The Portland daily press., 1893-07-29
NEW PUBLICATIONS.


has already gone through second edi-
ton, and here are to be found the dis
tinctive features so dear to lovers of Kip
lingo-Mulvaney in all his experienced
freshness; the armies lying "doggo"
and later, by detachments, hunting the
dacoits; East Indian love making and
equally fervid quarrels for two, and all
the forcible blending which this author
does by a touch of genius, of brutality,
pathos, love and wit.
Let the military leader" take this to
his heart! "Thin the Tyeone, wild the
Ould Rig mint in touch, was sint marau-
din and prowlin' acrost the hills pro-
mishcuous an unsatisfactory. IT'S my
privit opinion that a gineral does not
know half his time fwhat to do wild
three-quarthers his command. So he
shquats ON his hunkers an bids thin
run round fornist him while he con-
sidhers on ut. Whin by the process av
nature they get sejuced into big fight
that was av their seekin' he seq: 'Ob-
sarve my superior JANUS! meant it
to come sou
With preface and envoy in verse, some
fourteen stories are contained in Many
Inventions, The Disturber of Traffic and
In the Rukh among the number. New
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Mr.. Tommy Dove, The Face on the
WALL Elizabeth, At Whose Door? and A
Fourth Glass Appointment are published
by Mrs. Deland, under the title of the
initial story given above, in very pretty
book form. The writings of Margaret
Deland are always thoughtful and sugges-
tive, as well as thoroughly artistic in
construction. Her analysis of. character
is keen and slight standings bring out
wonderfully well the more subtle sides
of an apparently uneventful life or COM
monplace environment. The beat of the
human heart makes tragedy. or pathos or
even humor where the superficial OBJ
server would fail to note elements as
powerful as those developed in exciting
surroundings or a rush of busy days.
These little studies of life in story
form, are well worth their permanent
setting. New York and Boston:
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Old Kaskaskia, by Mary Hartwell
Catherwood, is a romantic and even
unique setting forth of the fortunes of
group of original folk dwelling in ILL
nois in the Mississippi river region, dur
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the French held supremacy in American
colonial affairs. Fresh in conception,
striking and condensed, the discrimin-
ating reader will not peruse this story
without adding to his stock in trade as
types of human nature, tdnte granaere
Angelioue and the doughty Colonel.
Old Kankaskia is an addition of value to
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upon events in the growth of our own
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The Voice of the Flower by E. Gerard,
author of A Secret Mission, Bis, The
Land Beyond the Forest, etc. Joint au-
thor of Reata. The Waters of Hercules,
Beegar My Neighbor, A Sensitive Plant.
etc. Lovers of the dear old TRANSACTIONS.
and other tales not of foreign extraction,
where the fate OF flower determines the
destinies of heart, will enjoy this story
r. +be full 1t is favorite theme; ''the
Pot of Basil,'' Dumas, "Tulipe Noire,"
Onida's .sDeux Petits Sabots," who of
us has not his favorite romance, where
tho stalk and stem and petal of living
blossom breathes with the plot that
makes or mars a lovers happiness? In
this case the symbol is introduced and
maintained with remarkable skill. The
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and white of the ill-starred carnation re-
main mental picture in the imagination
together with the heavenly child-nature
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From Out of the Past by Emily How
land Hoppin is marked by the felicity
and refinement of the really graphic de-
scriptlons of Tours, in France, which
are replete with hints of history enlight-
ened by legend and pretty pictures of
foreign customs and scenery. The love
story which is its excnse for being turns
chiefly upon question of years and is
the not unusual one of a sweetheart
widowed and finding her passion in a
lovely daughter of eighteen, at the criti-