The Portland daily press., 1896-04-29
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

Miller. To lover of pets new book by |
Olive Thorne Miller is always treat. |
Her last volume deals with monkeys and |
their droll ways and she writes of them |
in the same entertaining manner that has |
made her books on birds so popular. One
almost sees the monkey in his pranks SO
well does she describe them. The book |
is founded on her own experience with |
monkeys as pets and also facts concerning |
various species of this family which she
has gathered from friends who kept them |
In captivity. The adventures of a tame
Osoelot are also described. (Boston
Houghton, Mifflin & Co; Portland: Lor-
ing, Short q Harmony
The Evolution of Woman. By Harry
Whitney MoVickar. A little less ample
in dimension than the ordinary quarto,
and richly bound, yet not OF high cost,
Harry McVickar's clever skit comes to
US in abrasive shape. The Maxman
coat of arms would scarcely know itself
as here depicted. The table of contents
shows GA Cold Day for Man," followed
by asreally beguiling preface to woman
"why will you further evolutef" and
"why struggle so beyond your sphere
when in it-well you're such dear p
from e. Irenaeus Stevenson. Our author
| now begins his drawings and his verse
with "The Garden of Eden" and leads
woman on her way through.the.:P haraohs;
Ancient Rome; Greece (why not Greece
and then Rome?) the Middle Ages;
Witchcraft and the Puritans; France of
old; the East; France, 1880; Switzerland
and Belgium; the Club; the Professions;
| the Bicycle and Golf, with few other
variations upon the Esex as emancipated.
Mr.. McViokar certainly makes his pretty
girls too pretty in kniokerbockers to serve
as any deterrent though their elders
hardly fare as we'll at his hands, in dress
reform, the elderly person as milking
maid being particularly funny. Many |
of the drawings are exceedingly graceful, |
the color is effective, the text amusing
and the burlesques are all droll. New |
York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers; |
Portland: Loring. Short & Harmon.
Price $2.00.)
The American in Paris. A Biographi-
cal Novel of The Franco Prussian War;
the Siege and Commune of Paris. From
an American Standpoint by Eugene
Coleman Savidge author Of "Walling-
ford" ETC., etc. A young American, an
attache of the United States Legation in
Paris is the fresh and unspoiled partioi-
pant in politics and society abroad at the
exciting period Of which this story treats.
The scheme Of the novel is somewhat
novel itself, introducing as 1t does, by
way of chapter-headings the veritable
utterances of the leaders whose personali-
ties enter into the recital. The love story
is intense and interesting and the story
throughout is not only unhackneyed but
is strong and absorbing, being marked by
a reality and spirit which do credit to the
authors ability. The development of
Republican ideas in France is well in
Dictated and 'The American in Paris', is
also unusual In the skill with which the
lesser Things, the slight influences lead
ing up to an entirely unnecessary conflict
are shown forth and made evident.
philadelphia: j. B. Lippincott Com
pany; Portland: Loring, Short & Har-
mon. Price $1.0o)
| Platonio Affections by John Smith.
The Keynotes Series (Title page and cover
design by Aubrey Beardsley) which has
now reached some twenty three publica-
tions of different sorts, has, all along,
turned a good deal to the gruesoms and
strange, the shuddering and unpleasant
in literary art. The present volume is of
different timbre. It is sufficiently sane
and wholesome. 1t contains two sets of
characters almost too distinctly contrasted
the one North Devon rustics, the other
aristocratio pleasure seekers. Love after
marriage is always a fascinating theme
and in this case, We have couple of
young people, or fairly young people, who
previous to their marriage as we'll as for
time after. indulge in very independent
and philosophio views as regards love and
the tenderer sentiments Whatever the
fanlts of the story it is too original and
interesting to warrant the laying bare of
it's secrets, which to our thinking, is sell
dom legitimate part of the reviewer S
business. { London: John Lane, Vigo
st. Boston: Roberts Brothers; Portland
Loring, Short q Harmon Price $1,000
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