The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-10-19

yon might say it was beastly huke -
MI Tucker suggests an odd idea anent
such terms as "by -and-by" and pres
entity, - to which we would call attention
in section TX, under the general heading
degraded words. A photography" Books
Entirely Devoted to Americanisms' is
appended to the volume and the author
asks for additions to the list. The treat
ment of the subject is popular but shows
scholarship and investigation. 1t is
amusing in its verbal illustrations and it
is also really instructive. New York :
Dodd. Mead & Company; Portland: Lor-
ing, Short & Harmon. Price $1.25
The Red Star. By L. McManus, author
of Amabel, a Military Romance. is pub
lished in the Autonym Library and is Of
the narrow shape so well suited to a coat
pocket. A Russian officer is urged by
political coercion to marry woman he
has never seen. This he does; and soon
after his bride learns that he already has
wife living. The reviewer has no in
tention of giving away the plot of this
little story. Suffice it to say that the in
terest centers in scenes of the war between
the Russian and French forces, in the
year 1906. 1t is spirited and. peremptory
romance, full of military orders and is
condensed and brisk enough to prove in
spiriting New York and London: G.
n. Putnam's Sons; Portland Loring,
Short & Harmon. Price 80 cents.)
Don, by the author of Miss ToOsey's
Mission, etc., with frontispiece, by j.
Finnemore, looks like child's book,
from it's shape and binding but this 1T is
not, although the pages open in nursery
and throughout the story young people
are to the fore. unless we except Miss
Whately" d very old maid with the
youngest of hearts and LADY Billing
ton" who was an old darling; and Mrs.
Grant" WHO was bore; and "Mrs. Har-
rington JONES' who was cad, if cad
may be femenine for a most unpleasantly
nobbish person. At all events the storys
is as fresh and sweet and pleasure-givjng
as cluster of garden damask roses and
we heartily commend it for pleasant read
ing and happy impressions therefrom to
both young and old Boston: Roberts
Brothers; Portland: Loring, Snort &
Harmon. Price $1.00.)
Out of Due Season. A Mezzotint, by
Adeline Sergeant, author of "The Mistres
of Quest" etc., has title little remote
t. ,%,,o win Cf
work and in advance of ga Mistress of
Quest in sustained interest 1t is the
old theme but newly treated. In this
case noble but harsh and uncomprom1s-
ing nature in the leading character of the
story comes under the spell of a fippant
aid giddy girls influence. Out of his
heavy SORROWS Gideon energies into the
solace of religion. What his wife might
have done towards retrieving her past is
so doubtful in the readers mind that the
tragic ending Of the story is welcomed
with almost sense of relief New York:
u. Appleton & Company; Portland Lor-
ing Short & Harmon. Price $1.0O.)
NV Sister Henriette. By Ernest Renan
Translated from the French by Walter }.
G. Gussenrode, comes out in the Peerless
Series paper No. Sc price IS Cts The
story was written for private distribution
years ago but has lately been given to the
public by Nine. Renan. 1t is an inti-
mate and tender tribute to a congenial
and idolized sister. An interesting por
ton touches upon the travels of Renan
and Henriette in Phoenicia and other
eastern countries journey which laid
the foundation of Remains Vie de Jesu.
The suffering from illness of both brother
and sister in Syria was something fright
full Roberts Brothers have an edition of
the book in cloth and illustrated, trans
lated by Miss Alger; but there are read
ers to whom this paper copy will appeal
as convenient and desirable. (New York:
J. S. Ogilvie 81 Rose ST.; Portland:
Loring, Short & Harmon