The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-10-12

Diary" has to do with Evelyn, Pepys
and Maurice de 5uerin; Guides is a
delightfully."- droll protest; the Fete de
Gayaut' takes us to Douai and back to
mediaeval France in retrospect; ''Cakes
and Ale, y cold Wine and New" ''The
Royal Road of Fiction" and From the
Readers Standpoint" complete the table
of contents. One title we have over
looked Little Pharisees in Fiction,
perhaps the brightest of the group. Ger
tainly the juvenile prig or the unduly
pious infant was never SO amusingly
drawn for US, whether in Cotton Mather's
baby making an "edifying end in praise
and prayer before it was three years old''
or in the little heusemaid's case, perus-
ing THE Wander's Death "The Dying
Banker" and "The Intidel.' AT some
length Miss ReppIier dissects the
Elsie books where dismal piety fairly
runs riot and discipline is melted out from
young to old rather than in the good old
fashioned way from parents to children.
and interesting.
'sThe Story of an Untold Love- is by
Paul Leicester Ford and is of quite an
other stamp from his "The Honorable
Peter Stirling" This is an idyl, dreamy
tender and marked by beautiful senti-
ment, lightened it is true by q quiet
humor and the originality of a shrewd
but kind hearted Yankee in the character
of Mr.. B1odgett. Although the dated ex-
tracts from the journal kept by the teller
of the story are apparently very simple
and direct, yet good deal of plot is used
as the record proceeds. Some philosophy
finds its way into these pages had
hated and despised you at moments as
only love can hate and despise. The
world thinks that animosity is always
strongest against enemies, though daily
it sees the intensest feuds between those
nations and individuals who are most
closely related, and never learns that the
deepest hatred comes Efrom love- In
short 1.-THE Story of an Untold Love- is
outsof the common course and will appeal
to the discriminating reader. (Loring,
Short & Harmon. Price $1.25.)
Natures Diary, Compiled by Francis
II. Allen is oneSof the most successful
year. books we have yet encountered
Every day of the three hundred and sixty
five has it's extract from nature-lore The
dates at which the birds and flowers are
due are, indicated by brief note and
space is left blank for the out of doors
student and lover of nature to enter min
utes OF his own Thoreau is very often
quoted, as he should be
for hs was Natures special inter
prefer and prophet-a diviner who always
knew where gold was hidden. We cor
daily commend Natures Diary for
daily use ana as particularly graceful
gift for sympathetic and appreciatiFe
friend. (Loring, Short & Harmon.
Price $1.25.)
Hawthorne's First Diary with an .Ac-
count of its Discovery and Loss by Sam
uel 7. Pickard, author of The Life and
Letters of John Greenleaf Whittier. This
volume, brief though it is, will be attrac-
tive to Portland people for several reasons.
Mr.. Packard we still consider Portland
man and claim his literary research al
matter with which we have especially to
do. Then, too, Raymond and Casco,
Long Pond and Thomas Pond-the whole
Sebago regions a demainN dear to our
hearts and one whose reputation for
beauty of scenery yields to no rival. In
this picturesque Maine country Haw-
thorne lived for several years when boy
and extracts from u diary kept by him at
this date furnish the structure for this
interesting sketch. The ownership of the
journal has been shrouded in mystery to
certain extent; even now the diary in
its completeness cannot be recovered, no
one knows it's hiding place if it be in ex-
istence but there are ear marks which
of the young Hawthorne. While the con-
tents of this little volume are, in all
directions slight, they are by no means
without value and they stir old memo
ries and queries upon the past as some
more pretentious writings have failed to
do. The extracts here given have come
from one Symmes, a mulatto who died at
Pensacola, in 1871. He knew Hawthorne
pronounced in Raymond Hawthorne } in
those early days of his sojourn among our
Maine lakes and hills. Hawthorne him
self wrote II lived in Maine like bird
in the air, SO perfect was the freedom I
enjoyed But it was there first got my
cursed habits of solitude" The Haw-
thorne House at Raymond and some
graceful bits of landscape in photo gray
ure illustrate the text. (Loring, Short &
Harmon. Price S1.00,) u
A Browning Courtship and Other
Stories, by, Eliza Orne White. 1t is a
pleasure to the critic of printed pages to
bestow upon a story or a collection of
stories unreserved praise. Mrs. White S
novels are always agreeable and readable
with point and humor quite their own.
Tho present group of short storios are
perfect of their kind; delightful for read
ing aloud-amusing and with an appeal
to the sympathies not to be withstood.
At the Browning ghost which so persis t.
entity rose in the pathway of two young
lovers man rea6erc will sbive1 a apr,,o