The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-06-09

only are well known facts given new
setting, but many gem flashes out in
charming rays for the first time. The
book is fully illustrated, notable among
them being the Burial Of the British
Dead at Lincoln, Capture OF TIE Convoy
by the Exempts at Menotomy, ami The
Sits of the House where John Hancock
aud Samuel Adams Lunohod on Coarse
Fare on April 10, ITS !"
Tho Adventures of Hucklebsrry Finn.
BY Mark Twain. New Library Edition
from Now Electrotyps Plates. With
Photogravure Portraits of tho Author,
and Other Illustrations. New York:
Harper q Bros; Portland: Loring,
Short q Harmony Huckleberry Finn.
the son of q drunken specimen of poor
whites or white TRASH" was forced to
run away. In company with Jim,
runaway slave, he travelled down the
Mississippi on raft. They picked up
two dead-bea ts-t the King and the Duke
and tho story is chiefly given up to the
frauds of these two. Finally, Jim was
arrested as q runaway, the King ana the
Duke disappeared, and Tom Sawyer,
Hok's old friend at home, cnme on the
scene. 1t was discovered that Iluck's
father was dead, jim was free and the
story ends. The book has been pro-
nonced by the London Athenaeum Zone
Of the six greatest books written in
America" Tt gives picture of civil
cation now onled, and it is full of the
most humorous and most pathetic scenes.
Track Athletics in Detail. Compiled
By the Editor Of "Interscholastito SPORT
in Hnprsr's Round Table. (New York /:
Harper & Borthers; Portland: Loring.
Short & HARMONY The aim of this vol
unle is to give clearly. accurately and
concisley the best available information
concerning the methods of training, for
track and fold events, practised by col
iege and school athletes. The idea has
been to furnish to the aspiring athlete
'rhe knowledge which he could otherwise
obtain only from professional trainer,
aud, where professional trainers are I'M
available, this book should prove OF es-
pecial value. The events treated are
limited to those recognized as standards
by the Intercollegiate and Interscho!astic
Associations. Each one Is treated as
briefly as is consistent with thorough
ness, ard each article is illustrated with
instantaneous photographs taken OF the
best exponent in each particular event.
The illustrations are arranged in series,
showing the attitude Of the athlete at
every important point in the performance
of his speciality. The book should be
especially valua BILE as being up to date In
every particu lar, even to the table OF rec
ords furnished in the Appendix. A chapt-
or OIL Bicycling for Men and one one on
Bicycling for Women have been added to
the descriptions Of the track athletics.
Cyrus W. Field. His Life and Work.
BY Isabella Field .Judson. New York |:
Harper Brothers; Portland: Loring,
Short & Harmony Cyrus West Field
was one Of those ''seIf made Americans
who, in the making of their own for
tunes, have built up the United States.
He was typical American, and his BIZ
ography, written by his daughter with
loving and sklllful hand. is a story
among the best for boys TO read. Mr..
Fields greatest work was the Atlantic
cable, for he made the enterprise a sue
cess. A part from the value Of the book
as the life story of the man, it is one of
the best accounts in print of the ways
andsmenns whereby the cable to Europe
came to DO laid. Mrs. Judson also de-
scribes the shara her father had in devel-
oping the elevated railroad system in
New York city. Among the most in
Ueresting passages are: laying the first
cable, the cable breaks, the first success,
the cable is dead; Mr.. Fields failure;
Mr.. GIadstope's letter on the Civil War;
the cablo of 1865 is lost: the third cable
laid successfully; the cable of 1865 found
again; gratulations; the Pacific cable
project; the Cesnola colleotion; the ole
waited roads; the Andre mon ument and
the last days.