The Portland daily press., 1897-12-11

~ mas fifteen full page and other
illustration of the most important scenes
~ Une work 1t Is beautifully printed on
run heavy paper with gilt edges, and
Uhe ooVefs are very artistic, an elaborate
design In gold on dark background. 1t
WIZ make very choice gift book for the
hoiioayE' ano will be appreciated by all
ADMIRERS OF Shakespeares works. (New
YORK; Dodd, Mead Il Co.; Portland:
Loring, Short & Harmon.)
The Juggler, by Charles Egbert Grad.
dock Boston & New York: Houghon.
Miffiin q Company; Portland: Loring,
Short q Harmon. Price S1.25.) This
is one of Miss Murfree's best stories and
to say this means to point to some very
remarkable literary qualities. The author
has wit and humor of a rare quality. She
also idealizes nature to an extent and
with a power allied to that of artists like
Hugo. Heine or Poe. In the present in
stance intimate knowledge of life in the
Tennessee mountain was never more
forcibly shown. The plot differs from
her usual presentment, for the Juggler
and his tragedies, his love affairs and his
mysteries, are entirely unique and I'M
like any other characters in fiction.
Pontiac. Chief of the Ottawas. A Tale
OF the Siege of Detroit, by Colonel H. r.
Gordon. Illustrated. New York: E. p.
Dutton & Company; Portland: Loring.
O prion 81 6O ! We
have here o thoroughly well told tale of
the Conspiracy of Pontiac. The French
and Indian war forms a most dramatic
episode in our pre-reyolutionary history
and no less exciting are accounts OF those
encounters between the English and the
Indians which began four years after the
capture of Quebec in 1859, and eliminated
in Pontiac's submission to the British in
1865. Young lads will delight in this TO-
nance, true in fact and touched here and
here by sufficient imagination to give the
story something of a personal hold upon
the reader.
A Daughter of Strife, by Jane Helen
Findlater, author of "The Green Graves
of Balgowrie. New York: Dodd,
Mead & Company; Portland: Loring,
Short & Harmon. Price $1.25.) 1.-THE
Green Graves of Balgowrie" was pain
full story but discriminating critics saw
in it tokens of unusual force and talent
In the present work these features are
equally well demonstrated, while the
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ending less grueseme. There is something
in the plain setting forth of the fashions
of the time, ITO in England, socially,
that. callsitosmind A Lady of Quality"
though GA Daughter of Strife" does not
decorate its pages with oaths. Taken en-
tire the story is perfect. in SO far that it
never loses the atmosphere of the period
of which it treats. 1t Ia exceedingly in
teresting and has not dull word from
cover to cover. We commend it as quite
out of the common and we'll worth read
ing.
Darrell. A Romance of Surrey by r.
D. B1acknore author of Lorna Doone,
with Drawings by Chris Hammond.
New York; Doda, Mead & Company;
Portland: Loring, Short & Harmon.
Price sl.75) A better story than per
leyoross" but not approaching Lorna
Doone'' in achievement seems to be the
popular verdict on Blackmore's latest
romance. A curiously confusing sort of
narrative, 1t is, with It's contrasts between
English folk of today and some wanderers
from the Caucasus who seem to be only
the creatures of a vivid Imagination.
''Dariel'' is bizarre and its evolvement is
rather long and difficult. Still it will in
many cases please by it's very strangeness
and it could not be Blscknore without
many beautiful descriptions and an in
genious portrayal of adventures and diff
oulties.
The City of the Caliphs. A Popular
Study of Cairo and its Environs and the
Nile and it's Antiquities. By Eustace A.
Reynolds Ball, B. A. (Oxd) f. K. g. S.
author of Mediterranean Winter Resorts.
Illustrated. "If," the author says. "a
pleblscite were taken among travellers in
general, as to the dozen most interesting
and striking cities of the globe, it is