The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-12-16
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

More Rhymes. By Edith Leverett
Dalton. (Damrell & Upham: Boston.
More Rhymes, and more rhymes such as
these are welcome to us all. As child
must stop at every brook and fountain,
each drink seeming to quicken his thirst
for another. SO 1t is good to have this
modest volume lie on the library table,
where the busy woman can snatch it up
in her household comings and goings for
a drop of poetic refreshment which may
freshen the tedium of the common round
of toll. The rhymes are so varied, here
they glow with the beauties of each tieet-
ing season. there they breathe kindred
feeling with childh Gods joys, as well as
with girlhnod's dreams or the experiences
Of mature life. At times they soar with
an inspiration of patriotism and martial
ardor and again they lift one above
earthly limitations to the confident frui-
ton of better life beyond The whole
volumeis CHEEKY and true to one's best
sentiments
Famous Singers of Today and Yester-
day. BY Henry G. Lahee. Illustrated
1t has been the desire of tina author to
give in book of modest dimensions, as
complete a record as possible of the
famous singers from the establishment of
italian Opera down to the present day
The majority are opera singers, but in a
few cases oratorio and concert singers of
exceptional celebrity have been mentioned
l,o v1a 10 11rc Tod xvft I,
twelve lhotogravure portraits. Among
them are Calve, Melba, Emma Eames and
Nordica. The covers are in white and
gold.
Great Composers and their Work. By
Louis @. Elson. Author of Curiosities
of Music, etc. Illustrated. In this book
| the author has brought together the lives
of the great composers in such manner
| that the average reader without any
technical knowledge of ,nusic) may un.
derstand how their work aided in musical
development and in what degree their
| schoo Is were interviewer. The authors of
these two volumes are among the leading
critics and musical authorities in the
country and their graphic and autnori-
tative account of great musicians living
and dead, will prove popular addition
to the literature of music Great Com
posers and their Work contains twelve
photogravure portraits, and each volume
has chronological table. They will
make very acceptable gifts books to must
cal psople. (Boston: l.. c.. Page; & Co;
Portland Loring, Short & HARMONY
The. Days Work. By Rudyard Kipling.
The Days Work is a collection of twelve
short stories of which several have APP
peared in various magazines during the
year. The stories are the Bridge Builders
A Walking Delegate, The Ship that
Found Herself, The Tomb of His Ances-
tors. The Devil and the Deep Sea, Will
liam the Conqueror, .007, The Maltese
Cat. Bread upon the Waters, An Error in
the Fourth Dimension, My Sunday at
| Home, and the Brushwood Boy. These
stories which are full Of life and action,
present widely different manifestations Of
| u r. IKipling's genius. The very effective
| Illustrations are by W. d, Stevens, W..
Louis Sonntag, jr., E. L. Blumenschier
and w. l.. Taylor. Ibis volume will be
sent post paid to any address on approval.
to be paid for If satisfactory or to be re-
torned to the publishers in case it is not
wanted after examination. The cover of
the book was designed by the author.
| New York, Doubleday & Mcclure Co;
Portland: Loring. Short s. HARMONY
Bird Neighbors, An Introductory Ac-
ouaintance with One Hundred and fifty
Birds Commonly found in the Woods,
Fields and Gardens about our Homes.
By Neltje Blanchan. With ansIntroduc-
ton by John Burroughs and Fifty Plates
of Birds in their Natural Colors.
Birds that Hunt and are Hunted. Life
Histories of One Hundred and Seventy
Birds of Prey, Game Birds and Water
Fowls. By Neltje Blanchan, Author of
Bird Neighbors. With Introduction by G.
o. Shields (Coquina } and Forty eight
Colored plates. In Birds that Hunt and
are Hunted the author has supplied
companion volume to her Bird Neighbors
1t is claimed that no other single volume
contains SO much information popularity
treated about the birds of our coast and
inland waters, the sportsman's legitimate
game, and the birds of prey, and SO many
full-page plates of them in their natural
colors as in this. In his introduction
to this volume, Geo. o. Shields says:
81 have read the manuscript of this work
carefully. 1t shows the most patient and
industrious research and it is safe to say
no work of it's class has been issued in
modern times that contains so much val
liable information presented with such
felicity and charm. The author avoids
technicalities and writes for the layman
as well as for the naturalist The in
formation containedain these two volumes
with the colored plates, makes.th identi-
fcation of our birds simple and possible
even to the uninitiated. The price of
these volumes is two dollars each. They
will be sent postpaid to any address on