The Portland daily press., 1890-06-09
NEW PUBLICATIONS,

Harvard Graduates Whom have Known.
By Andrew Preston Peabody, d. D., LII. D.,
preacher to the university, and Plummer
professor of Christian Morals, emeritus.
DIR. Peabody's volume is designed as Sc
quel to his Harvard "reminiscences. The
men whom it commentaries were either
benefactors of the college, or members of
its boards of government or instruction.
The list includes Joshua Foster, Nathan
Dane, John Pierce, John Pickering, William
Wells, William jerks, Daniel Appleton
White, Charles Lowell, Ichabod Nichols,
James Walker, Jared Sparks, Samuel A.
Eliot, George B. Emerson, Stephen Sails
bury, Nathaniel Wood, Nathaniel Silsbee,
Cazneau Palfrey, Samuel FL. Valley, Ste
phen M. Weld, Increase S. Wheeler. In the
appendix are sketches Of Henry Dunster
first president of Harvard College, and Chas.
Chauncey, the second president With the
exception of the two presidents treated of in
the appendix. DR.. Peabody was personally
acquainted with all of those of whom he
writes. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. :
Portland: Lcring, Short & Harmony
The Wife of the First Consul. By Imbert
de Saint-Armand. Translated by Thomas
Sergeant Perry. With Portrait. There was
so much eventful In the life of Josephine,
and its story is so interviewer with the his.
tory of the rise End fall of one of the greatest
men Of modern times that a narrative of it
cal not fail to be Of deep interest. No peri
cd of modern times has been more written
about than the years which cover the rise
nd fol Of
subject still continue to be eagerly sought
for and read. This volume gives us clear
insight into the character and life of the
wife of the First Consul, and throws good
many side lights upon the character of the
First Consul himself. The translator has
done his work well. reproducing in easy and
elegant English the ideas of the French su-
thor of the biography. (New York. Charlie
Scribner's Sons; Portland: Loring, Short &
Harmony
The United States, its History and Con-
stitution. By Alexander Johnston, late pro-
lessor of jurisdence and political economy in
Princeton College. The contents of this
volume first appeared in the Encyclo-
pedal Britannica, in an article on
the history and constitution of the
United States, and the narrative ends
with 1887 1t is comprehensive sketch of
our form Of government, giving in clear Ian
guage the different functions and limitations
OF the various branches of the government.
and sketching the salient features in our
constitutional history from the time of the
adoption of the constitution almost TO the
present date. New York. Charles Serb
ner's Sons; Portland: Loring, Short g. Har-
mon)
Liberal Living Upon Narrow Mears By
Christine Terhune Herrick. In this volume
Mrs. Herrick tells how a person can live
we'll on narrow means. Mrs. Herrlck is spe-
cific and does not content herself with deal
ing with glitteriDg geDeralities. Each
month the dinners for a consecutive week
are given, thus affording opportunity to
direct how to dispose of the 'left overs"
from day to day. There is chapter on
food for the sick, in which great many
suitable dishes are given and their method
of preparation set forth. Boston: Hough-
ton, Mifflin g. Co.; Portland: Loring, Short
d Harmony
Inc Life Of Nelson. The series of VOL
umes which Messrs. Putnam have in course
oi publication under the general title of
heroes OF the Nations. has been initiated by
1ne puDhcation of Life of Nelson, by w.
clark Russell, author of The Wreck of the
GrosVenor' and other brilliant stories of the
sea. Inc prospectus of the new series ex-
plains that it is planned to present trust-
worthy studies or pictures of the lives and
work Of lumber of representative histori-
cal characters about whom have gathered the
great traditions of the nations to which they