The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-11-17
RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

| The Return Of the Fairies is a coilsc-
ton of stories: Story Of y Christmas
| Eve, Story OF the Enchanted Cave. Story
OF the Bad Boy, Story Of the Golden Key,
and Story Of the Magic Mirror. (Little
Folks Publishing Co., Springfield,
Mass. Portland: Loring, Short & Har-
mon.) The author is Mr.. Charles j.
Bellamy, . brother Of the author OF
Looking Back ward" Tho little people
will be delighted with the book because
the fairy stories are laid In scenes that
| they oan understand, and there Is about
them an air OF reality. Eaoh story incul.
Gates a short and simple moral preoept;
and this feature will OF course CONNIE nd
the beck to parents.
Betty Leioester's Christmas 10 the title
Of little story in which Sarah Orne
| Jewett describes the experiences OF a
little New England girl in England at
Christmas time. The book 10 published
Houghton, M,filn & Co.. Boston, pub.
| fishers; Portland: I.orinG, Short ~ Har-
mon) In a binding Of pure whits, deco
rated In colors. Several illustrations Of
Betty, her friends. ana some Of the SOL
emn pageants of English ceremony which
Betty witnessed, make up q very attrao-
tive Christmas book for children Of mid
| die youth.
The little people, and many Of the large
people with them, Will be delighted to
know that Joel Chandler Harris has pub
lishsd (Houghton, Miffin - Co., Boston,
publish ers; Portland! Loripg. Short e.
Harmony q new series of y Ian tstion sto-
ries, entitled Plantation fageants. The
venerable and ingenious Uncle Remus
has disappeared, but his place is taken
| by Aunt Minerva Ann, who tells to the
little people abJut her more of those de-
| lightful stories of the sly doings OF ami
mails. Aunt Minerva, however, Is a
teacher Of morals, as Uncle Remus was
not. She strives to impress upon her
hearers that the tricks done by the ami
mails may be we'll enough for foxes and
rabbits, but should not be initiated by
little boys and girls. n this respect the
book Is much more desirable than the
| Unole Remus. which Is open to the OBJ
| lection that 1t may awaken In the child
mind an admiration for the sly and de-
ceitful tricks of Brer Rabbit, Brer Terrs-
pin, and the others OF that vastly enter-
tanning brotherhood. AS literary work
of origin Il merit the Plantation Pageants
is not equal to Uncle Remus, which Is
the authors masterpiece.
A Prince of Georgia. and Other Tales,
Is N collection Of stories already published
In various Tor ms BY Julian Ralph. The
new edition (Harper Brothers. New
York, publishers; Portland: LorIng,
Short & Harmony is bound in attractive
form and illustrated. A Prince of
Georgia, Whsn the Clouds Fell Down.
Dandy at His Best. The Sad Fate Of u
New Woman, Mrs Ruppert's Christmas.
My Borrowed Torpedo Boat, and Bruoe's
Mighty Weakness. make up tina series,
some Of which ara already familiar to
readers of the Hsrpers' publications.
Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson
has at various times published in the
magazines sketches of some of the most
| interesting OF his contemporaries. They
have now been brought together In .
single volume entitled Contemporaries
(Houghton. Miflln g. Co.. Boston, pub
fishers; Portland: Loring. Short & Har-
| mon.) The contemporaries are Ralph
Waldo Emerson. Amos Bronson Alcott.
Theodore Parker, John Gresnleaf Whit
tier, Walt Whitman. Sidney Lsnier.
| Lydi a Maria Child, Mrs. Hawthorne,
Helen jackson, John Holmes. Thadde-
as William Harris. VIM. Lloyd Garrison,
Wendell Phillips, Charles Summer, DIR.
Howe, UIys ses 3. Grant. Naturally
enough In a work BY Col Higginson.
the anti-slavery cause and its champions
have leading pla,e. One of the most
interesting chapters 10 on The Eccentric
tiles of Rsformsrs. showing that Q true
reformer IL one apart from other men,
and giving some idea Of the trials which
| he must encounter.
Admiral Dewey and bis achievement e.
at Manila have been already served up to
the American people In so many forms,
| that one is apt to fe,l that nothing new
can be written about 1t. But Mr.. John
Barrett, late United States minister to
Siam and for time q war correspond
emit at Manila, has gotten together very
interesting collection Of anecdotes and
incidents In his work, Admiral Dewey,
which purports to be A Sketch Of the