The Portland daily press., 1884-12-20

| IuAOuSu NEW ID uDSWlcB, C1naua, ana UP
| tht st. Lawrence to Montreal and Quebec.
There nearer lands are made as interesting
| as Europe 10 Young readers by the narration
of romantic stories and traditions relating to
their early history. As usual the illustra.
| tions are valuable feature of the book.
pictures OF Other Folks at Home IS the
| title OF book in which young children will
| take much pleasure. In series of letters
| in rhyme the most noticeable FEATURES of a
| tour abroad are related. But the conspicu-
| Gus feature of the book is a series of full
| page colored illustrations, in which, with a
map of the country, the peculiar national
| scenes, architecture, and costumes of the
| people are shown. A child may learn
more from this book about other lands than
from many more pretentious volumes
| 1t is proper TO include in this classification
book quite different from any others here
| mentioned, but one which we presume many
parent will be glad to know about al this
| time, 1t is a volume of BRIEF, cheerful, beIr-
ful sermons preached to young people by
Rev. Theodore T. Munger, of North Adams,
Mass. 1t is entitled "Lamps and Paths
aud Is replete with good counsel, not too
didactic, but kindly, simple and earnest in
style. and well adapted to make the way of
duty and usefulness clear at that stage OF
life when boys and girls are apt to be be-
wildered and deluded by false lights.
Mrs. G. Hamlen's ''Chats' Is bright and
| helpful little book, in which the wisdom of
| good sense and good reading is conveyed by
means of chats in the family circle around
| the cheerful hearth with some clever boys
aud girls, who have their own thou ghts,
which they dare to speak out. Tue conver-
saiions are well arranged, and relate to a
variety of suhjects, from "Dollies" and
School Girl Troubles" to Conversation, !"
"POli:iCS'' and ssOunIations >,
Sophie May Is a favorite writer for the
| young folks, and many Of them have already
made acquaintance with 'sFlaxie Frizzle" as
little girl. A new volume tells the story
of Flakes school life, and her various ad-
ventures while growing up to young woman
hood. 1t is called Flakes Growing Up"
She is likely to get married and settled long
before the young misses who delighted in
her pranks as a wee small girl begin to think
of such things.
Tip Cat'' is the title given to a book in
which queer old character goes by that
name; but the story itself relates % family
of children. one of whom, a youth, had to
take upon himself the care aud responsible.
ty of bringing up some who were younger.
He was manly and sensible fellow, aud ac-
quilted himself most credltably. The story
is E 1glish in scene anil incidents.
The 1.-TWO Compton Boys" whose story
Augustus Hoppiu tells with pen and pencil,
were not two brothers, but the son of rich
merchant in New England town, and the
son of bis colored coachman. The time OF
the story, or of its beginning, is fifty years
ago, ind it tells in spirited way that all
boys will relish the experiences of boys life
in New England seaport city at that time.
They had no end of fur and frolc along
with their schooling and working, but they
had the right sort Of characters, and grew up
to de respected and useful in their different
| spheres. In some features this story is not
unlike I. B. Aldrich's 'sStory of Bad Boy"
M. Hoppin's per Gil presents with rare hui
NOR tho pictorial illustrations of the incl
dents recorded in the text.
"The Story of Viteau," by Frank R.
Stockton, Is an b storical romance of the
time of Louis XI., called st. Louis, of
France. The hero is introduced as boy.
and with the story of his growth and career
the author gives bis readers vivid picture
of the social aud political condition of France
in the fifteenth century The work, which
is one OF difficulty, is well done, and will
deeply interest everybody who has liking
for such adventures as fell to the fortune OF
noble youth in the days of knights when
valor and honor were reckoned the chief
virtues, and war was the proper occupation
of ambition
"Ten Days Newsboy" is by James Otis,
who wrote Ten Weeks With a Crcus' and
many other books which have found favor
with boys who fike to read books containing
an abundance of exciting and strange Incl
dents in ways of life that they perhaps would
not care to toll in themselves.
Books Received.
PRETTY Lucy MERwIN. By Mary Lakeman. Bos-
ton: Lee q Shepard. (Hoyt, Fogg & Donham.)
CHATS a Hanl1eu Ina d r0
(Loring, Short & Harmony
PICTURES OF OTHER FOLKS AT HOME. Boston:
Estes & Lauriat. tHost Fogg & Douhsm)
SIX GIRLS. By Fannie Belle Irving. Boston: Estes
& Lauriat. (Loring, Short & Harmony
HARPERs YOUNG PEOPLE, 1884 New York:
Harper & Brothers. (Loring Short Harmony
Bo-PEEP. New York: Cassell s. Co. (Loring, Short
& Harmony
LITTLE FoLss. A magazine for the young. New
YORK: Cassell g. Co. (Loring, Short s. Harmony
CHATTER Box FOR 1884. Boston: Estes & Lauriat
QIoring, Short g. Harmony
PRINCE LAzYBoNEs AND OTHER STORIES. By Mrs
w. J. Hays. Illustrated New York: Harper &
Brothers. (Loriug, Short Il HARMONY
SONGS AND RHYMES FOR THE LITTLE ONES Gem
piled by Mary j. Morrison. New York: G. z.
futnam's Sons. (Loripg Short Harmony
OUR GREAT BENEFAcToRs. BY Samuel Adams
Drake Boston: Roberts brothers. (Loring, Short
Il Harmony
OUR LITTLE ONES AND THE NURSERY. Edited by
William I. Adams, OLIVER Optic) Boston: Estes
& Lauriat. (McLellan, Mosher g. Coz
THREE VAssAR GIRLS IN SOUTH AMERICA BY
Lizzie W. Champne. Boston: Estes g. Lauriat
y (Loring, Short & Harmony
LITTLE ARrHuR's HIsToRY OF FRANCE New
York: Thomas f. Crowell & Co. Qoring, Short g.
Harmony
BOYS CoAsTwIsE; OR, ALL A LONG THE SHORE. BY
Willisn Ii. Rid eing. New York: u. Appleton &
Co. lLoring. Short Harmony
THE DUNcANs ON LAND AND SEA- By Kate Tan
matt Wood. New York: Casseu Co. (Loring
Short & Harmony
HITLER AND THITHER; or, good Times for Papa's
Little Daughter. By Mary d. Brine. New York:
Cassel g. Co. QLoring, Short Harmony
ZIGzAG JOURNEYS IN ACADIA AND NEW FRANCE
By HezeBiah Butterworth. Boston: Estes &
Lauriat. (McLellan, Mosher & Coz
LAMPS AND PATHS. BY Theodore I. Munger. Bos-
tom Houghton, Miffiin & Co. tLoring, Short 8
Harmony
FLAKE GROWING UP. (Flaxie Fizzle Stories) BY
Sophie May. Boston: Lee & Shepard. (Loring
Short & Harmony
TIP CAT. By the author of "Niss Tooseys Mission''
Boston: Roberts Brothers. Loring, Short & Hsr
m NJ
Two COMPTON BOYS. BY Augustus Hoppin. Bos-
ton: Houghton, Miffiin & Co. (Loring, Short &
Harmony
THE STORY OF VITEAU. By Frank B. Stockton.
New York: Charles ScriDner's Sons. (I4oring,
short g. Harmony
LEFT BEHIND OR. TEN DAYS A NEwsBoY By
James Otis New York; Harper g. Brothers.
(Loring, Short & Harmony