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LITERATTJKE AND LITERARY PROGRESS IN 1865. 



Middy ; or, The Adventures of a Naval Officer ; " 

 and "Fighting Joe; or, the Adventures of a 

 Staff Officer." Mr. II. C. Castlemon, himself an 

 officer on one of the Western gunboats, pub- 

 lished "Frank on a Gunboat," and " Frank, the 

 Young Naturalist;" "Carleton" (Mr. Charles 

 Carleton Coffin), of the Boston Journal, pub- 

 lished a second volume of his Boys' History of 

 the War, under the title of "Following the 

 Flag." Of the books of this sub-class not re- 

 lating to the war, the most important were: 

 " Treasury of Travel and Adventure ; " " Lives 

 of Familiar Insects," by the author of " Violet ; " 

 "The Yankee Boy from Home ; " "The Young 

 Wrecker of the Florida Reef," by Richard 

 Meade Bache, and two volumes of Miss Sarah 

 W. Lander's Spectacle Series, " Rome " and 

 " Berlin." 



In the very large sub-class of Religious Juve- 

 niles, numbering about two hundred and eighty 

 distinct volumes, less than one-tenth were re- 

 prints, and of these the greater part from the 

 prolific pen of A. L. O. E., Madame Wilder- 

 muth, Caroline Hadley, Miss Yonge, Mrs. Ruth 

 Buck, etc., etc. The original works of this 

 sub-class were the productions of a great num- 

 ber of writers, some of whom have had large 

 experience in writing for children, while others 

 made their first ventures in that field during the 

 year. As in former years, Nellie Grahame was 

 one of the largest contributors to this descrip- 

 tion of literature, eight works from her pen ap- 

 pearing among the year's catalogue of juve- 

 niles. The author of "Allan Cameron" had 

 seven volumes published during the year ; Aunt 

 Fanny (Mrs. Fanny Barrow), six ; the author 

 of the "Variety Library," five; Miss Caroline 

 E. Kelly, five ; Jacob Abbott, five ; the author 

 of " The Dove Series," six ; " Champney," five; 

 "Sophie May," six; "Josephine Franklin," six; 

 the author of " Real Children," four; the author 

 of "Aunty May's Children," four; Alice Gray, 

 three ; Miss Sarah J. Pritchard, three ; J. H. 

 Langille, three; "A. J. G.," three; Susie M. 

 Waring, three; Rev. W. P. Breed, two; the 

 author of " Katie Lee," two ; Miss M. E. Dodge, 

 three; "K. M.," two; the author of "Kate El- 

 more," two; the author of "Kitty's Victory," 

 three; "A. L. W.," two; the author of "Try," 

 three ; Miss Alice A. Dodge, two ; the author 

 of " The Fisher Boy," three ; " Maxwell," three ; 

 Theodore Tilton, three ; Rev. D. C. Eddy, 

 D. D., two; "Fanfan," two; Mrs. H. Mc- 

 Nair, two; Miss Harriet B. McKeever, two; 

 the author of " Rosa Lane," two ; the au- 

 thor of "The Best Friend," two; the author 

 of "Win and Wear." two; "E. II.," two; 

 the author of " Autumn Days,"- two ; the 

 author of " Ferris Hollow," three ; " Aunt Hat- 

 tie," two; the author of "Harry's Battles," 

 two; and "Rose Elmwood," "Aunt Annie," 

 Rev. J. Belcher, "II. L. C.," Miss Mary S. 

 Chapman, Rev. F. H. Wines, Julia Leonard, 

 Maria H. Bulfinch, the author of " Douglas 

 Farm," Mary Granger Chase, "M. M.," the 

 author of "High Church," William Rogers, 



Rev. R. M. Abercrombie, "A. L. W.," the 

 author of the "Story of a Pocket Bible," Rev. 

 P. W. Clark, the author of " I'd Choose to be a 

 Daisy," Mr. G. P. Disosway, Rev. J. B. Water- 

 bury, " A Clergyman's Daughter," Rev. T. H. 

 Hawks, the author of " Ellen Murray," Henry 

 L. Williams, Jr., "Mrs. Madeline Leslie," the 

 author of "Ellen's Idol," Grace Webster Bins- 

 dale, M. A. Edwards, Maria Louisa Hayward, 

 Mrs. Prosser, Miss C. M. Trowbridge, Edward 

 Howard, Helen Hazlett, Jonathan Cross, Mrs. 

 H. C. Gardner, " Cousin Carrie," the author of 

 " Money," Miss Emily Warner, Alice Warren, 

 George B. Taylor, Mrs. R. J. Greene, "Zell," 

 "Una Locke," the author of "Uncle Paul's 

 Stories," " Harriet Myrtle," Anna Putnam, the 

 author of "Blind Annie Lorimer," "M. H. S.," 

 Robert A. West, Nellie Eyster, Frank Stanley, 

 Marie Louise Hayward, "Lawrence Lance- 

 wood," Horatio Alger, Jr., Rev. Edward Pay- 

 son Hammond, "M. E. F.," Mrs. C. H. Gilder- 

 sleeve, W. O. Van Horn, and seventy-five other 

 anonymous writers, each one. 



Of Elementary Book* for Children (Picture- 

 Books, etc., not of a Fairy or Legendary Char- 

 acter), the number was large, but it was com- 

 posed to a great extent of reprints or of import- 

 ed toys not reprinted. A few original works, 

 like Mr. Theodore Tilton's " The Fly," some pic- 

 torial Alphabets, and other compiled books of 

 Pictures, were issued ; but the foreign colored 

 toys, by their greater brilliancy and perfection 

 in color-printing, mainly occupied the market. 

 In Fairy and Legendary Books for Children, 

 there were some remarkable editions of " Old 

 Mother Hubbard ; " " The Fox and the Geese," 

 " The House that Jack Built," etc., with orig- 

 inal and very spirited illustrations in tint, by 

 H. L. Stephens, of a much higher charac- 

 ter than were ever previously attempted, and 

 also editions of " Puss in Boots," " Beauty and 

 the Beast," " Cinderella," " Little Red Rid- 

 ing Hood," etc., with excellent illustrations 

 by the same artist, printed in colors. Nothing 

 of this kind has been attempted in this country 

 until 1864 and 1865. Several editions of Hans 

 C. Andersen's and Grimm's Fairy Stories 

 were also published during the year. A new, 

 original American Version of " The House 

 that Jack Built," finely illustrated, by L. 

 Whitehead, Sen., also appeared. Mrs. Charles 

 (author of " Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cot- 

 ter Family") published, we believe, first in this 

 country, a little legend entitled "The Song 

 without Words ; " and some of the French and 

 German publishing houses issued editions in 

 the original of several of the Fairy Stories of 

 France and Germany. 



We ought to notice also, briefly, the appear- 

 ance of several periodicals for children, of 

 high character, during the year. Two of 

 them, "Our Young Folks," published- by 

 Messrs Ticknor and Fields, of Boston, and the 

 "Little Corporal," published by Mr. Alfred L. 

 Sewell, of Chicago, have at once attained a largo 

 circulation, which they merited from their ability. 



