The Portland daily press., 1893-11-11

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is attractive; while it's battles, adven'
lures, descriptions of scenery and group
ing OF characters have all the ready
talent ana spirited handling which have
made Mr.. Monroe's writings popular
with boys and the large number of their
sisters who 8lize boys books best"
New York: Charles Scribners Sons;
| Portland Lorlng, Short & Harmon.
Price 81. %.
To Right the Wrong A Novel by
| Edna Lyall, author of In the Golden
Days. Donovan, etc. Illustrated. The
opening chapter of this interesting story
takes us to Lincoln. Enlgand, and in
| that picturesque spot where the beauti-
full Norman cathedral from it's northwest
tower sent forth by the tongue OF Great
Tom" a welcome to the King, there
arose IN the heart of young man the
hrst awakened sense of injustice and the
question of how far royalty may Cypress
the people. To John Hampden, and
thence into his army is this ardent soul
driven, thereby entering into sore strug-
gle with those of his own flesh and blood
The story is exceedingly well told and
is fresher. less hurried and more satisfac-
tory than the modern story is prone to be.
The seventeenth century is fine materi-
al for the writer of fiction based upon
fact, and To Right the Wrong is an ex-
cellent book for young people, though
attractive to their elders as WELL (New
York: Harper 6 Brothers; Portland:
Loring, Short & Harmony
Question Of Honour, by Lynde
Palmer, author of The Little Captain,
ETC., is, we suspect story which the
paren ts will set aside for something a
little more solid, while the older young
people will read it eagerly. That is to
say, its one fault is touch of sensation
alism. 1t will be apt to set too many
schemes and happenings spinning in the
imm nature brain. Aside from this, it
has much to commend it. The brave
and sensible little heroine has worthy
champions in the Page boys,n and
cousin Hiram" is a most pathetic fig
| ure "Cousin Della, +" though overdone in
her harshness, is we'll done, and good
deal of life and vivacity runs through
the whole. New York: Dodd, Mead &
Company; Portland: Loring, Short &
Harmony
It was in 1881 or 1882 that the readers
of the old New England Magazine
learned for the first time that mankind
once conceived the wonderful project
of shouting aBoo" together, in order that
the noise might be heard in the moon.
AS the colmnsS bf that magazine related
everyone Thought he Would let his neigh
bors do the shouting and for himself en-
joy the noise. So it happened that the
world was never SO still since the crea-
tion, deaf man in the Fejee Islands and
a woman in Pekin being the only person
who spoke. Those who laughed at this
and other productions of the youthful
genius in 1882 probably did not dream
that sixty years thence the same unique
and del ightful humorist and philosopher
would be delighting and instructing
their grandchildren. Yet DR.. Oliver
Wendell Holmes is still able to write of
the late edition of his Autocrat of the
Breakfast Table a preface sparkling with
all the fire of youthful genius. The Au-
tocrat needs no description or introduce
ton to New England readers. For more
than twenty five years it has had the
place of honor on the parlor table. But
it is interesting to know that Messrs.
Houghton, Mifiin & Co. portland:
Loring, Short. & Harmony have just
published a fins, new edition in two vol
umes, handsomely illustrated by Howard
Pyle, and made doubly precious by two
portraits of the Autocrat himself, one
the Oliver Wendell Holmes of 1850, the
other the DR. Holmes of 1885.
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