The Portland daily press., 1898-02-17
The King to the Queen. -

Loves sleepless sentry at the Queens
own bowars,
Where to the King alone he cries, Well
metI'
The sonnet to Professor Packard,
"Originality, ''The Sculptor and the
Child" are all beautiful. Indeed this
group of poemss is one to love and to
quote, when handled by the appreciative-
those who turn to nature and art for in
spiration. To the general reader it will
lack climax and variety. 1t is hardly
striking or bold enough for the reader
who revels in the unrestrained song of
our later day muses., where the classical
is overlooked and the crude is worshipped
and approved. Brunswick: Byron Ste
vens; Portland: Loring. Short & Har-
mon. Price $l.25.)
Brokenburne. A Southern Auntie' 8
War Tale. By Virginia Frazer Boyle,
with illustrations by VIM. Henry Walker.
The chief attribute of this sketch is its
pathos. 1t opens anew the wounds in.
fiicted by the Civil War. In SO doing the
author gives us graphic picture of an
old, r-broken Southern home circle. =
mot in the year of our Lord SO and SO,
but, before or after the war, as I fancy
Noah's people must have said after the
deluge.
Roses everywhere; the Marechal Mel
laying It's yellow head upon the heart of
the wild Cherokee, the rose Of love kis
sing the pale cheek of the white La
Marque."
Nam Bene tells the tragedy of Marse
Philip and De Baby, and their sorry, yet
faithful love affair-and the story of
Young Marse. with touching simplicity
and darkey tenderness. The illustrations
are old fashioned enough in effect for
-'65, a period, we have sometimes to
remind ourselves, Of quarter century
ago. New York: e. r. Herriok & Com
pany; Portland: Loring, Short & Har-
mon. Price $1.50.)
School Boy Life in England. An
American View. By John Corbin. The
author writes of sports and athletics as if
he were lad himself. Yet he delivers up
worthy list of authorities on English
Public Schools studied and digested, and
offers some well considered opinions on
the lessons we may learn from our oous-
ins across seas.
The book is handsomely bound, with a
very successful cover, where school towers
touch the sky almost as if cut in bas
relief.
Winchester, Elton and Rugby are taken
In turn. Mr.. Corbin has lived in each
for short periods, and writes understand
ingly of their special features To the
careless student of educational matters it
will be surprise to be reminded that
English public schools are not public
schools at all as we define them. This
research, made originally for Harper's
Round Table, but now rewritten, con-
firmed by wide reading and put into
permanent form, is suggestive and has a
distinct value to Investigators, besides
being entertaining in itself. The literary
style of the book is trifle abrupt; in
avoiding diffuseness the author has at
times not enlarged his theme quite fully
enough. (New York and London: Har-
per & Brothers; Portland: Loring, Short
& Harmon. Price $1.25.
Spanish John. Being Memoir, now
first published in complete form, of the
EARLY Life and Adventures of Colonel
John sMcDonnell, known as Spanish
john" when Lieutenant in the Com
pany of ST. James of the Regiment Is
landia, in the service Of the King OF
Spain operating in Italy. By William
McLennan. Illustrated by +. de Myr-
bach. A capital story, well devised and
we'll related. A lad attending the Scots
College in Rome takes leave of his books
to follow the drum with James the Pre-
tender and his crew of followers. His ad-
ventures with the Spanish troops serving
in Italy are many and varied, and have a
gallant ring Of. patriotism and romance
Father o. Rourke is fine, jolly figure in
the drama. The.date of the story is 174O,
that troublous time when Italy existed
largely as battlefield for other Powers
and back in England was the uprising OF
Charles Edward, the Young Pretender
ouelled at the battle of Culloden.
The Illustrations of Spanish John
should be spoken of as especially spirited
and acceptable The book is one to be
enjoyed both by boys and their elders.
New York and London: Harper &
Brothers; Portland: Loring, Short q
Harmon. Price $780,
Among Houghton & Mifflin's latest
publications is The King of the Town, by
Ellen Mackubin, story so good that,
if it is the work Of comparatively young
writer, we feel sure it will be followed by
finer and more effective literary work.
The eocial life of an army post in the
West is well depicted, evidently by one
who has shared it's interests, and the dra-
matte figure of savior of the depraved
humanity gathered into a mining town
is finely drawn. The story holds the read
er's attention from first to last, and has
much to recommend it.
We must score against the use of the