Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-11-16
New Publications.

lived again at Schloss Ambrass. Boston Ad-
rerftSer.
New Publications.
We have received from c. b. Farrell
publisher, Washington, ID. c., handsome
volume containing "Ingersoll's Interviews
on Talmsge." These interviews were six in
number. upon as many sermons by Talmage.
The work also contains a "Talmagisn Cate
chism." For those who are pleased to read
Iugersolfs thrusts at the Bible and Christian
ity, these Interviews will be very acceptable
reading. They supply some of the sharpest
hits made by the brilliant sceptic against the
religion of the Bible. Ingersoll makes the
Bible study only to defame it. Whatever
from its pages can be turned into ridicule he
seizes upon and holds up in his epigrsmmatic
and captivating style to public derision;
while the deep truths and religious spirit
which pervades the book of books appear to
be entirely beyond and outside of his notice
and comprehension. lngersoll is n living
example that man may be great in intellect
and yet fool in all that pertains to the
spiritual and religious nature of man.
The serial novel which recently passed
through the columns of the Atlantic Monthly
entitled doctor Zay," of which Elizabeth
Stuart Phelps is the author, has been pub
ished in book form by Houghton, Mitilin 4
Co., Boston. The scene of this story is laid
in the town of Sherman, Maine-no credit to
Maine, however. DIR. Zay is female ply
sician of the homeopathic school, who selects
sherman as the place to begin practice. Be-
sides being in love with her profession and
skilled and successful in her practice, she is
a beautiful, cultivated woman. the picture of
whom is well calculated to disarm prejudices
against female doctors. A young gentleman
from Boston visits Sherman, is Sc
riously injured in an affair with runaway
horse, and for months is attended by DIR.
Zay. The young man RECEIVERS the use of
his broken limbs and his health but
loses his heart TO Doctor Zay. His wooing
is very peculiar and very interesting, espec-
tally the closing chapters, in which it turns
out that Doctor Zay though long refusing at
last consents. Whether the author intended
her story to magnify the Office of female doc
tors, or TO illustrate the difficulties of win
ming such persons to marriage, she has sue
ceeded admirably in doing both and giving
the public fascinating book. For sale by
Horace North.
Houghton, Mifflin & Co. publish volume
containing Mother Goose for Old Folks
by Mrs. A. ID. r. Whitney. The author
copies from the original Mother Goose Melo-
dies, and follows each extract with wise,
witty and humorous comments in poetry,
intended for an older class of readers than
those whom Mother Goose has so long pleased
and instructed The book is really very in
teresting, and displays much skill IN the au-
thor both in versification and the clever way
IN which she turns the ancient work to a new
use. Horace North has il for sale.
The international Review for November
has contents as follows: RAILROAD Co.
operation" G. w. Bullen; "A Few Hints on
the Foreign Policy of the United States"
Bainbridpe Wadleigh; English Views of
America" Samuel w. Mccall; 1.-The Truth
of Anti Slavery History" George w Julian;
What the tariff laws have done for us,'
John Roach; Railways in Mexico" NJ.
Romero.
Another volume of the Campaigns of the
Civil War" has been issued by Charles
Scribner's Sons. entitled 1.-The Mississippi
the author of which is Francis Vinton Green,
lieutenant of engineers in the u. s. Army.
This is a very thorough and careful work,
compiled from the Records of the War of the
Rebellion in regard to military operations 10
the Mississippi Valley during the war. The
early proceedings are not sketched so
elaborately though complete in outline and
capture of vicksburg and Port Hudson, which
had very important bearing upon the
fate of the Confederacy and foreshadowed its
final defeat. When the great river was made
finally free from source to mouth, as it be-
came in a few days after the fall of Vicks-
burg, the Confederacy was rent in twain and
was so crippled that its collapse was mathe-
matically certain and but a question Of time.
This volume fills an important place in the
history of the war, and explains many things
not before generally understood by the public.
The Westminster Review for October il
received from the Leonard Scott Publishing
Co. The contents are "River Pollution;
Count Struensee and Queen Caroline Ma
thilde'; "Socialism''; "The Poetry of Mrs
Z. Is. Browning; France, the Chamber,
the Gambetta Ministry, and its Successes";
1.-The Jubilee Of the first Reform Act" "The
British Association for the Advancement Of
Science; parliamentary Procedure; no.
tices of Contemporary Literature.
We have received from s. W. Tilton &
Co, Boston, "Motber Goose" with outline
pictures, designed for those learning to paint
in water colors. A nice thing for the pur-
pose intended. Also from the same publisher
We have copy Of their "Introductory Les.
sons in Drawing and Painting in Water
Colors," by Marion Kemble. These lessons
are self-instructve.
Ex-senator David X. Atchison of Missouri.
for 36 hours "interregnum President" of the
United States, is now rs years old, and is
rapidly falling in health.
Twenty Years a Sufferer.