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over, largely autobiographical ; " Little Saint 

 Elizabeth, and other Stories," by Mrs. Prances 

 H. Burnett ; " The Winds, the Woods, and the 

 Wanderer," by Lily F. Wesselhoeft ; " The Kelp- 

 Gatherers," a story of the Maine coast, by J. T. 

 Trowbridge ; and three books by W. 0. Stoddard, 

 "The Red Mustang," "Crowded Out o' Cro'- 

 field," and " Chuck Purdy." " Wonderful Deeds 

 and Doings of Little Giant Boab and his Talk- 

 ing Raven, Tabib," by Ingersoll Lockwood, and 

 " Another Brownie Book," by Palmer Cox, be- 

 long together ; while " Teetotaler Dick," by T. 

 W. Knox, is a temperance story. " Too Late for 

 the Tide-Mill," by Rev. E. A. Rand, has a moral, 

 and "The Drifting Island, or the Slave Hunters 

 of the Congo " was a sequel to " Kibboo Ganey," 

 by Walter Wentworth. War stories for boys 

 were : " On the Blockade," by Oliver Optic 

 (W. T. Adams) ; " Rodney, the Partisan," by 

 Harry Castlemon (C. A. Fosdick) ; " The Boy 

 Spy " and " On the War Path." both by J. O. 

 Kerbey ; and " Crusaders and Captives, a Tale 

 of the Children's Crusade," by G. E. Merrill. 

 " Struggling Upward " was by Horatio Alger, 

 Jr., who wrote also " The Odds against him." 

 " Dear Daughter Dorothy." by A. G. Plympton ; 

 " Another Flock of Girlsi" by Nora Perry ; " The 

 Lion City of Africa," by Willis Boyd Allen ; 

 "Freshman and Senior," by Elvirtoh Wright ; 

 and " Finding Blodgett," by George W. Hamil- 

 ton. Molly Elliott Seawell wrote " Little Jar- 

 vis " ; Louis Pendleton, author of " In the 

 Wire Grass," " King Tom and the Runaways," 

 the story of what befell two boys in a Georgia 

 swamp ; and Grace Denio Litchfield, " Little He 

 and She." " A Piece of Kitty Hunter's Life " 

 was told by Mary E. Bamford, and from Frances 

 Eaton came " Dollikins and the Miser." " Five 

 Little Peppers Midway " was a sequel to " Five 

 Little Peppers," by Margaret Sidney (Mrs. H. 

 M. Lothrop), dear to all children's hearts, while 

 in " Appletons' Fiction Series for Young Read- 

 ers" we have " The Log School-House on the Co- 

 lumbia," by Hezekiah Butterworth. " Timothy's 

 Quest " and " The Story Hour," by Kate Douglas 

 Wiggin, are not to be forgotten, nor the "His- 

 tory of my Pets," by " Grace Greenwood" (Mrs. 

 Sara J. Lippincott), a revised and enlarged edi- 

 tion of which was published during the year. 



History. This department received fewer ad- 

 ditions than usual during the year, but paucity 

 in numbers was more than compensated by the 

 value of one contribution alone, " The History of 

 the United States of America," by Henry Adams, 

 completed in nine volumes, seven of which were 

 published in 1890. The importance of the work 

 in the new light thrown by it upon the periods 

 covered is recognized beyond need of comment, 

 while still another work of vast research is " The 

 Genesis of the United States," compiled and 

 edited by Alexander Brown. Constitutional 

 history was enriched by " A Short History of 

 Anglo-Saxon Freedom," by Prof. James K. Hos- 

 mer. In this connection " References to the 

 Constitution of the United States," by William 

 E. Foster, deserves mention, being No. 29 of 

 " Economic Tracts," and " U. S.," an index to 

 the United States, compiled by Malcolm Town- 

 send, was intended as a handbook of references 

 combining the curious in the history of our 

 country. D. H. Montgomery outlined " The 



Leading Facts of American History," Charles 

 Morris wrote "An Elementary History of the 

 United States," and Horace E. Scudder "A 

 Short History of the United States for Begin- 

 ners." "The World's Greatest Conflict," by 

 Henry Boynton, was a review of French and 

 American struggles for liberty during the period 

 from 1775 to 1804, while from William Henry 

 Hurlbert (though published in England) came 

 " France and the Republic," visited by him in 

 her centennial year. Foremost among State his- 

 tories are Hubert Howe Bancroft's volume of his 

 " History of the Pacific States," those published 

 in 1890 being Vol. XIX, "California, 1860-1890." 

 Vol. VII ; Vol. XX, " Nevada, Colorado, and 

 Wyoming, 1540-1888 " ; Vol. XXVI. " Washing- 

 ton, Idaho, and Montana, 1845-1889"; while 

 Vols. XXXIII and XXXIV were successively 

 entitled " Essays and Miscellany " and " Literary 

 Industries." "Old California "Days," by James 

 Steele, and " The Argonauts of California," by 

 C. W. Haskins, are reminiscences of pioneer and 

 mining times, while " Wisconsin under French 

 Dominion," by Rev. S. S. Hebberd, carries us to 

 others even more remote. " The Story of Wis- 

 consin," in the Story of the States Series, is by 

 Reuben Gold Thwaites. The " History of East- 

 ern Pennsylvania." by Rev. U. W. Condit, and 

 the " History of West Virginia," by Virgil A. 

 Lewis, are of local interest, as are the " Trans- 

 actions of the Kansas State Historical Society," 

 Vol. IV, Firman A. Rozier's "History of the 

 Early Settlement of the Mississippi' Valley " 

 Berthold Fernow's " The Ohio Valley in Colonial 

 Days," and "A History of Greeley, and the 

 Union Colony of Colorado " was written by D. 

 Boyd. The fifth volume of John Gorham 

 Palfrey's " History of New England" completed 

 that work, and Frances A. Humphrey told 

 " How New England was made." " A Brief 

 History of the Empire State "was written for 

 schools and families, by Welland Hendricks, 

 and " The New South " of Henry W. Grady was 

 reissued, with a character sketch of the author, 

 by Oliver Dyer. " The Discovery of the Ancient 

 City of Norumbega," byEben Norton Horsford, 

 and "The Icelandic Discoverers of America," by 

 Marie A. Brown (Mrs. John B. Shipley), are 

 kindred in theme, while valuable papers of the 

 American Historical Association were published 

 in three parts of the fourth volume of its re- 

 ports. To war history belong: "Freedom Tri- 

 umphant," covering the fourth period of the 

 war of the rebellion from September, 1864, to 

 its close, by Charles Carleton Coffin ; " Sketches 

 of War History," piiblished by the Ohio Com- 

 mandery of the Loyal Legion ;'Jefferson Davis's 

 "Short History of the Confederate States of 

 America " : the " Defense of Charleston Har- 

 bor," by John Johnson ; " The Civil War on the 

 Border," by Wiley Britton ; "Episodes of the 

 Civil War," by George W. Herr ; " Four Years 

 in Rebel Capitals," by T. C. De Leon ; " Prison- 

 ers of War and Military Prisons," being the per- 

 sonal experiences of Asa B. Isham, H. M. David- 

 son, and H. B. Furness. "Battlefields and 

 Camp-Fires" was "A Narrative of the principal 

 Military Operation of the Civil War from the 

 Removal of McClellan to the Accession of 

 Grant," by Willis J. Abbot, and fifty "Stories 

 of the Civil War " were told bv Albert F. Blais- 



