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LITERATURE, AMERICAN, IN 180G. 



of " A Lady of Quality " of the olden time. Eugene 

 Field described humorously " The House : An Epi- 

 sode in the Lives of Reuben Baker, Astronomer, and 

 of his Wife, Alice " ; T. Ilopkitison Smith dealt with 

 the labor question in the forceful pages of "Tom 

 Grogan"; Bret Ilartc contributed only a volume of 

 tales entitled "Barker's Luck and Other Stories "; 

 Richard Harding Davis was represented by ' Cin- 

 derella, and Other Stories"; and James Brander 

 Matthews by " Talcs of Fantasy and Fact." From 

 the new novelist Stephen Crane we had "The Little 

 Regiment, and Other Episodes of the American Civil 

 War," " George's Mother," and " Maggie : A Girl of 

 the Streets"; Frank R. Stockton gave "Captain 

 Chap : or, The Rolling Stones " and " Mrs. Cliff's 

 Yacht " ; Joel Chandler Harris (Uncle Remus) told 

 of "Sister Jane: Her Friends and Acquaintances"; 

 and a rising author of the same State, Harry Still- 

 well Edwards, aroused creditable comment by his 

 story of " Sons and Fathers." Julian Russell Sturgis 

 portrayed " A Master of Fortune." Albion W. Tour- 

 gee finally raised " The Mortgage on the Hip-roof 

 House"; Elizabeth Knight Tompkinsdid not reach 

 the level of her last year's venture, " Her Majesty," 

 with her romance of " The Broken Ring " ; Margaret 

 Sherwood, who published "An Experiment in Al- 

 truism " in 1896, under the pen name of Elizabeth 

 Hastings, described "A Puritan Bohemia"; and 

 from Katharine Pearson Woods, the author of 

 "Metzerott, Shoemaker." we had "The Crowning 

 of Candace" and "John : A Tale of King Messiah," 

 th.3 last of singular excellence. Molly Elliot Sea- 

 well wrote, this time for grown-up people, " The 

 Sprightly Romance of Marsac " and ' A Strange, 

 Sad Comedy," while Maria Louise Pool published 

 no less than four of her attractive studies of life 

 and character, entitled "Buncombe County," " In a 

 Dike Shanty," "In the First Person," and " Mrs. 

 Gerald." Anna Fuller described "A Venetian 

 June" with the romance then transpiring, and 

 " Madelon " was the sole production of Mary Eleanor 

 Wilkins. Lilian Bell, the author of "The Love Af- 

 fairs of an Old Maid," protrayed " The Under Side 

 of Things " ; Harold Frederic gave us the benefit of 

 observations in Philistia under the title of " Mrs. 

 Albert Grundy " ; he was successful also in delineat- 

 ing " The Damnation of Theron Ware " and in his 

 cheerier tale of " March Hares." Rev. Edward 

 Everett Hale republished his popular account of 

 " My Double and How he Undid me," telling its 

 history (of thirty-three years) in a preface ; " Rose 

 of Duteher's Coolly" was a realistic novel by Ham- 

 lin Garland ; and ' Summer in Arcady," a tale of Na- 

 ture, by James Lane Allen. Ruth McEnery Stuart 

 wrote "Sonny" and "Solomon Crow's Christmas 

 Pockets, and Other Tales" ; Elizabeth Stuart Phelps 

 (Mrs. Herbert D. Ward) "The Supply at St. Aga- 

 tha's"; and Julia Magruder, the author of "The 

 Princess Sonia," " The Violet," and " Miss Ayr of 

 Virginia, and Other Stories." Capt. Charles King 

 was heard from in four military novels, " Trumpeter 

 Fred : A Story of the Plains," " A Garrison Tangle," 

