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LITERATURE, AMERICAN, IN 1890. 



by Mrs. Amy G. Ayer, include " Dining," by Kins- 

 ley, " Health for Women and Children," by R. A. 

 Gunn, M. D., and Beauty and House Decoration." 

 Miscellaneous. " The Canal and the Rail- 

 way," by E. J. James, with " The Marine Trans- 

 port of Petroleum," by George H. Little, may be 

 placed at the opening of works of this class, fol- 

 lowed by "A Handbook to the United States 

 Local Marine Board Examination for Masters 

 and Mates of Ocean-going Steamships," by How- 

 ard Patterson ; and H. B. Prindle supplied " A 

 Popular Treatise on the Electric Railway." M. N. 

 Baker edited " The Manual of American Water- 

 Works, and H. C. Godwin wrote " The Railroad 

 Engineer's Field Book and Explorer's Guide." 

 " Pavements and Roads " was. compiled by E. G. 

 Love, and J. Newman treated " Earthwork Slips 

 and Subsidences upon Public Works." M. T. 

 Richardson compiled, edited, and published 

 " Practical Blacksmithing," in three volumes, 

 and C. H. Wolgemuth supplied " The Carpenter 

 and Builder's Ready Reckoner." " Pumps " were 

 historically, theoretically, and practically con- 

 sidered by P. R. Bjorling, and C. J. W. Lock wrote 

 on " Mining and Ore-dressing Machinery." The 

 ' Annual Statistical Report " of the American 

 iron and Steel Association was issued, and " Build- 

 ers' Hardware " was a manual for architects, 

 builders, and house furnishers, by Clarence H. 

 Blackall. " The Cidermaker's Handbook " came 

 . from J. L. Strowbridge. " The Scotch-Irish in 

 America " was the title of proceedings and ad- 

 dresses of the second congress of that body at 

 Pittsburg. " Alexander," by Col. T. A. Dodge, 

 the opening volume of a series of " Great Cap- 

 tains," was a history of the origin and growth of 

 the art of war, and from James M. Ingalls came 

 " Handbook Problems in Direct Fire." " Yale 

 Military Lectures," of C. A. L. Totten, were 

 selected from the series of 1890, and Part II was 

 published of " Practical Instructions for the Na- 

 tional Guard," by W. R. Hamilton. " The Evo- 

 lution of Arms and Armor," in the " Modern 

 Science Essayist," was by J. C. Kimball. Arthur 

 W. Brayley wrote the " History of the Boston Fire 

 Department," and Andrew I. Meserve " The Fire- 

 man's Handbook and Drill Manual." " The Fools 

 of Fortune, or Gambling and Gamblers," by J. 

 Philip Quinn, and " Professional Thieves," by 

 Allan Pinkerton, belong together, and "The 

 Crime of the Century, or the Assassination of Dr. 

 Patrick Henry Cronin" was from the pen of 

 Henry M. Hunt. Thomas Savage was the au- 

 thor of a " Manual of Industrial and Commer- 

 cial Intercourse between the United States and 

 Spanish America," and J. L. Williams and Son 

 compiled an " 1890 Manual of Investments," in a 

 limited edition. In business we have F. M. Payne's 

 " Business Educator " and " Business Pointers " ; 

 " Business Law," by A. R. Weed ; " Whom to 

 trust," by P. R. Earling : " The Mercantile Spell- 

 er," by Edmund Blunt, and " The Shop," by A. 

 E. Wmship. H. Swan's " Traveler's Colloquial 

 French," and the " New Coast Pilot for the Lakes " 

 served their respective purposes ; " Society as I 

 have found it," by Ward McAllister, called forth 

 comment and satire, specimens of which are 

 "Society as I have foundered it," by Cad Mc- 

 Ballister (T. C. De Leon), and "Society as it 

 found me out," by Stewart McGuzzler. " The 

 Society and the 'Fad,'" by Appleton Morgan, 



was an amplification of an address delivered be- 

 fore the Shakespeare Club of New York city, ex- 

 plaining its origin and aim. Books of etiquette 

 are " Bad Breaks in Good Form," compiled and 

 edited by " One of the 400 "; " Family Manners " 

 and " Talks about a Fine Art," by Elizabeth 

 Glover; "Every-day Etiquette," by Louise F. 

 Bryson, and " Manners Good and Bad at Home 

 and.in Society," by Rev. A. W. Eaton, who pub- 

 lished also " Letter Writing, its Ethics and Eti- 

 quette, with Remarks on the proper use of Mono- 

 grams, Crests, and Seals." Humorous works in- 

 clude " Tin-types taken in the Streets of New 

 York," by Lemuel E. Quigg, illustrated by Har- 

 ry Beard ; " Funny Stories," by P. T. Barnum ; 

 "Health Guyed," by Frank P. W. Bellew 

 (Chip) ; and " Looking Forward " (to the 

 World's Fair of 1892), by Baron De Grimm, E. 

 Zimmermann, and others. " Our Flag, or the 

 Evolution of the Stars and Stripes " was a mys- 

 tical interpretation by Robert A. Campbell, and 

 " A Look Upward," by Susie C. Clark, explained 

 the doctrine of " Spiritual Science." " Clothed 

 with the Sun " was the book of the illuminations 

 of Anna (Bonus) Kingsford, edited by E. Mait- 

 land ; Senex .traced " The Evolution of Myth 

 as exemplified in General Grant's History of the 

 Plot of President Polk and Secretary Marcy to 

 sacrifice Two American Armies in the Mexican 

 War of 1846-'48." " Curious Questions in His- 

 tory, Literature, Art, and Social Life," in two vol- 

 umes, by Sarah H. Killikelly, was designed as a 

 manual of general information, and other works 

 of the same order are : " Gleanings for the Curi- 

 ous from the Harvest-Fields of Literature," a 

 melange of excerpta collated by C. C. Bombaugh, 

 M. D.; "Thought and Thrift" by Joshua Hill; 

 and "Facts worth knowing," selected mainly 

 from the " Scientific American," and edited by T. 

 O'Conor Sloane. " The History of Ship-building 

 on North River, Plymouth Co., Mass.," was 

 written by L. Vernon Briggs, and Seeger and 

 Guernsey's "Cyclopaedia of the Manufactures 

 and Products of the United States" contained 

 valuable information. Vol. II was published of 

 "Amateur Work Illustrated," a practical maga- 

 zine of constructive and decorative art and man- 

 ual labor, and Eliza B. Burnz proffered " Short- 

 hand for Everybody," professing to have im- 

 proved Pitman's phonography and reduced the 

 art to rule and reason. The United States 

 Treasury Department published its annual " Re- 

 port" on foreign commerce, navigation, .immi- 

 gration, and tonnage of the United States in 1889, 

 and the Interstate Commerce Commission issued, 

 in addition to its own " Third Annual Report," 

 the " Second Annual Report of the Statistics of 

 Railways in the United States." " The Annual 

 Statistician and Economist " was issued by L. P. 

 McCarty, and other useful books of reference 

 were : " Poor's Manual of the Railroads of the 

 United States for 1890," by H. V. Poor, making 

 the twenty-third year of the work ; " Lord and 

 Thomas's Pocket Directory for 1890 " of news- 

 papers, magazines, and periodicals in the United 

 States and Canada ; and the " United States (Of- 

 ficial) Hotel Directory and Railroad Indicator." 

 The " Annual American Catalogue " of the " Pub- 

 lishers' Weekly" was published, and also Vol. 

 XIV of " Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia " for 

 the year 1889, new series. 



