The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-04-05

Another book from the same publish
Elliot Griffis, whose earlier works have
been both valuable and popular. This
volume is about The Pilgrims in Their
Three Homes. England, Holland, Amer
lea, and Its mottos is ''Deus Fecit'.' 1t
is dedicated
SIN Grateful Memory
of
My English Ancestors
OF Nottingham and Devon"
The author revisited the three homes
of the Pilgrims in order to study their
story, and also the Dutch language, that
he might form his own opinions in a
perfectly independent manner. And
this is the tale that he tells OF the Pill
grims, with great care in keeping strictly
to facts, and avoiding all possible errors
and inaccuracies.
Mr.. Griffis writes: "The first founders
OF Massachusetts were not merely repre-
sentative of church polity. They were
men and women of beautiful life and of
attactive character. If they had the in
firmities and limitations of other NOR
tails, they also showed the touches of ma
ture' which make the whole world kin.
I have tried to depict them amidst the
hopes and fears, the joys and sorrow Of
their daily environments in three lands !"
In this day when we New Englanders
are in pursuit of the shades of our ances-
tors, Mr.. Griff1s's work will have a
double interest ana value. It Is delight
fully written and contains much useful
information in a condensed form. 1t is
also illustrated in an attractive manner,
and has q very full and complete index.
Among other things there is reproduc-
ton of the "Old Hundredth' as it ap-
pears in Ainsworth's Psalm Book-and
facsimile from page OF Bradford 6
ma nuscript Portland: Loring, Short &
Harmon.
OF the Houghton & Miffiin novels that
of Mrs. Prince, a grand daughter of Hon.
Rufus Choate, will be found extremely
pleasing, and a decided advance upon
the authors other stories, which were
also of much merit. At the Sign of the
Silver Crescent is tale Of the unhappy
marriage of Diane de Beaulieu, who gives
her youth and beauty and grand old fem
lily chateau in exchange for wealth and o
husband whom she despises as vulgar and
common and Of no use except to intro
duce her to the world of fashion in which
she longs to display herself The other
important characters in the story the
scene of which is laid in F'rance-are a
young Englishman, who is an artist
Suzette Vernon, student of art and an
American, very shrewd and worldly
minded cure, and Odlie de Lussao. with
whom Diane's husband falls in love.
Here we have all the material for bright
and clever story, and this Mrs. Helen
Choate Princes latest work most as
suredly is. Portland: Loring, Short Il
Harmon
And the Queen of the-I was about to
say of the Cannba1 Islands-but I mean
Hawaii, has written book, and 1t con-
tains many pages of rather curious and
entertaining matter, and lots of illuatra-
tions which add to it's attractions. Poor
Liliuokalani tries her best to prove to US
that she Is a suffering angel and martyr,
and indeed in reading her book, which Is
extremely well written, one does pity
lloI dIlA ACOt UufsU Suo ilfo DOOh h0INiy
used. Hawaii's Story reads like ro-
nance The ex-Queen begins with the
day of her birth, when, according to GUS
tom in the family of the chief Of the
Sandwich Islands, she was wrapped in
the finest soft tapa cloth, and taken to
was adopted. Her foster mother was
Konia, a granddaughter Of King Kane
hameha !. and their only daughter was
Bernice Pauahi, afterwards Mrs. Charles
r. Bishop, well known by all the Eng
lish and American residents as a cul-
tured, charming and beautiful woman.
From this point Lilioukalani goes on
to write of her school days, the social life
of the Islands, her marriage to John
Owen Dominis, the son of a wealthy sea
captain, whose wife was q native of Bos-
ton; her reign, the revolution, and her
imprisonment. Following this comes
her release and visit to the United States,
and a description of her reception by
President and Mrs. Cleveland, OF whose
kindness she speaks with intense graft
tude.
Much is said of the Queens brother,
the late King Kalakaua, whose portrait
adorns the volume. 1 saw the poor
man, who, when very ill, visited South.
ern California. He, with his suite and
the Mayor OF the city, drove by my house
in Los Angeles, when 1 was sitting on
my porch one brilliant, sunshiny day,
with my tiny dog beside me. Chico, see
ing these, to him, strange fguress he
knew they were not his friends the Chi
namen), flew Mt the Kings carriage and
barked--this little bunch of fluffy hair
in such vigorous manner that even His
Majesty smiled at the small creature who
did not know king when he saw him.
portland: Loring, Short & Harmony