The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-10-19
NEW PUBLICATIONS.


By Charles Miner Thompson is very
original and pithy and understands the
country boys tricks and manners to
delightful degree. 1t is trimming over
with fun though it has its pathos, TOO.
"Say," he cried abruptly, 'there ought
| to be some spruce sticks down there 1
bet we could find some gum,. Nav =
the word is boyes for the "no dissuaslve
said Dick' which seems to us very
condensed description OF the juvenile
negative The Nimble Dollar will excite
the most phlegmatic; A Victim OF Twins
is very droll; The Reward of Heroes is
hiding of nobility in every day jacket
and trousers; The Story of "Leon, :"
Prince Joe and Walcott's Mistake are
equally good in quite different directions.
The author tells us that the plot OF IAN
gled Web is taken from German farce,
The Gray Mare. Boston and New York
Houghton, Miffiin & Company; Portland ::
Loring, Short & Harmon. Price 81. NO.
Scylla or Charybdis. A Novel, by
Rhoda Broughton author of Nancy
etc., has q complication in it's plot almost
as revolving and unvarnished as some OF
Ouida's The story is also full of in
CAPABILITIES in English and in literary con-
struction. The use of the present tense to
the exclusion of the past tense is open to
objection. Yet Rhoda Broughton will be
read enormously by the unc cultivated and
more or less by readers who count them
selves we'll versed in good writing; and
| why? Because she has what few novelists
abounds ina lively, over-f1owlng vital
| ity. Sometimes she is rowdyish, some
| times rather vulgar. But she is always
| master of the situation in that her people
are real people-they live and breathe and
take possession of you and generally in a
spirit of jollity refreshing to the tired
conventionalist The present volume we
consider i'm probable and really improper,
| if one may use an old-fashioned word,
but one of her earlier books, "Joan" we
have always treasured as delightful
story and one to be remembered. (NeW
York: D. Appleton & Company, Clown
and Country Library No. IT'D Portland:
| Loring, Short & Harmon. Price $1.O0.)
| lowell Lectures. From Jerusalem to
| Nicaea. The Church in the First Three
Centuries By Philip Stafford Moxom,
| author of The Aim of Life. These quiet,
scholarly and thoughtful studies will full
| fill their purpose as stated in the authors
preface and more than that. They will
| not only give the general reader history
| of the first three centuries of the Chris
tian church in clear and simple state
ments such as he could only arrive at
after intricate research; but they Will
| fill his mind with lofty conceptions OF
spiritual truth. This is very good read
| ing for the self-regarding. The gospel
was propagated through personal COM
munioation. AT the beginning, Chris
tianity had no schools, no literature and
| no wealth. 1t was embodied in group
| of people some of whom had been Wit
nesses of the life and death and resurreo-
| ton of Jesus, and had learned directly
from Him the message which they were
to utter: and all of whom had received,
and, as they believed, continued to re-
ceive from Him, the impulse to carry
that message to all the world Though
they but imperfectly comprehended the
message and their mission; though the
labors of the original apostles had to be
supplemented by tho much wider labors
| of the Apostle to the Gent1les; yet, as
witnesses of Christ and as dessemlnators
| of the faith of Christ those early mis-
I,oi,
| their personal action, take prominent
place among the causes of the spread OF
| the Christian faith. These men were ami
mated by passionate and persi stent love
of their Lord. Their characters were
transformed, and their action was guided
py His spirit Their enterprise was in
spired and directed by the divine pur-
pose which he had revealed. With an en-
tire devotion to Him, they possessed and
uttered a lofty and persistent faith amidst
widespread scepticism; they exhibited
pure morality amidst widespread corrup-
ton; and they illustrated a disinterested
penevolence in contrast with universal
selfshuess and cruelty. Without osten-
tation and without faltering they poured
| out their lives in self-saorifce that paused
at no limits. These lectures were given
under the auspices of the Lowell Institute
in February and March of 1895. Some
material has been added. The titles are
The Rise and Spread of Christianity;
The Organization CT the Early Church;
The Apostolic Fathers; Tho Struggle
with Heathenism; The Prosecutions; Tho
Apologists The Struggle within the
Church; Heresies; The Christian School
of Alexandria and The First Ecumenical
Council. An Appendix and index close
the volume. The material is of great in
terest and value and in DR.. Moxom's hand
it receives adequate treatment for he is a
man of talent and of broad and inspiring
views. (Boston: Roberts Brothers; Port
land Loring, Short & Harmon. Price
ST. 500
Onr Common Speech Six Papers, on
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