The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-09-17
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

Iuo ISople tor NnOm Cudkcbpcdio
Wrote, by Charles Dudley Warner. Illus
trated. Some years ago the Rev. A. W..
Jackson, unique and charming writer
delivered an address before his college
COLBY which was afterward published
in pamphlet form entitled "The Scien-
tiflc Study of Literature The paper
made very delightful reading and it's
special plea was for an organizing law--an
explanation of letters in the men and en-
vironment that made them. He claimed
that great deal of reading and study is
mere star-gazing or specimen gathering
and that knowledge of the marked feat
ures and trend of any certain period is
necessary to an appreciation of its great.
est writer's. 1t Is just this that Mr.. War
ner is urging when he offers us, taste
fully bound and illustrated by quaint
little sixteenth century reprints-as "The
Globe Theatre, "Charlecote Hall, Gan
English Printing Office The People
for whom Shakespeare WROTE" a volume
wherein is collected two studies upon the
subject which makes the title and two
allied on the relation of English life in
the times of Elizabeth to its literature. "
The whole forms pleasant and interest
ing bit of scholarly rummaging amongst
customs and nations of the sixteenth and
early seventeenth centuries with here and
there something of history of more solid
kind-all intended to light up and make
real the matter that influenced Shakes
mo- To 70 oc bo MI tbot
terious endowment we call genius, Food
and drink, dining and festivity dress,
legislation, amusement, France and Eng
land compared in socisl peculiarities,
plays and the theatres, are set forth and
briefly described. Disciples of the great
est OF dramatists will. do well to procure
this group of essays. from Dudley War
ner's- graceful pen. New York: Har-
per Il Brothers; Portland: Loring, Short
& Harmony
In fancy and Childhood by Frances
Fisher Wood, is well.written, sensible
and safe manual Of advice to mothers, on
the care of new born babies and of child
rem for the first few years of their lives.
A plain talk, well supported by facts and
in no wayIattempting to supplant doctor
or nurse, which cannot fail to help rem
der the mother an intelligent and reason
able care-taker of the little creature 90
helpless at first and SO dependent upon
her for fair start in health and DISPOSE
ton. Preyentable diseases, feeding,
sleeping, dress, rules, the nursery and the
nursery maid, are investigated and re-
ported upon. The little treatise is free
from fads and comes from a woman wh,,
with children of her own successfully
brought up, knows what she is talking
about. New York and London: Harper
& Brothers; Portland: Loring, Short &
Harmon. Price t1.oo.)
The Story of the Rhinegold (dersRing
des hibelungen) Told for Young People
by Anna Alice Chaplin. Illustrated. If
we are not mistaken, this author has
published other Wagner themes done into
simple form for popular reading, more es-
pecially for young people. In the present
instance, the pictures are spirited and
fine, the legends themselves are told
POLITICALLY and without undue ornament
and each motif is indicated by note, as
the ''Song of the Rhine Maidens,"
Walhalla Motif and SO on. There is
lore, retold by Wagner, and we should
suppose children would be enchanted by
dwarfs and giants, spells and magic cir.
clets, dragons and warrior goddesses.
Not only so but these Teutomic myths are
important to the child's development.
Mythology trains the imagination and
lays the foundations of creative thought
New York: Harper e. Brothers; Port
land: Loring, Short Il Harmon. Price
S1.25.)
Muriella or lie Selve by Louisa de la
Rance (Ouida.) Illustrated. In large
print on good paper but rather ordinary
in pictures and binding, we have story
of Ouida's, brief and very picturesque.
No one so we'll as she sketches the daily
life Of peasant and lord in Italy in the old
days Nor can any writer excel her in
the portrayal Of faithful love seeking
naught for self but lavishing all upon it's
object. Ouida has a number of guises in
fiction-some of them rather meretricious
and some quite beyond the rules Of re-
spectacle print. But in this pretty
sketch we have the Ouida Of "Deux
Petits Sabots," as beautiful an idyl rs
was ever penned. "Muriella" is touch
ing episode. We quote page expressive
of Ouida's command of language and of
her power to endow it with an almost
caressing sweetness of sound. where
again, If he left LIE Selve. would he see
Al - he