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James Madison, Fourth President of the United 

 States, published by order of Congress," 4 vols.; 

 " Artemus Ward : his Travels Part I. Miscel- 

 laneous Part II. Among the Mormons " 

 (written by Charles F. Brown, and first deliv- 

 ered in substance as Lectures) ; " Plain Tales 

 on Familiar Subjects, a series of Popular Lec- 

 tures," by J. G. Holland, M. D. ; " Complete 

 Works of the Most Rev. John Hughes, IX D., 

 Archbishop of New York, comprising his Ser- 

 mons, Letters, Lectures, and Speeches, etc.," 

 carefully compiled from the best Sources, and 

 edited by Lawrence Kehoe : 2 vols. ; " Speech 

 of George Francis Train on Irish Independence 

 and English Neutrality before the Fenian Con- 

 gress, Philadelphia, Oct. 18, 1865 ; " " The Gu- 

 listan, or Rose Garden of Saadi," translated 

 from the original by Francis Glad win, with an 

 Essay on Saadi's Life and Genius, by James Ross, 

 and a Preface by R. W. Emerson. Of new edi- 

 tions of standard Belles-Lettres works, we have 

 Riverside editions of Irving's " Tales of a Trav- 

 eller," "Crayon Miscellany," "Tales of the Al- 

 hambra," and " Wolfert's Roost ; " new editions 

 of " Emerson's Essays ; " " The Squibob Pa- 

 pers," by John Phoenix (the late Capt. George H. 

 Derby) ; " The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund 

 Burke ; " " The Fables of ^Esop," with 111 Il- 

 lustrations from Original Designs by Herrick ; 

 0. W. Holmes' "Autocrat of the Breakfast 

 Table ; " John Ruskin's complete Works " The 

 Tour of Dr. Syntax in Search of the Pictur- 

 esque ; " and a translation of the Works of 

 Epictetus, by Rev. T. W. Higginson, based on 

 that of Elizabeth Carter. Mrs. L. C. Tuthill 

 has gathered from the works of John Ruskin, 

 a volume of "Precious Thoughts, Moral and 

 Religious." Among the reprints of works of 

 this class are " Essays, Historical and Biogra- 

 phical, Political, Social, Literary, and Scientific," 

 by Hugh Miller, edited with a Preface by Peter 

 Bayne ; " Parson and People ; or, Incidents in 

 the Every-day life of a Clergyman," by Rev. 

 Edward Spinner, M. A., Vicar of Heston, Mid- 

 dlesex, with an Introduction by Rev. L. W. 

 Bacon ; " Essays in Criticism," by Matthew Ar- 

 nold, Professor of Poetry in the University of 

 Oxford ; and " A Summer in Skye," by Alex- 

 ander Smith. To these may be added, as com- 

 ing perhaps more appropriately under this class 

 than any other " Bibliographical Tracts, num- 

 ber one;" " Spurious Reprints of Early Books ; " 

 " Rogues and Rogueries of New York, a full 

 and Complete Exposure of all the Swindles and 

 Rascalities carried on or Originated in the Me- 

 tropolis;" "Tardy George;" "Joe Miller's 

 Jests, with Copious Additions," edited by Frank 

 Bellew. 



In POETRY AJO> THB DRAMA the number of 

 publications was larger than in any previous 

 year. Fifty new poets, claimed a hearing, 

 most of them for the first time. Among their 

 productions were the following : "Utterances," 

 by A. J. H. Duganne ; " Poems," by Caroline 

 May ; " Little Songs for the Little Singers," by 

 Karl Reden ; " Love and Friendship's Rosary," 



by E. L. E. Von Meyer; " Poems," by Astarte ; 

 " Cabiro, a Poem," by George II. Calvert ; " My 

 Angel and other Poems," by Miss M. H. Bui- 

 finch ; " The Poets of Portsmouth," compiled 

 by Annie M. Payson and Albert Leighton ; 

 "The Snoblace Ball; or, Pil Garlic and his 

 Friends," by " The Spectator ; " " Virginia and 

 other Poems," by J. H. Vosburg; "Lyrical 

 Recreations," by Samuel Ward ; " A Group of 

 Children and other Poems," by D. C. Coles- 

 worthy ; " The Changed Cross and other Reli- 

 gious Poems;" "Abraham Lincoln, an Hora- 

 tian Ode," by R. H. Stoddard (not a new poet), 

 who also published during the year " The Chil- 

 dren in the Wood : told in Verse by R. H. Stod- 

 dard ; " and " The King's Bell," with illustra- 

 tions, and edited " Melodies and Madrigals," 

 " The Later English Poets," " Under Green 

 Leaves," and "Favorite English Poems;" 

 " Hymns and Sacred Pieces," with Miscella- 

 neous Poems, by Rev. Ray Palmer, D. D. 

 " Poems," by R. W. Emerson ; " Songs for the 

 Seasons, from Advent to Trinity," by Rev. Wil- 

 liam Pinkney, D. D. ; "A Summer Story, Sheri- 

 dan's Ride, and other Poems," by Thomas Bu- 

 chanan Read ; " Ode on the Death of Abraham 

 Lincoln," by S. G. W. Benjamin ; " Voices of 

 the Morning," by Belle Bush; "Christian 

 Poems," by Rev. F. R. Holeman; "Vagaries 

 of Vandyke Brown, an Autobiography in 

 Verse," by William P. Brennan ; " Seventeen 

 Cantos of the Inferno of Dante Alighieri, trans- 

 lated by Thomas William Parsons; "Poems," 

 by Edna Dean Proctor ; " Puritania, a Satire," 

 by a Metropolitan ; " Eva, a Goblin Romance, 

 in Five Parts," by John Savage ; " Walt. Whit- 

 man's Drum-Taps ; " " Songs of the Rivers," by 

 Emily T. B. Bennett; "Poems," by T. Bu- 

 chanan Read, new and enlarged edition, 2 vols ; 

 " Anselmo, a Poem," by George R. Parburt ; 

 " The Soldier's Sacrifice, a Poem for the Times," 

 by M. S. H. ; " Poetical Tributes to the Mem- 

 ory of Abraham Lincoln ; " " Country Love vs. 

 City Flirtation : or, Ten Chapters from the 

 Story of a Life, reduced to Rhymes for Con- 

 venience' Sake," by H. T. Sperry ; " Outcrop- 

 pings, being Selections of California Verse ; " 

 " Poems by Gay H. Naramore ; " " War Lyrics 

 and other Poems," by Henry Howard Brownell ; 

 " The Poems of Elizabeth G. Barber Barrett; " 

 " Summer Songs," by H. H. M. ; " The Poems of 

 Thomas Bailey Aldrich ; " " Versions and Ver- 

 ses," by Charles Dexter ; " Palm Leaves," by 

 Rev. W. H. Cooke; "The Dutch Pilgrim Fa- 

 thers and other Poems, Humorous and not Hu- 

 morous," by Rev. Edward Hopper; "Poems 

 of Faith and Affection," by Mrs. W. H. Mil- 

 burn ; " Victoria, with other Poems," by Sa- 

 repta Irish Henry ; " Our Heroic Themes," a 

 Poem," by George H. Boker. A volume of 

 poems was also published by Rev. Absalom 

 Peters, D. D., his first effort, though written 

 when nearly seventy years of age. Portions 

 of the lyrical and shorter poems of several of 

 the more eminent of our poets, and particular- 

 ly of Longfellow, Whittier, and Holmes, were 



