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Inhabitant of Maryland. To which is annexed 

 a short Sketch of General Washington's Life 

 and Character." Annapolis, 1791 ; New York, 

 privately reprinted ; " Washingtoniana ; or, Tho 

 Memorial of the Death of George Washington, 

 giving an Account of the Funeral Honors paid 

 to his Memory, with a list of Tracts and Vol- 

 umes printed upon the Occasion, and a Cata- 

 logue of Medals commemorating the Event," 

 by Franklin B. Hough ; " The Adventures of 

 Christopher Hawkins, containing Details of his 

 Captivity, Escape from the Prison Ship, etc., 

 written by Himself," with an Introduction and 

 Notes, by Charles J. Bushnell ; " Life and Letters 

 of Frederick W. Robertson, M. A., Incumbent 

 of Trinity Chapel, Brighton : " edited by Stop- 

 ford A. Brooks, M. A. ; " Hesperus : or, Forty- 

 five Dog-Post-Days : a Biography." From the 

 German of Jean Paul Friedrich Richter, trans- 

 lated by Rev. Charles T. Brooks; "Richard 

 Cobden, the Apostle of Free Trade, his Political 

 Career and Public Services : a Biography," by 

 John McGilchrist; "Hope for the Hopeless: 

 an Autobiography of John Vine Hall, author 

 of the Sinner's Friend," edited by Rev. New- 

 man Hall, LL.D. ; "Life and Character of J. H. 

 Van der Palm, D. D., Professor of Oriental 

 Language, etc., at the University of Leyden," 

 sketched by Nicholas Beets, D. D., translated 

 from the Dutch by J. P. Westervelt; " Memoirs 

 of the Life of William. Shakspeare, with an 

 Essay toward the Expression of his Genius, and 

 an Account of the Rise and Progress of the 

 English Drama," by Richard Grant White; 

 ' " Life of Michael Angelo," by Hermann Grimm. 

 Translated, with the author's sanction, by Fanny 

 Elizabeth Bunnett, 2 vols. ; " Dante as Philoso- 

 pher, Patriot, and Poet, with an Analysis of 

 the Divina Commedia, its Plot and Episodes," 

 by Vincenzo Botta ; " Sir Charles Henry Frank- 

 land, Baronet ; or, Boston in the Colonial 

 Times," by Elias Nason, M. A.. Among the 

 biographies may properly be included a number 

 of Lives of the Saints of the Roman Catholic 

 Church, first published in the United States 

 during the year 1865. Among these were "The 

 Life and Miracles of Saint Philomena, Virgin 

 and Martyr, whose sacred body was lately dis- 

 covered in the Catacombs of Rome, and thence 

 transferred to Maguano, in the Kingdom of 

 Naples," from the French ; " Life of Saint An- 

 tony, of Padua, of the Order of Friars Minor," 

 by Father Servais Dicks ; " The Life of Blessed 

 Paul of the Cross, Founder of the Congregation 

 of Discalced Clerks of the Most Holy Cross and 

 Passion of Jesus Christ," written by Father 

 Pius of the Name of Mary, translated by Father 

 Ignatius of S. Paul. 



. Among the collective biographies the most 

 important were "Annals of the American 

 Pulpit," etc., by William B. Sprague, D. D. 

 Vol. viii., Unitarian Congregational ; " South- 

 ern Generals, Who they are and What they 

 have done," by William Parker Snow ; " Our 

 Great Captains, Grant, Sherman, Thomas, Sheri- 

 dan, and Farragut," by L. P. Brockett, A. M. ; 



" Lives made Sublime : or, Sketches of Christian 

 Men who adorned their Lives with Good 

 Works ; " " National Jewels : Washington, Lin- 

 coln, and the Fathers of the Revolution," by 

 Rev. Andrew Manship ; " The Perfect Light : 

 or, Seven Hues of Christian Character," by 

 Julia M. Olin; "Lessons from Biography for 

 Young Men;" Contes Biographiques, by Ma- 

 dame. E. Foa; "The New Jersey Conference 

 Memorial, containing Biographical Sketches of 

 all Deceased Members, including those who have 

 died in the Newark Conference ; " " Women 

 of the South distinguished in Literature, illus- 

 trated with Portraits on Steel," by Mary For- 

 rest, a new edition ; " A Biographical History 

 of the Fine Arts : or, Memoirs of the Lives and 

 Works of Eminent Painters, Engravers, Sculp- 

 tors, and Architects, from the Earliest Ages to 

 the Present Time," by Shearjashub Spooner, 

 new edition, 2 vols. ; " The Cyclopaedia of Biog- 

 raphy : a Record of the Lives of Eminent Per- 

 sons," by Parke Godwin, new edition, with a 

 Supplement brought down to 1865, by George 

 Sheppard ; " Supplement to the Cyclopedia of 

 American Literature, including Obituaries of 

 Authors, Continuations of former Articles, with 

 Notices of Earlier and Later Writers omitted in 

 previous Editions," by E. A. Duyckinck. 



Genealogical worlcs properly come under this 

 head. Of these there were" A Brief Gene- 

 alogy of the Descendants of William Hutchinson 

 and Thomas Oliver, reprinted, with additions, 

 from the ' N. E. Historical and Genealogical 

 Register ; ' " "A Memorial of John, Henry, 

 and Richard Townsend, and their Descend- 

 ants ; " " The Pratt Family ; or, The Descend- 

 ants of Lieut. William Pratt, one of the First 

 Settlers of Hartford and Say brook, with Gene- 

 alogical Notes of John Pratt of Hartford, 

 Peter Pratt of Lyme, John Pratt (Taylor) of 

 Saybrook," by Rev. F. W. Chapman, A. M. ; 

 " The Burke and Alvord Memorial ; " "A 

 Genealogical Account of the Descendants of 

 Richard Burke, of Sudbury, Mass," compiled 

 by John Alonzo Boutelle, of Woburn, Mass., 

 for William A. Burke, of Lowell, Mass. ; " An- 

 thony Stoddard, of Boston, Mass., and his De- 

 scendants," a Genealogy, originally compiled 

 by Charles arid Elijah W. Stoddard, and pub- 

 lished in 1849 : rerised and enlarged by Elijah 

 W. Stoddard, and republished in 1865. 



The number of THEOLOGICAL WORKS was larger 

 than in 1864. Among those of a doctrinal 

 character were " The Lives and Doctrines of 

 the Apostles," by Rev. S. J. Fletcher; "A 

 Treatise on Despondency in the Pursuit of 

 Piety, followed by one on Temptations," by 

 Rev. P. J. Michel, translated from the French ; 

 " South Church Lectures, Discourses upon 

 Christian Doctrine, delivered in the South Bap- 

 tist Church, New York, on Sabbath Evenings, 

 from January to April, 1863," by Clergymen 

 of New York, representing Six Evangelical 

 Denominations ; "Almighty God and His Per- 

 fections," by the Rev. J. Furniss, C. S. S. R. ; 

 " The Laws of God as Contained in the Ten 





