The Portland daily press., 1895-03-14

step-daughter to the recreant captain
himself. She has her love story which
WAS achieved in the midst of all this
tragedy at sea. Some minor touches
where certain mild hammered passengers
appeal to the would-be pirates on the
grounds of gentle but firm pollteness
are very amusing. But as In all the
works of this author, the power resides
in the life which he imparts TO every
wave and every storm and to every as
pect of ship, its paraphernalia and It's
discipline New York: D. Appleton q
Company; Portland: Loring, Short q
Harmon. Price 1.00.)
A Strange Career. Lille ard Adventures
of John Gladwvn Jebb, by his Widow,
with an Introduction by Ii. Rider Hag-
gard. With portrait. The character of
this book is very we'll indicated by its
title. Tt certainly is the record of strange
adventures. Jack" Jebb, it's subject,
was rowing, restless creature made up
of romance and indomitable energy, and
apparently, thought of good habits and
strong principles, lacking the practical
gift of application and the production
OF satisfactory conclusions in every day
life. 1t was his talent to lose rather than
to make fortune; yet from his wife's
accounted him and from the introduce
tory words of his friend, Rider Haggard,
he must have had many winning quail
ties, as generosity. honesty, loveableness
Il. \ Al L.
He left the English army, took a turL
at Oxford and then launched himself
into frontier life in the mining districts
of the United States and Mexico. In the
latter country he learned much about
Macmillan from eye witnesses to the
scenes of the revolution. Some OF Mr..
Jebb's adventures are reproduced from
hits OF descriptions given in Black
wood. For extraordinary danger and
astounding escapes, for coffee planting
in Brazil, prairie murders, Indians on
the plains, Fremont in California, gold
digging in Denver, encounters with
Mexican banditti, and bull fights in the
original, the pages of Mr.. Jebb's biog
raphy may be sought with very fruitful
results. (Boston: Roberts Brothers;
Portland: Loring, Short & Harmon.
Price $1.25.)
The Science OF Living. The,New GospeI
of Health. BY Edward Hooker Dewey,
MD. Introduction by Rev. George F.
Pentecost, DID,. This book is composed
of twenty-seven lectures, in which the
author presents his views in very Eclear
manner. He claims that nearly all dis
eases are due to lack of nutrition; that
cheer is primal law of life; that taste
is powerful factor in the nutrition of
the body, and that temperate eating
is the way to a higher physical and men
tai life. The source of disease he be-
lieves to be a weakened physical condi-
ton, brought on by unnatural and ex-
cessive eating and constant overwork of
the stomach. He declares that how to
reach disease with drugs so as to restore
a diseased part of the body to health, is
still one of the unsolved problems of
medical science, and he also claims that
if the germ theory is true, the practi-
proper treatment of disease. Thirty
years of practice and of careful study
have convinced DIR. DsweY of the correct
ness of his beliefs. He holds that the
great panacea for disease is In RESTING the
stomach, and he advocates a reduction
of the daily meals to two, eliminating
| the breakf asst entirely. He also cautions
people not to eat under any circumstances
unless they are hungry. The Rev. Mr..
Pentecost, who has given DIR. Dewey's true
science of living a practical test, in his
introduction to the book bears witness
to its efficacy. While there are a great
many sound and common sense views to
he found in the book, critics will be
likely to find therein evidence that the
Doctor has hobby. (Henry Bill Pub
fishing Company, Norwich. Conn.,