were the order of the day. FIne'
clear type and creamy paper and good iilustrs-
tions are appropriately given to the volume
The Portland daily press., 1881-11-05

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The Portland daily press., 1881-11-05

Edwin Forrest. BY Lawrence Barrett (Bos-
ton: j. r. Osgood & Co.; Portland: Loring,
Short Sc Harmon) This generous and full
memoir OF one OF the last of the sons OF stage
thunder will he found exceedingly interesting.
Mr. Forrest was of the good old robust school OF
tragedians who could tear passion to tatters
in majestic fashion, and who had little In
common with the languid elegance and draw
ing-room repose of the modern stage, where
the lifting of an eyelid, or removal of glove
is tt ken for the expression Of sentiments that
a decade or so since would have raised the pit
and shaken the gallery with muscular effi-
ciency The commanding physique, porten-
tous voice and untamed impulses together
with the really great dramatic talent OF Forrest
gave him prominent place in theatrical an
mails of his day; and Mr.. Barrett gives an i'm
partial, though very kindly, account OF For
rests career, passing as lightly as might be
over the great defects of temper that ruined
his happiness and much marred his useful
paco
The Portland daily press., 1881-11-05

To Messrs. Scribner of New York the PRESS
is indebted for two volumes, bound in brilliant
red and gold, containing the numbers for the
current year of the St. Nicholas Magazine. Tho
variety, delightful quality and lasting worth
of this ideal magazine for children are particu-
larly evident when the numbers ara collected
so that the contents may be seen at glance.
Mrs. Mary Mapes Dodge is remarkably fitted
for her task as editor; and the st. Nicholas
magazine has come to be an indispen-
sable visitor in almost every household where
there are children No holiday gift could be
more acceptable to child (and childhood is a
period indefinitely extended if enjoyment OF
st. Nicholas be the measure of its season) than
the bound volumes of 1SS1-and subscription
to the same for 1882.
The Portland daily press., 1881-11-05
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Chatterbox Junior (New York: r. Worth
ington; Portland: Dresser & McLellanl. This
is an annual for children; and is snowy in ap-
pearance, with short stories, anecdotes and
poems. and many pictures, some of which are
very pretty The volume is suited to a variety
of ages, from the tiny ones Of three or four
years to the "almost grown-up' young people.
The Portland daily press., 1881-11-05
Juvenile Books.

The Children's Book. Edited by Horace E.
Scudder. Boston: Houghton. Miflin Col
Portland: Loring, Short & Harmony A sump-
tuous Christmas gift is prepared for little peo-
Pile By Mr.. Scudder, who has no superior in
the art of entertaining children. The pleasant,
easy style in which he writes for them suits
them precisely; in his work is no suspicion Of
"talking down" from polysyllabic heights, or
of gotten up and fantastic imaginings that be-
wilder the new minds to which the world as it
stands is wonder enough in brief, Mr. Scud-
der knows that children like bright, straight
forward stories and he instinctiyely writes in
the very way to delight them. With this SYM
pathy with children and their likings, Mr..
Scudder is the appropriate man to select and
arrange large volume of standard selections
for young readers; and for this purpose he has
gone over great field of folk lore, and taken
from fables, ballads, fairy tales and wonder
stories to make up most delightful volume.
Here are some Of Esop's Fables, with innumsr-
able pictures of the animals and their doings;
stories from the fairy. book of the Brothers
Grimm; some tender little songs to be sung in
the twilight above sleepy eyes; stories, like
Cinderella and Pass in Boots and Jack the Gil
ant-Killer, that are old as language itself;
some of Hans Christian Andersen's never
wearying tales, and tales from the treasure
house of the Arabian Nights; olden ballads;
the amazing stories of Lilliput and of Baron
Munchausen; and few lovely Greek myths
which altogether make an inexhaustible store
of delight for the children. The illustrations
are many and good, the binding, type and pa
per of this large volume are rich and tasteful.
The frontispiece, designed by Miss Rosina EN-
met, is exquisite in outline, coloring and imag-
ination.
The Portland daily press., 1881-11-05
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Recent Publications.

Bayard Taylor's Home Ballads tBoston:
Houghton s. Miflin; Portland: Loring, Short
& Harmony. This volume, prepared for a
holiday gift-book, is not only elegant in the
appointments suitable for its purpose of pre-
sentation-but contains group of poems
which are good to read again and again; their
sincere and warm-hearted LONELINESS, their
simple beauty of wording and rhythm never
fail to impress and charm the readers mind.
Mr.. Taylor thought much of the relations OF
art to life; he was not content to let his verse
live for beauty alone-and this seriousness Of
poetic conviction sometimes hindered the free
and swift movement of his song. In a re-
markable volume of short poems, published a
year or SO before his lamented death, Mr.. Tay-
lor expressed the belief that sought after with
longing over the world, Song sat at the house
door Of every singer, familiar and not an
alien spirit. The poems contained in this
group were of brilliant varied and satisfying
quality perhaps none more 30 than those
from among which the five poetic sketches are
chosen to make up the present volume. They
are descriptive of the quiet, repressed and
sound-hearted folk among whom Bayard Tay-
lor passed his youth. Among these, the Qua
ker Widow is exquisite in gentle and restrained
pathos, and the peaceful atmosphere that rests
upon the verse. From this to the strongly
characterized figure of the old Pennsylvania
Farmer, sitting in the spring sun, grumbling
at fashioned ways of ploughing and seed
ing, is q wide range Of portraiture; and the
Aollytree and John Reed, md Jane Reed take
medium coloring, between the delicate tints
of the first and the stronger shades OF the latter
picture. The illustrations are worthy OF the
poems, designed and engraved by eminent ar
fists; and tho binding, type ETC., are in fine
taste,
The Portland daily press., 1881-11-05

Around the Hub. By Samuel Adams
Drake. Boston: Roberts Brothers; Portland:
Loriug, Short & Harmony is volume Of de-
sign similar to Mr. Scudder's work. 1t is
rather more general in its plan, giving an ac-
count of the settlement and subsequent history
of Boston and its vicinity and is an excellent
and pleasant companion for young students OF
American annals. 1t is fully and well Illus
trated.
The Portland daily press., 1881-11-05

Tutti Frutti New York; George w. Hsrlan)
is book OF songs for children, with decorative
designs in black and white The songs are BY
Miss Laura Ledyard and w. T. Peters, and
are singable and bright-some OF them full OF
baby grace. But word of protest may be
made here against the touches of coduetry,
that amuse older readers in these Watteau-like
little men and maids, but which children do
not understand, and which in so much lessen
the desirability of the book for little readers.
Coming, Little Miss Turner, Little Elsie,
Shopping and The Tin Coachman, will be
found delicious songs for the children; and
mammas and aunties who will be called upon
to make plain the medieval lettering, will be
rewarded by a song of such exquisite fancy and
music as Then and Now.