The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-05-10

stood stomach. The heart whose love is re-
Jected-this much-abused drama-rests upon
fictitious want But the stomach! Moth
Ing can be compared to its sufferings, for we
must have life before everything"
Tin-Types. Taken in the Streets of New
York. By Lemuel Ely Quigg. New York
Cassell Publishing Company; Portland:
Loring, Short & Harmony This is "a series
of stories and sketches portraying many
singular phases of metropolitan life," with
ffty-three illustrations by Harry Beard.
The pictures are clever, and so are the stories
ard sketches; but they form series of street
pictures which one would sedulously avoid
as unpleasant and vulgar, and absolutely I'M
desirable to reproduce OF preserve in any
form.
The Mistress of Beech Knoll. A Novel.
By Clara Louise Burnham. Boston.
Houghton, Mifflin & Co.. Portland: Loring.
Short q Harmony Love can love but once
llfe," sings Tennyson, and Mrs. Burn
ham takes the words as her text for very
pretty story, fresh, unconventional and
attractive. The scene is laid in an old fash
Toned New England village, and the promi-
nent characters are beautiful widow,
sweet and charming young girl, deal old
maiden lady, and men enough to furnish
material for several idyllic and yet spirited
love affairs. There is plot enough to give
vivacity to The story, which is well written
and agreeable.
l1,,Ctx BOD snAa Of A al
Oriental and Classical. By John d. Quack-
enbos, A. NJ. M. d. This popular work on
ancient literature, first issued in 1878, has
been carefully and thoroughly revised by
the author-text, diagrams and maps, and is
now most valuable work for students of
general literature. 1t gives comprehen-
sive, but carefully condensed account of the
literature of ancient nations. treating of the
origin and relationships of their respective
languages; brief biographies of great writ
ers are interviewer with the narrative, and
we'll selected specimens of their work show
each authors style and genius. The book is
illustrated with engravings and colored
maps, and well selected photography adds
to the value of the revision. (New York:
Harper & Brothers; Portland: Lcring,
Short & Harmon.)
Tales of New England. By Sarah Orne
Jewett. This volume contains eight of Miss
Jewett's most characteristic stories of coun-
try life, selected from her other books.
Published in the Riverside Aldine series
these stories are indeed in an appropriate
setting of tasteful simplicity and beauty
The stories are. Miss Tempy's Watchers, A
White Heron, Marsh Rosemary, The Dull
ham Ladies, An Only Son, The Counting of
Sister Wisely, Law Lane, and A Lost Lover
Miss Jewett leads her readers through shady
lanes and green fields, and they close the
book refreshed as by breath of pure coun-
try air. Her sketches Of New England char
acter are life-like portraits. Her keen sense
of humor enables her to portray the eccen-
tricities of her models in a delightful man.
ner, while her noble and sweet nature guides
her brush kindly and lovingly. Boston
Houghton, Mifflin & Co; Portland: Loring,
Short & Harmony
James Tiff Champlin: A Memorial. BY
Henry S. Burrage, D. d. cortland: Brown
Thurston & Co.; Printed foriprivate circula-
tion.) James Tiff Champlin was born in
Colchester, Conn.,. June 9, 1911. He was the
son of John and Martha Armstrong Champ,
lin. He was educated at Colchester and
Plainfeld academies and Brown University
graduating from the last institution in 1884.
While young Champlin was a student at
Brown, DR.. Francis Wayland was its prasi-
dentand in later years DR.. Champlin testi-
fed that he received great Impulse from
DR.. Wayland's life, his teachings and his
short, pitby addresses to the students in the
chapel. After graduation Mr.. Champlin
taught school for a short time, but that
occupation was not c0ngenial, and he re-
turned to the university as resident gradu-
ate. Soon after he was appointed tutor in the
institution, and remained in that Office unit,
March 1888, when he became pastor Of the
First Baptist church in Port land, succeeding
j. 5. Maginnis, ID. ID. here Nc reuiaineu uutil
1S41, when he resigned to accept the pro-
| fessorship of ancient languages at Water
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Barnes. In 1857 he was elected President Of
the college, a position which he held until
1872, when he resigned, deeply to the regret
of the trustees and the friends of the college.
The remaining years of his life were spent
| in Portland, chiefly in literary labors. He
| died in 1882 Such, in brief, is the outline OF
the life of a man whose monument stands at
| WaterviAe in the shape of a prosperous,
growing university, created largely by hi:
efforts out of poor and weekly institutions
which, when he undertook to recreate ii
seemed just on the verge of dissolution
DIR. Champlin was a student, as his many
published works bear witness. But as the
late FL. W. Richardson quoted by DR.. Bur-
rage said, he was also man of affairs. He
was in every way a man fitted to cope with
| the emergency which arose at Waterville Col
lege at the close of the civil war. when
| stripped of its students and with an empty
treasury, it had become serious question
whether it should continue or cease to ex-
list. Viewing today the beautiful and sub
stantial buildings of the university. its am
pie endowment fund, and its numerous and
constantly increasing students, it is hard to
realize the low ebb at which the college was
when DIR. Chanplin began the work of rails
ing the endowment fund. But the facts will
bear us out in saying that the prosp Gritty of
the university today is due in very large de-
gree to DR.. Champlin's courage, persever-
ance and business sagacity- The Baptists of
Maine can never be too grateful to DIR.
Champlin for his efforts in behalf of cir
institution, and all the friends of education
in the State have abundant reason to cher
ish his memory.
DR.. Burrage's volume contains besides the
biographical sketch, President Champlin's
inaugural address when he became the head
of Wateryille institution; an essay on Re-
ligion and Philanthropy delivered before the
Society of Missionary Inquiry at Newton
Theological Institution; an essay on Bishop
Butler. reprinted from the Christian Review /;
an essay on Daniel Webster as statesman
| and as an crater; and an address on Chris
tian Education, delivered in the college
chapel. The volume is admirably printed by
Brown Thurston &c Co.