The Portland daily press., 1892-06-28

recommend IL TO women VINO rue OF
mean to ride, to riding masters and to
parents and guardians" 1t presents
its subject clearly and well, never ram
bles from the matter in hand but is brief
and yet inclusive. The author holds
conservative views in regard to certain
mooted points and certainly does not in
cline to advocate the riding astride of
the fair sex sometimes so eloquently
urged. New York: Harper and Brothers;
Portland: Loring Short and Harmon.
Vesty of the Basins. A novel by
Sarah P Mclean Greene author of Cape
Cod Folks etc. Here is book which is
its own excuse for being. Mrs. Greene
has captured in this case, almost more
perfectly than heretofore, the racy, pithy
characteristics of the Cape Cod natives.
If one may be pardoned for so saying,
when the author let's the people in her
latest book alone they are simply irresis-
tible. When she constructs her story we
get here and there touch which lacks
refinement and sometimes a too abrupt
or jerky effect in the handling of the
tragic sides of the romance but when
Elder Skates and Captain Pharo and
Captain Leezur, with his s'narvine lozen-
ges'' and the women folks generally just
say and do what they (and we) like, there
is nothing better in the history of dialect
The love story, taking one into more civil
lized regions, has, too, much freshness
and power. (New York: Harper &
Brothers; Portland: Loring, Short &
Harmony
Diego Pinzon and The Fearful Voyage
He took into the Unknown Ocean, A. d.
1892. BY John Russell Coryell, illus
trated. At this time of the approaching
Columbian Exposition, books bearing
upon the discovery of America are par
ticularly attractive and in the above
we have story for young people which
is well told and worth the telling. Its
graphic fashion is just that to appeal to
the Notwithstanding mind of the
school boy or his bright little sister tho
it is not sufficiently juvenile to debar
their elders from running over it's pages
with relish. (New York: Harper &
Brothers; Portland: Loring, Short, &
Harmony
Miss M. E. Braddon's The Venetians,
is rather highly colored for profitable
reading by just the ones who will be sure
to like 1.-THE summer girl and her con
freres; and yet it describes charmingly a
family of sweet English girls and has
many and indirect lessons in good be-
havior and elegance. The story is writ
ten with skill, finish and no end of spirit.
An occasional gross vulgarity and an un-
due amount of sensationalism relegate it
to the list of novels for an idle hour of
elders, rather than the eager perusal of
young minds. (New York: Harper and
Brothers; Portland, Loring, Short &
Harmon.
The Century Illustrated Monthly Maga-
zine, November 1891, to April 1892, New
York; Century Company. From the
Publishers.) The volume of The Cen
tury just completed, containing the mum
bers from November, 1891, to May, 1892,
shows far better than could any SINGLE
number the diversified character of the
contributions that go to the making of
this famous magazine. Here are articles
on Paderewski, the PIANIST, with por-
traits; Mozart; Aerial Navigation, by
Hiram Maxim, the inventor of the rapid
firing gun, and of the fying-machine
here described; Solar Eclipses, by Prof.
Holden, of the Lick Observatory; What
are Americans Doing in Art? by the Vice
President of the National Academy of
Design; Australian Registry of Land
Titles, by Edward Atkinson; Witcheraft
by DR.. j. M. Buckley, editor of the
Christian Advocate; The Ocean Postal
Service, by ex-Postmaster-G General James;
Clusters Last Battle, by one of his troop
commanders; The San Francisco Vigi-
lance Committee, by the chairman of the
ieuhiOuo COiliiulupOOo VI ICCI dllQ IOcO, d.
description of New York's famous thor
oughfare, The Bowery, by Julian Ralph,
and scores of other articles, making in
all volume of nearly thousand pages,
illustrated by more than three hundred
pictures, of which sixty are full-page en-
cravings.
First chapters Iof nearly all the i'm
portant serial features announced for
publication in the Century last autumn
Edmund Clarence Stedman's essays on
The Nature and Elements of Poetry; the
series on the Jews in New York; The
Farmer and The Government; Famous
French Musicians; and the novels, The
Naulahka and characteristics, contribut-
ed by Rudyard Kipling in collaboration
with Wolcott Balestier, and by DR.. Weir
Mitchell, are contained in this volume.
In the realm of fiction, in addition to
The Naulahka and characteristics, is a
novel by Hamlin Garland entitled OF
Pag's Flaxen, and short stories by Harry
Stillwell Edwards, Viola Roseboro'.