The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-05-13

fishing Company; Portland: Loring
Short & Harmon. Paper, price rs cents.
Home Geography for Primary Grades
| by &C. Long, Phi. D., author of New
Language Lessons, Lessons in English
etc., is a little text book intended fol
| the study of natural phenomena as seer
near at hand and in our own surround
ings and not learned from Imagination
and description alone; as rivers, ponds
woods, visited and talked over as well
as animal life; also the stars and SIM.
Simple and conversational in treatment,
the system is good one and we'll pre-.
sented. Print and pictures are excellent,
and it is primary book which can be
cordially commended. New York
American Book Company; also Cincin.
natl and Chicago. Price 25 cents.
The Punishment of Jessop Blythe. A
novel by Joseph Hatton, author of By
Order of the Gear, etc., is the story of a
company Of English rope-makers in Der
byshire, plying their trade in great
cavern of the High Peak known as the
DEVILS Hole, some two hundred years
ago. A sort of sooialistic community
where the title and position of master
is hereditary. One of these seven mas
tiers, Jessop Blythe, is bauished and
from this point the story moves on
through mucn adventure and misadven.
ture. The plot is good and there is orig.
inality in the Incidents of the romance.
The old lapidary is an especially well
drawn character. published in paper
by Lippinoott; the Select Novels series,
monthly. Number 167. Price so cents. J
They Call 1t Love. No. 1853 of the same
series, by Frank Frankfort Moore, au-
thor Of Forbid the Bann, ETC., deals
with the problem of what is supposed to
result sometimes from the higher edu-
cation of women. The heroine, in this
case, seems to have acquired that covet-
ed boon, without having learned it's uses
which, after all, might well 60 along
with any sort of education one would
naturally think. There is good deal OF
Lright talk and repartee throughout the
pages Of They Call 1t Love, which would
have shone to better advantage under u
toning down process. For "Willie's'
swearing might well have been omitted
and a most impossible American woman
is too remote even to serve as caricature.
A little English story about advanced
views and real love, readable and lively.
Pictures from Greek Life and Story.
By the Rev. A. J. Church, NJ, A., author
of Three Greek Children, To the Lions.
etc. The first chapter of this WORK is
devoted to Scion. statesman and poet,
in Greek history; the next to the
famous marriage of Agariste, daughter
of Cleisthenes. The following chapters
describe the important events and prin-
cipal characters in Greek history, closing
with Ep minondas, the one hero OF
Thebes. The book is very entertaining
as we'll as instructive, and is adequately
illustrated. New York: G.P. Putman's
Sons; Portland: Loring, Short & Har.
non.)
The Land Birds and Game Birds Of
New England, with description OF the
birds their nests and eggs. their habits
and notes. By H. D. Minot. Second
edition. The EDITORS preface says: "The
Land Birds and Game Birds of New
England is in many respects remarka
BILE and interesting work. Written by a
youth of seventeen, with, as I am as
sured, almost no outside help of either a
literary or scientific kind, it found favor
at once, and for nearly twenty year has
been ranked among the authorities on
the subject OF which it treats. From
early childhood Mr.. Minot showed a
great fondness for nature, which in
boyhood." The author of his ornitholo-
gical biography has endeavorsd to make
it inexpensive, trustworthy, original and
not compilation. The volume will fill
place hitherto vacant in pathological
literature. 1t contains, SO far as the au-
thor knows, several facts never before
published, except a few which have ap-
peared in magazines and pamphlets. 1t
also possesses new features which Will,
it is hoped, facilitate the acquisition OF
thorough knowledge of our birds,
though it contains no more soien tifc de.
tails than necessary. The book contains
4e2 pages. with an extensive appendix,
index to English names, and an index OF
scientific names. The work is printed in
large clear type, and is illustrated by
the author. 1t is written in an attractive
manner, and cannot fail to interest as
we'll as instruct students, and all readers
who are interested in our land birds and
game birds. "That this book may prove
useful to students, interesting to lovers
of nature, and acceptable to the public
is the hope ard wish of its author.
Boston and New York: Houghton,
Mifflin & Co.; Portland: Loring, Short
& Harmony