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zaries," by James Ludlow, D. D., in a new issue ; 

 "A Real Robinson Crusoe," claimed to be the 

 veritable experiences of a company of castaways 

 on a Pacific island, edited by J. A. Wilkinson, 

 from the survivor's narrative; and ''The Log of 

 the Maryland," by Douglas Frazar. " Love in 

 the Tropics," by Mrs. Caroline Earle White, and 

 " A Romance at the Antipodes," by Mrs. R. Dun 

 Douglas, may be classed together, while " The 

 Silver Caves," by Ernest Ingersoll, is a mining 

 story of Colorado. Katherine Lee Bates had a 

 single book, "Hermit Island." Society forms 

 the theme of " Expatriation," by the author of 

 " Aristocracy " ; of " Miss Eaton's Romance, a 

 Story of the New Jersey Coast," by Richard 

 Allen; of " A Brooklyn Bachelor," by Margaret 

 Lee; of " The Upper'Ten," by W. H. Ballou; of 

 "A Foreign Match," by Mary Healey (Mrne. C. 

 Bigot) ; of " Phoebe," by Mary Harriott Norris ; 

 of "'A Millionaire's Wife," by Prudence Lowell ; 

 of " For a Mess of Pottage," by Sidney Lyon ; 

 and of " Juny, or only One Girl's Story; a Ro- 

 mance of the Society Crust, Upper and Under," 

 by T. C. De Leon. " " Mortal Lips," by Willis 

 Steell, was a bright story of Harlem life to-day, 

 told in a series of lively comediettas. Books 

 written by women, each bright in their own 

 way, were : " Stolen America." by Isobel Hender- 

 son Floyd ; " The Beverleys, a Story of Cal- 

 cutta," by Mary Abbott, author of " Alexia " ; 

 " The Dominie, or Reminiscences of a Girl's 

 Life," by Sarah Bradford; "Her Great Ambi- 

 tion " (to become an artist), by Anne Riehardson 

 Earle ; " Dorothy's Experience," by Adeline 

 Trafton, now Mrs. Knox; "Poor and Plain," a 

 story for elder girls, by Mrs. Seymour ; " Doro- 

 thy "Gray," by Mrs. H. B. Goodwin; "Other 

 Folk," by Mrs. Nathaniel Conklin (Jennie M. 

 Drink water) ; " Beside Still Waters," by Ella 

 Clifford ; " Knives and Forks, or Dwellers in 

 Meridien," by Mrs. Frank Lee ; and " A Plain 

 Woman's Story," and " Sara Jane, a Girl of One 

 Talent," both by Julia McNair Wright. " Diana's 

 Livery," by Eva W. McGlasson. is a story of a 

 Shaker community; while to temperance litera- 

 ture belong " The Hand with the Keys," by Kate 

 W. Hamilton ; " One Man's Struggle." by G. W. 

 Gallagher : and " The Iron-Clad Pledge," by 

 Jessie H . Brown. " In a Country Town," by 

 Annette L. Noble, deals with the opium habit. 

 The principal theological novel of the year was 

 " Edward Burton," by Henry Wood, author of 

 "Natural Law in the Business World"; while 

 under this head belong, perhaps as well as any- 

 where, " Deacon Herbert's Bible-Class," by James 

 Freeman Clarke, and "Sainantha among the 

 Brethren," by " Josiah Allen's Wife," a humor- 

 ous and yet earnest protest against the decision 

 of the General Conference of the Methodist 

 Episcopal Church against admission of women 

 as delegates. "Couldn't say No "and "All he 

 knew," by John Ilabberton, bring that familiar 

 author before us in a new light ; while " The 

 Story of a Heathen and his Transformation " is 

 prettily told by H. L. Reade. " Philip, or what 

 may have been," was a story of the first cent- 

 ury, by Mary C. Cutler; and other books which 

 convey instruction with a thread of romance are : 

 "The Silent Land," by Minnie W. Baines; 

 " Pleasing the King," by Fanny N. Nelson ; 

