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

Mr.. Bonaparte of Corsica, written by
John Kendrick Bangs, illustrated by H.
W. McVickar. Joseph Jefferson is quot
ed in recent address as deprecating the
giving of comic theatrica representation
by the boys of Yale College and as uIg-
ing devotion to the drama pure and sim
pie. There is no doubt about the sound
ness of this latter advice. But while
comm ending Harvard's Greek tragedies
and praising all efforts of college men
to study and present the real article
why discourage good fun on the boardsY
If Yale's Mr.. Bonaparte" is John Ken
drick BANGS "Mr. Bonaparte" it is lark
in itself. Since the Emperor has migrat-
ed from an historic parsonage into a
modern fad. it is quite right that the
posi- bility. which is done in the present
case. We have here imperial nonsense
| by the hand of wri ter and artist. From
| the far famed hat and frown ana the
ever-noted taciturntty of Napoleon to
the slightest detail of battle and royalty
db AOulC az VIGIL al dDIOuOy bAO duuuUIS
of this merry skit have set forth by pun
and prance and general cutting-up and
capes the career and final extinction Of
the great nlan-rejoined the Emperor,
"Taciturnity is big thing when you
know how to work it, and SO is
proneness to irritability. This latter
keeps you from making friends, and /
didn't want any friends just then. They
were 1uxuries which I couldn't afford.
You have to lend money to friends; you
have to give them dinners and cigars,
and send bon bons to their sisters. /. :.
Furthermore friends embarrass you
when you get into public office, and try
to make you conspicuous when you'd in
finitely prefer to saw wood and say moth
ing. took my loneliness straight, and
that is one of the reasons why I am now
the Emperor of France and your mas
ter" Mr.. Bonaparts OF Corsica ia really
an achievement in anachronisms and is
also something of less length of spelling
"a lively piece of nonsense to be thor
oughly and heartily delighted in and
shown about. Ihe drawings are as clever
as the text. New York: Harper &
Brothers; Portland: Loring, Shert &
Harmon.
Among the Northern Hills, by W. c.
Prime, LID. Readers of Along New
England Roads and Go A-Fishing will
have welcome ready for this volume of
studies among New Hampshire fields
and forests by De Prime, who has an ex-
ceedingly attractive way of chatting
about country folk, fishing feats, birds
and trees and out-of-doors adventures in
general, with interiudes of broad moral
izing and religious reflections free from
any shadow of dogmatism or narrowness
The motive of these sketches is to re-
produce anniversaries, old tunes and GUS
toms in the country; and they are par
ticularly distinguished for the fresh. free,
charming atmosphere Of lam bles and
minute observation among the scenes 80
beautifully described. New York: Har-
per & Brothers; Portland: Loring. Short
& Harmony
How Ito Make Money, Although "a
Woman by Irene W. Hartt, author of
How to Get Married Although Woman
is sort of compendium of what women
can do to earn money. 1t goes over all
kinds of occupations. describing chiefly
the sort of thing some woman has at
sometime made success of, as embalm-
| ing, in the undertaker's business. flower
culture, work as electricians (although
this last is advised, not quoted as hav-
ing been successfully tried), applied de-
sign, professional shopping or chaperon-
age, and SO on. 1t is scarcely more than
list, extended and talked about
through the text. Sometimes excellent
in suggestion, sometimes commonplace,
sometimes fanciful. 1t is a book which
may prove useful. The author makes
strong pleas for preserving the feminine
qualities through all these business
schemes. (New York: u.s.. ogilvie Pub