The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-11-02
NEW PUBLICATIONS.


Use by Professor Wright is the outcome of
special studies of glacial phenomena, the
writer having spent many seasons in per-
sonal investigation of his subject in New
England, the States of Ohio, Kentucky and
Pennsylvania. in Washington Territory and
upon the Muir Glaciers of Alaska. This
work is intended to cover the whole subject
of the glacial period: for with the vast field
open for investigation on this continent, and
the amount of attention recently given to its
explorations, North America is now by far
the most favorable place from which to APP
proach the study of ice-action and ice-peri-
ods," says Prof. Wright. The writer is but
one Of many investigators who have been
busily engaged for the past fifteen years in
these explorations and the present volume is
digest of all these investigations. The num-
erous maps are compiled from the latest data
and are most valuable and interesting. This
work will meet a widely felt want for these
facts have been accommodating so rapidly
during the past decade that it is quite time
they were put into form for the instruction
and edifcation of the many who desire to
follow the progress made, but have been I'M
able to do so. The last chapters Of this vol
ume treat of mans relation to the Ice age on
this continent. In addition to the maps
there are many excellent and helpful illus
trations. A valuable adjunct to the work is
Professor Upham's Appendix, .The Prob
able Cause of Glaciaticn."
| City Boys in the Woods; or A Trapping
| Venture in Maine. By Henry p Wells.
New York: Harper & Brothers; Portland
Loring, Short & Harmon In this volume
Mr.. Wells introduces the reader to the pleas
ures and pains of life in the Maine woods, in
the guise of story actually portraying life
of that description. The city boys of the
volume found that there was good deal be-
sides poetry and romance in such life, and
that the inevitable hardships incident to it
sometimes had very depressing effect. The
| book is designed to tell the exact truth about
such life, and thus prevent the imaginative
boy from being beguiled away to the woods
of the far West under the impression that
the existence of the hunter and trapper is a
merry one. The book is elegantly printed,
and the Illustrations are numerous and
praiseworthy.
OFF the Weather Bow on Life's Voyage, by
Elizabeth N. Little. is unique volume SINH
lar in design to the one prepared year ago
by the same author, entitled The Log Book
| of Life. 1t is one of those books of which it
Is difficult to give any adequate idea in print,
| as 1t appeals almost entirely to the eye. The
| photogravure Illustrations express in picto
| rial form the central idea of the selection
from prose or poetry which precedes them,
and many of them are the product of real
genius. The book is published by White.
Stokes & Allen. New York.
Seven Thousand Words Often Mispro-
nounced. A Complete Handbook of Difficult
ties in English Pronunciation, including an
unusually large number of proper names
and words and phrases from foreign lam
guages. By William Henry P. Phyffe. New
York: G. P. Putnam's Sons; Portland: Lor-
ing, Short & Harmony This is the third of
series of works by this author, all having
the same general purpose, namely, the as
sisting to the correct pronunciation of Eng
| lsh words. Most of the words collected
here are common words, in which the gener-
al public need instruction. The foreign
words, of which there are considerable
number, are those that are frequently met
| with. As rule the correct pronunciation is
very clearly indicated. and when there are
several pronunciations allowable that which
| is supported by the best authority is stated
The work will be found an exceedingly con-
venient and helpful one.
Monopolies of the People. BY Charles
Whitney Baker, c. E. Questions of the Day.,
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons; Portland !:
Loring, Short & Harmony This is a very
interesting treatise on the history of the rise
and progress of monopoles in this country,
their effect upon the people and the proper
way of controlling them. In some respects
the authors views are novel, and some of his
remedies seem impracticable. But there is
much in the book to repay reading.
The Wooing of Grandmother Grey. By
Kate Tannatt Woods. Boston: Lee & Shop
ard; Portland: Loring. Short & Harmony
This book is elegant in all its details. The
paper is thick and heavy and of the finest
finish, the illustrations are gems of art, and
the cover is a marvel of good taste. In this
volume Mrs. Woods's poem has setting
fully worthy of it. The price of the book is
$500.
The Boy Travellers in Mexico. Adven-
lures of Two Youths in Journey to North
ern and Central Mexico, Campeachey and
Yucatan, with description of the Republic
Of Central America and the Nicaragua Canal.
By Thomas W. Knox. New York. Harper
x Rr0thQrc. Dorflond. oripn Short q, no
mon.) In this volume Mr.. Knox takes his
boy travellers to Mexico and introduces
them to the history of the land of the Aztecs,
its resources, the manners and customs of
the people, and tie many curious things to
be seen and heard in land in many ways
differing from ours, though close at hand.
The book is similar in character and style to
the volumes that have preceded it, which is
all that need be said, for Mr.. Knox's vol
umes have taken firm hold upon the public
taste and are among the most popular of the
works for the young.
The Banner Library. My Good Friend, by
Adolphe Belot, translated by Edgar Wake
field. New York: Worthington Coz A
curious story, and as French as anything
W. S"n pO' rlom tHt pOlnI OF view OF
Frenchman 1t would be considered full of
sweetness and light" and indeed one of the
principal characteristic fact the most promi-
nent of all-is charming little boy sort of
French Lord Fauntleroy. The iatsntion of
the author is absolutely correct, but the
naivete with which certain risque situations
are placed before the reader is very amusing
to an American.
The same publishers have issued pretty
edition of Alphonso Dandet's wives of
Men of Genius" translated by Mr.. Wake
field, and with photograyure illustrations by
Beiler, Myrbach, and Rossi. A painter and
a poet are smoking their cigars and chatting
of an evening in the studio Of the former.
The painter is happily married to charming
woman and the gay laughter of his little child
is heard from the adjoining room. ".Ah!"
said the poet "you must find wife for me-"
But his friend dissuades him and declares
that an artist should never marry; that his
once happy marriage is one of the very rare
exceptions,-a kind of miracle-in fact.
FINDING argument of no avail the painter
Iummages among some sketches for