The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-02-15
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

From the Harpers come five books OF
fiction, and out of the lot even the most
capricious ought to be able to make
satisfactory choice. William Blacks
Wolfenberg appears in the neat library
edition-W olfenberg, ''the most imagina-
tive painter that America has produced,
if we may believe Mr.. Black. AS the
little woman with whom the author and
most of his readers seem madly in love
reappears in this volume, there will
doubtless be long sigh of satisfaction
drawn by his and her admirers. David
Christie Murray, who knows how to tell
story, frequently strange and always
fascinating, gives us in Times Revenges,
one worth the listening to. The scene
opens in the heart of the English Mid
lands, and thence changes to the high
seas and to Australia. There is Ger
man Count in the story who is forger
and murderer, and altogether quite de-
lightful to read about From One Cen
Grafton to Another, by Henry Seton Mer-
riman, is novel told with considerable
dramatic power, though there seems to
be insufficient motive for the deception
upon which the plot turns. One of the
minor characters, man of the Sherlock
Holmes type, is rather the most interest
ing person in the tale. The book is
bound in hideous shade of blue. Cath
crime. by Frances M. Peard, relates in a
languid way the haps and mishaps of a
girl whose face was her fortune. She
met with a disfiguring accident, and her
lover threw her overheard. But another
fellow, with better judgment, came
along and the two were married. For
people who dread excitement this will
be found novel that can be safely pre-
scribed. Finally we have a collection Of
Ruth McEnery Stuart's entertaining and
genuinely humorous stories, A Golden
Wedding and Other Tales. Those who
have made the acquaintance of the Wild
der Johnsing in the magazines, who at
tended the Golden Wedding of Cicely
and Aleck, and who have smiled at the
Woman's Exchange of Simpkinsville,
will give a hearty welcome to this collec-
ton of quaint and original sketches.
All these books are for sale. in this city
by Loring, Short 6 Harmon.
The Fallen Race, by, Austyn Granville
(F. T. Medley, New York and Chicago),
is one of that monstrous brood to which
Rider Haggard's She has given birth.
The scene of tho story is the Australian
desert, where the hero finds a race of
beings endowed with speech and shaped
very like pumpkins, which race he pre-
tends to be discovery of his own-as
though pumpkin heads were not large
part of mankind, and to be found every
day without going to the desert for
them. Of course this race is ruled by a
beautiful white queen, whom after many
adventures meant to be surprising, the
hero marries. The tale is ingenious and
entertainingly told.
In brochure entitled Psychics,
printed by the Arena Publishing Com
pany, BOSTON, the Rev. Minot J. Savage
tells some stories, mostly tuff'' as
Huckleberry Finn said of those he heard
at Sabbath school, concerning the phe-
nomena frequently called spiritual man
ifestations. "Some of these are drawn
from his own experience and others he
believes to be well authenticated. The
papers collected in this pamphlet
originally appeared in the Arena and
the Forum, whore they attracted wide