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ruary, 1863, but the work was completed be- 

 fore the close of the year 1862. This was by 

 far the largest and most costly enterprise ever 

 undertaken by any publishing house in this 

 country, involving an immense outlay, occu- 

 pying a period of nearly six years, and hav- 

 .ing about 373 contributors. Unlike some of 

 the gigantic enterprises of this description 

 undertaken in England, the New American 

 Cyclopaedia has proved pecuniarily a success, 

 and is unquestionably destined to attain to a 

 further sale of many thousand copies. 



The publishers of the " Cyclopaedia" issued 

 also, during the year, the first volume, uniform 

 in size and style with that work, of an " Amer- 

 ican Annual Cyclopaedia, or Annual Regis- 

 ter of Events;'' a work which was greatly 

 needed. Of other works of reference, the 

 American reprint of Chambers' s Encyclopaedia 

 has progressed to its fourth volume, two vol- 

 umes having appeared during the year; Rev. 

 Peter Bullions, D.D., has published, in con- 

 nection with his series of Classical Text Books, 

 "A Copious and Critical Latin Dictionary" of 

 1,014 8vo pages: Mrs. A. C. L. Botta has is- 

 sued a new and revised edition of her " Hand- 

 book of Universal Literature," and on the Pa- 

 cific coast Mr. William H. Knight has published, 

 in a small but compact volume, a " Hand-Book 

 Almanac for the Pacific States for 1863." 



The historical works of the year have mainly 

 had reference to the war now in pro. 

 First among them, as a repository of the 

 facts of history, is the ' Rebellion Record " 

 of Mr. Frank Moore, which had reached its 

 fourth volume before the close of the year, 

 three volumes having been issued during the 

 year. Mr. Moore had also issued two numbers 

 of the " Companion to the Rebellion Record," 

 intended to form a supplementary volume of 

 speeches and documents, and one number of 

 ' The Spirit of the Pulpit," giving a collection 

 of the sermons of the most conspicuous clergy- 

 men, Xorth and South, on the war. Of his- 

 tories of the war. the number commenced or 

 projected is very large. Forty-two had been an- 

 nounced before the close of 1862, and either 

 numbers, or the first volume of nearly half that 

 number, had appeared. Of these, the authors 

 best known -ere : Messrs. Evert A. Duyck- 

 inck, J. R. Kennedy. J. T. Headley. J. S". C. 

 Abbott. Thomas P. Kettell. Orville J. Victor, 

 W. A. Crafts. Robert Tomes, M.D., Mrs. Ann 

 S. Stephens, E. G. Storke. etc., <fcc. 



A work of more general character, as re- 

 viewing the past history of the United 

 States, has appeared from the pen of W. C. 

 Fowler. LL.D., under the title of " Sectional 

 Controversy, or Passages in the Political His- 

 tory of the United States." The elaborate and 

 valuable history of "The Puritans," by Samuel 

 Hopkins, was completed by the issue of the 

 third volume during the year. The number of 

 local histories was hardly as large as usual ; the 

 most important were, "History of the Town 

 of Marlborough, Mass.," by Charles Hudson ; 

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"A Condensed History of Cooperstown, N. Y., 

 with a biographical sketch of J. Fenimore 

 Cooper," by Rev. S. T. Livermore ; an " Illus- 

 trated History of the Panama Railroad," by F. 

 X. Otis: "History of Delaware County, Penn.," 

 by Geo. Smith, M.D., and a " History of Erie 

 County, Penn., by Laura G. Sandford. 



Among reprints, those specially noticeable, 

 are a new edition of Hallam's " Constitutional 

 History of England from the accession of Henry 

 YII to the death of George II," in 3 volumes 

 12mo, with a continuation of the " Constitu- 

 tional History from the accession of George 

 III," by Thomas Erskine May, C. B., in 2 vols. 

 12mo. Both works are in the admirable typog- 

 raphy of the Riverside press, and their form 

 and style of publication leave nothing to be de- 

 sired. " The Student's History of France," 

 and John Francis's " History of the Bank of 

 England from 1694 to 1844," are also notice- 

 able reprints of works of permanent value. 



Biographic literature does not present a for- 

 midable array of title?, though some of the 

 memoirs published have been works of great 

 merit. The most successful work in this class 

 was the autobiographical narrative of Rev. W. 

 G. Brownlow (better known as " Parson 

 Brownlow''), entitled " Sketches of the Rise, 

 Progress, and Decline of Secession, with a nar- 

 rative of Personal Adventure among the Reb- 

 els," This work had reached a sale of 75.000 

 copies within six months after its publication. 

 Several serials were devoted to short memoirs 

 of persons who had become famous during the 

 war, or of those eminent ofiicers who had fall- 

 en in battle. Among these the most note- 

 worthy were, " Heroes, Martyrs, and Xotable 

 Men," edited by Frank Moore; "The Fallen 

 Brave," edited by J. Gilmary Shea. LL.D., and 

 "The Men of the Time," edited by O. J. 

 Yictor. 



Of memoirs not connected with the war, the 

 second volume of the ' Life and Letters 

 of Washington Irving," by his nephew, Rev. 

 Pierre M. Irving ; the >v Life of Rev. Xicholas 

 Murray. D D.," by Rev. S. J. Prime, D.D. ; 

 " Jeiferson at Monticello : the Private Life of 

 Thomas Jefferson," by H. W. Pierson. D.D. : 

 and " Memoirs of Mrs. Joanna Bethune," by 

 her son. Rev. G. W. Bethune. D.D., who him- 

 self passed away during the year, are the most 

 remarkable. The Sermons of Rev. Oliver 

 Brownson, with a Memoir of his Life, by 

 Rev. W. B. Sprague, D.D. ; a Sermon, with 

 biographical sketch of Rev. Timothy Wood- 

 bridge, "the blind minister," from the same 

 facile and eloquent writer; a " Discourse on the 

 Life, &c., of Count Cavour," by Yincenzo Botta, 

 Ph. D. ; the "LifV. Times, 'and Correspond- 

 ence of Rt. Rev. Dr. Doyle." by W. J. Fitz- 

 patrick, and a brief sketch of "Martin Yan 

 Buren. Lawyer. Statesman, and Man." by Wil- 

 liam Allen Butler, also belong to this class. 

 " The Life of Mary. Queen of Scots," by Donald 

 MacLeod, is another effort to settle one of the 

 vexed questions of history, the more difficult of 



