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LITERATURE AND LITERARY PROGRESS IN 1865. 



""Woodward's Country Houses," by George E. 

 and F. W. "Woodward, Architects ; and " Archi- 

 tectural Designs for Model Country Residences, 

 illustrated by colored Drawings of Elevations 

 and Ground Plans, accompanied by General 

 Descriptions and Estimates," by John Riddell, 

 Architect. Mr. S. F. Van Choate, an electrician 

 and telegraph operator, published an interest- 

 ing monograph on ocean telegraphing, the 

 adaptation of new principles for the successful 

 working of submarine cables, etc., and Mr. J. C. 

 Buckmaster, an able treatise on the " Elements 

 of Mechanical Physics." 



Among the treatises on special branches of 

 manufactures, the following were the most im- 

 portant: "A Treatise on the Art of Boiling 

 Sugar, Crystallizing, Lozenge-making, Comfits, 

 Gum Goods, etc., etc.," by Henry Weatherley ; 

 " Reminiscences of Glass-making," by Detning 

 Jarves ; " "What to do with the Cold Mutton : a 

 book of Rechauffes : together with many other 

 approved Receipts for the Kitchen of a Gentle- 

 man of Moderate Income ;" " Treatise on the Im- 

 position of Forms, embracing a System of Rules 

 and Principles for Laying the Pages, applicable 

 to all Forms, with Instructions for making Mar- 

 gin and Register, turning and folding the 

 Sheets, etc., and Diagrams of all the Standard 

 Forms, Tables of Signatures, etc., useful to Com- 

 positors, Pressmen, and Publishers," by George 

 II. Bidwell ; " A Chronology of Paper and Pa- 

 per-making," by J. Munsell; "A New and 

 Complete Treatise on the Art of Tanning, Cur- 

 rying, and Leather-Dressing, comprising all the 

 Discoveries and Improvements made in France, 

 Great Britain, and the United States," by Pro- 

 fessor II. Dussauce, Chemist; "The Art of 

 Confectionery, with various Methods of Pre- 

 serving Fruits and Fruit Juices, the Preparation 

 of Jams and Jellies, Fruit and other Syrups, 

 Summer Beverages, and Directions for making 

 Cakes, and different methods of making Ice 

 Cream, Sherbet, etc.,- " " On the Strength of 

 Cast-Iron Pillars," by James B. Francis. Mr. 

 S H. Sylvester, taxidermist, of Middleboro', 

 Mass., published a valuable little work, called 

 "The Taxidermist's Manual, giving Instruc- 

 tions for Mounting and Preserving all kinds of 

 Animals and Insects, as well as Skeletons, Eggs, 

 etc." A valuable manual for the dyers is 

 " The Color-Mixer, containing nearly Four Hun- 

 dred Receipts for Colors, Paints, Acids,-Pulps, 

 etc., etc.," by John Sellers. A most charming 

 English volume, imported in quantities by a 

 Philadelphia house, which, from its quasi rela- 

 tions to Technology, properly comes under this 

 head, is, "Frost and Fire, Natural Engines, 

 Tool Marks and Chips, with Sketches taken at 

 Home and Abroad, by a Traveller." 



The number of works on AGBICULTURE was 

 a trifle larger than last year, and the greater 

 part of them were of an eminently practical 

 character. The titles of the most important 

 were "The Field and Garden Vegetables of 

 America : containing full Descriptions of nearly 

 eleven hundred Species and Varieties, with Di- 



rections for Propagation, Culture, and Uses," 

 illustrated by Fearing Burr, jr. ; " The Origina- 

 tion and Test Culture of Seedling Potatoes ; " 

 " The Potato, its Diseases, with Incidental Re- 

 marks on its Soil and Culture," by C. E. Good- 

 rich ; " On the Production and Consumption of 

 Cotton," by Hon. Frederick A. Conkling ; " Hop 

 Culture : Practical Details for the Selection and 

 Preparation of the Soil, etc. etc. Plain Direc- 

 tions as given by Ten Experienced Cultivators ; " 

 " Manual of Flax Culture. Seven Prize Essays 

 on the Culture of this Crop, and on Dressing 

 the Fibre, " etc. ; " Cordon Training of Fruit 

 Trees, adapted to the Orchard House and Open 

 Air Culture," by Rev. T. Collings Brhaut, 

 with a Supplement by C. M. Hovey, President 

 of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society; 

 " A Treatise on the Insect Enemies of Fruit 

 and Fruit Trees. "With numerous Illustrations 

 drawn from Nature, by Hochstein, under the 

 immediate Supervision of the Author," by Isaac 

 P. Trimble, M. D., Entomologist of the Stato 

 Agricultural Society of New Jersey, etc., etc. ; 

 " The Curculio and the Apple Moth ; " " Silver's 

 New Poultry Book. A Brief and Practical 

 Treatise on the History, Breeding, and Success- 

 ful Management of Various Kinds of Fowls," by 

 L. B. Silver; "Domestic Poultry: being a Prac- 

 tical Treatise on the Preferable Birds of Farm- 

 yard Poultry, their History and leading Char- 

 acteristics," etc., by Simon M. Saunders ; 

 "Theory and Practice of Landscape Garden- 

 ing," by A. J. Downing, new edition; ""Wood- 

 ward's Graperies and Horticultural Buildings," 

 by George E. and F. "W. "Woodward, Architects 

 and Horticulturists ; ""Wet Days at Edge wood 

 with Old Farmers, Old Gardeners, and Old Pas- 

 torals," by the Author of " My Farm at Edge- 

 wood" (Donald G. Mitchell) ; "Illustrated An- 

 nual Register of Rural Affairs and Cultivator's 

 Almanac for 1866," by J. J. Thomas; "Pro- 

 ceedings of the Fourth Session of the American 

 Pomological Society, held in Rochester, Sep- 

 tember, 1864;" "Transactions of the Massa- 

 chusetts Horticultural Society, for the year 

 1864; " "Proceedings of the New York State 

 Agricultural Society for 1864; " "Proceedings 

 of the Ohio State Agricultural Society, for the 

 Year 1864;" "Report of the Department of 

 Agriculture, for 1864." The only reprint of 

 the year was Miss Harriet Martineau's " Our 

 Farm of Two Acres." The periodicals devoted 

 to agriculture are numerous, and many of them 

 are conducted with remarkable ability. " The 

 Agriculturist," which, during the year, has ab- 

 sorbed " The Genesee Farmer," and has now a 

 subscription list of about 120,000 patrons, leads 

 the van; while the "Rural New Yorker," 

 "The Country Gentleman," "The Working 

 Farmer," and, in another department, "The 

 Horticulturist," together with numerous papers 

 of more local circulation, follow in their order, 

 and are doing their best to enlighten the farm- 

 ing community. The Department of Agricul- 

 ture issues a monthly circular, in which, be- 

 sides giving crop statistics and meteorology. 



