The Portland daily press., 1898-11-18
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

NEW PUBLICATIONS.
Daddy Darwin's Dovecoat By Julianna
Horatio Ewing, Author of Jaakanapes,
etc. This little book has condensed in It's
seventy seven pages a good deal of sweet
ness and beauty. Daddy Darwin is
quaint figure and the story which pur-
ports to be told by two gatfers seated side
by side upon Yorkshire wall, Is as
quaint as he. Besides Daddy Darwin
there are in the book the Parsons daugh-
| ter, boy from the workhouse and Phoebe
Shaw, q young daughter of a neighborign
farmer. Daddy Darwin, long ago losing
his properly and the girl he loved, had
gradually Withdrawn from the coarse
sympathy of his neighbors; and the
pigeons for which the Dovecoat had long
been famous, became the business and
pleasure of his fife. Into this lonely
home, came the boy from the workhouse
and that he was not Of vagrant stock as
Daddy Darwin predicts, the story clearly
shows. This dainty little volume will
make a charming gift book for the holi-
days. Boston: Dana, Estes q Co; Port
land: Loring, Short 8 Harmon.
The New Biographical Edition of W. M.
Thackeray's Complete Works. With
biographical Introduction by his daugh-
ter, Anne Ritchie In Is volumes. Vol.
ume VII, the last one published, is The
History of Henry Esmond, Esq, Written
by himsef; The English Humorists of the
Eighteenth Century; The Four Georges
and Charity and Humor. With Illustra-
tions by George du Maurier, F. Barnard
and Frank Dicksee, IA. Each volume is
embellished with several Illustrations that
have never before appeared in print. Sub
sequent volumes will be issued in the fol-
lowing order: The Newcomes, Christmas
Books, Etc. Virginians, Philip, Etc.,
Denis Duval ETC., Miscellanies, ETC.,
(Harper Il Brothers; New York and Lon
don; Portland: Loriug, Short & Harmon.
The Tides and Kindred Phenomena in
the Solar System. The Substance of
Lectures delivered in 1897 at the Lowell
Institute, Boston. By George Leonard
Darwin, PlumiarAP and Fellow of
Trinity College in the University of Cam
bridge The author says of his work: In
| 1897 delivered course of lectures on the
Tides at the Lowell Institute in Boston,
and this book contains the substance of
what then said. The personal form of
address appropriate to lecture Is, l
| rhi ir,t- ant IN 10 vat or ti,olo n, "a
book, and / have therefore taken pains to
eliminate all traces of the lecture from
what I have written" Further on in
| the preface he says, II think there are
many who would like to understand the
Tides and will make the attempt to do SO
provided the exposition be sufficiently
simple and clear; it is to such readers
an idea of the subjects treated in this val
liable work 1t will be as well perhaps to
give list of the subjects treated In the
succeeding chapters. Tideo and Methods
of Observation, Seiohes in Lakes, Tides in
Rivers-Tide Mills, Historical Sketch,
which gives Theories of different peoples
at different periods, Tids-generating force
1
Distortion Of the Earths Surface by Vary
ing Loads, Equilibrium Theory of Tides,
Dynamical Theory of ths Tide-waye,
Tides in Lakes, Harmonic Analysis Of the
Tide,H Reduction of sasTidal Observations,
Tide Tables, The Degree of Accuracy of
Tidal Prediction, Chandler's Mutation,
The Rigidity of the Earth, Tidal Friction,
1 m sc IT,
| ing Mass of Liquid, Tho E7olutions of
Celestial Systems, Saturn's Rings. The
work is fully illustrated with charts,
maps, figures, photographs, etc., which
enable tine reader to more thoroughly
comprehend the subject. 1t is also supplied
with an index. The later chapters of
this book are devoted to the considera-
tions of several branches of speculative
Astronomy, with which the theory of the
tides has an intimate relationship. This
work can hardly fail to be of interest to
all those whose minds are in any degree
permeated with the scientific spirit The
| book is printed in large, clear type on
heavy paper. (Boston and New York:
| Portland: Loring, Short q Harmony
The Red Axe. By s. R. Crockett. Au.
thor of The Gray Man, etc. With Illus
trations by Frank Richards. The Red
Axe is a strong story of adventure with
the scenes laid in Pomerania three CEN
turies ago, 1t is like many of Mr.. Crook
ett's novels, semi historical romance
| giving graphic pictures of local color in
| ,Ioy, fheo H. =
is vigorous and thoroughly engrossing
story in which Mr.. Crockett's remarkable
gift of narration is shown to great ad-
vantage (Harper & Brothers: New York
and London; Portland: Loring, Short &
Harmony