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LITERATURE AND LITERARY PROGRESS IN 1862. 



ed and published in new and complete editions 

 mostly in the blue and gold style; and the 

 poetical works of Adelaide Anne Procter 

 (daughter of the poet B. W. Procter) (" Barry 

 Cornwall"), Arthur Hugh Clough, and Wil- 

 liam Allingham, have been published in a style 

 uniform with them Among the compilations 

 of great merit may be named, Prof. F. J. 

 Child's " Poems of Sorrow and Comfort," and 

 Prof. F. D. Huntington's " Series of Hymns of 

 the Ages." The admirable edition of Shak- 

 speare edited by Richard Grant White was 

 completed during the year by the publication 

 of the 9th, 10th, llth, and 12th volumes. Dr. 

 J. G. Holland's poem " Bittersweet," published 

 fv.ir or five years ago, has been reprinted with 

 50 exquisite illustrations. 



In juvenile literature, the year has been less 

 prolific than many former ones. Many pub- 

 lishers have adopted the custom of having 

 their works for the young prepared in sets of 

 four, six, eight, or twelve volumes, and these, 

 though usually written by the same author, 

 are often of very unequal merit, the sale being 

 for the most part in sets, and the better vol- 

 umes securing the sale of the poorer. Among 

 the juvenile works of the year, are eight or 

 ten of these sets comprising in all about 60 

 volumes. Rev. Jacob Abbott is, as usual, the 

 most prolific of the writers for the young, 

 having furnished, in addition to the ' ; Harlie 

 Stories " in six volumes, a fourth volume of his 

 American history for the young (" Northern 

 Colonies "), and a fourth volume of " Florence 

 Stories" (" The English Channel"). Rev. J. Ban- 

 vard, D. D., has also published a series entitled 

 "Story Truths," and the author of the "Night 

 Cap series" has followed those popular juveniles 

 with the "Mitten Books," a set of six volumes. 

 Mrs. Madeline Leslie (a daughter of the late Rev. 

 Dr. L. "Woods, of Andover Theol. Seminary) has 

 published during the year four very charming 

 juveniles, "The Bound Boy and Young Sol- 

 dier," " Sequel to Tim the Scissors Grinder," 

 " The Bound Girl and other Stories," and " The 

 Two Homes ; or Earning and Spending." Mrs. 

 Horace Mann is the author of an interesting 

 little book entitled "Flower People." Rev. 

 D. 0. Eddy, now of Philadelphia, has contribu- 

 ted another volume to his series on foreign 

 countries, under the title of " Walter in Egypt." 

 Other interesting juveniles are, "Buy an Or- 

 ange, Sir? or the History of Jamie Wood- 

 ford;" "Wayside Flowers," by Carrie Carlt on ; 

 Ellie's, and Jeanie's scrap-books (two vol- 

 umes) ; " Johnny Wright, the Boy who tried 

 to do right ; " " Little Brown Bible ; " " Harry's 

 Mistakes, and where they led Him," by M. A. 

 Parrott. Among reprints the*" A. L. O. E. 

 Stories " take the lead ; that attractive writer 

 for the young having added during the year 

 six more to her already very long list of chil- 

 dren's books. In the class of what for want 

 of a better term may be called " Crusoe Books," 

 there are three volumes which will afford 

 great pleasure to boy readers. "Dog Crusoe," 



and " The Gorilla Hunters, a tale of the Wilds 

 of Africa," both by P. M. Ballantyne, and the 

 " Bear Hunters of the Rocky Mountains," by 

 Annie Bowman. The only other noticeable re- 

 prints are, " Lines left Out," by the author of 

 " Line upon Line," "The Old Lieutenant and 

 his Son," by Norman Macleod," "The Exiles 

 of Madeira," by Rev. W. M. Blackburn, and 

 "Life Lessons, or Scripture Truths illustrated 

 for the young," by Rev. James Bolton. 



II. ExGLisn LITERATURE. The space to which 

 this article is necessarily restricted, will not 

 admit of so full an analysis of the literature of 

 Great Britain as has been given of that of the 

 United States ; but this is the less to be regret- 

 ted, as a large portion of it has been already 

 noticed under the head of reprints. A glance 

 at the principal works of the year in each de- 

 partment is all for which there is space or 

 necessity. 



In theology and religious literature, theen- 

 grossing topic of the early part of the year was 

 "Essays and Reviews," to which numerous 

 replies were published, and as these provoked 

 rejoinders and replications, not less than sixty 

 volumes were published on the subject during 

 the year. The interest awakened by these 

 " Essays " had not subsided, when the works 

 of Bishop Colenso on the Romans and the Pen- 

 tateuch and Book of Joshua aroused a new 

 controversy, which is still raging. Aside from 

 the works connected with these two contro- 

 versies, there have been published several in- 

 teresting books on Church History, by Canon 

 Stanley, Dr. Vaughan, the late Dr. Cunning- 

 ham, Dr. Howsen, Messrs. Angers and Wad- 

 dington, and a translation from the Russian of 

 Popoff of the " History of the Council of Flor- 

 ence; " a work on "Biblical Criticism" by Dr. 

 Davidson ; two able works on Brahminism and 

 Buddhism ; and several memoirs and didactic 

 works of merit. Many of the works of history 

 and biography are of local character, and have 

 comparatively little interest for readers in other 

 countries; others, and a very considerable 

 number, are compilations of greater or less 

 merit by such indefatigable bookwrights as 

 John Timbs, Horace Welby, Samuel Lucas, 

 Erskine Neale, and G. Fletcher. But, aside 

 from all these, there have been more than or- 

 dinary valuable contributions during the past 

 year to the works of permanent value in these 

 departments. Such works as Sir G. Cornwall 

 Lewis's " Historical Survey of the Astronomy 

 of the Ancients ; " Rev. Charles Merivale's 

 " History of the Romans under the Empire ; " 

 Mr. George Rawlinson's "Five Great Monar- 

 chies of the Ancient world ; " Dyer's " History 

 of Modern Europe, from the Taking of Constan- 

 tinople to the close of the War in the Crimea ; " 

 Sayer's "History of Gibraltar;" Lord Stan- 

 hope's " Life of William Pitt ; " Spedding's 

 "Life of Francis Bacon" (republished here in 

 connection with the Riverside edition of Ba- 

 con's works) ; Lady Morgan's " Memoirs, 

 Autobiography, and Correspondence ; " Prof. 



