The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-06-25
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Biographical Introduction by His
Daughter, Annie Ritohie. In thirteen
volumes. This new and revised edition
comprises additional material and h1ther-
to unpublished letters, sketches and draw
ings, derived from the authors original
manuscripts and note books The first of
this edition, Vanity Fair, appeared sim
ultaneously in London and in the United
States on April Is; the second volume,
Pendennis, May II, and the third vol
une, The Memoirs of Mr.. Charles J.
Yellowpiush, is now issued. A volume
will he issued each month hereafter, so
that the entire edition will be completed
on April IS, 1899. Subsequent volumes
will be issued in the following order:
Barry Lyndon, etc. Ito tie published
about July 15), Sketch Books, ETC., Con-
tributions to Punch, Esmond, etc., New
comes, Christm as Books, etc., Virgini-
ans, ETC., Philip, ETC., Denis Duval, etc. /,
Miscellanies, etc. 6
The Memoirs of Mr.. Charles j. Yellow
plush; The History of Samuel Titmarsh !;
and The Great Hoggarty Diamond, etc.
By William Makepeace Thackeray. With
a portrait, twenty four full-page illustra-
tions, and eleven wood-cuts by the au-
thor, and biographical introduction by
his surviving daughter, Mrs. Anne
Thackeray Richie. In this volume, the
third of the Biographical Edition OF
Thackeray's Complete Works, Mrs.
Richie continues to give us skctchy bits
of the life and surroundings of her father
at the time of his writing of the work,
that almost invest the pages with that
subtle charm that surrounds personal
confidence. They seem to bring us near.
er to the author, and make his characters
as real to us as they were to him when
they were born III his train. They consti
tute the only authoritative ac:ount that
has been given us of the man whose desire
was that his works. and his works only,
should speak for him. The volume il
embellished with several illustrations
that have never before appeared In print.
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| Collections and Recollections BY One
Who Has Kept a Diary. This is collec-
ton of "reminiscences of society and pub
lie mon in England during the last "a
years, written by one whose observation
and experience seem to have peculiarly
fitted him for the compilation of such a
volume. 1t may be regarded as an addi-
tion to the anecdotal literature of the
Victorian era, experimenting the work
already done by Greville and Sir William
Lennox. The opening chapters contain
character studies of eminent English
men, pointed by an unfailing supply OF
illustrative anecdote. The celebrities
thus treated are Lord Houghton, the
Duke OF Wellington, Lord Beaconsfeld,
Lord Russell, Cardinal Newman and
Lord Shaftesbury. The scope of Colleo-
lions and Recollections is beyond that
of mere volume of gossip and reminis-
cence. Under the headings Social Equal
ization, Religion and Morality, Social
Amelioration, Politics and The Evangeli-
cal Influence, the author analyses the
tendencies of English society at the be-
ginning of the century, the social effects
If the French revolution, and Pitts
Generalization of the peerage, and dis
cusses the awakening of the British con-
science and the reviving seriousness OF
the upper classes which followed the cor
onation of Queen Victoria. Another di.
vision of the book is assigned to Iecollec-
tions OF political life, running back to
the great battle for political freedom dur
ing the Regency. Here special attention
may be called to the chapters on Parlla-
mentary OratoTy. More than half of the
work is devoted to miscellaneous anec-
dote and Renaissance, classified under
such titles as Repartee, Flattersrs and
Bores, Conversation. Parodies, Letter.
writing, and Verbal Infelicities In these
pages the author describes and recounts
the events, characters and speeches which
have entertained and interested English
society during the present century.
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