The Portland daily press., 1886-10-30
Mead & Co. ; Portland Loring, Short & Har-

The Boys Book of Sports and Outdoor
Life. Edited by Maurice Thompson. This
fresh and healthful volume, profusely and
charmingly illustrated, cannot fail to be well
coined heartily by all having to choose books
for boys. Many of the papers have appeared
in the ST. Nicholas, while others are here
published for the first time. The brief in
troductory essay on the Benefits and Abuse
of Outdoor Sports, is sound and truthful,
and worthy the attention of parents-of
mothers, especially. Probably few more de-
sirable books for boys will be found for gifts
at the Holidays. New York. The Century
Company
The Silence of Dean Maitland, by Maxwell
Grey, is a novel; of English life by new
writer. 1t is interesting and excellent of its
kind, but the plot is so painful, and one
''goes through so much misery with the
principal characters, that it seems an unnec-
essary narrowing of oneself. This world,
according to Mrs Camp being "a VALE and
our real experiences sufficiently depressing,
we naturally prefer to take our fiction with
a dash of humor. New York: d. Appleton
d Co.; Portland; Hoyt Fogg q Donham.)
Educational Psychology by Louise Parsons
Hopkins is a digest of course of lectures
given to the Normal class of the Swain Free
School of New Bedford, and is designed for
text book. The work contains all the essen
tial data and principles necessary to the study
but it is expected that the teacher will am
plify and fill it out from his own knowledge
of the subject or from more elaborate trea-
tises. Boston; Lee 81 Shepard New York:
Chas. I. Dillingham; Portland: Loring,
Short & Harmony
The Silver Bridge and Other Poems. is a
pretty and dainty volume, containing the
latest verses of Mrs. Elizabeth Akers, SO
long and favorably known to the public by
her nom de plume of Florence Percy"
The collection is an attractive one and the
verses are by turns gay and passionate, sweet
and cynical, but always there is evidence of
the divine spark, which attests that the
writer is of the poets born, not made" New
York; ID. Appleton g. Co. Portland: Hoyt,
Fogg & Donham.)
SO many Of the friends of Katy Carr have
begged Susan Coolidge to tell them What
Katy Did Next, that she has obliged them in
the most satisfactory manner, and her pref
ty volume will make ''Merry Christmas
for hosts of girls, who need not be so very
young to enjoy following Katie to England
and Italy, and sympathizing in the natural
and pleasant turn of affairs, which the last
page of the book suggests. Boston: Roberts
Bros; Portland: Loring, Short & Harmony
4 nj n e
edition of George Meredith's novels is Rho
da Fleming 1t is considered by several
English critics to contain the authors best
and strongest work, being equally brilliant
and less obscure than the usual methods of
this clever and conceited Celt. -Four more
volumes will complete the series; and a GU
rious, valuable and bewildering literary
treasury will the fortunate owner of these
books possess. portland: Loring, Short g.
Harmony
Keyhole Country, astory with many funny
| illustrations, tells the children, about things
you would certainly see if you went through
the keyhole." If not so original and unique
as the fascinating Alice il Wonderland. of
which it reminds us, it is sufficiently anus
ing to become very popular with the young
sters, and is good enough to be quite above
the average of books of this class. Boston:
Roberts Brothers; Portland: Loring & Har-
mon.)
Grammar for Common Schools by B. F.
Tweed, A. NJ, late supervisor in the Boston
schools, is little book designed for begin
ners in the study of the science of language.
The book appears to be admirably adapted