The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-09-23

Visitors and GAS it BUSHES Byn have
each space allotted them and two engi-
neering chapters complete the book.
If you are, like the writer, an awe
struck worshipper at Niagara's -billowy
shrine, you will consider this little vol
ume wade mecum, and be glad that
our glory of great waters here has its
first adequate guide book where the poetry
and power of the falls are given place.
A volume all statistics would be an in
suit to the spot. buffalo: Underhill &
Nichols. Price $1.25. Paper SO cents.)
The Distaff Series has. been especially
mentioned by u.s. Two numbers,
Woman and the Higher Education, edit
ed by Anna G. Bracket, and Early Prose
and Verse, edited by Alice Morse Earle
and Emily Ellsworth Ford, are at hand.
In the former papers or essays are col
lected upon the subject matter as fol-
lows: Mrs. Emma Willard, date 1919,
F" A Plan for Improving Female Educa-
ion;n Mrs. Emma c.. Embury, 1881,
"Female Education;" Prof. Maria Mitch
ell, Mrs. Lucia Gilbert Runkle, Mrs.
Alice Freeman Palmer, Prof Lucy M.
Salmon and Miss Anna C. Bracket.
tits good grouping, and many salient
points are evolved in the discussion.
The Little volumes which form this
series ss,are mot necessarily connected
Each standssalone and will be purchased
by those who want to look up the con-
tents of that one number, though all
will form eventually linked chain.
Early Prose and Verse includes poems
by Mrs. Charlotte Lenox, Mrs. Blocker,
her daughter, Mrs. Faugeres. Maria
James, Mrs Stoddard, Mrs. Ward (moth-
er of Julia Ward Howe), Mrs. Embury,
Lucy Hooper, Elizabeth Cakes Smith,
Grace Greenwood and others, while the
prose extracts are mainly letters from
the pen of cultivated women of the time,
among them Eliza Southgate Bourne
of vivacious New England fame. Those
interested in tracing the American
woman in literature will find here an
accurate beginning. New York: Har-
per & Brothers; Portland: Loring, Short
& Harmon. Price 81, 90 per volume.
Another dainty little set of books
called The Side Pocket Series, includes
The Open Secret, by A Priest, and A
Guide to Palmistry. The Open Secret
is not church revelation, as might be
implied by the title, but the metaphysi-
cal speculations of student of life who
signals Mars by means of parabolic
reflector and receives replies by means
of magnetic currents shown by vibra-
tions of the compass. The Marsians,
Reply deals with the question of other
existences, psychical energy and the like.
The peerer beyond the veil will be inter-
ested and it may be that a CLEAN will
come hereby to the thinker who still
contents his feet with solid earth foun-
dation.
A Guide to Palmistry is the work of
Eliza aster-Henderson, and is cons
densed, clear and thorough, having illus
trations to assist the beginner in the art
along the science of reading character
by the lines and contour of the hand.
Since the spirit impresses itself upon the
body we have always ALLOWED" there
was much in phrenology and palmistry
not to be ignored by the mind reader.
The extent to which it is here carried,
and it's com bination with astrology seem
to the Iayman a trif1e fanciful, but it
is, like the old fortune telling, fascinat-
ing in tits way, and a better book than
Mrs. Easter Henderson, it would be
difficult to find. Boston: Arena Pub
lishingsC Company, Copley Square. Price
each seperate volume of the series IS
cents.
The Newer Religious Thinking, by
David Nelson Beach, is handsome
book with royalty large type, a joy to
reading eyes, It outlines, in series of
sermons given at the Prospect Street
church, Cam bridge, Mass, on progress
in religious thought from its first concep-
ton onward to the present time. Hav-
ing shown that the religious |. world
moves, the author gives the new and
liberal Interpretation of the searly evan
gelical doctrine. Orthodox himself, he
yet broadens his borders to ssinclude I'M
der religion. all lovers of God or good,
even to the self-thought atheist, and
the reverent worker after righteousness
who gives his creed no form or substance
save that of unselfish loyalty to the best
there is in him. Boston: Little, Browe
& Company, 254 Washington ST. Price
$1.25.
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