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Virginia. 1642-1892," edited by Edmund Jenning 

 Lee, M. 1)., contained biographical and genealogical 

 sketches of the descendants of Col. Richard Lee, 

 with brief notices of the related families; "The 

 Cabells and their Kin," was a memorial volume, 

 historical, biographical, and genealogical on Dr. 

 William Cabell, the founder of the family in Virgi- 

 nia and his descendants and kinfolk, by Alexander 

 Brown ; " The Genealogy of the Steiner Family, es- 

 pecially of the Descendants of Jacob Steiner of 

 Frederick Co., Md.," was traced by Bernard ('. 

 Steiner; and Samuel M. Sener compiled "The 

 Sehner Ancestry." "The Ashley Genealogy," by 

 Francis B. Trowbridge, was the history of the de- 

 scendants of Robert Ashley, of Springfield, Mass. ; 

 "A Partial History of the" French Huguenots by 

 Name Soblcts, who emigrated to America in 1700 

 and settled at Manakin, in Powhatan Co., Va., 

 18 Miles West of Richmond City," was written 

 by Samuel S. Sublett, as was the story of the 

 "Early Family," by Samuel S. Karly. "The Cen- 

 tury Book of Famous Americans," by Elbridge S. 

 Brooks, told the story of a young people's pilgrim- 

 age to historic homes, and Vol. VIII was issued of 

 John Lord's "Beacon Lights of History, covering 

 Nineteenth Century Writers," and containing also 

 a life of the author by Dr. Alexander S. Twombly. 

 "Reminiscences of an Octogenarian of the City of 

 New York, 1816-1800." were vouchsafed by Charles 

 H. Haswell and were full of local interest, while 

 "Famous Givers and their Gifts" were chronicled 

 by Mrs. Sarah K. Bolton. Vol. IV completed the 

 collection of "The Writings of Thomas Paine," 

 made and edited by Moncnre D. Conway; a memo- 

 rial edition in four volumes was made of the " Writ- 

 ings of Severn Teackle Wallis"; A. W. Stevens 

 edited "Enfranchisement and Citizenship," ad- 

 dresses and papers by Edward Lillie Pierce; as did 

 James De Witt Andrews the " Works of James Wil- 

 son, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the 

 United States," in two volumes. "Selected Argu- 

 ments, Lectures, and Miscellaneous Papers of Han- 

 dell Hunt," were edited by his nephew, William 

 Henry Hunt. 



Criticism and General Literature. Among 

 books falling under this head are to be mentioned 

 Charles Dudley Warner's discussion of "The Rela- 

 tion of Literature to Life " ; " Mere Literature and 

 Other Essays," by Prof. Woodrow Wilson ; " Books 

 and Culture " and " Essays on Nature and Culture," 

 by Hamilton Wright Mabie; and "Aspects of Fic- 

 tion, and Other Ventures in Criticism," by James 

 Brander Matthews, who also contributed " An In- 

 troduction to the Study of American Literature." 

 Two unpublished essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson 

 upon " The Character of Socrates " and '' The Pres- 

 ent State of Ethical Philosophy" were given to the 

 public in one volume, with an introduction by Ed- 

 ward Kverett Hale; " The Spirit in Literature and 

 Life" was the theme of the E. D. Rand Lectures in 

 Iowa College for the year 1894, delivered by John 

 Patterson Coyle, D.D.; Theodore Whitefield Hunt 

 made a study of "American Meditative Lyrics"; "A 

 History of American Literature" was" written by 

 Prof. Frederick Lewis Pattee ; "Some Representa- 

 tive Poets of the Nineteenth Century " was the title 

 of a syllabus of University Extension lectures by 

 Melville B. Anderson ; and William II. Hudson 

 contributed "Studies in Interpretation: Keats, 

 Clough, Matthew Arnold." A new edition was 

 issued of Hon. William T. Harris's study upon "The 

 Spiritual Sense of Dante's Divina Commedia" and 

 "The Masterpieces of Michelangelo and Milton" 

 were examined by Rev. Alexander Stevenson 

 Twombly. " Shakespeare the Boy " was presented 

 to us by Prof. William J. Rolfe, the well-known 

 authority upon all things concerning the Bard of 



Avon, and Alfred Trumble lured us into spending 

 "hours " In Jail with Charles Dickens." " The Love 

 Affairs of a Bibliomaniac " possess a melancholy 

 interest as being the last work from the pen of 

 Eugene Field, and is full of a delicious literary 

 flavor. "Chap-Book Essays" of Thomas Went- 

 worth Higginson, Louise Chandler Moulton, and 

 others were collected into a volume, and " Love in 

 Letters" was traced by James Grant Wilson as il- 

 lustrated in the correspondence of eminent persons, 

 of whom biographical sketches are included. 

