The Portland daily press., 1888-06-02
MIR. CLEAvEs AT PITTsFIELD.
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THE COMING CONVENTION.
rRridqton News I
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

80. Edited from the original manuscript.
BY Edgar Henry. This appears to be the
era of sensational books-novels they are
usually called-though why, we hardly
know. The novel used to be romance, but
not an impossible fiction. Mr.. Howells and
one or two others changed it into cleverly
told tale of everyday life, which somehow
las got to be tiroeema.- since the erdinA-y--
life we lead is not altogether palatabie when
served rechaufeo. The author of 49, how
eyer, gives us something which we hardly
inow how to classify 1t sets cut as story
OF Southern life during the last war and
gives us from the middle, and thence on
ward, curious and TO our mind mad theory
of how a, peaceable separation is to take
place-between the North and the South in
49, The Knights of the Southern Cross-a
secret organization-are supposed to COM
bine with the great monopolists of the North
and throw the election of President into the
House. sufficient number of members of
the House are then to absent themselves, so
that there shall be no quorum and no Presi-
dent can be elected. This is to go on until
after the third of March so that when the
constitutional limit of time has expired, the
country will be left without any head and
with no constitutional method of electing
head. A very dismal picture is drawn of
Mr.. Cleveland following his drag-load of
trunks down to the pier, to embark for
Europe, leaving Dan. Lemont standing upon
the pier-head in despair. 1t is quite impos-
sible to say what the purpose of this book is;
whether it is intended to prepare the South
for peaceful separation, to warn the North
against the danger of monopolies and trusts,
or whether it is meant to be serious joke.
Rider Haggard, Robert Louis Stevenson,
Jules Verne, and the author of the Frozen
Pirate have been giving us good deal lately,
but this is unique, because it aims to be with
in the bounds of probability. New York:
Cassell g. Co.. Limited; Portland: Loring,
Short & Harmony
The Golden Butterfly. BY Walter Besant
and James Rice. Library edition. So popu-
lar in this country are the admirable novels
of Besant and Rice, that the new and beauti-
full library edition of these works in process
OF publication by Dodd & Mead will be cor
daily welcomed. The Golden Butterfly is
already out, and is one of the cleverest of
the works. 1t is so familiar to the reading
public that comment upon it is superfluous
Inc Golden butterfly which gives its name
to the novel is not an insect of the imagina-
ton but was seen by an English traveller,
recently, preserved as curiosity in min
ing city near Sacramento, and figures in the
story as the luck of Gilead p. Beck, the hero,
who has struck lie in Empire City, United
States of America. An Englishman may be
forgiven little exaggeration in drawing an
American. and The Golden Butterfly is a
brilliant performance, from beginning to
end. The characters are from life and the
chief incidents really occurred. That the
publishers have succeeded in producing so
handsome volume at so low price is re-
markable. AS frontispiece there is a spir-
tied etching of Mr.. Walter Besant-one of
the authors. New York: Dodd, Mead &
Co.; Portland: Loring, Short & Harmony
Noble Deeds of our Fathers, AS Told by
Soldiers of The Revolution Gathered Around
the Old Bell Of Independence Revised and
adapted from Henry c. Watson. This little
book belongs to a series revised and adapted
for supplementary reading in schools and
for school Libraries, 1t is intended to
"""hNh al lhbclcSb III Llle mlDuS OF Young
people in the patriots and heroes of the
American Revolution. Every phase of the
struggle for liberty is represented, and the
stories of Lafayette's return to this country.
the night before the battle of Brandywine,
the first prayer in Congress, adventures of
Gen Wayne, "reminiscences of Washington,
the traitor Arnold, and SO on, will be found
most interesting and important. Boston:
Lee d Shepard; Portland: w. II. Stevens
& Coz
Tenting at Stony Beach. By Maria Louise
Pool. One of the brightest, most humorous
chatty and entertaining books of the season
is Miss POOLS account of a summer spent in
camp ON the Massachusetts coast A series
of cleverly sketched New England charac-
tiers, amusing, very much alive and full of
quaint and original ideas, makes the book
one to seize upoon with avidity, and the
reader will find so much depth and originali-
ty in it that it will prove something more
than the mere amusement of an idle hour.