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tal. Jack & Co." ; the Rev. E. A. Rand, " Mak- 

 inir the be.-t of it" and '-When tlie War 

 broke out"; J. S. Shriver. "Almost"; and 

 G. T. Kercheval, " I.orin Moonick and other 

 Indian Stories/' " Renee " was a romance by 

 Marian C. Wilson; "Bryan Maurice," 1 a semi- 

 religious novel, by the Rev. Walter Mitchell ; 

 and "Esther, the Gentile," a story of Mormon 

 life, by Mrs. Mary W. Hudson. Miss M. G. 

 McClelland sent forth "Madame Silva," mys- 

 tical and occult; and "Eros," by Laura Dain- 

 trey, had a temporary vogue. Ernest de L. 

 Pierson wrote "A Slave of Circumstances," a 

 story of New York life, full of humorous situ- 

 ations; and Harry Castlemon (C. A. Fostick) 

 "Snagged and Sunk, or the Adventures of a 

 Canvas" Canoe." From May Agnes Fleming 

 we have two novels, "The Midnight Queen" 

 and "The Virginia Heiress"; from Mary T. 

 Palmer, "The Doctor of Deane"; and from 

 W. F. Kip, "Would you have left her T' 

 The latest novel of Marion Harland (Mrs. Ter- 

 hune) was entitled "A Gallant Fight." Hester 

 Stuart, in " A Modern Jacob," made a study 

 of heredity. Mrs. Isabella M. Alden (Pansy) 

 wrote "Judge Burnham's Daughters," and, 

 with Mrs. C. M. Livingstone, "Profiles, and a 

 Dozen of them," for children. Interesting 

 stories were "Miss Merley," in the American 

 Tauchnitz edition, by J. Elliot Currnn ; " Mau- 

 rice Rossman's Leading," by Mary R. Bald- 

 win ; " Kesa and Saijiro, or Lights and Shades 

 of Life in Japan," by Mrs. J. D. Can-others; 

 and "Judge Havisham's Will." by Mi<s I. T. 

 Hopkins. " The Septameron " was a sportive 

 imitation of the " Decameron " of Boccaccio, by 

 seven authors leaving town to avoid the heat, 

 who combined to produce a volume of light 

 summer literature. Neither "The Gambler," 

 by Franc B. Wilkie, nor "Len Gansett." by 

 Opie P. Read, can be regarded as elevated in 

 tone ; while, on the other hand, " Mr. Absa- 

 lom Billingslea" and "Other Georgia Folks'' 

 are specimens of the genial humor and quick 

 characterization of Richard M. Johnston. Mary 

 E. Bamford wrote %% Marie's Story " and " Fath- 

 er Lambert's Family"; Maria Mclntosh Cox, 

 " Raymond Kershaw " ; E. R. Roe (who must 

 not be confounded with E. P. Roe), " May and 

 June"; and E. Willett, "The Search for the 

 Star " : while a rapid summary includes " Miss 

 Middleton's Lover," by Laura J. Libbey ; " Jhe 

 Major's Love," by Ellen Price Brown ; " The 

 Jolly Ten and their Year of Stories." by Ag- 

 nes C. Sage ; " In Safe Hands," by Mary Hub- 

 bard Howell ; and "What Dreams may come" 

 and "The Princess Daphne." by Mrs. G. F. 

 Atherton. Among books more or less sensa- 

 tional are " The Great Amherst Mystery," by 

 Walter Hubbell, who also wrote " The Curse 

 of Marriage"; "Brinka, an American Count- 

 er." by Mary C. Spenser: " Cell 13." by Ed- 

 win H. Trafton, purporting to be " A Nihilist 

 Episode in the Secret History of New York 

 and St. Petersburg " ; " Oion." the Gold-Beat- 

 er," and " Karinel, the Scout," both by Syl- 



vanus Cobb, Jr. (W. D. Dunlop). "Mr. Dar- 

 wing's Daughter," by Helen B. William- 

 " Ho\v Tom and Dorothy made and kept a 

 Christian Home," Ly Margaret Sidney (Mr>. 

 II. M. Lothrop), belong to the. practical religions 

 department of fiction. a< " A Modern . 

 and Eve in a Garden," by Amanda M. 1 

 la-, "A Young Prince of Comm. : 

 R. Hopkins, and " The Boy Broker." by Frank 

 A. Munsey, to the purely utilitarian. 



In the line of children'.- stories we have, in 

 addition to those already referred to: "Uncle 

 Rutherford's Nieces." by Joanna M. Matthews, 

 author of the " Bessie Books" ; "Scotch ( 

 by J. A. K. ; "Sparrow, the Tramp," by Lily 

 F. Wesselhoeft ; "Margareta Regis and other 

 Girls," by Annie H. Ryder; "Kelp, a Story 

 of the Isles of Shoals,'" in the "Pine Cone 

 Series," by W. B. Alh n ; and "Bob Burton," 

 by Horatio Alger. " Taken by the Enemy." 

 opened a new " Blue-and-Gray Series," by 

 Oliver Optic (William T. Adams). J. T. Trow- 

 bridge wrote " Biding his Time " and " A 

 Start in Life"; Mrs. Lucy G. Morse, "The 

 Chezzles"; Mrs. L. C. Lillie. "My Mother's 

 Enemy" and "The Household of Glen Holly." 

 "Tales of King Arthur and his Knights of the 

 Round Table," by Margaret Yere Farrington, 

 and " St. George and the Dragon " and " Ken- 

 sington Junior," by Margaret Sidney, found 

 deserved favor with young folks. 



Among translations received with favor may 

 be mentioned "The Court of Charles IV" 

 and " Leon Roch," from the Spanish of Perez- 

 Galdos, as also the " Maximina," of Don Ar- 

 mando Palacio Valdes. The rage for Russian 

 realism apparently expired in 1887. But few 

 of the works of Tolstoi were translated, and 

 those were of minor importance. Among 

 them were "Family Happiness." From the 

 German we have "Picked up iu the Streets," 

 by H. Schobert, and "The Owl's Nest." by E. 

 Marlitt, both adapted by Mrs. Wister, and 

 "For the Right," by K. E. Franzos: while 

 French literature was represented by "The 

 Dream," " The Soil," and " The Jolly Parisi- 

 ennes." of Zola ; " The Magic Skin," " Modeste 

 Mignon," and "Cousin Bette," of Balzac: and 

 several charming stories. Among these were 

 "The History of Nicholas Muss," by C. dn 

 Bois-Melly ; " The Story of Colette " and " An 

 Iceland Fisherman," by Pierre Loti. " The 

 Steel Hammer " of Louis Ulbacb, translated by 

 E. W. Latimer, formed the first volume of 

 " Appleton's Town and Country Library," and 

 was followed bv its sequel. " For Fifteen 

 Years." " The Story of Jew5d." by Ali Aziz 

 Effendi, The Cretan, was a novel contribu- 

 tion from the Turkish. Last, but not least, 

 came " Lalja, a Tale of Finmark," from the 

 Norwegian of J. A. Friis. 



History. This department is. perhaps, the 

 richest, "although fewer works than usual were 

 produced. " The Critical Period of American 

 History" was supposed by John Fiske to lie 

 between the years 1783 and 1789, to which he 



