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dore Parker," a lecture by Samuel Johnson, au- 

 thor of " Oriental Religions," delivered in 1860, 

 was edited by John H. Clifford and Horace L. 

 Traubel. " The Life of Bishop Matthew Simp- 

 son of the Methodist Episcopal Church" was 

 written by George R. Crooks, D. D., and Rev. E. 

 J. Giddings compiled "American Christian Rul- 

 ers." " Christian Types of Heroism " was a small 

 volume from Dr. J.C. Adams. James C. Moffat, 

 D. D., told " The Story of a Dedicated Life " 

 that of Dr. Joseph Owen, missionary to India, 

 with a sketch of his son, Henry J. Owen and 

 "American Heroes on Mission Fields" was a 

 collection of biographies edited by H. C. Haydn. 

 The " Record of the Life and Work of the Rev. 

 Stephen H. Tyng, D. D., and History of St. 

 George's Church, New York, to the Close of his 

 Rectorship " was compiled by his son, C. Rock- 

 land Tyng, and " The Life and Labors of Rev. 

 Reuben Gaylord" were related by his wife. 

 Theodore Appel was the author of " The Life 

 and Work of John Williamson Nevin, D. D.," 

 while " John Bachman, D. D., the Pastor of St. 

 John's Lutheran Church, Charleston, S. C.," as 

 we learn from his biographer, C. L. Bachman, 

 was one of the pioneers of science in America, 

 working with Audubon on " Birds of America." 

 " The Story of my Life " was given us by B. W. 

 Childlaw, D. D., and autobiographies which recall 

 wat times are " A Life's Retrospect " of Rev. 

 Granville Moody, and " War Reminiscences " by 

 the surgeon of Mosby's command, A. Monteiro, 

 D. D, The remarkable career of a woman philan- 

 thropist is told by Francis Tiffany in " The Life 

 of Dorothea Lynde Dix." William Conant 

 Church, to whom the task was assigned by his 

 friend, wrote " The Life of John Ericsson," in- 

 ventor of the " Monitor," and " Heroes and Mar- 

 tyrs of Invention" were chronicled by George 

 Makepeace Towle. in a very interesting volume. 

 The " Life and Times of Ephraim Cutler," pre- 

 pared from his journals and correspondence by 

 his daughter, Julia Perkins Cutler, was an inter- 

 esting supplement to " The Life, Journals, and 

 Correspondence of Rev. Manassah Cutler," pub- 

 lished in 1889, and deals largely with the early 

 history of Ohio, as does " Alfred Kelley, of Ohio : 

 his Life and Works," by Hon. James L. Bates, 

 which was printed privately. The " History of 

 the Girtys," by Consul W. Butterfield, belongs to 

 Revolutionary border wars, while " Rachel Du 

 Mont, a Brave Little Maid of the Revolution," 

 was from the pen of Mary Westbrook. " Fol- 

 lowing the Guidon," by Mrs. Elizabeth B. Custer, 

 was the history of Glister's camp life in Kansas 

 during his Indian campaigns, and the " Mem- 

 oirs" of Gen. Joseph G.Swift have an interest 

 of their own as those of a distinguished engineer 

 and the first graduate of West Point Military 

 Academy. " Uncle Dick Wootton, Fifty-three 

 years a Hunter, Trapper, Trader, Indian Fighter, 

 and Government Scout," by Howard L. Conard, 

 had an introduction by,Joseph Kirkland. B. E. 

 Martin, in his "In the Footprints of Charles 

 Lamb," made a contribution to our knowledge 

 of one of the most interesting of purely literary 

 characters. 



" Echoes from Niagara : Historical, Political, 



Personal," by Mrs. Richard Crowley, and " The 



Bench and Bar of Cleveland, Ohio," by James 



H. Kennedy and Wilson M. Day, found interest- 



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ed readers ; while J. C. Rand compiled " One of a 

 Thousand : Biographical Sketches of One Thous- 

 and Men resident in the Commonwealth of Massa- 

 chusetts, 1888-1889." Vol. V of " American An- 

 cestry " was published ; and G. B. Kulp was the 

 historian of " Families of the Wyoming Valley." 

