486 



LITERATURE AND LITERARY PROGRESS IN 1865. 



commemorates the services of that brilliant 

 cavalry officer ; the Century Association pub- 

 lished a memorial of Gen. James S. Wadsworth 

 and Col. Peter A. Porter, two brave officers 

 slain in 1864, prepared by W. J. Hoppin, and 

 F. S. Cozzens; Rev. P. C. Headley, in addition 

 to his Boy's Life of Sherman, already mentioned, 

 prepared a " Life of Gen. Sheridan," a " Life of 

 "-e- Admiral Farragut," and one of Captain 

 icsson, inventor of the Monitor; Rev. Henry 

 Olay Trumbull, under the title of "The Knight- 

 ly Soldier," gave a very interesting memoir of 

 Major Henry Ward Camp, of the 10th Connecti- 

 cut Volunteers; Mrs. P. A. Hanaford, under 

 the title of " The Young Captain," a memorial 

 of Capt. Richard Derby, 15th Mass. Vols., and 

 Judge Bacon, of Utica, one of his son, Adjutant 

 William Kirkland Bacon. 



Of other prominent deceased citizens there 

 were five memorials and discourses of the late 

 Edward Everett, one each by Rev. Dr. Hedge 

 and Rev. Dr. Osgood, a Memorial published by 

 the New England Historical and Genealogical 

 Society, and " The Proceedings of the Thursday 

 Evening Club," on the occasion of his death, 

 and a Memorial from the City of Boston ; Dr. 

 Samuel W. Francis published a Memoir of the 

 late Dr. Valentine Mott ; the second and con- 

 cluding volume of the Autobiography, Corre- 

 spondence, etc., of Lyman Beecher, D. D., 

 edited by Charles Beecher, D. D., made its ap- 

 pearance"; other biographies of distinguished 

 persons were: a Memoir of Alice B. Haven, 

 under the title of " Cousin Alice," by her sister; 

 Memoirs of Rev. Benjamin C. Cutler, D. D., 

 late Rector of St. Ann's Church, Brooklyn, 

 N. Y., by Rev. Horatio Gray, A. M. ; " A Trib- 

 ute to Rev. T. Starr King," by R. Frothing- 

 ham ; a Memorial of Albert Drake, with Funeral 

 Discourse, etc., by Rev. E. K. Alden ; a sketch 

 of the Life of James William Wallack, senior, 

 late stage actor and manager ; " Life and Letters 

 of Rev. James May, D. D.," by Rev. Alexander 

 Shiras, A. M. ; " Life and Services of Joseph 

 Warre ," by Richard Frothingham ; " Life of 

 John Jacob Astor," by James Parton; "The 

 Life of Horace Mann," by his wife ; " William 

 Jackson Davis, in meraoriarn," by H. B. Daw- 

 son ; "Eulogy on Thomas Crawford," by Thomas 

 Hicks, N. A. ; " Life of Pauline Cushraan, the 

 celebrated Union Spy and Scout," by F. L. 

 Sarmiento ; " A Colored Man's Reminiscences 

 of James Madison," by Paul Jennings; "The 

 Faithful Shepherd: a Man Mighty in the Scrip- 

 tures," a memoir published in Northampton, 

 Mass. ; Jamie McClintock, a memoir by Rev. 

 I. A. Cornelison ; " Reminiscence of Sixty-four 

 Years in the Ministry, by Rev. Henry Boehm, 

 Bishop Asbury's Travelling Companion," 

 edited by Rev. J. B. Wakeley ; " Autobiog- 

 raphy of Elder Osborn, an Itinerant Minister 

 of the Methodist Episcopal Church, to which 

 is added a brief Memoir of Rev. Hezekiah C. 

 Wooster ; " " The Unjust Judge : a Memorial 

 of Roger Brooke Tancy, late Chief Justice of the 

 'United States;" "The Life of John Brainerd, 



brother of David Brainerd, and his Successor aa 

 Missionary to the Indians of New Jersey," by 

 Rev. Thomas Brainerd, D. D. ; " David Wopd- 

 burn, the Mountain Missionary," by Curris 

 Brandon ; " Memoirs of Mrs. Mary H. Adams," 

 by her husband ; " A Memorial of Closing 

 Scenes in the Life of Rev. George B. Little ; " 

 " Memoir and Sermons of Rev. Francis A. Baker, 

 Priest of the Congregation of St. Paul," edited 

 by Rev. A. F. Hewitt; Mr. W. O. Van Horn, 

 a German author of considerable ability, has 

 published in German a number of small volumes 

 containing biographical sketches of Benjamin 

 Franklin, George Stephenson, James Watt, John 

 Jacob Astor, and Louis Napoleon. Mr. William 

 L. Stone has completed a memoir commenced 

 by his father, entitled " The Life and Times of 

 Sir William Johnson." There have been also 

 brief and somewhat sensational biographies 

 published of " Semmes, the Pirate; " "John Y. 

 Beall, the Pirate Spy;" "Robert Cobb Ken- 

 nedy, the Incendiary Spy ; " and " The Life 

 and Adventures of Jeff. Davis," the last by 

 McArone (the late George Arnold). Among 

 the sensational books of the year was also one 

 entitled " The Love-Life of Dr. Kane ; contain- 

 ing the Correspondence and a History of the 

 Acquaintance, Engagement, and Secret Mar- 

 riage between Elisha Kent Kane and Margaret 

 Fox, with fac-sirfliles of Letters and her Por- 

 trait." Of biographies of men of other coun- 

 tries or times, we have "Life of Philip Dod- 

 dridge, D. D., with Notices of some of his Con- 

 temporaries," by D. A. Harsha; also a "Life of 

 Rev. James Hervey," by the same author; 

 "Wilhelm Tell," the life by Schiller (in Ger- 

 man); "The Life of John Mary Decalogue, 

 Student in the University of Paris," translated 

 from the French; "The Martyr of Lebanon," 

 by Rev. Isaac Bird; "Life of Mary Anne 

 Schimmelpenninck, author of 'Memoirs of the 

 Port Royalists,' " edited by Christiana C. 

 Hankin ; " Memorials of Samuel Gurney, the 

 Famous London Banker," by Mrs. Geldart; 

 William Forsyth's "Life of Marcus Tullius 

 Cicero ; " " The Life of Felix Mendelsshon 

 Bartholdy," from the German of Lampadius, 

 with supplementary sketches by Julius Bene- 

 dict, Henry F. Chorley, Ludwig Rllstab, Bay- 

 ard Taylor, R. S. Willis, and G. S. Dwight. 

 Edited and translated by W. L. Gage ; " The 

 Mother of the Wesleys: a Biography," by 'Rev. 

 John Kirk ; Silvio Pellico's biography of Fran- 

 cesca da Rimini (in Italian). The Life of Julius 

 Cffisar, by Napoleon III., was issued in six dif- 

 ferent editions, two of them in French. Other 

 biographies of this class were " Diary of David 

 How, Private in Colonel Paul Dudley Sargent's 

 Regiment of the Massachusetts Line in the Army 

 of the American Revolution," from the Orig- 

 inal Manuscript, with a Biographical Sketch of 

 the Author, by George Wingate Chase, and Il- 

 lustrative Notes by Henry B. Dawson; "A 

 Political Epistle to His Excellency George 

 Washington, Esq., Commander-in-Chief of the 

 Armies of the United States of America, by an 



