The Portland daily press., 1892-04-18
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

A Fellowe and His Wife. By Blanche
Willis Howard, author Of Guenn, One
Summer, etc., and William Sharp, au-
thor of Sophia di Roma, etc. Miss How
ard and Nj. William Sharp, the well
known English writer, have in collabor-
alton written this unique story. In a
series of letters between a count and his
absent countess, the characters are de-
scribed and developed and the incidents
are narrated. Miss Howard writes the
letters of the count and Mr.. Sharp those
of the countess. Boston and New York:
Houghton, Miff1in & Co.; Portland: Lo1-
ing, Short & Harmony
Roger Hunt. BY Celia Parker Wooley,
author of Rachel Armstrong and Girl
Graduate. This is story of a brilliant,
but thoroughly selfish man, bent on the
fulfilment of his lwn desires; loving
himself better than friends, honor orduty,
or anything which makes up the beauty
and worth of life. The various charac-
tiers of the story are strongly sketched,
and it brings out in a striking manner
the natural results of a thoroughly sell
fish life. Boston and New York:
Houghton, Miflin & Co.; Portland: Lor-
ing, Short & Harmony
A First Family of Tassajara. By Bret
Harte.' This story of early California
life tells Of one Daniel Harcourt and his
unique family. Daniel acquires the title
to property in rather questionable man
ner, and in time becomes a millionaire.
The characters of the two ambitious
daughters and their odd love affairs, and
the career of the son. who is aware of
his fathers duplicity, and that of the
poor outcast to whom the property be-
longed are very cleverly sketched. 1t is
bright, entertaining story. Boston and
New York: Houghton, Miflin & Co.. :;
Portland: Loring, Short & Harmony
A Golden Gossip. Neighborhood
Story Numbef Two. By Mrs. A. D. T.
Whitney, author of Faith Gartney's Girl
hood, etc. Miss Elizabeth Haven, the
golden gossip of this story, leaves her
pleasant city home, and takes up her
abode at Crooke Corner, country vii
lage, where gossip is fully INDUCED in,
regardless of consequences. Miss Haven
gossips, but with different purpose; by
correcting mistakes, and representing
people at their best, and with a kindly in
terest in all, she succeeds in elevating the
people around her, and brings about
much needed reformation in the neigh
borhood. Two different types of New
England girlhood are represented, and
all the characters are sketched with
clearness and beauty. Miss Whitney
seeks in this, as she seeks in all her
stories, to bring her readers to a higher
plane of life, and her admirers will find
this one of her most pleasing stories, and
an excellent book for the young for whom
it is particularly written. Boston and
New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. !;
Portland: Loring Shorthand Harmony
Miss Bagg's Secretary. A West Point
Romance. By Clara Louise Burnham,
author of Young Maids and Old, etc.
The plot of this story centers on the
death of lothian Bagg, millionaire. an
old man, who waited little too long be-
fore making his will, and the property
goes to the legal heir, an unsophisticated
country maiden, of middle age, whose
life has been spent in humble, but sweet
content, instead of to the elegant and in
teresting Maxwell Van Kirk, for whom
it was intended. The surprise, disap-
pointment and disgust of some of the
characters, the extreme agitation of Miss
Lydia Bagg when she finds herself ar
heiress, the sympathy of Nora, her affec.
tionate serving-maid, and the final de-
parture of Miss Bagg and her pet parrot
or New York, under the escort of Max,
| field Van Kirk, who becomes her secre.
tary, assistant and friend, are very en-,
tertaining. Miss Bagg, Olive Carlyle
and her mother, and Maxwell Van Kirk
are charming characters, and the story
is brightand readable throughout. (Bos-
ton and New York: Houghton, Mifiin &
Co.; Portland: Loring, Short &, Harmon