 " Think and Thank," by Samuel Cooper, a Jew- 



ish tale founded on incidents in the life of Moses 

 Montefiore ; " One Little Maid," by Elizabeth 

 Preston Allan ; " A Little Leaven," by Elizabeth 

 E. Holding; "Stephen Vane's Trust," by the 

 author of "Frontier and City"; "Children of 

 the Kalahari," by Annie M. Barnes ; and " Only 

 a Waif," by Eliza J. Page. " A Little World- 

 ling" was by Ellis Worth (L. E. Ellsworth), 

 and from Kirk Munroe we had " Under Orders," 

 the story of a young reporter. " The Catholic 

 Man " was a study by Mrs. Lawrence Turnbull, 

 and " In Stella's Shadow," by Albert Ross, depicts 

 humanity in its bald reality, with the object of 

 elevating the morals of men. Edgar Fawcett 

 doubtless anticipates a similar result from his 

 four novels, " The Evil that Men do," " Fabian 

 Dimitry," " A Daughter of Silence," and " How 

 a Husband forgave." " A Modern Marriage," 

 by the Marquise Clara Lanza, stands at the head 

 QJ sensational productions of the day, a few of 

 which are " Margaret Byng," by F. C. Philips ; 

 "Jack Gordon, Knight Errant, Gotham, 1883," 

 by Barclay North (W. C. Hudson); and " Vi- 

 vier, of Vivier, Longman & Company, Bankers," 

 by the same author. " The Toltec Cup," by A. 

 C. Wheeler, is a romance of immediate life in 

 New York city ; while " The Bank Tragedy," by 

 Mary R. P. Hatch, is clever, though improbable. 

 " Los Cerritos," by Gertrude Franklin Atherton, 

 introduces a new dialect, of Southern California, 

 while from Charles Howard Montagu we have 

 two novels, " The Countess Muta " and " Written 

 in Red." the last written in collaboration with 

 C. W. Dyar. " Xenia Repnina " is a story of 

 Russia, by Mrs. B. Macgahan, furnished with an 

 introduction by Vassili Verestchagin. " Miss 

 Nobody of Nowhere" was the production of 

 Archibald Clavering Gunter. Novels occult and 

 mysterious were: "Miss Mordeck's Father," by 

 Fani Pusey Gooch ; " A Strange Infatuation," 

 by Lewis Harrison ; " The Rajah's Heir," anon- 

 ymous ; " The Rich Man's Fool," by Robert C. 

 Givens; and " Eastward, or a Buddhist Lover." 



The best volumes of short stories were : " Vign- 

 ettes Real and Ideal." edited by F. E. McKay; 

 " Day and Night Stories," by 'T. R. Sullivan, 

 said * to recall Hawthorfte; "A Little Book of 

 Profitable Tales," by Eugene Field, forming a 

 dainty volume ; " Little Venice, and other Sto- 

 ries," by Grace Denio Litchfield, collected from 

 the magazines ; " Seven Dreamers," by Annie 

 TrumbulL Slosson ; " Stories told at Twilight," 

 by Louise Chandler Moulton : two volumes from 

 Julian Hawthorne, "Kildhurm's Oak, and a 

 Strange Friend " and " Pauline " : " Real Hap- 

 penings," by Mrs. Mary B. Claflin, unaffected 

 and pleasing; "Strangers and Wayfarers," by 

 Sarah Orne Jewett ; " Short Sixes : Stories to be 

 read while the Candle burns," by H. C. Bun- 

 ner ; " Told by the Fireside Stories," by E. Nes- 

 bit, Helen Milman, Mrs. L. T. Meade, and others ; 

 " In Poppy Land," by Mabel Louise Fuller, au- 

 thor of " The Aspen Shade " and " Stories about 

 Famous Precious Stones," by Mrs. Goddard Or- 

 pen. " A Descriptive List of Novels and Tales 

 dealing with American Country Life" was com- 

 piled by W. M. Griswold. 



Juvenile Books, which of late years have as- 

 sumed a place for themselves in literature, in- 

 clude : " A Boy's Town," the first venture of the 

 kind by William D. Howells, and, which is, more- 



