The Portland daily press., 1895-01-28

mond gives his own name IN THIS very
tender and quaint sketch OF rural Eng
land. reproduction of a waning dialect
and romance of lovely girl. The novel
devourer who demands highly splceo
fiction will not satisfy his appetite mere
This simple table is laid for MIN VINO
will sup off porridge and milk and ap-
preciate their sweet and halesome quar-
ity. Many people Will find Love and
Quiet Life slow: Others will find its
charm in that very leisure which pre-
cludes sensationalism and nasty OF
crude pen. 1t increases in interest a1tet
the early chapters and we have rlot
and a gallant adventurer introduced
Together with the original types, Gus
toms and manners of Sutton of the
Somersetshire moors, types fast Iadlng
out and cutie worthy to be treasured LOT
their quiet humor and their unlikeness
to the rest of the world, IS interviewer
beautiful tale of flaI love, true in that
relation, if it had TO suffer loss in the
shall we say dearer tie of maiden and
lover. New York: Dodd, Mead & Com
pany; Portland: Loring, Short & Har-
mon. Price $1.25.)
AS Matter of Course by Annie Pay
son Call, author of ''Power Through
Repose," is a very sensible little treatise
on nerves and their irritants and how to
avoid them. pleasantly written and sure
to do much good. Perhaps the decided
originality of her first very popular vol
| ume makes this little book less striking.
Miss Call evidently thinks we as a race
are by no means rid of the rudiments OF
bar barism. We wish ourselves that her
| final illustration-mental skin disorders
were little less barbarous. But serl-
ously speaking, open these pages any
where. and excellent practical talk Will
be found, bracing and needful for the
nervous invalids whose numb Der is legion
and whose sufferines, though real and
by no means to be lightly estimated, are
yet capable of alienation by means of
Just such applied common sense as this
book contains. A very good chapter is
upon our need of amusement; another
upon sympathy. "When i'll use every
necessary remedy; do all that is best to
bring renewed health. Having made
sure you are doing all you can, forget;
don't follow the process. When, as is
ofOen the case, pain OF other suffering
puts forgetting out of the question, use
no unnecessary resistance, and forget as
soon as the pain is past. Don't strength
en- the impression by talking about it or
telling it over to no purpose. Better
forego little sympathy and forget the
pain the sooner" Boston: Roberts
Brothers; Portland: Loring, Short &
Harmon. Price $l.00.)
The justification of Andrew Lebrun.
A Novel, by Frank Barrett, author of
The Great Hesper, His Helpmate, A
Recoiling Vengeance, etc. is written
with SO much verisimilitude, natural
sprightliness and attention to detail,
that one is led easily into participation
in the most extraordinary chemical ex-
periments and the most grotesque OF
supernatural results. 1t is the old dream
since the days Of Frankenstein, renewed
from time to time in the fiction of all
races and of every language: modified
into charming form when it becomes
for instance the story of Pygmalion and
Galatea. A labratory and a mystery
come into the possession of an old clock
maker in London and behind closed
doors there goes on the process of evok-
ing life from inanim ate sources. The
present writer follows the idea into the
realm of life giving and taking ant
again restoring, so at least securing {
happy ending to this tale. Those who
most protest against this tampering witt
the elments, with tine supernatural, i'm
possible and deplorably unpleasant con
sequences sure eventually to ensue viii
: admit the ability and tact shown in TIN
telling of this curious and unsual story
New York: D. Appleton & Company
Portland: Loring. Short & Harmon
Price ST.