The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-11-20
Company. portland Lorins, snort 8
Harmon


Another collection Of short stories pub
iished by the Harpers (Portland, Loring,
Short & Harmony, written by Virginia
Frazer Boyle, and illustrated by A. u.
Frost, has the rather brimstoney title OF
Dsvil Tales, and The Devils Littls Fly,
Asmodeus In the Quarters, The BLACK
Cat, The Tanning Of JezruI, and Liza
Indicates somewhat the trend OF the
sketches. They deal with the colortd
folk OF the old South, In the days when
''old marse, = ''oIe miss. - and the big
house. and 1.-THE quarters made up the
plantation life, and nanny" piliowed
the baby's head on her capacious bosom.
and told ''little miss witohing stories,
always heeding the CRY, tell another,
nanny"
Another chorus calls to answering
silence, for she is gone. The swaying
form, grooming In low, rich voice. like
some bronzs Homer blind to letters,
weird primeval lore into the ears OF
future orators, Is shut within the feudal
past Of the old plantation days. for the
brown breast that piilowed Its brain and
beauty is still forever, and that South
too, Is dead
Another Harper publication Is Rafriai-
land, the Strange story Of John Heath
Howard, by William Huntington Will
son. This is y romance OF Alaskal,
which deals with the fate of Andree,
who In the year 1897 set out on an at
tempted voyage to the north pole, In q
balloon, during the month of July. In
October OF the same year the steam
whaler OLIVIA" reported that while
lying few miles off Point Barrow she
had been visited by an Eskimo, whose
umiak, or skinboat, had covering evil
IDENTIFY made from the vanished silk OF
a balloon. Later vessel was chartered
In San Francisco to investigate the mat
ter. and several volumes OF writing by
Howard were found, giving an account
of his life and adventures from the time
of his being carried from Epson,
England, by an Indian aeoronaut, down
to the date OF his death in Alaska.
The story Is striking one, and there
through 1t all. (Loring. Short & Har-
mon.)
The Expatriates, novel by Lillian Bell
Mrs. Arthur Hoyt Boyne) (Harper g.
Brothers; Portland; Loring, Short &
Harmony, is rather bright and readable,
but extremely sensational 1t is story
of the American Colony in Paris, and as
a part of the material from which 1t is
constructed, the author has, in her OPEN
ing chapter, made use Of the scene of the
Charity Bazar fire In Paris, which wassso
notorious, and, also, later on, gives a
horribly realistic description of the sink
ing OF the French steamer, LA Bour-
gogne.
Mrs. Boyne has lived In Paris and
studied her subject. She evidently has
a contempt for Frenchmen in general,
and absolutely despisss the American
heirssses who are willing to marry them
for their titles
Two other volumes published by the
Harpsis portland: Loring, Short & Har-
NOM are The Riddle OF the Universe at
the Close of the Nineteenth Century, by
Ernst Hseoksl, and Mother Goose for
Grown Ups, by Guy wetmore CarryI
with illustrations by Peter Newell and
Gustave Verbeck.
Professor Haeckel, OF the University
of Jena, presents a study OF monistic
philosophy for the benefit of all readers
who are honestly in search of truth. He
deplores the unnatural and fatal opposi-
ton between science and philosophy. be-
tween the results OF experience and of
thought; and he seeks the solution OF two
great questions: What stage in the at
ta'nment OF truth have we actually ar
rived at in this closing year of the nine
tenth century? What progress have we
really made during its course towards
that immeasurably distant goalY'' The
aIthor Of the present volume modestly
ventures to hope that he has con-
tributed something towards the solution
| OF the enigma.
Professor Haeckel is one of the most
prominent biologists Of the century, and
surely has a special claim to pronounce
with authority, from the scientific side,
on what Is known as 1.-THE conflict be-
tween science and religion and his
Judgment cannot fail to have weight on
all the topics of which he treats. He
has written very remarkable book.
MIR. Guy Wetmore Carryrs Mother
Goose for Grown-Ups is delicious and
ingenious foollng which will be accepta-
Bile to all persons who like pure fun.
Many OF the verses have been previously
printei in Harpers Mag szine. the Satur-
| day Evening Post, and the London
Sketch, but collected and bound together,
with their clever Illustrations and beau
tiful paper and type, they make tempt
ing gift book for the approaching holi-
days. Mother Hubbard, Jack Horner.
Tom the Piper's Son and various other
old friends are beautifully drayestied, and
the moral of each is most amusineIy
and wittily worked out. or Little Boy
Blue, this is said:
1.-The moral lies before our eyes;
When tending kline ana corn,
Don spend your moons In footing tunes
Upon q blatant horn;
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