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LITERATURE AND LITERARY PROGRESS IN 1865. 



travels, 248 were religious, 24 were elementary, 

 and 15 fairy and legendary. There were 15 

 works on art, 18 of a miscellaneous character, 

 and 16 new periodicals, first issued during the 

 }var. 



The number of reprints was small, amounting 

 to only 276, about the same proportion as in 

 1864, but of these a very considerable propor- 

 tion were books in French, German, and Span- 

 ish, reprinted without change; 92, one-third 

 of the whole number, were novels, and 49 juve- 

 niles. The number in the other classes was 

 inconsiderable. 



Of the works on MILITARY AND NAVAL Soi- 

 EXOE, but one was a reprint, viz., a " Review 

 of Gen. Todleben's History of the Defence of 

 Sebastopol," by W. H. Russell, D. D., late spe- 

 cial correspondent of the " London Times." 

 Several of the original works published during 

 the year evinced great research, and possessed 

 a high value. Among these were Capt. Nys- 

 trom's " Technological Education and Shipbuild- 

 ing, for Marine and Naval Engineers;" "Ex- 

 perimental Researches in Steam Engineering," 

 by B. F. Isherwood, Chief Engineer, U. S. N. ; 

 a new edition of Prof. D. II. Mahan's " Elemen- 

 tary Course of Military Engineering;" Com- 

 mander Foxhall A. Parker's Treatise on the 

 Use of the " Naval Howitzer Ashore ; " a " His- 

 tory of the United States Cavalry, lY76-'63," 

 by Major (now Colonel) Albert G. Brackett; 

 a " Treatise on the Tactical Use of the Three 

 Arms, Infantry, Artillery, and Cavalry," by 

 Francis J. Lippitt; Lieut. Commander Roe's 

 ''Naval Duties and Discipline, with the Policy 

 and Principles of Naval Organization ; " Lieut. 

 Buckner's "Calculated Tables of Ranges, for 

 Navy and Army Guns ; " a text-book, entitled 

 " The Cadet Engineer ; or, Steam for the Stu- 

 dent," by Chief Engineer J. "W. Long, and As- 

 sistant Engineer R. H. Buel, U. S. N. ; Captain R. 

 Brinckerhoff 's Manual, " The Volunteer Quar- 

 termaster, a Collection of Laws, Regulations, 

 Rules, and Practice governing the Quartermas- 

 ter's Department of the U. S. A. ; " an Essay, 

 by Mr. D. Treadwell, " On the Construction of 

 Hooped Cannon ; " an Essay by anonymous 

 author on " The Militia of the United States ; 

 what it has been; what it should be." There 

 were also issued private editions of the Report 

 of the Ordnance Bureau, and the Navy Register 

 for 1865, and new editions of Morris's " Infantry 

 Tactics," and Gillmore's " Fort Sumter." 



In the Department of HISTORY, the literature 

 of th year was remarkably full and interesting. 

 In no former year has the number of works 

 published been so great, or the editions of any 

 thing like the same magnitude. Of the Histo- 

 ries of the War, which closed during the year, 

 some were but the completion of works pre- 

 viously commenced, while others .were entirely 

 new. The " Pictorial History of the Rebellion," 

 publishing in numbers by Messrs. Harper, as 

 well as those of M - --:-. Virtue, Yorston & Co., 

 and Messrs. Johnson, Fry & Co., were continued, 

 and the last completed during the year. The 



"Rebellion Record" was also continued, tne 

 numbers composing the 8th volume being issued 

 in the course of the year. Two additional vol- 

 umes of Mr. W. M. Thayer's " Youth's History of 

 the Rebellion," also appeared. A second volume 

 of Rev. J. S. C. Abbott's *' History of the Re- 

 bellion," and of the " Complete History of tho 

 Great American Rebellion," by E. G. Storke and 

 L. P. Brockett, were also published,, in each case 

 completing the work. Mr. E. McPherson issued 

 a second edition of his valuable " Political His- 

 tory of the United States of America during the 

 Great Rebellion," in which he had made large 

 additions, and had brought down the documents 

 to the close of the war. Of new histories we may 

 name " The Military and Naval History of the 

 War," by Mr. William J. Tenney; "Lloyd's 

 Battle History of the Great Rebellion," a com- 

 pilation of the best narratives of the battles of 

 the war; Jones Brothers' "Standard History 

 of the Civil War; " "History of the Great Re- 

 bellion," in one stout volume, by Thomas P. 

 Kettell ; Mr. B. J. Lossing's " Pictorial History 

 of the War," publishing in numbers ; " Carey's 

 Record of the Great Rebellion;" and "La Vic- 

 toire du Nbrd aux Etats Unis" by Count 

 Charles de Montalembert. The last was tho 

 only reprint among the books of this class. 



Among the histories of particular tattles 

 and campaign* are : " Sherman and his Cam- 

 paigns," by Col. S. M. Bowman, and Lieut.-Col. 

 R. B. Irwin ; " The Story of the Great March," 

 by Brevet Major George Ward Nichols ; " Sher- 

 man's March Through the South," by Capt. 

 David P. Conyngham ; " The Hero's Own 

 Story; Sherman's Official Reports;" "The 

 Star Corps; or, Notes of an Army Chaplain 

 during Sherman's Famous March to the Sea," 

 by Rev. G. S. Bradley, Chaplain 22d Wiscon- 

 sin Vols. ; " Grant and his Campaigns," by 

 Professor Henry Coppee ; " Gen. Grant's Own 

 Report of the Campaign from May, 1864, to 

 April, 1865," several editions; "Grant and 

 Sherman ; their Campaigns and Generals," by 

 Hon. J. T. Headley ; " Camp, March, and Battle- 

 field; or, Three Years and a Half with the 

 Army of the Potomac," by Rev. A. M. Stewart, 

 Chaplain 102d Regt. Penn. Vols. ; " A Narra- 

 tive of the Campaign in the Valley of the Shen- 

 andoah in 1861," by Robert Patterson, late 

 Major-General of Volunteers ; "Maj.-Gen. Mc- 

 Clellan and the Campaign on the Yorktown 

 Peninsula," by Frederick Mimes Edge ; " Battle 

 of Williamsburg, with Reminiscences of the 

 Campaign, Hospital Experiences, Debates, etc.," 

 by James R. Burns ; " Three Years in the 

 Army of the Potomac," by Henry N. Blake, 

 late Captain llth Mass. Vols. ; "History of the 

 Pennsylvania Reserve Corps," by J. R. Sypher; 

 " Three Years' Campaign of the 9th N. Y. V. 

 M. during the Southern Rebellion," by John 

 W. Jaques ; " Our Campaigns ; or, The Marches, 

 Bivouacs, Battles, etc., of tho 2d Regiment 

 Pennsylvania Reserves," by Adjt. E. M. Wood- 

 ward ; " Our Boys ; The Personal Experiences 

 of a Soldier in the Army," by A. F. Hill, of tho 



