The Portland daily press., 1895-11-16
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

A Gentleman Vagabond and Some
Others, by f. Hopkinson Smith. author
of A White Umbrella in Mexioo Colonel
Carter, etc. Our author says, "There are
gentlemen vagabonds aud vagabond
gentlemen. Here and there one finds a
vagabond pure and simple, and once in a
lifetime one meets gentleman simple
and pure, ''and goeslon to give.us dozen,
minus three types which we may assort
and allot for ourselves. The initial story
belongs to the "Col. Carter brand, and
has some finely artistic strokes in the
drawing $50 far as the ancestry of the
Slocomb family was concerned it was a
trlf1e indefinite. 1t really could not be
traced back farther than the day of the
majors arrival at Pooomoke, notwith-
standing the majors several claims that
his ancestors came over in tho Mayfower,
that his grandfather fought with Cen
eral Wash ington, and that his own early
life had been spent on the James River"
The majors little discrepancies of fact
and desire.are quite irresistibly set forth,
and we realize fully how ardently and
faithfully none knew him but to love
him. The incident of the "po'ter-house
steak' is touch of Bohemia illuminated
by Chesterfeldian dinghy and elegance.
A Knight of the Legion of Honor
strays in fields of romance. John San
ders, Laborer, ID too pathetic, though
simple and beautiful indeed. The re-
manning numbers are Bladder, The Lady
of Lucerne, Jonathan, Along the Broul,
Another Day, and Brookway's Hulk.
The makeup of the book has style and
refinement in all details, as the good
breeding and sensitivenes Of the text de-
mands. Boston and New York Hough-
ton, Mifflin. Company; Portland: Ste
vens & Jones. Price s1.25.
Anne of Argyle, or Cavalier and Gov
enant, by George Eyre-Todd author Of
Bywsys of the Scottish Border, The
Sketch Book of the North, etc. The
Frederick A. Stokes Company have issued
an unusually large number of handsome
books this year, and their publications
are becoming noted for elegance of com-
position, by which use Of the term we
mean the book making itself. They are
exercising excellent taste, and fine or
iginality. For the literary matter, ar
rayed and sent forth by them, that of
course ia of too varied a character to come
under any one criticism. The present
volume, Anne Of Argyle, is beautiful
book, though we hardly think the illus
trations up to the standard; they are
little stiff The romance has to do, as It's
title indicates, with the year 1850, with
the Kings cause and the Presbyterian
form of church government, and the gal
liant or good folk coming under these
two influences. The incidents of history
gre well mingled or contrasted with the
episodes in. love, here traced in their dis
turbed course through troublous times,
amid danger and difficulty
The author knows his subject with de-
lightful thoroughness and familiarity.
Anne of Argyle is good story, and we'll
told, and is both spirited and Interesting
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Com
pany; Portland ::Loring, Short & Har-
mon.)
The Young Ranchers, or Fighting the
Sioux, by Edward S. Ellis, author of Boy
Pioneer Series, etc This book has good
print and pictures. 1t is moreover live
ly enough to attract boys and hold their
attention; but it is not a correct represen-
tation of life and adventure among the
Sioux Indians. Matters of the ommon-
est information by means OF books.