The Portland daily press., 1892-09-27
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

AuUuInH. rom Uilo COuIueti VI hoAtAJ
D. Thoreau. Edited by Fl. G. O. Blake.
This volume nominally completes the
four seasons as they are represented IN
Thoreau's journal, though much has oeen
omitted in all the four volumes pubhshed.
Extracts are made here ard there
not at random, but the sslecuonss are
from those portions of the journal that
more fully reveal the character and gen
ms of this remarkable man. According
to Thoreau's own view, such a journal is
in the strictest sense an autobiography.
''Our thoughts, y he says, fare the epochs
in our lives; all else is but as journal of
the winds that blew while we were here"
Thoreaus powers of observation were
wonderful, nothing was SO slight as to
escape his attention. He united the
poets insight and sympathetic apprecia-
ton of the beauties of Nature with the
scientists accuracy. His constant search
was for the lessons to be drawn from
Natures teachings, and he applied them
to his daily needs. In one entry he says:
II yet lack discernment to distinguish
the whole lesson of today; but it is not
lost, it will come to me at last. My de-
sire is to know what l have lived that l
may know how to live henceforth." Few
intimate friendships did he make. Here
4uired perfect sincerity and truth, and he
despised the petty vanities and worries
of life. Few understood him. He says:
''Our friend must be broad. =. I
go to see my friend and try his atmos-
phere; if our atmospheres do not mingle,
if we repel each other strongly, it is of
no use to stay" And again: each
phase of nature, while not invisible, is
yet not too distinct and obtrusive. 1t is
there, to befound when we look for it,
but not demanding our attention. 1t is
like a silent, but sympathetic companion,
in whose company we retain most of the
advantages of solitude, with whom we
can walk and talk or keep SILENT
One more quotation we must make, as
showing his perfect faith, and then leave
our readers to find out the beauties of
the book for,themselves, interesting as it
is alike to students of mankind and of
nature: GLOW can any man suffer long?
for sense of want is prayer, and
all prayers are answered" Boston:
Hougton, Mifain & Co.; Portland: Lor-
ing, Short & Harmony
The Principles of Ethics. By BordenP.
Boune, Professor of Philosophy in Boston
University. Prof. Boune's latest work,
following his Metaphysics, Introduction
to RssychologicalTheory, and Philosophy
of Theissn, is a valuable contribution to
the discussion of the subjectiwith which
it treats. Remembering our Plymouth
Summer School Of Philosophy, where
ethics holds the leading place, and bear
ing in mind the decided advances which
the age has made in this, as in other
fields of study, a book of this kind should
be at once recognized for its worth, and
heartily welcomed. Not only is the sub
ject matter of direct Importance, but the
author has presented his material with
scholarly handling, and writes clearly
and elegantly at all times. Students and
those readers who go to the heart of
things and do not belong to the genus
skinner. will appreciate this publica-
ton. (New York: Harper & Brothers
Portland: Loring, Short & Harmony
From the Universalist Publishing
Boston, comes little volume of sixty
odd pages, entitled "God and the Bible %
being Fundamental Principles. Briefly
stated in answer to Special Questions put
forth by the Boston Investigator /" by
George Ell. Emerson D. D. The essays
here collected are from sThe Christian
Leader" The questions to be answered
upon the subjects of God and The Bible
cover the essentials of all religious be-
lief. Whether the responses furnish
satisfactory spiritual nourishment is for
the Individual reader to decide. This
much may be said; that DR.. Emerson
treats his theme with reverence, fair
mindedness and an an absence of dogma
tism greatly to be commended.
Serampore. Letters, being the unpub
llshed correspondence of William Carey
and Others with John Williams. 1900
1916. Edited by Leighton and Monnay
Williams, with an introduction by
Thomas Wright. Very attractively
printed and illustrated this volume,
modest in size but thorough in execution
will be most acceptable to classes Of
readers who have an interest in Baptist
missions, more particularly the American
connection with the Serampore Mission
of the English Baptists. 1t contains
portraits of William Carey, John Will
Jams and Andrew Fuller, with a fac
smile letter of the Rev. Mr. Carey's as
well as views of Olney, England and a
cut of the Baptist church in Fayette ST.,
New York, erected in the year 1900
New York: G. P. Pntnam's Sons; Port
land: Loring, Short & Harmon. Price
$1.50.)