The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-11-07

oeAiuS ana FOotnoteS" coihPioo0 ono
contents. The closing stanza OF Mr.. Al
orlchfs parting words to DR.. Holmes
wheh the latter sailed for England IN
1880 Will be well remem bered:
Take him, green Erin, TO thy breast.
Aeep MIN, gray London-tor Whlle'
LII nliH we send thee of our best, ,
Our wisest word. our blithest smile
our eplgram, alert and pat,
iha1 Kills with joy the folly MT
our Yankee Tsar, our Autocrat
~ VI az the happy realms OF Will
IaKe nlm and keep him-but forbear
10 Keep him more than half u year,.
MS presence will be sunshine there,
Boston and New York: Houghton,
Miffiin q Company: Portland Loring,
Short q Harmon. Price $l.25.)
Mountain Practiced on the Plain, by
William Burnett Wright, author of An
Gent Cities, etc., is series OF sermons
upon the Beat itudes, illustrated by
individual character. That on the poor
in spirit is followed by brief descrip-
Stt''A ~ ~ SoASC hdCQOudld 1AAS oAA'A
teaching, or rather a setting forth of
the salient points in his belief and con-
duct. Blessed are they that mourn-St.
Paul. Mee,aness in its true sense-Moses.
The observation-disclosures. The merciful
king Alfred. The pure in heart
George Fox. The Peacemakers-G ordon.
AS will be seen by these selections, Mr..
Wright's Interpretation is not always the
obvious or popular rendering OF well
known texJs His teaching is clear,
helpful and Incorporating perhaps
too practical, familiar and like our plain
dealing with every day problems to suit
the mystic OF the deyotee. But if NOR
ality, the doctrines Jesus inculcated
lived today and every day, is not the
need of our generation, it would be hard
telling what is our want, and that we
have want is but too sadly plain to all.
In the authors own words, "Yet the
King of Christendom said quite dis
tnctly of his church that it should domi-
nate society in this world, and singu-
larry perplex:ng fact is, that whenever
the chur ch has appeared to do SO in any
recognized way, it has ceased to be his
church at all, and matters have gone
worse with it than at other time. When
Emperor Constantine made himself the
head of the church and put the cross up
on his banners, the commands of Christ
were speedily forgotten and gross dark
ness began to cover the earth. When
cJo,,
no one cares whom, initiated Constan-
tine, the results were similar. Boston
and New York Houghton & Mifin;
Portland Loring, Short & Harmon.
Price s1.25.)
Mollie Miller, by Fife W. Merriman,
author of A Queer Family. The Little
Miller's etc. IS story of self-made young
folks in the process of making, told with
a detail and vivacity that juvenile
readers will like. There are features
about it which are hardly desirable in
a story for the young, but they are
faults of taste. not morals. A great
deal goes ON in stNdy and home duties,
money earning, adventure and general
growing up" all tending to an average
of satisfaction. Illustrated. Boston:
Lee & Shepard; Portland: Loring,
Short & Harmony Price S1.25.)
While the multiplication table must
be eonned with logged repetition and
figures must be mast cred by the begin
ner though sheer industry and perse-
verance, it is also true that children can
be taught mental processes with &C
curacy at veryearly age; and our new
methods are arsal educational advance
upon the old. Stewart B. Sabin and
Charles d. Lowryt4have gotten out an
Elementary Lessons in Algebra-a text
book for Grammar Schools, which is
both simple and logical, as it's authors
claim. 1t extends, without elaboration
or undue perplexity from Simple Equa-
tions through Square Root of Mum bers.
american Book Company. sO6 and sos
Broadway, New York. Price so cents.)
Robinson's New intellectual Arith.
metlc, is designed for beginners in oral
methods of reckoning. II we remember
rightly the old Colburn was rather
hard" The present little work is excel
lent of it's kind, and we heartily recon-
mend it. We do this the more conscien-
tiously because we Individually were
never well taught in this direction. It's
of the utmost Importance that child
should be drilled to use the mind in Just
that way. The book at hand begins with
simple additions. AT it's close are prob
lens like these.
"The hour and minute hands of |
watch are together at 10 o'clock. When
will they next be together?n
" A fox is go leaps ahead of hound, |
and takes leaps while the hound takes |
8, but of the honnds leaps equals of
the fox's. How many leaps must the
hound take to catch the fox?n
Owing to lack of sufficient mental |
training, together with natural dill