The Portland daily press., 1896-10-01

quisluoly 10voly VI qualuu OF DELICIOUS as
their case may be. We should like to
cite IA Book, - Saturday Afternoon"
"Disenohantment" aud many another
but must content ourselves from choice
among the light, dainty conceits Of the
poet, with
ALPINE GLOW.
sour lives are SWISS
So still, 80 cool,
Till, some odd afternoon
The Alps neglect their curtains
And We look farther on.
Italy stands the other side,
While. like guard between,
The solemn Alps
The siren Alps
Forever interveneW
and
A ROSE.
A sepal, petal and thorn
Upon common summers morn,
A flash OF dew, q bee or two
A breeze
A oaper in the trees
And Pm rosel"
(Boston: Roberts Brothers; Portland:
Loring. Short & Harmon. Price 81. 3B.)
With My Neighbors by Margaret e.
Sangster, author of ION The Road
Home" Little Knights and Ladies'"
etc., etc. is made up Of friendly talks
limited to two or three pages each upon
an everyday or fireside'' topic to which
perohance We may not be attributins the
best and most helpful meaning. A
gathering of honey for us where we were
receiving nothing or it may ba even Bit
ter Installations. These talk are friend
ly, full of common sense. very simple
and yet they may fairly claim to be in
centives to right thinking and living.
Tho volume CLOSES with three poems,
one "The House Of Obed Edom" by
special request. Among ths prose themes
are, sSooiety Girls" Summer Church
Going ''The Care of The Care Taker"
and Extrava Rance In Living New
York: Harper & Brothers; Portland:
Loring, Short & Harmon.
The Old Infant and Similar Stories by
Will Carleton author of Farm Ballads"
etc. The author of Betsy and I are
Out" has . place in homely hearts and
appeals to all who appreciate humor and
pathos clothed in an up country dialect.
To encounter this author In short stories
in prose is less usual. The present col
lection has the defects of its qualities: b
faulty rather easy.going method, orudity
of tone and good deal Of provincial
ism. To offset this we have genuine
humor and humor sufficient in amount
to make the stories very readable. The
Old Infant, The Vestal Virgin, Lost
Two Young Ladies, The One Ring Cir
Gus, The Christmas Car, A Business
Filtration and Oldbottle's burglars
make up the table of contents. 1.-The
One Ring Circus. 1.-THE description of Miss
Jareds in "Lost-Two Young Ladies'"
and the opening description of the school
room In "Tne Old Infant" are regarded
as the clever portions of the book. New
York: Harper & Brothers; Portland:
Loring, Short & Harmon.
An Outcast of The Islands by Joseph
Conrad, author Of Almayers Folly. Read
ers Of this latter work of fiction need
not be told that this authors distinction
lies in a marvellous ability to handle
subjects with awful vivid
ness and power. Given, also his knowl-
edge Of Malay life and we have an OBJ
portunity for contrasts Of race traits and
tempe rament most striking and effective.
as presented by this writer. From low
birth to higher position; then retreat
to barbaric island ia the career of the
man who il tho central figure of the tale.
The tropic environment, the difference
in civilizations, the study of morbid
passion-in portraying all this, Mr..
Conrad is one of the masters. But the
atmosphere is almost too heavy and the
emotion too tense for real life or the most
satisfying art. New York: D. Apple
ton & Company. Town and Country
Library, No. 1893. Cloth, s1.oo.)
The Kings Revenge by Claude Bray,
author Of "To Save HIMSELF" "The
Last of the Dynmokes'' etc. A surpris-
ingly large!number of novels have been
making their appearance recently, the
scheme OF which Is a virtual protest
against realism and ret urn to history
and romance in story telling. Suoh a
novel Is the one before us. 1t treats Of
Edward II. and his favorite Piers Caves
ton, Earl of Cornwall. The books is we'll
written and entertaining even II its con-
tents are not very valuable from the
point of view of instruction, but indeed
Edw. II. himself is not striking figure
to build romances upon. New York
D. Appleton & Company; Portland:
Loring, Short & Harmon; Town and
Country Library No. 10. Cloth, $1.00.
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