The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-05-27

privileges. The New York Mercantile
Library, on the other hand, have NOT
found hospitable to research So that If
behooves our libraries to look to their
regulations as aids in the cause of tbe
distribution Of learning. Eggleston is
responsive to the sense of hunor, so tell
ing a quality in historical narrative
though this we should know through his
writings of another stamp. Speaking of
Sir Martin Frobisher who put himself
heavily in debt and spent the fortune of
his wife, ETC., he says Sir Martin
Frobisher whom God forgive is the phrase
in which he is spoken of by his wife. :"
Again as regards suggestions, Low Gus
toms'' which Capt. Smith urged as likely
to enrich people who should not be an
noyed with large pilotage and such like
dues"-is one thing for untried ventures,
another for an established trade. Dale's
tyranny, ''pitiless and Internal" is
strongly set forth and the fact that dur
ing its regime, the fishing seasons in the
James river We're ascertained, the cultl-
walton of tobacco begun and an expert
ment made in the private ownership OF
land. We commend in Edward Eggles-
toms ''The Beginners of Nation a
book which needs no commentator but
makes its own place and worthily fills 1T.
(Now York: D. Appleton & Company;
Portland: Loring, Short & Harmon.
Price 1.50.)
An experiment in Education. Also,
the Ideas which inspired it and were in
spired by it, by Mary R. Alling-Aber.
These papers are in part republished from
The Popular Science Monthly and are
very interesting and progressive. Their
author after years of teaching became con-
WINGED that deal of waste ensued in the
methods of instruction usually employed.
She felt sure children could learn more
and learn spontaneously a great deal
made mechanical and laborious in public
and even private schools. The substan-
tial assistance of Mrs. Pauline Agassiz
Shaw, exhaustless where education and
advancement are concerned, rendered pos
sible the putting to the test these ideas,
with what results this book will show.
Teachers, parents, educators will find this
thoughtful work worthy careful consider
alton. New York: Harper & Brothers;
Portland: Loring, Short & Harmon.
Paul. A Herald of the Cross, by Flor
ence Morse K ingsley, author of "Titus"
and Stephen" These books have OBJ
tanned a great popularity. They deserve
it. Their writer has rare gift, Sheshas
taken the peerless stories of Hebrew liter
allure and rendered them into extended
narrative, with brilliancy, color and elo-
quence. Young people are not impressed
by too condensed recital. Therefore
this expansion of history, being done
with skill and enthusiasm will delight as
well as instruct and will leave an indeli-
BILE impress of the time and of Christian
influences and impulsions. Paul being
the chief source through which the
diffusion of Christian belief came, is es-
pecially the figure for such writing as
this. philadelphia: Henry Altemus;
Portland: Loring, Short & Harmon
Price $1.25.)
Saint Eva. A Novel by Amelia Pain
Mrs. Barry Pain), has an exquisite head
by Burne-Jones as frontispiece to the
book, which is a bit of fiction made up
of contradictions Sometimes we have
careless or provincial English, yet the
general construction is good. We have
sensationalism yet wit and fluency and
at times charming description. A lesson
turks for the one who looks therefor, in
the misery wrought by the thoughtless,
self-seeking of blase man of the world
in tampering with the sensitiveness of
the innocent and lovely soul of young
girl quite too delicate to bear heartless
treatment. The story is one bound to
have large following. New York:
Harper Il Brothers; Portland: Loring,
Short & Harmony
Leonore of the Yawmish. A Novel by
Francis Dana. This environment-the
great NortilWeSu, very Hedfiy DIS lar west
and as far north as family withdrawn
from civilization would care to live on
the North American continent, furnishes
something novel to the book at hand.
The exploring done in wild regions is
fetched back for recital to Boston, our
city of fads, where lions are always feast
ed and hidden to roar. A certain unusual
quality is conceded to Leonore of the
Yawmish but the love story of the book
is very improbable and indeed one car
ries away the impression of good book
of travel spoiled by being made into
piece of fiction. New York: Harper &
Brothers; Portland: Loring, Short &