The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-05-11

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and approval" of Mr.. Bellamy. The
charades are in the form of acrostics.
and the initial letters of each give the
answer to the corresponding charade in
Mr. Bellamy's ''Second Century, The
puzzle-lovers who have enjoyed Bellamy's
riddles, will welcome Mr.. Billiards. very
ingenious and clever work in the same
line. We think the following one of the
typical and perhaps best of the Reopen
Sesame Charades. !"
''Spotted is my first know,
Often high and often low;
Low my next, though high its worth,
And the dearest spot on earth;
Comfort follows when they splice;
Each was seen in Paradise"
(Boston: L. C. Page g. Company;
Portland: Loring, Short & HARMONY
Cap and Gown. Second Series Select
ed by Frederic Lawrence Knowles. We
have here light verse, trimming OF melo-
dy, and brief poems in many instances
worthy that much abused name. The
college publications have yielded very
creditable harvest. Maine will note
selections from The Bowdoin Orient and
Quill, 'Rosebuds' and "Lizy Ann being
both remarkably good. Here too, under
Wellesley, is dainty "Four-o clocks
by Miss Lillian Quimby of Sac carappa
Gap and Gown is like draught of
apollinaris. 1t has freshness and sparkle
and If the young people seek its pages for
recreation hours their elders will enjoy it
quite as much. The compiler of this at
tractive volume shows his knowledge of
good rhyme and musical measure by some
of the pretty conceits which bear his
name. We quote from another page in
the volume,-T. L. Clarke, Yale Record
LENT.
Priscilla is maid devout
In this repentant season,
And to the world and all it's ways
Has vowed pious treason.
Sweet little saint, SO shy, demure!-
Though long I've tried to win her
fear that I'm not in it with
Some other lucky sinner.
For when I begged she'd trust her heart
10 me, and DER her bent,
She blushed and softly murmured
How can when its Lent %
(Boston: L. G. Page & Company;
Portland: Lorlng, Short Il Harmony
The Day of His Youth, by Alice Brown,
is study or sketch, written some time
ago, we believe, but revised, finished
and brought out by the author at this
date. Its motif is the contrast of an I'M
worldly nature in the man with the more
mercenary tone or material tone in the
woman's character. Quite the opposite
of the old fashioned sentimental idealizing
of feminine perfection. The little book
is well written; it is original and it con-
tains good many suggestions which will
work themselves out according to the
material encountered in the readers i'm
agination. The poetry of forest and river
and open sky will appeal to the heart at
this season, albeit in unrhymed form.
Boston and New York: Houghton,
Miffiin & Company; Portland: Loring,
IOllOIU % I1dTIuOu. fTlC6
Hilda Strafford. A California Story
by Beatrice Harraden, author of 'tShips
that Pass in the Night" with illustra-
lions by Eric Pape. This last story OF
Beatrice Harraden, has been anticipated
with good deal of interest. 1t will
hardly seem as important to the public as
the work of fiction that made her reputa-
ton and it's English halts and is faulty
in numerous instances. This is offset by
beautiful descriptions, though brief and
condensed, of the Pacific country; and
also by what holds her following; name
ly, power of intense, eager, vivid presen-
tation Of the passions that fill the human
heart Ben, Robert, Hilda-and the
group of far off neighbors, for that is
what neighbor frequently means in
California, are very real and for this
reason we read approximately and are
deeply stirred. 1t is all sad; save a
grim satisfaction en- gendered by BEN S
loyalty and strength of will. New York
Dodd, Mead & Company; Portland !:
Loring, Short & Harmon. Price $1.25.)
AS desirable as the bicycle or yacht or
swinging hammock, are the light sum-
mer books that shall divert without too
much tax upon the brain or the emotions.
Of this class is Mrs. Clara Louise Burn
hams "Miss Archer Archer, Novel. !"
Mrs. Burnham frequents Casco Bay in
summer and is well known here. In this,
her latest book, she manages two pairs of
lovers ably and impartially and continues
to bring all ones desires and hopes anent
the young folks we'll about. Her special
talent lies in portraying the loveable but
shrewd New England spinster. "Miss
Priscilla" is a delightful person. Very
much afraid of the water she takes an
enforced excursion for the pleasure
balanced on the edge of the seat, prepar-
ing to meet her Maker Miss Archer
Archer is agreeable reading, seasoned