The Portland daily press., 1895-09-09
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

NEW PUBLICATIONS.
The Honour of the Flag, by W. Clark
Russell, author of The Wreck of the Gros-
venor etc, is long and narrow little
volume published in the Autonym Libra
ry in cooperation with Mr.. T. Fisher
cloth and the shape convenient one to
the hand or coat pocket. The initial
story, for we have here collection of
short stories, not continued narrative,
is the best Of the group though all are
good. The other titles are Cornered; A
Midnight Visitor; Plums from Sailors
Duff; The Strang Adventures of South
Seaman; The Adventures of Three Sail
ors; The Strange Tragedy Of the White
Star; and The Ship Seen on the Ice.
Clark Russell from practical experience,
by right of love of his subject and through
the possession of sympathy and magma
ton handles SO well story of the sea that
or improbability. The essentials are
accurate and known to the author by
heart, hence no matter what pranks he
plays with spun yarns, he never fails to
furnish entertainment and he is full of
sparkle and snap and lively spirit.
New York: G. P Putnam's Sons; Port
land: Loring, Short e Harmon. Price
so cents.)
The New Moon, by G. E. RAYMOND,
author of George Manderville's Husband.
Out of dangerous situation the hero and
heroine of this story come very credltably
FORTH Here is sad case where mans
wife is burden to him and must neces-
sarily be so. We are thankful in the read
ing that principle and constancy do
eventually prevail If we were to draw
less on from the story it should be by
way of warning to invalid, exacting and
whimsical wives. Poor Mimi" with her
belief in palmistry, broken glass, crossed
knives and the like superstitions, cuts
sorry figure beside the healthy, strong,
self-reliant Dorothy, who is a friend to
lean u~nn and source from which to
draw Inspiration for every duty and COM
| fort for every sorrow. And yet by very
virtue of her normal strength and beauty
Dorothy should have refused to continue
this would-be platpnic friendship and
would better have left the Doctor to the
depression even of a dreary home. An
occasional careless construction or mis-
used pronoun occurs in the text. While
The New Moon has hardly a sustained
| interest it has certainly meritorious feat
| ures and seems to us a'marked improve
ment on it's predecessor, New York :
D. Appleton & Company; Portland
Loring, Short & Harmon. Price 81. O0.)
In the Year of Jubilee. A Novel by
George Gissing, author of Ewes Ransom,
The Odd Woman ETC. Modern Londorers
consider Mr.. Gissing a genius, and he
figured. prominently among the guests at
recent dinner of the Omar Khayyam,
an English literary club-the July meet
ing at Bothil, Surrey, from which place
Mr.. Gissing lives at distance OF only
seven miles About his talent there will
be little dispute, but in the present story
one begrudges the use of fine literary
gifts in weaving story which concerns
itself with such very provincial folk.
There is cheapness and lack of charm
about all the characters of the book; yet
nothing Of original power such as arrests
the attention in studying crude types full
Of virility and impressiveness of their
own. Here things are so undeniably
natural yet so deplorably lacking in the
higher influences that, granting the
achievement of the story as narrative, we
instinctively beseech so able an artist to
give us other subjects for our study and
enjoyment. We note an oasis in some
exquisite descriptions of rural Devon.
New York: D. Appleton & Company;
Portland: Loring, Short & Harmon.
Price 81. co.,
Mrs. Musgrave-and Her Husband by
Richard Marsh, is story full OF sensa-
ton and tragedy. There enters into 1t
the question OF the chances Of inheriting
homicidal mania, and the ghasty figures
of crime, conspiracy and falsehood. For
the central group we have man and
woman passionately and faithfully bound
| by noble love, and later their innocent
little child born but to share disaster and
death. About these human beings who
mean we'll and who only ask to be left
peacefully to their common trust and
love, terrible fatalities draw their sitting
coils, so that one closes the story with
only that comfort which we find in saying
sit would never have been SO In real
life,' forgetting that the complications OF
real life put fiction to the blush. New
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