The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-12-06

volume on Old Mexico and its lost provinces
will want to read this later account of that
interesting country. Mr.. Griflin's work will
be found equally profitable to those who have
read Bishop. The contents are various as
the topics which attract the notice of an in
telligent and sympathetic American tourist
The soil, climate, cities, railroads, races and
other related themes. are all treated with
fairness and fullness. New York: Harper
& Brothers; Portland Loring short & Har-
mon.
Two Pilgrims Progress, by Joseph and
Elizabeth Pencil, is an amusing account of
a Journey on a tricycle. from Florence to
Rome, which Mrs. Pennel has illustrated
with her pen and Mr.. Pennell with his pencil.
The result is beautiful volume of lively and
characteristic sketches of trip which must
have been great fun for the participants and
is charming to read about. Mr.. Pennelrs
pictures are delightful and render tho vol
ume of much artistic value. Boston: Rob
ertS Brothers. Portland: Loring, Short &
HARMONY.
Two volumes of st. Nicholas, beautifully
bound in scarlet and gold, have come to
charm the eyes and delight the hearts of the
children, young and old. An unusual at
traction for the past year has been Mrs. Bur
nett's delicious story of Little Lord Fauntle-
roy, and it runs like thread of gold through
the entire length of these volumes. In no
other form can one find such library of de-
lightful and varied things, and happy is the
youthful possessor of such treasury. New
York; Century Company; Portland: Loring,
Short & Harmony
The Beecher Book of Days published by
Cassell d Co., contains selections for each
day in the year and for the birthdays of dis
tlnguished persons compiled from the works
of the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher The book
is edited by Elearnor Kirk and Caroline B.
lie Row, and the selections have been made
with care and with good judgment A por-
trait OF Beecher makes the frontispiece OF
the volume. portland; Loring, Short &
HARMONY
Mr.. George Meredith's Vlttoria is the sixth
volume in Roberts Brothers beautiful edi-
tion of the works of this novelist of the pas
sionate human heart" Vittoria is distinc-
lively Italian, and while it is not so peculiar
in style or of such superintendent vitality as
Diana or The Egost, it yet would, of itself,
warrant the assertion of Vanity Fair that its
author is "a very great man, and no other
words can describe him." Portland: Lor-
ing, Short & Harmony
Little Miss Weezy, Penn Shiriey's tiny
heroine, is a fascinating little witch as por-
trayed by the skillful drawings of Miss Jes-
sic McDermott or described in a pretty little
volume which will be vastly entertaining to
the little ones, who are requested, however.
not to copy all of Miss Weezy's tricks and
manners, funny as they are to read about.
(Bost0n: Lee d Shepard; Portland: Loring,
Short & Harmony
Confessions of Two seems to be the Joint
work Of Misses Spratley and WiIlisson, new
names to us ON the list oil fictionals. The
story is not wildly interesting, and the Eng
hsh is faulty 1t is not work which calls
for either severe criticism or cordial commen-
dalton. Very simply commonplace. New
York; Chas. T. Dillingham;; Portland: Lor.
ing, snort & HARMONY
The Message of the Bluebird, Told to Me
to Tell to Others, is an elegant souvenir pre-
pared by Miss Irene E. Jerome and published
by Lee q Shepard. 1t contains eight illus
trations, each adapted to the verse of poetry
that accompanies it. 1t is daintily bound in
blue and white cloth and gold portland
Loring, Short & Harmony
A Boston Girls Ambition is the second
volume of the new edition of the works OF
Miss Virginia F. Townsend. 1t is a quiet
and pleasant story, very excellent of its
kind Boston: Lee & Shepard; Portland
Loring Short & Harmony
Mrs. Alexander McVeigh Miller's novel
Nina's Peril, is purely sensational, from first
to last, beginning with bottle of laudanum
and ending in a halo of reform and happi.
ness. New York: G. W. Dillingham;; Port
land Loring. Short a. Harmony
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