Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-10-12
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Following the Greek Cross or Memorie.
of the Sixth Army Corps, by Thomas W.
Hyde, Brevet Brigadier General of volun-
teers with numerous portraits; Boston and
New York Houghton, Mffiin and Company.
Price 81 %.
Maine has just reason to feel proud of
the success which has attended General
Hyde in the building up Of a fiourishing
iron ship industry within the old Pine Tree
State. He has now an enviable reputation
as clear-headed and successful business
man. In entering the field of authorship,
albeit be does so IN very modest manner,
General Hyde has scored another success,
no. the less marked than those which have
been achieved by him in other fields
OF activity. His book in its own
particular field, is gem. We Eat
up late into the morning hours to
finish il at one reading and laid it aside
with reluctance. General Hyde writes of
personal "reminiscences of scenes which he
witnessed with his oRn eyes, and of events
in which he bore a most creditable part.
Such work unites the charm of narrative
with the truth of history. General Hyde
was a close and intelligent observer of the
incidents and event, that came under his
notice, during the great war for the pres
ervaiion of the Union. Withou. claim to
purely literary excellence, yet all readers
OF his book must admit that it possesses
it in a marked degree. General Hyde's
style is singularly clear and d-
rect. There is no circumlocution
or waste of yerbiage in his pages. His
narrative moves along naturally and easily,
arousing the interest of the reader at the
start and holding il to the end. The vol
ume contains 269 pages. 1t is printed on
an excellent quality of paper. in a clear
type, with the sharpness and cleanness of
imprint characteristic of works from the
Riverside Press. Iii handsomely bound in
ornamental cloth and will constitute most
welcome addition to any library.
The Three Musketeers, by Alexandra
Dumas, with new Introduction by his son
and $50 illustrations by Maurice Leloir.
Photogravure frontispieces. Complete and
accurate translation. Two vols, II mo.
cloth, gilt top, vi 1854 pp., So 90; 2 vols,
IL mo, white back, gilt top, 50 90; vols,
IL Ao, haAi SalA, CIV up, oo'oO' ~
Crowell & Co., Publishers, New York and
Boston,
1t is doubtful if the works of any modern
writer have had SO large and SO general
degree of popularity as has been &C.
corded those of Alexandra Dumas.
In less than quarter of cen
fury 2 $40 900 copies of his works have been
sold in France, besides almost innumerable
reproductions of complete stories or selec-
tons, the illustrated numbers being reckon
ed at no less than eighty millions. No
other novelist unless Walter Scott or Victor
Hugo begins to command such popularity
THE Three Mueketeers' is perhaps his best
and most characteristic romance, showing
from beginning to end his bourdless inven-
ton, his fresh and vivscious style, his
ever youthful and contagious enthus-
iasm. What gallery of portraits
it presents. from those of royalty to those
of the bourgeoisie We see the mean
spirited but gallant Louis, the romantic and
devoted Buckingham, the generous ,hsrassed
Queen. We see the terrible figure of the
Cardinal de Richeleu now working out the
meters of his poetry and now manipulating
the secret wires that oh; uged the destibies !
of kingdoms. Then there are the three mus
keteers the gentle but implscable Aramis
with his churchly leanings and his churchly
valet; the conceited and braggart giant
Porthos with his amusing attendant; the
preut chtroljer Athos with his mysterious
history hanging like veil about him, and
then the brave. invincible young D'Artagnan
favored by the stars. We see "Milady" ply
ing her devilish arts ard seducing and ruin
ing every man whom fate brings into her
way. The canvas is full of these mastery
portraits. 1t is perfect picture of life two
centuries ago when morals emed to have
a different code. II is certainly the most
immortal book of French literature. The
go illustrations by Maurice Leloir are in
every way admirable. They have been
faithfully reproduced and add vastly to the
attractiveness of this edition. The transla-
ton has been carefully revised from the
text of the latest French edition and will be
found not only more accurate but also more
in accordance with English idiom than any
other.
King Grover. Chronicles of His Reign
According to Simonides, the Scribe of
the Tribe of Lechoy, by James S. Biery,
Allentown, Pa, PIP 1873; cloth covers; price
% cents.
As political satire upon the grotesque
features of Grover Cleveland's second adj
ministraton this little pamphlet is certainly
success. 1t is replete with telling thrusss
that are all the more effective from the fact
that they deal with nothing but we'll known
truths. In its way the book is inimtaole,
and worth several times its price.
The Bay Captain, by Captain Nautilus
C. Eldridge, Publisher, Chicago, PIP PCS.
Thi, book, with some few redeeming
features, has little to recommend it. The
style is crude, and the narrative over
drawn. 1t might not be without certain
interest to youthful readers but it is difficult
% a., ,rbo-a thav conld draw any worthy