The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-12-18
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

Tennessee. Mexico and California. BY
Charles Dudley Warner. Dudley Warner Is
well known as one of our best tourists and
most graphic writers. This journal of tour
through several Southern and Mexican
States presents alively picture of the coun-
tries through which he passed, the people in
habiting them, their modes of life and char
acteristic differences from us and from each
other. In reading book like this, we enjoy
many of the advantages of travel without its
fatigue and inevitable annoyances. We are
neither covered with dust, nor sunk in mire,
Files do not flood us. nor the heat overcome
us. But we do learn all we care to know
and ought to know, before plunging our
selves into those remote regions which fancy
so often paints in glowing colors. Thus we
learn that the climate of North Carolina is
delicious, but the conditions of life there are
meagre and mean. In Mexico, too, we must
encounter annoyances innumerable, such as
millions of squalid Indians, half-breeds, who
carry all their real estate on their persons,
poor accommodations, and poorly prepared
food. 1t would be poor country for Uncle
Sam to annex. We already are sufficiently
weighted with that sort of thing. New
York; Harper & Brothers; Portland: Lor-
ing. Short & Harmony M
Three Greek Children. A Story of Home
in Old Time BY the Rev. Alfred j. Church,
Nj. A., Prof. of Latin in University College,
London. This is a charming gift book suit
able TO the season 1t makes fine appear
ance and has goodly contents. The purpose
is to describe the actual life Of an Athenian
/ family uhpn fha of
and the first Of civilized cities. Everything
relating to home life, the houses, furniture
dress, manners, are all set forth in clear and
graphic pictures which cannot fail to inter-
est and instruct the youthful reader We
say youthful reader, because the writer had
the young specially in view, but the book
may be perused with equal profit by parents
as by children. For it is not ehild's book,
but critical study of Greek life and nan-
ners, when they were at their best or per-
haps just beginning to decline with the for
tunes OF that celebrated city. The topics of
the several chapters include The Home In
Athens, The Home at Marathon, At the
Toilet. Reading, Writing and Arithmetic, A
| Voyage, A Family Sacrifice, At Sparta, At
Corinth, Marriage, The Games, etc.
There are twelve fine illustrations. New
York and London: G. P. Putnap's Sons;
Portland: Loring, Short & Harmony
Another Crime. From the Diary of In
spector Byrnes. By Julian Hawthorne. In
this new volume in the Byrnes- Hawthorne de-
| tectiye series, the story o. a crime for which
an iniioeene- rf'ar1 -oufrcro uuu nuvuur ny
which the true criminal is discovered, are
told. Like the preceding volume in this
series it is full of interest to those who
like !. good detective story, New York:
Cassell g. Co.; Portland: Loring, Short &
Harmony
The Courtship of Miles Standish. By
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. With illus
trations from designs by Boughton, Merrill,
Reinhart. Perkins, Hitchcock, Shapleigh and
others. Longfellow's delightful poem never
had more attractive setting than has been
given it in this elegant volume. The genius
of the best designers and the best engrayers
that the country affords has been brought
into requisition in the preparation of the
work Priscilla at her spinning wheel forms
the frontispiece. The designer is Mr.. f. T.
Merrill. The work contains twenty-three
illustrations, many of them full page, no,
| counting the tail pieces and half titles The
book is printed on heavy paper in large
| clear type. 1t is one of the foremost of the
illustrated volumes of the year. Boston:
Honghton, Mffiin Il Co.; Portland Lorlng,
| Short & Harmony
| Worthngton's Annual for 1889, with its
series OF interesting stories, biographies and
| papers ON natural history constitutes very
attractive and useful volume for the young.
| 1t contains more than 500 illustrations by the
| best artists, all of which are especially at
tractive to children. The cover is marvel
of colorng. New York: Worthington 6
Co.; Portland: Loring, Short & Harmony
| No. LII in the Questions of the Day
Series is devoted to discussion of The Tariff
and Its Evils or Protection which Does not
Protect. By John III. Allen. As indicated
by the title the work is an argument for free
trade. Mr. Aliens contribution to discus
sion that has grown perhaps somewhat tire
some, contains nothing particularly new but
it Is a clear and forcble presentation of the
tariff question as the free traders looks at It.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons; Port
land: Loring, Short & Harmony
A Short History of the War of Secession.
BY Rosslter johnson. In 1885 Mr.. johnson
| contributed to the New York Examiner a
| series OF thirty articles on the War of the
Rebellion. The reception given these arti-
Giles Indicated demand for brief yet COM
prenensive history Of the civil war which to
quote the language of Mr.. johnson
should be mot so extended as to bewilder
the reader with multiplicity of details, and
not so concise as to preclude all color"
This demand Mr.. johnson has undertaken
to satisfy in this volume. The articles in
the Examiner are used as base, but they
have been thoroughly revised and extended
and several new chapters added The pur-
pose of the book is admirably executed
Though of course great condensation was
necessary, still the volume is not dry. nor a
mere record of dates and events 1t
connected story, accurately and graphically
told. Boston: Ticknor d Co.. Portland.
Loring, Short & Harmony
MessrS. Evans and Milliken of Amesbury,
Mass, have published an exceedingly taste
ful aud elegant souvenir of the unwilling of
the statue of Josiah Bartlett In that town on
the fourth OF July last Its principal fea-
lures are some autograph verses written by
Mr.. Whittier especially for this work, and
biographical notice of Josiah Bartlett.
Two excellent portraits. one Of Bartlett and
the other of Whittier adorn the volume
The Old Folks at Home New York:
White d Allen; Portland: Loring. Short &
Harmony contains twenty-four beautiful de-
signs by G. w. Brenneman. The words of
the song are printed in monochrome and
accompanied by the original music The
covers of the work are tied with ribbon and
have gilt edges. 1t is charming little gift
for the holidays.
The same publishers issue a calendar of
the Life of Christ in twelve pages, being a |
series of designs appropriate to each month,
Illustrating the most notable events in the
life OF Christ. The calendar is deliberately |
autographed in colors in facsimiles of the |
original aquarelles painted by G. W. Bren- |
neman.
Log Book Notes through Life by the same |