The Portland daily press., 1894-10-25

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the characters showing mraked individ-
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by light touches here and there, of ma
lures beauty, and by the quaint sayings
and doings of the inmates of the ranch.
Thoughtful readers will be impressed by
the power and sincerity of the work.
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| Beacon Lights of Patriotism; or His
toric Incentives to Virtue and Good Citi-
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| By Gen. Henry B. Darlington, author of
| BATTLES of the American Revolution, and
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City Government in the United States.
By Alfred r. Conkling, formery al
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The Age of Fable; or Beauties of Ny
theology. l3y Thomas Bulfnch. ANEW
and enlarged edition edited by E. E.
Hale Boston: S. W. Tilton & Co;
Portland: Loring, Short & HARMONY
In his preface to the former edition of
this work, which is included lin the
present volume, the Rev. Edward
Everett Hale says, @Froni the moment
OF its publication it met with favorable
reception, both from the teachers of
young people and from young people
them selves, and it has been in constant
circulation and demand ever since that.
time. The authors plan cannot be
better stated than it is by the author
himself: Without knowledge of
Mythology much of the elegant l1tera-
ture Of our own language cannot be un-
derstood and appreciated. When Byron
calls Rome " the Niobe of Nations" or
says of Venice she looks like a Sea
Cybele fresh from Ocean, he calls up to
the mind of one familiar with our sub
ject, illustrations more vivid and strik-
ing than the pencil could furnish, but
which are lost to the reader ignorant of
Mythology. Milton abounds in similar
illusions. The citations from the poets,
from Spencer to Longfellow, will show
how general has been the practice of
borrowing illustrations from Mytholo-
gy. The prose writers also avail them
selves of the same source of elegant and
suggestive illustration"
In this edition-the scope of this work
has been much enlarged by connecting
the subject with sculpture and painting