 "An Army Wife," and " A Tame Surrender," the 

 last a story of the Chicago strike. Mrs. C. Stewart 

 Daggett told the story of " Mariposilla," and Cor- 

 nelia Atwood Pratt that of "The Daughter of a 

 Stoic," in addition to a number of short stories en- 

 titled "A Book of Martyrs." "A Knight of the 

 Nets" was Mrs. Amelia E. Barr's only novel : Julian 

 Hawthorne proclaimed "Love is a Spirit" and also 

 portrayed "A Fool of Nature": "Missing" was a 

 romance by Julius Chambers : and " One of the Vis- 

 conti," a novelette by Mrs. Eva Wilder Brodhead 

 (formerly Eva Wilder McGlasson). Mrs. Madeleine 

 Vinton Dahlgren in " The Secret Directory " re- 

 vealed a romance of hidden history. Langdon 

 Elwyn Mitchell, a son of Dr. Weir Mitchell, pub- 



lished two stories, "Love in the Backwoods: Two 

 Mormons from Muddlety " and "Alfred's Wife," in 

 one volume, while Mrs. Rebecca Harding Davis 

 filled two with the adventures of " Frances Wal- 

 deaux" and "Doctor Warwick's Daughters." Har- 

 riet Prescott Spolford traced the evolution of " A 

 Master Spirit ." - The Picture of Las Cruces " was a 

 romance of Mexico by Frances C. F. Tiernan (Chris- 

 tian Reid), and from the same author we had also " A 

 Woman of Fortune." John Kcndrick Bangs amused 

 us with "The Mantelpiece Minsirels, ami Other 

 Stories," in addition to the difficulties experienced 

 with "A Rebellious Heroine." " Vawder's Under- 

 study " was a study in platonic affection by James 

 Knapp Reeve; dive Holland, who achieved success 

 last year with his story of "My Japanese. Wife." 

 published " 'The Lure of Fame." " An Art Failure," 

 by John W. Harding, claimed to be a story of the 

 Latin Quarter as it is, and art is again the theme 

 of "Alida Craig," by Pauline King. "A Chord 

 from a Violin " opened a love story, according to 

 Winifred Agnes Haldane, and "The Baritone's 

 Parish." by James M. Ludlow, appeared in the 

 series of " Renaissance Booklets." Historical novels 

 were " King Noanett: A Story of Old Virginia and 

 the Massachusetts Bay," by Frederick Stimson 

 (J. S., of Dale), who also wrote " Pirate Gold " ; 

 " White Aprons," a romance of Bacon's rebellion, 

 Virginia, 1676; "The Regicides," a tale of early 

 colonial times, by F. Hull Cogswell; "The Gov- 

 ernor's Garden " (the executive in question being 

 "Thomas Hutchinson, sometime Captain-General 

 and Governor-in Chief of his Majesty's Province of 

 Massachusetts Bay"), by George R. R. Rivers; "A 

 Lady of the Olden Time," by Emily Malbone 

 Morgan ; " Saxenhurst," a story of the Old World 

 and New, in which Roger Williams is prominent. 

 by Daniel C. Eddy, D. I). ; " Massasoit, by Anna 

 liolman Burton, a romantic story of the Indians of 

 New England ; " Sir Mark," a tale" of the first capital 

 of the country, by Anna Robeson Brown, who also 

 wrote " The Black Lamb " ; " John Littlejohn of J.," 

 being in particular an account of his remarkable en- 

 tanglement with the king's intrigues against Gen. 

 Washington, by George Morgan ; "The Scarlet ('oat," 

 a tale of the siege of Yorktown, by Clinton Ross; 

 " Will o' the Wasp," a sea yarn of the War of '12. by 

 Robert Cameron Rogers, the author of " The Wind 

 in the Clearing"; " Ocean Rovers," another story of 

 the same period, by William II. Thomes; "His Per- 

 petual Adoration : or, The Captain's Old Diary," by 

 Rev. Joseph F. Flint, a story of the civil war; and 

 "At the Sign of the Guillotine," as its name be- 

 speaks, a story of the French revolution, by Harold 

 Spender. A local flavor attaches to " Uncle Scipio." 

 a story of uncertain days in the South, by Mrs. 

 Jeannette R. II. Walworth ; " The Peacemaker of 

 Bourbon," a tale of the new South, by S. J. Bum- 

 stead ; "The Wonderful Wheel," with its scene 

 among the Creoles of Louisiana, by Mary Tracy 

 Earle ; "Betty of Wye." by Amy E. Blanchard ; 

 " Stories of a Sanctified Town," by Lucy S. Furman ; 

 " Princess Anne : A Story of the Dismal Swamp, and 

 Other Sketches," by Albert R. Ledoux ; " My Young 

 Master," "The Jucklins," and "The Captain's Ro- 

 mance," by Opie P. Read (The Arkansas Trav- 

 eler) : " The Country of the Pointed Firs," by Sarah 

 Orne Jewett. meaning, of course, the State of Maine ; 

 " The Tin Kitchen," by Rev. J. Hatton Weeks, and 

 "The End of the Beginning," anonymous, both 

 with the scene laid in New England ; "The Victory 

 of Ezry Gardner," an idyl of Nantucket, by Imo- 

 gen Clark; "Behind Manhattan Gables," a story 

 of New Amsterdam, 1G63-'G4, by Rev. Edward A. 

 Rand; "Green Gates: An Analysis of Foolishness." 

 by Mrs. Katharine Mary Checver Meredith (Johanna 

 Staats); " Stonepastures," by Eleanor Stuart, the 



