The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-10-29
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

out, Agnes Repplier has given a new
lease of life. To be sure she writes it,
as Ophelia wore her rue, with differ
enee, and strikes the note of modernity
not discordantly, however. Her pa
pers, bakers dozen of which are col
lected by Arthur Stedman and under the
title Essays in Miniature published in
the favorite Fiction, Fact and Fancy Sc
ries. New York: Charles L. Webster &
Coz preserve the best traditions of the
Essay as written by the doctors Of Eng
fish literature, while possessing a strong
and charming individuality, and accom-
dating themselves to the days that be-
In these papers she treats of many top
les, the trials of publishers, the novel of
incident, the decadence of the villain in
fiction, old world pets, comedies of the
custom house, and other matters, mostly
made familiar by previous publication in
the. magazines-and she treats of them
wisely. wittily and with gentle toler-
ance of opposing opinions that WHIST
readers heart. Essays in Miniature is a
delightful volume.
Maud Humphreys Book of Fairy Tales
is reproduction, most elegantly printed
and charmingly illustrated by Miss Hum
phrey, of some of the delightful stories
which have engaged the rapt attention of
the children of this world from the time
of the Thousand and One Nights down
through the days of Madame the Coun-
tess DAulnoy to those of Hans Chris
tian Andersen, the Danish magician.
Within its inviting covers are to be found
Aladdin, the White Cat, the Ugly Ducls
ling, Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, Puss
in Boots, The Musicians of Bremen, Blue
Beard, Jack the Giant Killer, Beauty and
the Beast, Goody Two Shoes, Tom
Thumb, the Three Bears, the Sleeping
Beauty, Pretty Goldilocks, and many an
other favorite of childh God. The en-
trancing volume will be held as a treas
nre by every tot in the land. (New
York: Frederick A. Stokes Company:
Portland: Loring, Short & Harmony
Miss Agnes Maule Machar has written
a novel with many purposes, and entitled
it Roland Graeme: Knight. In it she
treats in manner marked more by posi-
tive opinions than by profound knowl-'
edge, large topics like the labor ques-
ton, and little ones like theological quar-
rels. The hero's name recalls that of
the protagonist of Scotts Abbott; but
unlike the page who kissed the hands of
Queen Mary, Miss Machar's man is a
journalist" Zone of the kind who are
never seen in newspaper offices, how
ever. Despite its vaulting ambition the
story is animated, and time passed over
its pages is not entirely thrown away.
New York: Fords, Howard 6 Hulburt;
Portland: Loring, Short & Harmon.
Price $1.)
An elegantly bound and beautifully
illustrated edition of Mrs. Browning's
Aurora Leigh is that published by the
Frederick A. Stokes Company, New
York, and to be found in Portland at
Loring, Short G. Harmon's. The illus
trations by Frederick c. Gordon have
the merit, apart from their artistic value,
of non-interference with the text-praise
that cannot e given to all book engrav-
ings. With Mrs. Browning masterpiece
are bound up her Drama of Exile, trans
lation of the Prometheus Bound and
Seraphim. price sly
In Children, Their Models and Critics
Mrs. Auretta Roys Aldrich discourses
wisely and alphabetically to mothers of
the needs, aspiration, strength and weak
ness of their little ones, and the maternal
duties toward offspring. Itself written
from a mother's. standpoint and out of a
wise and gentle woman's experience, it
might well be called the Mothers bre-
wary. The limpidity and charm of its
style and the wealth of its suggestions