 S. P. Way wrote the " Sears Genealogy : the De- 

 scendants of Richard Sares (Sears) of Yarmouth, 

 Mass., 1638-1888," and Curtiss C. Gardiner 

 " Lion Gardiner and his Descendants, 1599-1890." 

 Henry F. Reddall compiled " A Pocket Hand- 

 book of Biography," and " Henry M. Stanley " ; 

 and " Heroes of the Dark Continent " were enu- 

 merated by J. W. Buel. " Two Great Teachers," 

 by James H. Carlisle, consisted of Johnson's 

 " Memoir of Roger Ascham," and selections from 

 " Stanley's Life of Thomas Arnold of Rugby," 

 with introductions. 



Poetry. All work in this department was 

 from younger writers, and there is little that is 

 more than passable. Robert Louis Stevenson 

 published a volume of " Ballads," his third of 

 verse, and Richard Henry Stoddard collected 

 his contributions to magazines into " The Lion's 

 Cub, and other Verse." Eugene Field had " A 

 Little Volume of Western Verse," while " Rhymes 

 by Ironquill" (Eugene F. Ware) came fresh 

 from Kansas. " Poems of John Hay " contained 

 his " Pike County Ballads," twenty years old, 

 with efforts of more recent date; and James 

 Madison Cawein contributed " Lyrics and Idyls." 

 " Rhymes of Childhood Days," by James Whit- 

 comb Riley, " The North Shore Watch and 

 other Poems, by George Edward Woodberry, 

 " Easter Gleams'," by Lucy Larcom, " In the 

 Morning," by Willis Boyd Allen, " Poems," by 

 Emily Dickinson, edited by two of her friends, 

 Mabel Loomis Todd and T. W. Higginson, 

 " Poems," by Edna Dean Proctor, " Lyrics for 

 a Lute," by Frank Dempster Sherman, and 

 " Verses Along the Way," by Mary Elizabeth 

 Blake, with "The Inverted Torch," by Edith 

 M. Thomas, and "Piero da Castiglione," by 

 Stuart Sterne (Gertrude Bloede), have each indi- 

 vidual claims to recognition ; as has also " The 

 Witch of Endor " and " Shadows and Ideals," 

 by Francis S. Saltus, despite serious faults. 

 Arthur W. Eaton was the author of " Acadian 

 Legends and Lyrics," and M. M.' Folsom of 

 " Scraps of Song and Southern Scenes." " Min- 

 gled Memories " was the title of " A Packet of 

 Poems, both Grave and Gay," by James Gordon 

 Emmons ; and " Poems of the Turf and other 

 Ballads" were written by Emmons S. Price. 

 Other volumes which require merely to be men- 

 tioned are : " The Harp of Hesper," by Mary E. 

 Butters ; " Vacation Verses," by Alice M. Dowd ; 

 "Rose Brake: Poems," by Danske Dandridge; 

 " Magnolia Leaves," by Mrs. B. C. Rude ; 

 " Guesses at the Beautiful," by John R. Realf ; 

 " In Many Moods," by Ralph H. Shaw ; " Songs 

 of Syracuse," by W. B. Shaw ; " Driftwood," by 

 W W. Pf rimmer ; " Spring and Summer," by 

 W. T. Wash burn ; " A New Pilgrimage," by W. 

 S. Blunt ; " Vesper Bells," by W. T. Mersereau ; 

 and " Day Lilies," by Jeanie 0. Smith. ' Helen " 

 was a poetical romance in the measure of 

 "Lucile/' by C. W. Waite. From Mrs. Sarah 

 B. Stebbins we have " Galgano's Wooing,' 

 from Paul Elmer More " Helena," and Corne- 

 lius O'Brien, Archbishop of Halifax, was the 



