The Portland daily press., 1899-07-13
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

| Mr.. Justin MCCARTHY is almost as well
known In America as in Great Britain.
He has travelled and leoturcd extensively
in the United States, and Is the author
of many works that have spread his fame
among people of scholarship and culture
ON this side of the Atlantic. His Remin-
iscences (Harper s. Brothers: New New
mon \. therefore will be I'D with pleasure
on both sides OF the ocean. 1t was in 1855,
that Mr.. MCCARTHY first saw London.
He was In time to hear the great Duk 9
| Of Wellington make brief speech in the
House OF Lords, to hear Dickens read
from his own works, to be invited to dine
with Thacketay. and to know Lord
| BTougham. Althou gh Mr.. MCCARTHY met
these famous men as young journalist
who could not be on terms of intimacy
with them, be has nevertheless preserved
Tor us SOME very useful and interesting
recollections of their personalities. OF
tie statesmen Of tho period during which
the Civil War was raging In America he
has very full reoollections and was on
intimate terms with Golden and Bright.
1t is little curious that Americans gen.
orally have forgotten the services of Cob
den and Bright, although they remember
perfectly well Disraeli and Gladstone.
Golden and Bright were the true friends
of this country In the hour Of need stand
ing firmly for the cause of the North
when all the social and political influence
OF England was with the South. The
division Of English sentiment at that
TINA is curious reminder of the falli-
biiity of great men as judges of moral:and
political questions. Golden and Bright
were for the North; Disraeli and appar-
emily Gladstone also for the South.
John Stuart Mill was for the North,
Thomas Carlyle for the South; Huxley
for the North, Tyndall for the South.
In America Mr.. McCathy met many of
the most eminent men who have lived
during the collection of this generation.
Charles Summer, Henry Ward Beeoher,
Cyrus W. Field. Longfellow, Hawthorne.
Walt Whitman. Grant, Sherman, Sheridan
Meade and Brigham Young are some OF
those of whom he has Interesting things
60 say. He likened General Meade. whom
he met at soldiers reunion. to Thack-
eray's Colonel Newcomb 1t may almost
be said that the "reminiscences concern
Americans as much as Europeans. The
work, which is in two volumes, is In
structiye as well ss entertaining. While
the author gives simply his own recolIec-
tons. and In no way attempts biographi-
c. or historical descriptions, there runs
through all a keen and rapid glance at
the great political literary and socia
movements of the last forty years. AL.
though the recollecti ons are OF persons
rather than things. those persons are ones
who have wrought greatly and famously
among things.
The Santiago Campaign. BY Capt.
John Bigelow. New York: Harper &
Brothers; Portland: Loring, Short IL
Harmon J. The author OF this book Is
already well known In army circles as the
author Of the Principles Of Strategy, a
very valuable book on military tactics.
His description and criticism of the
manner OF conducting the Santiago Cam
paign Is therefore authoritative. AS
Captain bigelow sage. the book is simply
"a narration Of what an officer partioI-
paoins In that campaign saw. felt. and
thought with such explanations and sug-