The Portland daily press., 1891-12-16
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

My Canadian Journal. 1878. Extracts
from My Letters Home. Written While
LORD Dutferin was GOVERNOR General.
By the Marchioness of Duffrrin and
Ava. and author of Our Vice Regal Life
in Iudia New York: D. Appleton &
Co.; Portland: LOring. Short s. Harmony
In this voluae Lady Dufferin gives
to the public her experience, whilel her
husband was Governor General Of Canada
from the year 1872 to 1878. The book
Is made up from letters to her moth
er, written from day to day, describing the
daily life at Ottawa, and various parts of
of the Dominion and the United States.
The volume is written in chatty style and
Is exceedingly interesting, Lady Dufferin
was evidently highly pleased with her life
in Canada. and her experience in the
United States was also evidently very en-
joyable. One chapter on the reception of
the Maine Press Association at Ottawa
will prove particularly interesting to Maine
people. Lady Dufferin's observations are
quick and comprehensive her sense of the
humorous very keen and her descriptive
powers of no mean order. The book is one
which will be enjoyed and appreciated al
most as much by the people of the United
States as by those of Canada.
The Century Illustrated Monthly Maya
zine. Bound Volume XIII. From May
to October. 1891. (New York: Century
Company; Portland: Loring, Short &
Harmony The bound volumes of the Gen.
fury Magazine, two of which make their
appearance yearly, constitute valuable
library in themselves. We do not know
where in the same space and for the same
money can be had such variety of inter-
esting and important articles and so at
tractlve collection of illustrations. 1t is
impossible, of course, to do more than re-
fer to some OF the most important articles,
and besides, to do SO would be superfuous,
as the Century is so widely read that most
people are familiar with is contents
But the articles on California, on the Sib, >
rian exile system by George KEENAN,, on
Indian Campaigns, and the stories by the
best known and most popular authors will
perhaps prove the most generally attrac-
tive.
st. Nicholas. An Illustrated Magazine
for Young Folks. Bound Volume XVIII.
Tin two parts, from Nov, 1890 to Oct.
1891. Price 81; So per part. New York:
Century Company; Portland: Loring,
Short 81 Harmony There is no better mag
zine for the young folks than st. Nicholas,
and il grows in favor with each succeeding
year. Its stories are of the best and by
the best writers; its sketches entertaining
and adapted to the comprehension of the
young; while its departments such as
Jack in the Pulpit. The Letter Box and
The Riddle Box are source of never fail
ing amusement and instruction. Any boy
or girl will welcome these bound volumes
as among the very best gifts of Christmas
time.
Latest Literary Essays of James Russell
Lowell. Boston: Houghton, Mif1in &
Co.; Portland: Loring, Short & Harmony
Lowelps Essays are to young Americans
what Macaulay's were to the English of
the last generation, the freshest, keenest
and most critical of our day. The present
is posthumous publication, but carefully
prepared by the author before his death,
and all the papers receiving his friends
revision, save that on Richard Ill The
editor, Mr.. Charles Eliot Norton, wisely
concluded, however. to publish this with
the other essays, all of which abound not
only in wit and humor, but In the words
of wise man and in "counsels of per-
fiction"
Physical Development and Exercise for
women. BY Mary Taylor Bissell, M. d.
author of Household Hygiene. New York:
Dodd, Mead & Co.; Portland; Loripg,
Short & Harmony The first three chap
tiers of this book are devoted to symmetry
and health, how we grow, and how envir-
onment may influence growth. The infu-
ence of dress and Of school, and OF exer-
else ON physical development are also
shown, and the ways and means for exer-
else given, with Illustrations from life,
showing the different positions of the body
when IN training, the most of which can be
performed at home with ease It can be
shown, the author says. that the difference
in form between the modern and the
classic, as well as between the modern and
| the unctvilized woman, are entirely the re-
| suit Of the constructions of modern DRESS
No Greek or Roman maiden possessed our