The Portland daily press., 1893-08-01
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

Suspected, novel, by Laura Strate-
nurs. The reader first feeling on laying
down this book is Que of disappoint-
ment. mingled with surprise that his at
tention has even been held SO long. The
promise of the story has not been full
filed. The plot is good, and in most of
it's details well executed; the love por-
trayed is generous, high-minded and self
sacrificing, ideally pure and enduring.
The elements of a thrilling tale seem to
be at hand, but some subtle touch is
wanting, and, though we read on and on,
we are unmoved throughout, while our
interest in the actors of the drama is GER
tainly not increased as the story nears it's
close. New York: D. Appleton & Com
pany; Portland: Loring, Short & Har-
mon.)
Quite on another plane is the story of
Mona Mclean, by Graham Powers. The
whole tone of the book is elevating and
inspiring, and at the same time useful.
Unlike most novels written with pur-
pose the interest never flags; there is
not dull chapter in the book. The aim
of the author seems to be not only to
demonstrate that the world has need of
women as physicians, but to show that
women are not necessarily blunted and
hardened by the knowledge and expert
,ences which fit them for such a mission.
Certainly if Mona Mclean be fair repre-
sentative of her class the world has rea-
son to give thanks for every woman who
as student is numbered in its popula-
ton. We are glad to have known Mona
and her friends; we are glad to have lost
sight of our weary selves in following
for time their interests, perplexities
and pleasures; we are grateful for de-
lightful holiday trips, unacccmpanied by
trouble or fatigue, and we advise all who
would add to the pleasures. of asum-
mer's outing, or who seeks recreation at
home to cultivate the acquaintance of
Mona Mclean. (New York: D. Appleton
Company; Portland: Loring, Short &
Harmony
Youth, by Charles Wagner, translated
from the French by Ernest Redwood,
and dedicated in the American edition
to Grace King, is a philosophical dis
QUESTION in form, being analysed into
books, chapters and numbered headings
in substance it is a friendly talk upon
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dangers, successes and inspirations
known to the youth Of the day. A good
deal of common sense, some apt quota
lions. more or less poetic beauty make
the text good reading, and if theiimma-
ture mind will take to itself sufficient
thought to peruse material of this sort,
we have no doubt profit as well as pleas
ure would result. In closing the author
says, "This brings us to our eliminating
point. Through fraternity we come to
know the Father. Through faithfulness
we como from things transitory to the
perception of things eternal. This is the
end of life. Here meet all the roads we
have travelled; here the ideal finds it's
crown. Here is supreme unity. 1t is
for this that the flowers are fair, that the
stars shine, that the hidden enigma of
love is born anew every spring. 1t is for
this that man suffers, works and weeps.
Happy is he if to him is given to draw
from all existence, like a pure fragrance,
that filial credo which is to the instinc-
tive love of life what a cloudy impress
sion is to clearly defined sentiment:
which is to the first smile of child what
the declaration of young man is, when
in an outburst of tenderness he cries:
"My mother!' New York: Dodd, Mead
& Co.; Portland Loring, Short G. Har-
mon. Price $1.25.)
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