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LITERATUKE AND LITERARY PROGRESS IN 1862. 



rest of the force and coming upon them at full 

 gallop demanded their swords. In recognition 

 of these services he received a special letter of 

 thanks, written by the Secretary of War in be- 

 half of the President. Soon after Gen. Lander 

 was compelled, in consequence of his health, to 

 apply for a temporary respite from military 

 duties, but before his request could be complied 

 with, he learned that the enemy were within 

 his reach, and while preparing for a midnight 

 attack, died suddenly with congestion of the 

 brain. In personal presence Gen. Lander was 

 commanding and attractive, and as a military 

 leader combined a spirit of the most daring 

 enterprise with clearness of judgment in the 

 adaptation of means to results. 



LITERATURE AND LITERARY PROG- 

 RESS IN 1862. I. Ix THE UNITED STATES. 

 The continuance of the war materially checked 

 the enterprise of publishers, and caused the 

 number of new works published to be greatly 

 below that of some former years; yet the liter- 

 ary record of the year is by no meaus unim- 

 portant either in the number or character of 

 the books issued. A number of works involv- 

 ing large outlay and which had been for some 

 years in progress, were completed; others were 

 continued as promptly and regularly as in times 

 of ordinary prosperity, and a considerable num- 

 ber of important new enterprises were under- 

 taken. The whole number of books published 

 during the year, aside from the issues of the 

 religious publishing societies, which are not 

 usually enumerated among the publications of 

 the book trade, and which are for the most 

 part dependent upon a distinct class of agencies 

 for their dissemination, was about 600. Of 

 these 199 were reprints or translations, though 

 in a number of instances the American edition 

 was materially improved by notes and additions. 

 The new books published by the religious pub- 

 lishing societies did not much if at all exceed 

 300. Forty-six volumes, of which only seven 

 were translations and one a reprint, were devo- 

 ted to military science and art. Of these 17 or 

 18 were manuals of tactics and instruction, or 

 text books for the different branches of the 

 military and naval service ; some of them works 

 of great merit and adopted by the Government 

 as its manuals of instruction both in the volun- 

 teer service and in the schools of the regular 

 army and navy. Among these were the " Au- 

 thorized Infantry Tactics," prepared by Brig.- 

 Gen. Casey; the ".Course of Instruction in 

 Ordnance and Gunnery," prepared by Capt. J. 

 G. Benton, U. S. A. ; the " Field Manuals of 

 Evolutions of the Line," and of "Battalion 

 Drill," by Capt. Henry Coppee; the "Naval 

 Gunnery Instructions" of Lieut. E. Barrett, 

 U. S. N. ; the manual of " Outpost Duty " of 

 Brig.-Gen. Butterfield; the "Manual of Engi- 

 neer Troops " of Capt, J. C. Duane ; Col. W. 

 W. Duffield's "School of the Brigade and Evo- 

 lutions of the Line ; " Capt. Henry Heth's " Tar- 

 get Practice for the Use of Troops ;" a new and 

 revised edition of Maj.-Gen. Halleck's "Ele- 



ments of Military Art and Science ; or, Instruc- 

 tions in Strategy, Fortification, Tactics of Bat- 

 tles," &c. ; Commodore U. P. Levy's (U. S. N.) 

 "Manual of Internal Rules and Regulations for 

 Men of War, with additional Rules for the En- 

 gineer Department by Chief Engineer A. C. 

 Stimers ; " Col. J. Monroe's Company Drill and 

 Bayonet Fencing ; " Manuals of HeavyArtillery, 

 Light Artillery, and of Ordnance ; " Lieut. E. 

 Simpson's (U. S. N.) " Text Book of Ordnance 

 and Naval Gunnery ; " Maj. G. L. Willard's 

 " Manual of Target Practice ; " Lieut.-Col. H. B. 

 Wilson's United States Rifle and Light Infantry 

 Tactics ; and Dr. J. J. Woodward's (U. S. A.) 

 "Hospital Steward's Manual." 



Besides these manuals and text-books, there 

 have been a considerable number of valuable 

 contributions to higher military science. 

 Prominent among these should be named the 

 treatise of the present commander-in-chief, 

 Major Gen. Halleck, on " International Law, or 

 Rules regulating the Intercourse of States in 

 War and Peace," a work which, though pre- 

 pared previously to the commencement of the 

 present war, was not published till the begin- 

 ning of last year ; the able essay of Prof. F. 

 Lieber, on "Guerilla Parties considered with 

 reference to the Laws and Usages of War ; " 

 Capt. Emeric Szabad's "Modern War; its 

 Theory and Practice;" Capt. S. W. Ben6t's 

 (U. S. A.) Treatise on Military Law and .the 

 Practice of Courts Martial ; J. F. Callan's Mili- 

 tary Laws of the United States, 1776-1863 ; and 

 the timely translations of Baron de Jomini's 

 "Art of War" and "Political and Military 

 History of the Campaign of Waterloo," and 

 Marshal Marmont's " Spirit of Military Institu- 

 tions." An English writer, Capt. Lendy, has also 

 made a valuable contribution to military liter- 

 ature in his compilation (translated from the 

 French) of " Maxims, Advice, and Instructions 

 on the Art of War ; " as has Henry Barnard, by 

 his compilations and translations of the history 

 and courses of Instruction in the European Mili- 

 tary Schools. Among the lighter literature called 

 out by the war, may be mentioned Brig. Gen. 

 Barnard's " The C. S. A. and the Battle of Bull 

 Run ; " " Cadet Life at West Point," by an 

 officer of the U. S. Army ; Prince de Joinville's 

 " The Army of the Potomac ; " Count Anatole 

 de Segur's " Notes from the Diary of a Soldier ;" 

 J. Copk's " Siege of Richmond ; " " Stars and 

 Stripes in Rebeldom ; " " Texas and its late 

 Military Occupation and Evacuation," and 

 " Thirteen Months in the Rebel Army," &c., by 

 an impressed New Yorker. Our notice of mil- 

 'itary works for the year would be incomplete 

 without mention of the valuable " Naval Text 

 book and Naval Dictionary " of Com. B. J. Tot- 

 ten ; " The History of the Naval Academy," by 

 Edward C. Marshall, and the " Official Army 

 Register "for 1862. 



The literary event of the year was the 

 completion of the New American Cyclopaedia, 

 in 16 vols. royal 8vo. The 16th volume was 

 not indeed delivered to subscribers until Feb- 



