The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-12-24


A Dictionary Of Quotations in Prose from
American and Foreign Authors, including
TRANSACTIONS from Ancient Sources. Edited
by Anna l.. Ward, editor of Dictionary of
Quotations from the Poets, &c. New York:
Thomas Y. Crowell. From the Publishers.)
The selections in this volume are largely
from English authors. but American authors
have been assigned generous amount Of
space. and writer's Of continental Europe.
and the ancient classics are by no means
neglected. Five hundred and fifty of these
authors and traDslators are represented, and
their sayings are grouped under eight hun
dred and fifty-one heads, and there are
twelve hundred and thirty-eight references.
As rule the work of previous compilers has
been made use of to only very small ex-
tent. and the work has the merit of origin
atty. Accuracy has been assured by con-
sulting in every instance the original text,
and each quotation is followed by concise
indication of the work from which it is
taken, with specification of the book, chap
ter and frequently the paragraph.
Constitutional History of the United States
from their Declaration of Independence to
the Close of Their Civil War. By George
Ticknor Curtis. VOL 1. New York (:
Harper & Brothers; Portland Loring,
Short & Harmony The first volume of this
work contains the whole of Mr.. Curtis's
History of the Origin, Formation and Adop-
tion of the Constitution of the United States !,
with Notices of its Principal Framers,'
w frcf hxy
than thirty years ago. The first volume of
the new work has its separate Index. The
author has carefully revised his former work
on the formation and adoption of the Con-
stitution. The second volume, now in
preparation, will have its own Index, and
will be divided into fourteen chapters. The
author explains in his Preface his reason for
grouping together in these several chapters
the topics to which they relate, instead of
giving the Constitutional history of the
United States in strictly chronological
order.
The period covered by the second volume
is from the adoption of the Constitution to
the close of the Civil War-three quarters of
century. The following are some of the
topics treated in the second volume: His
tory of Opinion and Belief concerning the
Nature Of the Constitution; the Virginia
and Kentucky Resolutions of 1898; the Fed
eralists of New England and the Hartford
Convention; Notification, how Distin-
guished from Secession; Webster and Cal
houn. as Representatives of opposite
Theories; Remuneration of the Constitution
by the Early Founders of the Anti Slavery
Societies; the History of Secession: the
South Carolina Ordinance; Why Secession
Is Revolution; True Justification of the Fed
eral Government in the Prosecution of the
Civil War; Views of the Friends and Oppo-
nents of the Constitution at the Time of its
Adoption Concurred in Regard to its Nature /:
Necessity OF Organic Laws to Supply the
Machinery of the New Government; Mode
OF Choosing the President; his Constitu.
tlonal Functions; Counting" the Electoral
Votes; Washington's Acceptance of the
FIRST Presidency; Earliest Precedence of
counting" the Electoral Vote; Inaugural
tion OF the President and Vice-President !.
Power OF Removal from Office; the Ten
Amendments of the Constitution Adopted
In 1891; How Far Protection was
deemed Obligatory; Organization of the
Judicial and Executive Departments Execu-
tive interpretations of the Constitution dur
ing Washington's Administration Admis-
sion OF New States History and Purpose of
the Territorial Clause; Rise, Progress, and
consequences of the Anti-Slavery Agitation
Counter Pro-Slavery Tendencies: Causes of
the civil War, and its True Issues; Consti-
tuition Doctrines of President Lincoln's Ad-
minstration; Close of the War: "Reconstruc
ton. Of the Southern States: the New
Amendments, whether they were in Accord
ance with tine Amending Power; Limitations
OF that Power; Judicial Interpretations of
the New Amendments; How the Constitu-
ton was Left when the War was Ended and
Final Settlement of Its Issues had been
I'o"ehad L. C0nclnsinns to BIO Drawn respect
ing the Permanancy of our Present Political
Institutions. In this labor the writer has
been occupied for twenty years, aiming to
condense into one volume the Constitutional
history OF the country for the first century
Of its present government, and distinguish
Ing Constitutional History from Constitu-
ti0nal Law.
In the 400" and Out. AS a delineator of
scenes taken from life in that ultra fashion,
able circle, the New York "four hundred. )"
Mr.. Charles Jay Taylor. of Puck, is an artist
without rival. His drawings are in no
sense caricatures. but are faithful reproduc-
lions of persons and things as they actually
exist They are at once amusing and instruc-
tive. Under the title of SIN the 400 and
OUT collection of Mr.. Taylor's sketches,
with the witty writings that accompanied
them in Puck. has been published by Keppler
q Schwarzmann, in convenient form for
the parlor table. The book is got up in the
tasteful style which characterizes the Puck
publications, and makes beautiful volume
for holiday gift. Sold by all booksellers,
or will be mailed by the publishers on receipt
of $1.00.