The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-07-16


Dead is published for the first time in
this volume Those who are acquainted
with Henry James works will give this
book warm welcome. In Mr.. Howells' S
Literary Passions he says of Mr.. James,
81 came to a knowledge of Mr. James,
wonderful workmanship in the first man
uscript of his that passed through nv
hand as sub-editor. I fell in love with it
instantly and have never ceased to delight
in that exquisite artistry. 1 have read all
that he has written and have never read
anything of his without ecstatic pleasure
in his unrivalled touch. In literary
handling no one who has written fiction
in our language can approach him, and
his work has shown an ever deepening
insight New York: Harper & Broth
ers; Portland: Loring Short & Har-
mon.
Water Tramps or the Cruise of the Sea
Bird. By George Herbert Bartlett. This
story tells how four young men, all
students, who had been staunch friends
for years, spent their summer vacation.
They. met one evening aud in talking over
their plans, discovered that their cash
was very low; as one of them expressed
it, they were all hard up. Suppose just
for the fun of the thing, we see how much
cash there is in the crowd. - After ran
sacking their pockets they found just four
dollars and eighty five cents With this
capital at their command they decided to
hire yacht on credit for which they
were to pay twenty dollars a week. They
proposed to earn their living by catching
and selling fish; each of them pledging
themselves to share in the labor as we'll
as in the fun of the voyage, peddling the
fish if necessary. After buying a few
necessary articles they started on their
cruise without cent in the treasury.
How they succeeded as water tramps and
what royal good time they had, is told
in a bright and entertaining manner.
The work is nicely printed and bound in
dainty covers of green and gold. New
York: G. p. Putnam's & Sons; Portland ::
Loring, Short & Harmon
Life of Her Majesty Queen Victoria.
By Millicent Garrett Fawcett. In this
work the author dwells particularly upon
what may be considered the formative
influences on the Queens character in
her early life and in later years refers only
to political and personal events, in SO far
as they illustrate her character and her
conception of her political functions
The author says, II began this book with
a feeling towards Her Majesty of sincere
veneration and gratitude, and that this
feeling has been deepened by studying
more closely than 1 had done before the
Constitution, as power above party,
and the important part the Queen has
taken now for nearly sixty years in MAX
ing this ideal reality The first chap
ter of the book is devoted to the Queens
immediate predecessors. Two portraits
of the Queen appear in the volume and
it contains chronological table of events.
1t is. an interesting work. (Boston:
Roberts Brothers; Portland: Loring,
Short & Harmon
Across India or Live Boys in the Far
East. By Oliver Optic. Illustrated. In
this volume, which is the first of the
third series of the All-Over- the-Wo
Library, Oliver Optic takes the Belgrave
family, in their steamer, the Guardian
Mother, sailing to Bombay and Surah
AT the latter place the party leave the
steamer and continue their voyage by
rail to Lahore, Delhi, Cawnpoor, Luck
now, and Benares, visiting the scenes of
the Sepoy Rebellion, as well as many
other interesting places During the
voyage on the Guardian Mother, a party
containing number of persons of impor-
tance in India were rescued from the
perils of the sea, and through their influ-
ence the party enjoyed many privileges,
and were given much information during
their tour in the country, which it would
otherwise have been very difficult to OBJ
tain. The geography and history of the
country are conveyed in most interest
ing manner; but as the author knows
just what young people desire, he does
not allow their interest to lag from want
of novel incidents and thrilling scenes,
including hunting adventures and the
sports of the country. (Boston: Lee &
Shepard; Portland: Loring, Short &
Harmon
The latest volume in The New Com
mander series is Gen. Sheridan, by Gen
eral Henry E. Davies. New York: D.
Appleton & Co; Portland: Loring, Short
& Harmony The more Gen. Sheri-
dams campaigns have been studied
the more certain it has become that
he was commander of great strate-
gic ability as we'll as of boundless
courage and wonderful energy. The
story of his campaigns, because of their
wonderful brilliancy and dash, is more in
teresting perhaps than that of those of
any other commander of the war Gen.
Davies who commanded brigade in the
cavalry corps of the Army of the Poto-
mac and took a prominent part in all
the battles of that corps, has not I'M
dertaken critical history of Gen Sheri-
dams career in the field, but has con-
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