The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-09-07
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

Poems. Together with Brother Jacob and
The Lifted Veil. By George Eliot. (New
York: Harper & Brothers. Portland: Lor.
ing, Short & Harmony There is only one
fault to be found with this neat and pretty
volume, and that is the excessively small
type in which the poems are printed II
gives us, however, very much in the way OF
contents at small price, which is certainly
an advantage as bringing within reach of a
slender purse the writings of this wonder
fully gifted woman.
Prince Of Darkness. By F. Warden.
New York: d. Appleton & Co.. Portland
Hoyt Fogg & Donham.) This novel is suffi-
GENTLY sensational to satisfy the most eager
lover of this class of literature. The hero is
sort of modern Mephistophles, and his life
is a complication of crimes and villainies
The plot of the story is as complicated as the
character of the hero; and altogether if to be
startled, Mortified, shocked and disguised is
to be entertained, then Miss Warden's book
is great success in that direction.
City Ballads. By Will Carleton. New
York; Harper & Brothers; Portland: Lor-
ing, Short & HARMONY. This is a very hand
some, illustrated volume, which will doubt
less be popular gift book for the Holidays.
Mr. Cartoons poems are perhaps the best OF
their kind; and their simple pathos reaches
many hearts in city and country The idea
of this book is to reproduce some of the eff
fects of city scenes and characters upon the
intellect and imagination of two young peo-
pie from the country First student, who
having been through college course and is
just entered real life, now, for the first time,
walks the streets of large city. The sec
ond, farmer, with very little "book-learn-
ing, but a clear brain, warm heart and
keen habits of observing and applying the
facts that he witnesses.
The writer desires to ''rouse your pity of
pain, your enjoyment Of honest worth, your
hatred of sham and wrong, your love and adj
miration of the Resolute and the Good, and
their winsome child the Beautiful" and we
do not doubt he will have fairly succeeded.
Memoirs of Karoline Bauer From the
German. Boston: Roberts Brothers; Port
land: Loring, Short & Harmony A book
has been recently translated from the Ger
man and published in New York, entitled
Caroline Bauer and the Coburgs. This has
been followed by the volume before us, to
which the name of the editor and translator
is not appended; but the work is remark
able one, and will excite much interest and
curiosity, giving as it does the singular ca
reer of the famous Berlin actress, Karoline
Bauer, the morganatic wife of King Leopold
Of Bavaria, who was the husband of the la
mented Princess Charlotte of Wales. The
memoirs include not only the experiences of
the writer, but also the stories of many other
lives and hearts, and are full of an intense
and feverish excitement, which seems to
have filled the veins of this woman, who gives
to the world history of the years when, to
use her own words, she tasted the tree of
knowledge and forfeited Paradise Karo-
line Bauer's life ON the stage seems to have
been series of emotional episodes, which
she describes with feryent abandon which
indicates, very distinctly, her temperament
and personality.
On the other hand we get much that is in
teresting and entertaining in her reminis-
cences of many artists with whom she was
associated; notably, Mendelssohn, Won We
Der, Pagannini, Moschelles, Thalberg, La
blache and Sontag. The book is curious
addition to the literature of the day, and will
command attention.