 " Myths and Legends of Our Own Land," by 

 Charles M. Skinner, filled two volumes, and II. A. 

 Gucrber considered "Legends of the Virgin and 

 Christ "and "Legends of the Middle Ages "with 

 special reference to literature and art, " Regenera- 

 tion " was an anonymous reply to Nordau. " Nugse 

 Literariaj," by William Mat hews, was the title of 

 brief essays on literary, social, and other themes, 

 and Dr. George Birkbeck Hill was irresistible in 

 his " Talks about Autographs." Benjamin W. Wells 

 made a study of "Modern French Literature"; 

 "The Mastery of Books," by Harry Lyman Koop- 

 m an offered hints on reading and the use of libra- 

 ries ; Arthur Shadwell Martin wrote " On Parody " ; 

 and "How to study History, Literature, and "the 

 Fine Arts" was told in a pamphlet for Chautau- 

 quans by Albert Bushnell Hart, Maurice Thompson, 

 and Charles Mason Fairbanks. " Mystic Masonry " 

 was dealt with by J. D. Buck, M. I)., and Fanny D. 

 Bergen compiled "Current Superstitions" collected 

 from oral traditions of English-speaking folk in 

 America, published among the memoirs of the 

 American Folklore Society, with notes and an intro- 

 duction by William Wells Newell. Marie Ada 

 Moliueux was the author of "A Phrase-Book from 

 the Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Brown- 

 ing," and "Metaphors. Similes, and Other Charac- 

 teristic Sayings of Henry Ward Beecher " were 

 compiled from discourses reported by T. J. Ellen- 

 wood, with an introduction by Homer B. Sprague. 

 Vol. I of "Studies in Classical Philology of the 

 University of Chicago was issued ; " Sunrise Stories," 

 by Roger Riordan and Tozo Takayanagi, gave a 

 glance at the literature of Japan. " Rational Elo- 

 cution " was a thoroughly practical treatise on the 

 science and art of human expression by Isaac Hin- 

 ton Brown; Arlo Bates gave "Talks on Writing 

 English"; Edward Everett Hale, Jr., discoursed on 

 "Constructive Rhetoric"; William B. Cairns upon 

 " The Forms of Discourse," with an introductory 

 chapter on style; a new and revised enlarged edi- 

 tion was issued of " The Verbalist," by Alfred Ay res 

 (Thomas Ernbley Osmun); "Pitfalls in English," 

 by Joseph Fitzgerald, was a manual of customary 

 errors in the use of words ; " Public Speaking and 

 Reading" was the title of a treatise on delivery ac- 

 cording to the principles of the new elocution by 

 E. N. Kirby; while from Henry Hardwicke we had 

 an exhaustive " History of Oratory and Orators." 

 Lorenzo Lears wrote "The History of Oratory from 

 the Age of Pericles to the Present Time." Lilian 

 Whiting gave us a second scries of " The World 

 Beautiful"; Katharine Abbott Sanborn, " My Lit- 

 erary Zoo" ; and, coming to that delightful class of 

 books about Nature, we have" Notes of the Night 

 and Other Outdoor Sketches," by Dr. Charles Con- 

 rad Abbott, who published also " Birdland Echoes," 

 illustrated by William E. Cram, in line with which 

 was "Spring Notes from Tennessee," by Bradford 

 Torrey. "A Book of Country Clouds and Sun- 

 shine "was welcomed from Clifton Johnson, who 

 also repeated "What they Say in New England " in 

 a book of signs, sayings, and superstitions. Row- 

 land E.Robinson was at home " In New England 

 Fields and Woods"; and Joseph Edgar Chamber- 

 lin was delightful alike as "The Listener in the 



