The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-04-27

ca in the difficult profession of putting
great deal into brief space-that is OF
writing a successful short story. New
York: Harper & Brothers; Portland:
Loring, Short & Harmony
Little Brothers of the Air. By Olive
Thorne Miller. This is the third book
which Mrs. Miller has published about
birds, and it is even more delightful
than the preceding volumes Many Of
the papers have appeared in the Atlantic
Monthly, Harper's Bazaar and The hide
pendent. Mrs. Miller has made her OBJ
servations and written her sketches for
the most part on the shore of the Great
South Bay, Long Island, and in the
BLACK River Country of northern New
York, and among the birds studied were
the king bird, flicker, redstart, thrasher,
pewee, bluejay, hermit thrush, Bobolink,
scarlet tanager, woodpecker, goldfinch
and crow. Mrs. Miller has done more to
solve the mystery and show the beauty
OF bird life to the general reader than
any other writer, for there is a charm
about her style of writing that engages
the attention Of the most careless reader,
and clearness that makes all plain to
the dullest. Boston: Houghton, Mitf1in
d Co.; Portland: Loring, Short & Har-
mon. Price S1.15.)
The Rescue of An Old Place. By Mary
Caroline Robbins. Maine people should
be interested in this book because its au-
thor was born in our own State, and has
many friends in Portland as well as far
Their east. Literary people must be in
terested in it because it is remarkable
bit of modern literature. So exquisite
at times is the style and wording of this
summer idyll that one can only compare
it with the most beautiful portions of
classic verse, though it's form be prose.
Take this as an example:
'fhe dusty foliage energies brilliantly
shining and fresh. Every shower seems
to bring new spring, and the world
never fails to be surprised at the reno
walton which succeeds the rain. There
seem, indeed, to be new heavens and a
new earth. The dropping evergreens
lift up their tasseled heads and take
courage; to them it means life and new
hope The vines throw out their ten
drills, and the honey-suckle emits keener
perfume. The white lilies that come to
rejoice US just as the roses are going
CLEAN in the twilight tall and fair. Who
falsely says that it is merely a license of
the poets to mingle roses and lilies, since
they do not blossom at the same time?
| With us the Irises and the white flower
de luce linger till after the roses arc in
bloom, and then, before the queen is
out of sight, come these stately Processes
her followers, like train-bearers of high
degree, all clad in white and gold, near
est the throne, if not rivals for the high
est place of ALL"
1.-THE Rescue of an Old Place. means
an abandoned farm in bingham taken in
hand by ''the Doctor and his wife, with
the sturdy resolve to make something
of it. What this Something proved
and how it was all done, suffered and en-
| joyed, the pages of the book disclose,
and disclose with wondrous charm
The account from beginning to end is
interesting; it has valuable lessons in
forestry and gardening and the whole is
silvered and made shining by the pretti-
| est kind of vita humorous touching up
of the subject in hand most beguiling
and full of charm. For the book lover
and the lover OF nature and out-of-doors
life we predict delightful hours in the
companionship of this little volume.
| Boston and New York: Houghton, Miff1in
& Co.; Portland: Loring, Short & Har-
mon. Price, $1.25.)
A Capillary Crime and Other Stories
by F. D. Millet. Illustrated. Mr.. Mil
let's varied experiences as artist, war
correspondent and dweller in foreign
lands fits him for recounter of artistic
tales, to which material in hand, must be
added his own rare fitness for the task of
story telling
Besides the story which gives the book
its title, we have ga Faded Scapular,
"Yatil, - "Tedesco's Rubina," ''Medusa's
Head, y 'The Fourth Waits and 1.-THE
Bush" each in it's may bit of fine and
| finished work. 1t would be difficult to
find a more lovely romance than sTedes-
co.'s Rubina" with it's background of
| (New York: Harper and Brothers; Port
land: Loring, Short & Harmony
Tales of Time and Place by Grace
King. This young southern authoress
has been ranked with Gable as regards
the merit and beauty of some of her
sketches. Whether this opinion be gen.
orally accepted, there can be no doubt of
her genuine power and remarkable talent
She adds another name to the list of
those in the South, who can fill canvas
for us with mastery drawing and
rich color. ''Bayon pombre," ssBoune
Maman," "Madrilene, or the Festival of
the Dead and ''The Christmas Story of
Little Church, are recent additions to
our choicest group of characteristic and
poetic studies of southern history and
romance. (New York: Harper and
Brothers; Portland: Loring, Short 6
Harmon.
Concerning All of Us by Thomas Went
worth Higginson. Col. Higginson is a
reformer and a man of pronounced views
on modern short comings and errors and
methods of advance and improvement
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