LITERATURE AND LITERARY PROGRESS IN 1865. 



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and Sabbath School Manual," a quarterly, was 

 the only new periodical, we believe, issued 

 during the year. 



The class of NOVELS is, as usual, very large, a 

 little beyond the numbers of the last year, 

 those of a general character averaging a publi- 

 cation of about five per week through the 

 year. Of these, however, one hundred and 

 eleven belonged to the class of cheap novels, 

 ranging in price from ten to fifty cents each, 

 and the greater part of them from ten to 

 twenty-five cents. Of these, ninety -seven were 

 original works and fourteen reprints. The lit- 

 erary merit of the original works was not usu- 

 ally remarkable, but they were popular with a 

 considerable class of readers. Of the remainder 

 of the works of fiction, published during the 

 year, thirty-eight were original and seventy- 

 five reprints. Of the original works, the most 

 important were " My Own Story," by Marion 

 Leigh ; " Moods," b.y Louisa M. Alcott ; " The 

 Morrisons, a Story of Domestic Life," by Mrs. 

 Margaret Hosmer; "The Three Scouts," by J. 

 T. Trowbridge; "Nothing but Money: a 

 Novel," by T. S. Arthur; "Inside Out, a Cxi- 

 rious Book," by Dr. S. "W. Francis; "Leaves 

 from the Note-Book of a New York Detective," 

 "Private Record of J. B.," "The Thinking 

 Bayonet," by James K. Hosmer; "Husbands 

 and Homes," by Marion Harland (Mrs. Virginia 

 Terhune) ; " The Ideal Attained, being the 

 Story of Two Steadfast Souls, and How they 

 Won their Happiness and Lost It Not," by 

 Eliza W. Farnham; "Mary Brandegee : an 

 Autobiography," by Ouyler Pine ; " The Fixed 

 Stars, or the Goddess of Truth and Justice," 

 "St. Philip's," by the author of "Rutledge" 

 (Miss Miriam Coles) ; " Silent Struggles," by 

 Mrs. Ann S. Stephens ; " At Anchor : a Story 

 of our Civil War," by an American; "Fairy 

 Fingers: a Novel," by Anna Cora Ritchie; 

 "Janet Strong*' by Virginia F. Townsend; 

 "Linwood, with Other Stories;" "Looking 

 Around: a Novel," by A. S. Roe; "Hugh 

 Worthington : a Novel," by Mrs. Mary J. Holmes ; 

 " The Metropolites, or Know Thy Neighbor," 

 by Robert St. Glair ; " Luke Darrell, the Chi- 

 cago Newsboy," " Allworth Abbey," by Mrs. 

 E. D. El N. Southworth ; " Atlantic Tales : a 

 Collection of Stories from the Atlantic Month- 

 ly ;" " Cotton Stealing : a Novel ;" " Two Men : 

 a Novel," by Mrs. Elizabeth Stoddard ; " Robert 

 Dalby and His World of Troubles : being the 

 Early Days of a Connoisseur; " " Millicent Hal- 

 ford : a Tale of the Dark Days of Kentucky in 

 the year 1861," by Martha Remick; "Home 

 Heroes, Saints, and Martyrs," by T. S. Arthur; 

 "What Came Afterwards: a Novel," by T. S. 

 Arthur ; " Standrsh : a Story of Our Day ; " " A 

 Spinster's Story," by M. A. F.; "De Vane: a 

 Story of Plebeians and Patricians," by lion. 

 Henry W. Billiard; "The Lovers' Trials; or, 

 the Days before the Revolution," by Mrs. Mary 

 A. Donnison ; " Chateau Frissac ; or, Home 

 Scenes in France," by Olive Logan, author of 

 Photographs'of Paris Life. 



The reprints comprise Dickens' " Our Mutual 

 Friend," and "Dr. Marigold's Prescriptions," 

 two books by Jean Ingelow ; new editions of 

 several of Mrs. Grey's and Mrs. Gore's novels ; 

 a new edition of one of Mrs. Percy Bysshe 

 Shelley's works ; " Too Strange not to be True," 

 by Lady Fullerton ; " Quite Alone," by G. A. 

 Sala; the first instalment of a superb edition 

 of Thackeray's works; novels by Charles and 

 Henry Kingsley, J. S. Le Fanu, Mrs. Henry 

 Wood, Miss Braddon, Michael and John Banim, 

 Annie Thomas, Anthony Trollope, Miss D. M. 

 Muloch, William Carleton, Charles Lever, Sir 

 C. F. Lascelles Wraxall, Alexander Smith, Miss 

 Amelia B. Edwards, the author of "Faith 

 Gartney's Girlhood," the author of "Philip 

 Thaxter," the author of " Wondrous Strange," 

 " Ouida," etc., etc. There were also about 

 twenty reprints of French and German novels 

 in the original languages, from the pens of 

 Madame George Sand, O. Feuillet, Constant 

 Gueroult, Ernest Capendu, Erckmann-Cha- 

 train, Ernst Willkomm, Moritz Hartmann, 

 Theodor Storm, etc., etc. There were very 

 few religious novels published, aside from those 

 of a juvenile character, and of these all but 

 three were reprints. Mrs. C. J. Barlow pub- 

 lished "Helen Macgregor; or, Conquest and 

 Sacrifice;" Mr. Davis B. Casseday, "The 

 Hortons ; or, American Life at Home ; " and 

 Mrs. A. M. Stewart, " Justice and Mercy : a 

 Tale of All Hallow E'en." Of the reprints, 

 four or five were from the pen of Mrs. Edmund 

 Charles, the author of " The Schonberg-Cotta 

 Family ;" two only, " The Diary of Mrs. Kitty 

 Trevylyan," and "Winifred Bertram and the 

 World She Lived In," being new works of that 

 popular author. These both had a large sale. 

 Miss Yonge's " The Clever Woman of the Fam- 

 ily," Miss Julia Kavanagh's "Beatrice," and 

 Mrs. Oliphant's " The Perpetual Curate," were 

 the only other reprints of this class worthy of 

 note. 



The number of JUVENILE BOOKS was about 

 one-fourth less than the previous year, but a 

 somewhat larger proportion were works of de- 

 cided merit. The juvenile literature of the 

 country makes steady and somewhat rapid 

 progress each year, both in the style and quality 

 of the books issued, and in the beauty of their 

 typography and illustrations. . In the latter par- 

 ticulars, the new books of 1865 exhibited an 

 extraordinary advance upon those of previous 

 years. 



' In the sub-class of Juvenile icorks of Adven- 

 ture, History, and Travel, one-third were re- 

 prints chiefly of books of Captain Mayne Reid, 

 R. M. Ballantyne, Captain Marryat, W. H. G. 

 Kingston, Sir C. F. Lascelles Wraxall, Madame 

 Eugenie Foa, etc., etc. Of the original works, 

 a large proportion had for their subject the ad- 

 ventures or history of some real or imaginary 

 actor in the recent war. " Oliver Optic " (Mr. 

 W. T. Adams) published three books of this 

 description, "The Young Lieutenant; or, Ad- 

 ventures of an Army Officer ; " " The Yankee 



