The Portland daily press., 1883-07-14


ing of direct personal relation to each indi-
vidual member of humanity" gives us the
novelist. As this idea of personality grew
and developed, so the novel increased in
power and personal analysis, as Mr.. Lanier
shows by comparing extracts from
various writers, until it eliminated
in the works of George Eliot. OF
her and her wonderful creative power he
speaks with unqualified and enthusiastic
admiration. With this growth of the novel
have science and music kept step. Mr..
Lanier condemns unsparingly the naturalis-
tic school Of NJ. lola, and ridicules with inn
patience the idea that science is going to do
away with poetry and all imaginative litera-
ture, for as science brings man into closer
contact with nature, so much fuller and
richer will be the poetry of the future, and
so much more scope and form will the i'm
agination have.
Only faint idea of the worth of this book
can be given in a short review. 1t must be
read and studied, the enjoyment derived
from its perusal well repaying one the time.
The Atlantic Coast. By Rear Admiral
Daniel Ammen. New York: Charles Serb
ner's Sons; Portland: Loring, Short 6 Har-
mon.) This is the second volume of The
Navy in the Civil War, and deals with the
naval operations on the Atlantic coast from
a faithful record of the long sieges of Char
lesion and other Southern ports, and is sup
Piled with the same faithful maps and index
that made the first volume so valuable
The Gulf and Inland Waters. BY Com
mander A. 7. Mahan, United States Navy.
This is uniform with the above volume, and
the last of the Sc ). The achievements of
the -N&SS+@Issra-SE on the Mississippi and its
tributaries, and on the Gulf and the Red
River, either independently or in co-opera-
ton with the Army, form one Of the mos
thrilling chapters in the history of the Civil
War. Commander Mahan has done full
justice to this side of his narrative, but he
has given at the same time a record of this
part of the war that has greater claims to
historic value than any which have preceded
it.
Gettysburg to the Rapidan. The Army of
the Potomac from July 1868 to April 1864.
By Gen. A. A. Humphreys. This is little
supplement to the Scribaer Campaigns of
the Civil War, and is made up of material
intended for vol. II of that series, but ex-
cluded therefrom by its bulk. 1t is graph
ic account of the last operations in Vir-
ginia.
An Inland Voyage. By Robert Louis Ste
venson, author of Travels with Donkey in
the Cevennes, and New Arabian Nights.
Boston: Roberts Brothers; Portland: Lor-
ing, Short & Harmony. This is another
charming little book from familiar hand,
and is irst-class light reading, showing the
same easy style that marked the former pro-
auctions of this author.
x. w. A Detective Story, is the very
odd title of the newest of the "Knickerbock-
er" series, by the author of The Leaven-
worth Case. This is the shortest and slight
est of Miss Green's wonderfully effective
stories, whose plots not even Wilkie Collins
could improve upon. 1t is charming little
paper covered volume from the Putnams
portland: Loring, Short & Harmony
From the same publishers we have anoth-
er promising volume, Topics of the Time,
edited by Titus Munson Coan, and comprising
studies in biography, including Gambetta,
Jonathan Swift, Wilberforce, &C., most
excellent contribution to our popular litera-
ture.
Still another cool paper cover for the heat
ed term is Her Sailor Lover, also from the
Putnams, and the last venture Of the Trans
Atlantic Series. Although not great story it
is above the average, and is rather breezy
romance.
A Tragedy in the Imperial Harem at Con
stantinople. Translated from the French,
and published by Gottsberger, New York.
1t purports to tell portions of the secret his
tory of the ex-Khedive, Ishmail- Pasha's
reign, with an account of the deposing and
numbering of Abdul-Aziz, and one can
heartily hope the author may be correct
when he declares that this story is perhaps
the very darkest episode of Moslem harem
life.
George Sard, by Bertha Thomas, Boston:
Roberts Brothers; Portland: Loring, Short
& Harmony, is the third in the Famous
Women Series, its predecessors being George
Eliot, by Miss Blind, and Emily BrontG, by
Miss Robinson. II is most graphically
told story of remarkable woman, whose
early life was so very unpromising and un-
fortunate-tr an entertaining and valua-
BILE contribution to literature.
Twelve Americans, Their Lives and
Times, is Mr.. Howard CAROLS choice of IT,
tie for his new book, just published by the
Harpers, which comes to us through Loring,
sketches of dozen distinguished Ameri-
cans, whom he praises without stint and
without much discrimination, but whose ca
reers are made very interesting meantime.
The list opens with Horatio Seymour and
ends with Alexander Stephens. Ex-senator
Hamlin comes in for a very full sketch,
which is, in the main, well written.
Princess Amelie. A Fragment of Auto5l-
ography, the latest of the No Name Series.
Boston: Roberts Brothers; Portland Lor-
ing, Short & Harmony A very lively story
of French life, love and politics, and ex-
tremely well told. 1t seems a long time
since this series opened with Mercy Phil
brooks Choice, and 1t is growing in favor
constantly.
From the Pyrenees 10 the Pillars of Her
cules. Observations on Spain, Its History
and People. By Henry Day. New York: