The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-12-21
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

Odes, Lyrics and Sonnets. By James
Russell Lowell Boston: Houghton, Milf
lin & Co. Portland: Loring. Short &
Harmony Why do we only learn to use
our powers when they are no longer ours?
Akin to this question is another, why do
we not fully appreciate our best writers,
and especially our best poets, till they have
ceased to write? Bryant and Longfellow
indeed, were duly priced while living, as
Whittier is now. But Lowell as poet and
critic, was scarcely estimated at his true
value, or If so only by comparatively few.
As often happens, his death, however, mas
not only turned public attention to his
writings, but called forth notes of admira-
ton which had been better earlier. because
none too high to express the worth OF
noble man, as well as real genius who
often builded better than he knew. This
volume contains the Commemoration Ode,
and the chief of mis- Lyrics, an admirable
selection making a charming Christmas
gift book.
An Inductive Latin Primer. By William
B. Harper, Phi. D. President of the UNI
versity of Chicago, and Isaac B. Burgess,
A. NJ, Boston Latin School. New York;
American Book Coz The leading Feature
of this volume is the emphasis laid on max
ing Grammar the handmade of Latin litera-
ture. A grammatical knowledge of the
language is to be gained, by studying the
text, in place of making it an end per Sc
In other words, grammar is regarded as
| means, not an end. The work is based on
| a portion of Caesars Commentaries. to
which is added full vocabulary, not a very
| long one as Caesar uses less than thous-
and words In his account of the Helvetian
War. 1t may be added, that the method
here favored is becoming general and de-
| serves to be.
Wide Awake. F. F. Cloth So. Boston: d
Lothrop & Co Portland: Stevens &
| Jones0 A new volume of Wide Awake
means always expectation in its announce
ment, epjoy ment in its monthly realization,
and a full feast when the bound volume
appears. Such a feaSt-full and satisfac-
tory-is offered In the new volume just
issued in the warm and cheerful red covers
That so many young people have learned to
welcome and enjoy. The change in type
made in the magazine at the beginning Of
| the year makes an especially attractive
| page when seen in bulk between covers.
But new type and crimson covers are not
| everything. The feast of good things
| spread in this new volume is attractive and
appetizing. Amanda B. Harris and Sarah
Pratt McLe an, Mrs. Burton Harrison and
Mary e. Wilkins. Elizabeth Robins PEN
| nell and Frances A Humphrey, Graham
r. Tomson and Katherine s. Macquoid,
Emile Poulsson and Katherine B. Foote
and Susan Coolidge, Governor John B.
| Long and Elbridge 5. Brooks, Oscar Fay
Adams and Henry Kirk White, DR.. Alex
ander III. Japp and Henry Bacon. Ernest
Ingersol and Grant Allen and Lieutenant
Fremont are but few of the names at
tached to story. sketch, and verse to which
| such illustrative artists as Taylor and
Hassam and Bridgman and Bacon and Pen
nell and Barnes have added pictures. The
volume is crowded with good reading from
cover to cover, not too many continued
| stories, and the short ones sparkling, bright
| and entertaining.
A book that will delight the little folks
is Tom Tucker and Little Bo-Peep, by
Thomas Hood, illustrated by Alice WAR
ton Adams New York: Cassell 6 Co. !;
Portland: Lorlng. Short 6 Harmony The
pictures are colored aid will delight the
| eyes, while the rhythmic jingle of the bal
lads appeals strongly to the ear. Any small
child ought to be happy to wake up Christ
mas morning with this book open before
his eyes.
From E. P. Dutton & Co., New York, we
| have received Lonfellow Pictures, by Her
bert Dickson, Miss M. Dickson and j. Fen
| nimore, series of beautifully colored
| plates representing Maidenhood, The Viii
large Blacksmith, Hiawatha, Miles Stan
dish's Courtship. Excelsior, and Evauge-
| line; A Little Town of Bethlehem, by
| Phillips Brooks, with beautiful illustra-
lions in sepia tint; Somebody's Mother, by
Mary ID. Brine, with illustrations in sepia !;
and Bells Across the Snow, by Frances
Ridley Hayegal. illustrated with colored
plates. Each one of these little books is a
| Scu WuiCu Will piUFo VtllSuL 10 Inc re-
cipient at Christmas time. They are for
sale in Portland by Stevens & Jones.
Harper's Young People for 1891 New
York: Harper 81 Brothers. Portland
| Loring, Short 81 Harmony The bound
volume of this excellent magazine for
| young folks is one of the best books that
can be put into the hands of children. Its
stories are of tho best and by the best au-
tnors, its sketches always entertaining and
Instructive, and its pictures exceedingly
| attractive to the eye. The volume contains
| $50 pages, every one of which has some
tning valuable and attractive.
The Little Ladies. By Helen Milman.
(Pbiladelphia: j. B. Lip Jinc0tt & Co. !;
Portland: Loring, Short & Harmon. Price
$1.50. AS the author says, this is not
love story. or an ideal story, or story of
events, or even an exciting story" but
here is a little of all In it. The Little
| Ladies" are twin children, Lady Nesta
md Lady Mona, charming even in their
mischief, and growing in grace and sweet