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has published the experience and observation 

 of fifteen years, under the title of " Zulu-Land ; 

 or Life among the Zulu Kafirs of Natal and 

 Zulu-Land, South Africa;" and Eev. Charles 



B. Bush has edited a work prepared by a mis- 

 sionary to China (Eev. William Aitchinson), 

 entitled "Five Years in China." Mr. William 

 H. Thomes, twice for a considerable period a resi- 

 dent of Australia, has published a volume en- 

 titled "The Bush Eangers," a Yankee's adven- 

 tures during his second visit to Australia. Eev. 



C. M. Butler, D. D., has given the public an 

 insight into the interior of the Eternal City, un- 

 der the title of " Inner Eome : Political, Ee- 

 ligious, and Social." Of works of travel and 

 exploration, or illustrative of the newer regions 

 of our own Eepublic, the number is considera- 

 ble. Capt. John Mullan, late Superintendent 

 of the Northern Overland Wagon Eoad, pub- 

 lished a Miner's and Traveller's Guide to Ore- 

 gon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, 

 and Colorada, via the Missouri and Columbia 

 Eivers ; and Mr. Edward H. Hall, a traveller 

 and explorer at the West, followed with a 

 manual called "The Great West: Traveller's, 

 Miner's, and Emigrant's Guide and Hand-book 

 to the Western, Northwestern, and Pacific 

 States and Territories." Both works are illus- 

 trated by maps. Mr. J. E. Dodge, of the U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture, has published a 

 valuable little work on West Virginia, giving its 

 statistics, population, and progress ; Hon. Eich- 

 ard C. McCormick issued a little treatise on " Ari- 

 zona ; its Eesources and Prospects." Mr. S. D. 

 Wyeth has given a graphic picture of " The 

 Federal City ; or Ins and Abouts of Washing- 

 ton." Two anonymous writers have discoursed, 

 the one on "The Silver Mines of Nevada," the 

 other on " The Opening of the Adirondacks." Of 

 reprints, the most important were " Armmius 

 Vambery's Travels in Central Asia," a re- 

 markable and deeply interesting work ; and W. 

 Howard Eussell's " Canada: its Defences, Con- 

 dition, and Eesources." 



The department of ESSAYS, BELLES-LETTRES, 

 and CBITICISM was unusually well represented 

 during the year, in part, perhaps, owing to the 

 growing tendency to periodical and magazine 

 writing, in which a large portion of the literary 

 ability of the present day is absorbed. The in- 

 terest aroused by the tercentennial commemo- 

 ration of Shakspeare in 1864, overflowed into 

 1865, and produced several works in this coun- 

 try, as well as many in Europe, on subjects con- 

 nected with Shakspeare. Among these were 

 an Essay on "William Shakspeare," by the late 

 Cardinal Wiseman (a reprint) ; " The Legal 

 Acquirements of William Shakspeare," by 

 Franklin Fiske Heard; "Shakspeare's Medical 

 Knowledge," by Charles W. Stearns, M. D.; 

 " Eemarks on the Sonnets of Shakspeare ; with 

 the Sonnets, showing that they belong to the 

 Hermetic Class of Writings, and explaining 

 their General Meaning and Purpose," by the 

 author of " Swedenborg a Hermetic Philoso- 

 pher" (Gen. E. A. Hitchcock). When we add 



to these Mr. Eichard Grant White's Elaborate 

 " Memoir of Shakspeare," also published during 

 the year, the Shakspeare literature of 1865 

 makes a fair showing. 



Of Essays proper by American writers the 

 following were the principal : " Eeal and Ideal," 

 by John W. Montclair; "Autumn Leaves," by 

 Samuel Jackson Gardiner ; " House and Home 

 Papers " and " Little Foxes," by Christopher 

 Crowfield (Mrs. H. B. Stowe) ; " Prize Papers," 

 written for the "New York Observer; " "Es- 

 say, Poems, and Tale ; " " Skirmishers and 

 Sketches," by Gail Hamilton (Miss Abigail 

 Dodge); "Cape Cod," by Henry D. Thoreau 5 

 "A Woman's First Impressions of Europe, 

 being Wayside Sketches made during a short 

 Tour in the Year 1863," by Mrs. E. A. Forbes; 

 " Dante as Philosopher, Patriot, rind Poet : with 

 an Analysis of the Divina Commedia, its Plot 

 and Episodes," by Vincenzo Botta; "Matri- 

 monial Infelicity, with an occasional Felicity by 

 way of Contrast, by an Irritable Man, to which 

 are added as being pertinent to the Subject, My 

 Neighbors, and Down in the Valley," by Barry 

 Gray (E. B. Coffin) ; " The Humbugs of tho 

 World : an Account of Humbugs, Delusions, 

 Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits, and Deceivers 

 generally in all Ages," by P. T. Barnum ; " The 

 Freedman's Book," by L. Maria Child ; "Attic 

 Wit ; " " Eecollections of Seventy Years," by 

 Mrs. John Farrar ; " Good Company for Every 

 Day in the Year ; " " American Criticism ; " 

 "The North American Eeview," and the "Life 

 and Times of John Huss ; " " The Orpheus C. 

 Kerr Papers," Third Series. 



Of Letters, Lectures, and Speeches, which 

 properly belong under this head, the following 

 were the most important : " Speeches and Let- 

 ters of Gerrit Smith, from January, 1863, to 

 January, 1865, on the Eebellion ; " " The Stew- 

 ardship of Wealth, as illustrated in the Lives of 

 Amos and Abbott Lawrence : a Lecture," by 

 Frank W. Ballard; "Speeches of Carl Shurz," 

 Collected and Eevised by the Author : " Eight 

 Years in Congress, from 1857 to 1865 : Memoir 

 and Speeches," by Samuel S. Cox ; " On the 

 Cam : " Lectures on the University of Cam- 

 bridge in England, by William Everett, A. M. ; 

 " The Progress of tho Age, and the Danger of 

 the Age : two Lectures," by the Eev. Louis 

 Heylen ; " The Graver Thoughts of a Country 

 Parson," by the Author of Eecreations of a 

 Country Parson (Eev. A. K. H. Boyd), Second 

 Series (Eeprint); "Sesame and Lilies: two 

 Lectures delivered at Manchester, in 1864, by 

 John Euskin, M. A. 1. Of Kings' Treasuries : 

 2. Of Queens' Gardens " (a Eeprint) ; " Speeches 

 of Andrew Johnson, President of the United 

 States," with a Biographical Introduction, by 

 Frank Moore ; " An Inquiry into some of the 

 Conditions at present affecting the Study of Ar- 

 chitecture in our Schools," by John Euskin ; 

 "Letters to Various Persons," by Henry D. 

 Thoreau ; " Letters, ^Esthetic, Social, and Moral, 

 written from Europe, Egypt, and Palestine," by 

 Thomas C. Uphain ; "Letters and Writings of 



