The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-12-17

Nothing but praise can be given to Mrs.
Julia q. Il. DORIS dainty little book about
Bermuda To all who have visited these
Islands OF the Sea, it will be pleasant TO re-
call their charms in such agreeable company
and the less favored mortals who have ever
enjoyed this paradise will be induced to I'M
dergo the tortures which are inevitable In
crossing the Gulf Stream diagonally, for the
sake of the delights that lie beyond. Miss
DORIS book is / 9th practical as well as poet
ical, and tells us of the hotels and the price
OF living, as well as about the bursts of ju-
bilant bird song, the Pride of-India trees
with their pendElous racemes of pale laven-
der, the clnmps of oleandeIs, the glowing
beds of geraniums, calas, roses, and Easter
lilies, the soft breezes and all these just
two days away from three feet of snow and
the thermometer at zero. Mrs. Dorr
sketches the Bermudian life prettjly. and
makes it seem very attractive to her read
ers. The germ of her book was an article
called ''Bermudian Days. which appeared
in the Atlantic Monthly in 1883, and which
is Incorporated In this volume.
A valuable as well as beautiful book is the
new volume just published of Tue Poems of
Frederick Locker, aud most attractive ad-
dision 1t would be to a choice library, Mr..
Locker has written some of the brightest and
dainiiest uers de societ6 of our time, and this
volume contains nearly all of his best poems.
During the first few years of his authorship
this writer was for some reason unpopular
with the publishers, and met with little en-
enlargement. and il is said that Thackeray
nsed TO console him with, "Never mind,
Locker; our verse may be small beer, but at
any rate it is The right tap" The present
volume contains q small etched portrait of
the poet, is printed on rich, heavy paper,
and the cover is stamped with a design by
Kate GreenaYay.
Everyday Life and Every Day Morals Is
the title OF a small volume of practical talks,
or sermons, read by their author, the Rev.
George i CLANCY, on Sunday evenings asst
winter. in The Church of Our Father In At
lanta, Georgia. The collection consists of
eight papers, upon Art, Juvenile Literature,
Literature, Business, The Stage, The Press,
The Pulpit, and the relations of all these to
morals. These subjects are treated in very
bright, attractive, common-sense way, aud
are both pleasant and profitable reading for
young or old. With broad charity and dis
eliminating Judgment Mr.. CLANCY presents
simple truths III way to be comprehended
and accepted by all his readers, who will fiud
his little book both interesting and sugges-
tive.
Miss Alcotts very name carries charmed
sound to the ears of the young folks. Her
volume of "Spinning Wheel Stories," will be
is a source of happiness to hosts of children,
whose parents will be grateful for this whole
some and agreeable food for the youthful
minds. When the boys and girls are sup
piled with such reading matter as is con-
tanned in any or all of Miss Alcott's charm
ing volumes, they will have no desire for the
trashy sensational stories to be found ia
many of the so-called children's books.
ga Matter OF Taste" by George 81. Pick
ard, is really too slight work to be called
"a Novel," 1t is a pretty little book, con-
tanning several pretty little pictures, and
pretty little sketch of Americo-Italian life
weak dilution of the Henry James style.
1t is not very bad, neither is it very good,
and somebody may think it quite charming.
Books Received.
A MATTER OF TASTE. BY George H. Pickard
THE ANDovER REVIEW for December (Hoyt,
Fogg q Donham, Agents)
AN AMERICAN POLITICIAN. A novel. By +. Mar
ion Crawford. Boston: Houghton, Miffiin g. Co.
tLoriDg Short & Harmony
EVERYDAY LIFE AND EVERYDAY MORALS. By
George Leonard Clancy. Boston: Roberts Broth
ers. (Loring, Short g. Harmony
THE Poems OF FREDERICK LOCKER. New York:
White, Stokes Allen. Q4orng, Short & Har-
mon)
SPINNING WHEEL STORIES. By Louisa NJ. Alcott.
Boston: Roberts Brothers. (Loring, Short & Har-
mon)
BERMUDA, AN IDYL OF THE SUMNER ISLANDS.
By Julia K. r. Dorr. New York: Chas Serb
ner's Sons. iLoring, Short g. Harmony
A SHORT TARIFF HISTORY OF THE UNITED
STATES, From THE EARLIEST TO TIE PRESET
TINE. Part l., 1878. Each part complete in IL.
self. By David II. Mason, Chicago. tLoring, Short
s. HARMONY