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LITER ATUEE AOT) LITERARY PROGRESS IN 1865 



published in a cheap form, hut illustrated, an 

 enterprise of great merit, as having for its ob- 

 ject the placing the hest poetry of the lan- 

 guage within the reach of all classes. The 

 poems of Bayard Taylor, complete, were pub- 

 fished during the year in one volume. Above 

 thirty volumes of compilations of poetry were 

 published, many of them possessing very little 

 merit, but others of a high character and per- 

 manent value. The following were the best : 

 " Wayside Hymns, Selected from Various Au- 

 thors; " "Elim; or, Hymns of Holy Refresh- 

 ment," edited by Rev. F. D. Huntington, D. D. ; 

 "Hymns for the Church on Earth," selected 

 and arranged by Rev. J. 0. Ryle; "Home 

 Ballads, by our Home Poets ; " " The Late Eng- 

 lish Poets," edited by R. H. Stoddard; and 

 " Golden Leaves from the British and Ameri- 

 can Dramatic Poets," collected and arranged 

 by John "W. S. Hows; "Hymns for Mothers 

 and Children," second series, compiled by the 

 author of " Hymns of the Ages " (Miss Went- 

 worth) ; " Festival of Song, a Series of Even- 

 ings with the Poets," prepared by the author 

 of " Salad for the Solitary " (Frederick Saun- 

 ders) ; " Companion Poets," illustrated (Long- 

 fellow's Household Poems, Tennyson's Songs 

 for all Seasons, Browning's Lyrics of Life) ; 

 " Songs of Praise and Poems of Devotion in 

 the Christian Centuries," with an Introduction 

 by Henry Copp6e, Professor, etc. ; " The Seven 

 Great Hymns of the Medieval Church ; " " O 

 Mother Dear Jerusalem ; the Old Hymn, 

 its Origin and Genealogy," by William 0. 

 Prime; "The Sabbath Psalter," a Selection of 

 Psalms for Public and Family Worship, com- 

 piled by Rev. Henry J. Fox; "The Sunday 

 Book of Poetry," selected and arranged by 0. 

 F. Alexander, author of "Hymns for Litttle 

 Children ;" " The Ballad Book, a Selection of 

 the Choicest British Ballads," edited by William 

 Allingham (reprint) ; " Street Ballads, Popular 

 Poetry, and Household Songs of Ireland" (re- 

 print) ; " Melodies and Madrigals, mostly from 

 the Old English Poets," edited by Richard 

 Henry Stoddard ; " The Poetry of the Orient," 

 by William Rounseville Alger ; " Gems from 

 Tennyson ;" " Hymns and Prayers for the 

 Church and Home ;" " Deutsches Balladen- 

 Buch" compiled by Prof. L. Simonson, Trinity 

 College, Hartford ; " Favorite English Poems , 

 "Under Green Leaves: a Book of Rural 

 Poems," edited by R. H. Stoddard ; " My Sab- 

 bath School Scrap-book, .containing Anniver- 

 sary Dialogues, Addresses, in prose and verse, 

 etc., etc.," by John J. Reid. Among reprints 

 of foreign poetical works, those of Tennyson 

 took the lead ; nine editions of either a part or 

 the whole of his poems being published during 

 the year. The other reprints were Sir Walter 

 Scott's Poems, those of Winthrop Mackworth 

 Praed (in two editions), " Pearls from Heine," 

 Shakspeare's Sonnets, Gray's Poetical Works, 

 Milton's Poetical Works, Amelia B. Edwards' 

 " Ballads," " English Bards and Scotch Re- 

 viewers," " Hood's Lay of the Shirt, and other 



Poems," Earl Derby's translation of the Iliad, 

 Browning's " Lyrics of Life," Mrs. Sewell'a 

 "Lost Child and the Romance of the Malleo 

 Scrub," " Gerald Massey's Poems," a new edi- 

 tion ; Jean Ingelow's " Songs of Seven," Robert 

 Buchanan's Poems, Algernon Charles Swin- 

 burne's "Chastelard" and " Atalanta in Caly- 

 don," Sir E. Bulwer Lytton's translation of 

 Schiller's "Lay of the Bell," illustrated. Mr. 

 Richard Grant White's critical edition of Shak- 

 speare was completed by the publication of the 

 first volume, which had been delayed for the 

 sake of the Memoir ; and a Boston publishing 

 house imported a large edition of the Globe 

 edition of Shakspeare published in England. 



Dramatic Poetry was not much affected 

 either by American or English authors. Mr. 

 Swinburne's two tragedies above named were 

 the only new English works of the class repub- 

 lished, though a new edition of Talfourd's 

 Tragedies was issued. In this country, Mr. 

 John Savage published "Sybil, a Tragedy in 

 five acts ; " Mrs. Sadlier, " The Secret, a 

 Drama;" Mr, Charles E. Moelling, "Faust's 

 Death, a Tragedy in five acts ; " and an anony- 

 mous drama, " Cecilia," was issued by Messrs. 

 J. and D. Sadlier ; and a children's play, drama- 

 tized from Cinderella, was prepared for a Chil- 

 dren's Concert at the Academy of Music. Be- 

 sides these, there were twenty-two German 

 and French plays published by the French and 

 German publishers of Boston and New York, 

 part of them for text-books. 



The works on Music were considerably nu- 

 merous. Of these, ten were collections of 

 Hymns and Tunes for worship on the Sabbath, 

 or for Sunday Schools, or the religious exercises 

 at the opening of other Schools. Of this num- 

 ber, the most important were "Hallowed 

 Songs." compiled by Theodore E. Perkins, 

 Philip Phillips, and Sylvester Main ; " Songs 

 for the Sanctuary," compiled by Rev. Charles S. 

 Robinson ; " Happy Voices, for the Home Circle 

 and Sabbath Schools," "The Sacred Harp of 

 Judah" (for Jewish worship), by G. M. Cohen ; 

 " Praises of Jesus," by Rev. E. P. Hammond ; 

 " Social Hymn and Tune Book, for the Lecture 

 Room, Prayer Meeting, Family Circle, and 

 Mission Church ;" the Plymouth S. S. Collection 

 of Hymns and Tunes, by William B. Bradbury ; 

 the Sunday School Banner, by T. E. Perkins ; 

 the School Service Book, by Rev. Asa Fitz ; 

 Musical Leaves for Sabbath Schools, by Philip 

 Phillips. There wer.e also eight or ten collec- 

 tions of vocal and instrumental music, songs, 

 glees, duets, trios, etc., for schools and semi- 

 naries, by such experienced musical writers and 

 compilers as Messrs. Emerson, Fitzhugh, Root, 

 Wilder, Davenport, Sharland, and others, ami 

 books of musical instruction by Messrs. Root, 

 Meignen, Keys, etc. There were also twelve 

 or thirteen collections of instrumental music 

 for organ, piano, violin, flute, concertina, banjo, 

 etc. There are a number of musical periodicals, 

 monthly, semi-monthly, and quarterly, conduct- 

 ed with great ability. The "Musical Sunbeam 



