The Portland daily press., 1891-07-29
see that the man.who was legally elected gets
the SCAT
NEW PUBLICATIONS.


NEW PUBLICATIONS.
In an elegantly bound and printed volume,
entitled Man Immortal, an Allegorical Poem,
Mr.. VIM. Stitt Taylor fills some $50 odd
pages with rhymed addresses of Immortality
to Nature, to Time, to Death. to Hell ana 10
Man. A steel engraving Of the author pref
aces the introduction, and, as we have said,
the garb of this elaborate work is really
beautiful For the substance. perhaps we
cannot do better Tor worse) than to quote
here and there few lines. We have ''erst,"
"erstwhile," "methought," ''e'er," seen"
against" we have waiting" ''earthling,"
musings" and the like. Here are two
pages, every line beginning stoo much ,,
two pages beginning mot enough" and two
more commencing well enough"
Immortality says to Time:
"rye healed all thy woundings
With the stripes of thy swaS.
released from polHtion
And refined from the CLAW:
I've new-strung thy haltinps
MADE thy blind ones to see;
Eve rehamed every shading
Lhere, regilded thy blight,
AND thy nakedness clothed
win the vestments OF light:
Here is Immortality to He'll speakiuy of
what PARADISE would be to the wicked:
Why, its very airs would be stifiIug
And its Gains would Cypress,
its pursuits would be torture
And Its joys would Distress
It's brightness would burn
And It's p@ans would grind
Its holiness blister,
Whiie lis glories would blind;
and SO op The close of the poem ~ is as
| follows:
Thus another dream
OF life was broken
Which departing,
| Left no token
save the memory
Of that promise spoken;
Then after the light
OF these mortal years,
With the journey ended
| Through this "vale OF tears,r
May both he and the reader
| See and feel and hear
That immortal all
| In Its deathess sphere.
philadelphia; j. b. Lippincott Co.. Port
land: LoriDg, Short 6 Harmon. Price
| $2.00)
| A Wedding Trip. by Emilia Pardo Bazan
| Translated by Mary j. Serrano), is the story
| Of fair young Spanish bougeoise married to
man beyond her In years and social station,
below her In mind and soul. The brilliant
qualities OF the author, her unmistakable
talent. constructive literary gift and power
OF graphic character drawing do not make
acceptable-though they naturally palliate-
the painful aud tragic plot of the novel nor
the infinitely painful presentation of revolt
ing details. While the story is not within
American canons Of decorum, 1t is by no
means SO vulgar or coarse as A Christian
Woman by the ssame writer New York:
Cassell Publishing Co. Price $1.OO.)
The Marquis of Sores little book, from
Shadow to Sunlight. locates the dramatis
personae frs. In the Scotch Highlands and
later In San Francisco in the United States
OF America. Wherever placed, Miss Mary
and her friends, their sayings and doings,
are neither spicy nor stimulating. Many
qualities are not found in the book, as VIII
viyacity or ease; certain others as good in
tention, wish to mildly instruct, and a ca
paclty to really well describe natural scenery
are discoverable. The Canadian Pacific gets
pretty puff at the hands of this royal
writer and there may be readers to whom
thoughts of the Duke Of Argyle and Queen
vi Gloria will lend an interest which will
transfer itself to the pages of From Shadow
70 Sunlight" New York: ID. Appleton &
20; PORTLAND: LoriDg, Short & Harmon
Price 80 cents.)
ID. Story by Squier L. Pierce opens
well. An orphaned little chap grows up to
the canal boat business and when the tide of
civilization sweeps this mode of travel some
what from off the face Of the water, alspts
himself to new conditions and makes money
in western pioneering. Unfortunately early
training left him lacking in the softer quail
ties of manhood and he contriYes to render
wretched his refined and beautiful wife. One
little daughter is born to them "Perdita."
The divorce case which separates Captain
Jacob Schuyler and his wife is entered into
so infinitely that we are not surprised at the
fact of the author legal profession.
Part Ii brings new complications. The
story pruned and made less wandering,
might have been remarkably fine; as 1t is,
1t will prove interesting reading to a certain
class OF minds. Philadelphia: j. B. iLippin-
colt Co.; Portland Loring, Short & Har-
mon. Price $1.25.
Bras d 'AcieI or On the Gold Path In 40 Is
adapted from the French of Alfred de Brehat
by A. Estocletand, bound in paper. is pub
lished by the Cassell Publishing Co., New
York. Here the weary searcher after some-
thing exciting may be stated with sensation.
Almost fight to page illumines this paper
brochure. To be sure there Is an occasional
slip as where. all payments being made in
gold dust, a twenty dollar bill Is naively
mentioned. Then the smallest ball for re-
volver is put at ozs. which to any but an
original forty-niner might be deemed some
what stable. The muscles Of the hero's
arm are badly torn but this does not pre-
L
''hand to hand" encounter in which he was
yisibly worsting an enormous grisly. to at
tend to some more strenuous affair. Indeed
shots fly left and right. Bras d 'Acier is a
sort of Californian Guntei r0mance-it moves
to a double quick. 1t is dime novel, decor
ated and painted very red, with some pre-
tension, and deservely so to literary merits