The Portland daily press., 1893-09-04


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NY heart, my bird!"
Here again, is pretty song:
Hours of the hooking day
Go down to oceans breast,
Fly fast and far away,
And find your rest!
My lutte and are weary of your light
Good night Good night!
Hours of the starry night,
Come We, with silent feet,
And faces yelled from light;
And, singing sweet
Lull us to Sleep and bring to our distress
Forgetfulness
But tbs is not so much story of the
lovers as of the Count, who says:
81 mind the time when through King
Roderick's foes
l rode, like wind above the yielding
grain,
And bore the weight of battle all day
And when the fray was done / leap to
As if 'twere dawn, and in the morning
went forth to my reaping. o body OF
Old age has come upon thee and made
thee faint,
That vert so strong to bear the weight OF
NV eyes are blind with Christian blood,
my ears
Are filled with groans o. the Spanlard;
from my grasp
Droops my good sword as from hand
grown DID,"
and with infinite tenderness to the close
o<1x-,, h LON h dpod
Boston: Little, Brown & Company.
Price 81. co..
The Distaf Series is edited with the
purpose of showing what the women OF
the State of New York have done in
periodical literature, a part of the EX-
hibit of Woman's Work in Literature in
the State of New York; which latter
collection is to be. preserved in the State
Library in the Capitol at Albany, and
includes 1000 books and 300 papers.
The present little volume is entitled The
Literature of Philanthropy, and for its
topics has Or minal Reform, Tenement
the Society of the Red Cross, the Indian,
the Negro and ssthe Blind. We would
call special attention to the subject of
district nurses" women who go for a
few hours to give aid in illness, at mod
crate rates, and who assist in homework
and cooking if need be. Not the trained
nurse. who takes the patients tempera-
ture frequently and keeps d scientific
written record, sometimes to the avoid
ance of needed promotion of general
comfort. District nurses must be paid
regular salary from other sources than
the families they attend, it need not be
remarked.
Mrs Doolittle's history of the Red
Gross Society win enlighten much ignor-
ance upon that subject. 1t is curious
stage of civilization when men still fight
like savages, yet after battle furnish
tender care to the sick and wounded,
with immunity to the enemy if disabled
President Arthur has. the honor of sign
ing..the Geneva treaty in 1882. The
American Red Cross Society, in times of
peace fortunately our own times) gives
aid in national calamities, as foods, cy-
clones, famine and fire. Miss Barton
ranks with the. heroic saints.of all ages.
Mrs. Goodwin on The Anti-slavery
Legacy says, "To begin civilization
with the ballot is like beginning the
Bible with Revelations-it is reading
backward and presents her theme with
force, philosophy and clear-headed good
sense. Mr.. Booker T. Washington, recently
heard in this city, comes in for a unique
kind of compliment. A Southern white
man seeing him pass on the street once
exclaimed with an oath BY =, it's sall
can do to help saying Mister to him. :"
At Hampton student government t"
is carried on with good effect.
In the essay upon the education of the
blind, it is marvellous to realize that
graduates of the New York Institution
have succeeded in almost all occupations,
even the vocations of lumberman,
sailor, cook and switch-tender.
We believe these little books are the
mechanical result of the work of women
as well as the intellectual printing,
stitching, everything coming from their
labor. George Eliot's recluse was sure
the men could do all kinds of work better
than the women. There are others who
think women. do all sorts of things better
than their masculine associates One
view is about as correct as the other
given good mind and no end of applica-
ton, and we need not fear that sex will
injure the outcome at all. The women
of New York have reason to be proud of
their record. (New, York: Harper &
Brothers; Portland: Loring, Short &
Harmon. Price 81. 90.
A School History of the United States,
by William Swinton. Since the death of
Prof. Swinton this book has been revised
and rewritten, its former title being
Swinton's Condensed School History of
the United States. It's use for the past
twenty years indicates it's popularity.
Its author claimed as special features
a. method of "Topical Reviews" and
his separation ofssthe history of certain
State from the history of the admins
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