The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-04-16
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The Oak. A Popular Introduction to
Forest Botany. By Marshal f. Ward,
NJ. A., F. R. S., Professor of Botany at
the Royal Indian Engineering College,
Cooper's Hill, (New York: D. Appleton
& Co.; Portland: Loring, Short 8 Har-
mon.) This is one of the Modern Sci
ence Series, edited by Sir John Lubbock,
baronet. Beginning with the acorn and
its termination, it traces the growth of
the oak to maturity and examines the
quality of the oak as timber material.
While the book aims to be scientific
treatise, yet for the most part it is so
well Invested of technicalities as to be
readily comprehe nsible by the layman
who has no special knowledge of the
subject of botany. The illustrations are
numerous and always helpful.
Tributes to Shakespeare Collected and
Arranged by Mary R. Silsby. New
York: Harper & Brothers; Portland:
Lorng, Short & Harmony This is a col
lection of poems dedicated to the great
dramatist or inspired by his genius, rang
ing in date from 1895 to 1891. Among
the more prominent authors who have
been drawn upon are Ben Jonson, Dry
den, Garrick, Pope, and in more modern
times John Keats, Hartley Coleridge.
Lander, Kemble, Swinburne and Brown
ing. The principal American authors
represented are Longfellow, Emers on,
Stoddard, Holmes, Washington Irving,
BaTard Taylor, r. W. Glider, and T. B.
Aldricb. Mr.. W. Rolfe. to whom the
book is dedicated, in note to the au-
thor says: ''It was happy thought to
gather up these tributes to Shakespeare,
and it is remarkable that it was not done
by some lover of the poet ere this
The New Elementary Algebra, embrac-
ing the first principles of the science,
BY Chas. Davies, L L. D., edited by j.
H. Van Amringe, Phi D., professor of
mathematics, Columbia College. New
York: Cincinnati and Chicago; American
Book Company This newly revised
edition of Davies's New Elementary AL
zebra, while retaining all the merits of
the old edition shows marked advances
over the original work. The discussion
of the important subject of Factoring, in
Guiding Greatest Common Divisor and
Least Common Multiple, has been ex-
banded and simplifed, and the number
of problems very considerably increased.
Evolution has been extended to embrace
the extraction of not only cube root, but
of any root, while noteworthy improve
ments have been effected in the treat
ment of radicals. The treatment of
Series and of Logarithms has also been
modified in the direction of greater sim
plcity and thoroughness.
Everybody's Writing-Desk Book. By
Charles Nesbit and Don Lemon. Re-
uised and edited by James Baldwin Phi D.
(New York: Harper and Brothers; Port
land: Loring, Short 6 Harmony. This
is an exceedingly handy volume for all
writers. 1t sets forth in plain and in
telligible way some of the more import
ant rules to be observed in composition,
with numerous examples illustrative of
them. The chapter on the wrong use of
words is especially instructive and valu-
able. Grammar and punctuation are
discussed in way that is very helpful,
the common errors which even the most
practiced writer's fall into being pointed
out and guarded against. There is a
table of synonyms and autonyms. list
of words often mispronounced and one
of words often mispelled, besides much
other information for writers. The book
is one of the most valuable Of the kind
we have ever seen.
Merry Tales. By Mark Twain. (New
York: Charles L. Webster 6 Co. From
the publisher.) This is one OF the Fictions
Fact & Fancy, Series edited by Arthur
Stedman, which the editor. tells us has
been projected to meet the evident de-
sire of our people, largely occupied with
material affairs, for reading in shape
adapted to the amount of time at their
disposal. Until recently this desire has
been satisfied chiefly from foreign sourc-
es. Many reprints and translations of
the little classics of other literatures than
our own have been made, and much good
has been done in this way. On the other