The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-10-22

in doors and out, Danvis Folks is bit
of the gen inc article. and as such Will
be read, and will be beloved. Boston
and New York: Houghton, Miff1in q
Cmpany; Portland: Loring, Short q
Harmon. Price $780,
In Sunshine Land, by Edith M. Thorn
as, with illustrations by Katharine Pyle,
is an extremely comely little volume
about children, but also for children.
The majority of poems contained in
the book will appeal to the fancy Of
little folks themselves, and they will
like to read them and commit them to
memory. The accompanying pictures
are delicate and pretty, and produce
some graceful effects. Here is one of
many natural touches:
nPLAY WITH ME.
The kitten came this morning and said,
With touch of her paw and turn of
her head
Play, play with me-"
And Sky, the terrier, caught my hand
And tried to make me understand, 49,
PLAY with men
/ played with them all! Now, wouldn't
II little child like me, should say
Play, play with lne?"
The Echo, Christmas Chimes, The
King who Travelled at z ONE, ana others,
are elder brother and sister to the baby
rhymes, SO that various ages will find
their own in this cheerful oulling-Sun-
shine Land. Boston and New York !:
Houghton. Miffiin & Company; Port
land: Loring. Short q Harmon. Price
$1.5O.)
The Blue and the Gray, Army Series.
Brother Against Brother, or The War on
the Border. By Oliver Optic. Mr..
Adams tell us in his preface that he has
made sixteen voyages across the ocean
in pursuit of his literary work, and that
he has been writing stories for boys
and girls for forty years. Apparently he
means to continue in harness long long
years yet for he refers to volumes to
come in which shall be carried on and
completed tue present and similar stor-
les. Oliver Optics style is realistic-h he
wastes no words; his special gift in
juvenile narration ia the power to sug-
gest action. Tt is this brisk, wide
awake, no-nonsense method that has
made him SO popular.
The present series is The Blue and
Gray-on Land. The opening story is
located in one OF the Border States.
For a writer upon the Civil War. Mr..
Adams is very free from partisanship or
bitterness. Two brothers and their
families are on different sides in the con-
of the following Volumes. Boston: Lee
& Shepard Portland: Bailey & Noyes.
Price 81. so. Illustrated by Shute. Dec
orative binding in blue, gray and gold.
Little Miss Faith. The Story Of a
Country Week at Falcons Height, by
Grace LeBaron (The Hazelwood Stories !,
is perhaps best fitted to little girls OF
eight or ten years. The illustrations are
rather stiff; the print excellent. There
are some things pretty in the story, oc-
casionally marred by too demonstra-
tive or goody goody episode. The re-
viewer came newly to the game of
travelling solitairen and thought it ingen-
ious. Where little solitary traveller of
tender yearsNcounted from the car win
dow each biped seen. two, quadrupeds
four, and the black cat in the window
(rarely found)" six; game, one hundred,
to be reached between stations. Once
upon time the children were telling
stories themselves, and this was Ned
Ashton's: $50, once upon time had
a beautiful big dogn (here every child
listened with eager expectancy Of what
was to follow "and-now haven't one.
So you know what Iwant most of any,
thing.n Little Miss Grace has lovely
visit to the country. and with her moth
er finds there a permanent home, though
she has to part with the little friend
who was the means of her happy for
tune. Boston: Lee & Shepard; Port
land: Bailey & Noyes. Price IS cents.)
Elements Of Alge bra. A Course 70
Grammar Schools and Beginners in Pub
lie and Private Schools. BY William j.
Milne, Phi. H.. LL.DP., President of
New York State Normal College, Albany
St, New York. Algebra is apt to seem to
the beginner myster ious and abtruse
set of processes, when really problem
Numerically. ificult.is made to unravsl
itself with magical ease by the applica-
tion of algehraic formulas. To show
this the present text book is arranged and
published. 1t grades the needed steps
very intelligently, and for that reason
will recommend itself to teachers and
educators generally. The authors aim
is to arouse an interest in the subject !.
to make it attractive at the start: and
to avoid too complex examples. He sue
ceeds admirably. (New York, Cincin-
natl and Chicago: American Book Com
pany. Price go cents. New York adj
dress, 800 and 808 Broadway
The Trail of the Sword, by Gilbert
Parker, author OF The Translation of a
Savage, etc. There seems recently to
have heen mite an outhraak of s+,,,; mr.,