The Portland daily press., 1886-11-20
COLLEGE EDUCATION
BURLINGTON Free Press
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

oonssterS Oh the BrancneS, Songs OF Birds
and Birds of Meadow and Brook A series
of holiday books edited by Susie Barstow
Shielding, illustrated by Fidelia Bridges.
New York White, Stokes & Allen; Port
land: Loring, Short & Harmony The first
number contains four beautiful colored de-
signes of orioles and plumblossoms, thrush
and sweet peas, song sparrow and wild
roses, chickadees and autumn leaves, with
an exquisite design in blue ON the cover. In
Songs of Birds the colored designs are swal-
lows and arrowhead; snow bunting and pine
bough; wrens and honeysuckle: sea gulls
and surf In Birds of Meadow and Grove
the designs are yellowbirds and MULLEN !;
robins and appleblossoms, bluebirds and
morning glories, snow birds and rose slips.
These charming volumes all contain appro-
pirate selections in prose and verse. They
will make lovely gift books for the coming
holidays.
Demigod, a novel to which the name of
the writer is not affixed, is a curious study of
evolution, and is not without merit. sThe
Demigod's name was Hector Vyr. He was
evolved from ordinary humanity by long
continued process of artificial selection, aid
ed by conspicuous fortune. The leading
characters of the story are American tourists
of course. There is the usual bluff, robust,
rather coarse pGter fdmilids, his pretty
daughter, a young man, her cousin, who is
the conventional lover. There is a maiden
aunt to do the proprieties and make herself
generally absurd. The peculiar feature of the
story is the Demigod, who rescues the party
from the clutches of some Greek brigands,
and afterward marries our heroine (New
York: Harper & Brothers; Portland: Lor-
ing, Short & Harmony
The last number in Harpers Series of
English Classics, edited by Professor Rolfe,
contains twenty select poems of Robert
Browning, with notes which will greatly
assist the student in pursuing the study of
his works. Miss Heloise Jersey has assist
ed Professor, Rolfe, having selected the
poems, prepared the introduction and writ
ten more than half the notes." The work OF
the editors is most credtable, and the little
volume is all it claims to be. New York
Harper g. Brothers; Portland: Loring
Short & Harmony
A Visit from Santa Claus. By Clement E.
Moore. Illustrated by Virginia Gersom New
York; White, Stokes & Allen; Portland
Loring, Short & Harmony This familiar po-
EN-, always charming to children, is made es-
pecially attractive by the beautiful illustra-
tons which accompany it in this volume.
They are twelve in number and set forth the
stages in Santa Claus's progress from his
first appearance until he wishes happy
Christmas to all and to all good night.
The Book Of Entrees. By Thomas j. Muir
ray, author of Fifty Soups, Fifty Salads, &c.
New York: White, Stokes & Allen; Port
land; Loring, Short g. Harmony This dainty
volume, attractively printed, with cover of
unique design, contains 125 receipts for en-
trees of all varieties. 1t will furnish val
liable assistance to the housekeepers in
preparing side dishes for dinners, lunches,
late breakfasts &C.. enabling her to make
them attractive to the eye as well as pleas
Ing to the palate.
Mrs George E. Spencer calls her novel "a
Plucky One" but there are so many plucky
ones in the book that it is not safe to say
who best deserves the title. The story is a
bright and graphic account of roughing it in
the star West" where a young Virginian
takes his wife and two children, hoping to
make his fortune at once. Their experiences
are more varied and more agreeable to read
about than to undergo. New York: Cassell
d Co; Portland: Loring, Short & Harmony
How to be Happy Though Married was so
well received that its author is quite justi-
fed in giving us further advice, which he
does in a pleasant volume entitled Manners
Makyth Man. 1t is written in an agreeable
style, and contains many practical and use
full suggestions, which none Of us need feel
above taking to heart. "a word to the wise"
is always in order. (New York: Charles
Scribner's Sons; Portland: iLoring, Short &
Harmony
Silent Pete, or the Stoaways is pretty
story, with much pathos, good deal of incl
dent, and fully and attractiyely illustrated.
1t is of the better class of stories for boys,
who will find poor little Pete and his violin
very interesting (New York: Harper &
Brothers: Portland; Loring, Short & Har-
mon.
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