The Portland daily press., 1895-11-23
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

From the Black Sea through Persia and
India. By Edwin Lord Weeks. This
very interesting work is the itinerary of
painter who records his visual impress
sions of all that is beautiful or effective,
and his mental impressions of tribal,
municipal, and economic conditions. He
starts from Trebizond for Tabreez over
the Oldest caravan route in the world.
Human models furnish him abundant
material for his pencil: Kurds, with
their fiery horses; rudy Taruars with
majestic camels, whose heads carry masses
of tassels and bells; Turkish infantry
yelled women; turbaned noullahs; fierce
old Persians with shaggy eyebrows and
gray beard dyed flaming orange and
scarlet; gray -skirted Georgians; shep-
herds with reed pipes; martial Sikhs and
Goorkhas, handsom ely uniformed; surly
hirsute Afghans; Hindoo priests and In
dian fakirs galore. He sees wealth OF
architectural material: ancient Byzan-
tine citadels, caravanseries with clay walls
and cell rooms; mosques with slender
minarets; ruined palaces with silver doors
and exquisite loggias mud and
bungalows. He gives a glowing descrip-
ton of the gorgeous coloring of an East
ern morning and describes the bazaars of
world-famous Teheran, and gives his i'm
pressions of Ispahan with it's ruins of
magnificent palaces and gateways, pa
thetic souvenirs of the days when it was
tho of hn
court. An interesting and exhausting
analysis of the Punjaub infantry is given,
and an amusing description of Indian
railway travel and it's sequels. There are
notes on Indian art and the.fakir of India
is considered. This volume is printed in
large clear tpys on fine satin paper, and
the one hundred and thirty-four very
effective illustrations are by the author.
New York: Harper & Brothers; Port
land: Loring, Short & Harmon
Notes in Japan. By Alfred Parsons.
This work is divided into sig chapters,
which are The Japanese Spring, Early
Summer in Japan, The Time of the
Lotus. Flu isan, Autumn in Japan, Some
Wanderings in Japan. All works on
Japan treat of the art of the race, and
Mr.. Parsons Mites apart from their in
trinsic WORTH are of especial value in
giving the criticisms on this art of dis
tlnguished painter of another school.
Notes in Japan is in every way a very in
teresting and beautiful book. 1t is attrac-
flVAIU VpTltfnn vixo !, I.
OF Japan and many of the customs of it's
people, not only by graceful and vivid
descriptions, but by exquisite illustra-
lions on every other page from the au-
thor's pictures and sketches It is nicely
printed on rich paper, with wide margins
and is tastefully bound. (Now York
Harper & Brothers; Portland: Loring.
Short & Harmon.)
Young Master Kirke. By Penn Shir.
ley, author of Little Miss Weezv Series
Illustrated. Boston: Lee & Shepard
Portland: Loring, Short & Harmon ,
All the young folks will remember the
Miss Weezy Stories,' by Penn Shirley
who is sister of Sophie May, and shares
with her sister in a genius for interesting
the children. All of the Rowe family an.
pear in the new volume. Although some
what older, the children are still full of
life, vigor, and fun. The scene is laid in
new and interesting country, the
family being located on the Pacific coast
where the surroundings are SO different
from their Massachusetts home. and
where they find unlimited opportunities
for new and varied experiences. Kirke.
the hero OF the story, still retains his i'm