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LITERATURE, AMERICAN, IN 1896. 



ments of Plane and Spherical Trigonometry," to- 

 gether with which were included " Logarithmic and 

 Trigonometric Tables Five Decimal Places,'' were 

 prepared by C. W. Crockett : Andrew W. Phillips 

 and Irving Fisher collaborated upon " Elements of 

 Geometry " ; Charles A. Hobbs set forth " The Ele- 

 ments of Plane Geometry " ; as did A. R. Hornbook 

 " Concrete Geometry for Beginners " ; and " Plane 

 and Solid Geometry " was the work of Wooster W. 

 Beman and David Eugene Smith. Vol. I was issued 

 of a new edition of William M. Gillespie's " Treat- 

 ise on Surveying," revised and enlarged by Cady 

 Staley, and W. G. Raymond published "A Text- 

 book of Plane Surveying." The contributions to 

 intellectual philosophy were not numerous. They 

 included " The Power of Thought," by John Doug- 

 las Sterrett, to which Prof. J. Mark Baldwin fur- 

 nished an introduction ; " The Truth of Thought," 

 by William Poland, termed in the subtitle " Mate- 

 rial Logic " ; F. Ryland's " Logic," an introductory 

 manual for the use of university students ; and two 

 works on " Inductive Logic," the same title having 

 been selected by John Grier Hibben and William 

 G. Ballantine. Bulletins of the Department of Ge- 

 ology of the University of California published dur- 

 ing the year included"" The Geology of Point Sal," 

 by Harold W. Fairbanks ; " On Malignite," by An- 

 drew 0. Lawson ; and " The Great Valley of Cali- 

 fornia : A Criticism of the Theory of Isostasy," by 

 F. Leslie Ransome ; and in the " Bulletins of the 

 University of Wisconsin " appeared " Electrical En- 

 gineering in Modern Central Stations," by Louis A. 

 Ferguson ; "A Complete Test of Modern'American 

 Transformers of Moderate Capacities," by Arthur 

 Hillyer Ford; and " The Problem of Economical 

 Heat, Light, and Power Supply for Building 

 Blocks, Schoolhouses, etc.," by G. A. Gerdtzen. 

 The " Fifteenth and Sixteenth Annual Reports 

 of the United States Geological Survey " were is- 

 sued, and a new enlarged edition of the " Science 

 Sketches " of Prof. David Starr Jordan may be as 

 well mentioned here as anywhere. 



History. Quite a number of books of history 

 were published during the year, many of excep- 

 tional value. George Park Fisher, D. D., gave " A 

 Brief History of the Nations and of their Progress 

 in Civilization," and George Shelley Hughs re- 

 viewed "Ancient Civilizations." Vol. II appeared 

 of George Ticknor Curtis's " Constitutional History 

 of the United States," edited by Joseph Culbertson 

 Clayton, completing that valuable work ; Edward 

 Channing and Albert Bushnell Hart were the joint 

 authors of a "Guide to the Study of American 

 History"; Edward Eggleston in " The Beginnings 

 of a Nation " traced the history of the source and 

 rise of the earliest English settlements in America, 

 with special reference to the life and character of 

 the people ; two volumes contained " The History 

 of the Last Quarter Century in the United States, 

 1870-1895," by Prof. E. B. Andrews; John Bach 

 McMaster's "With the Fathers" consisted of 

 studies in the history of the United States ; while 

 James Schouler presented " Historical Briefs," in- 

 cluding a biography. "Beneath Old Roof-trees," 

 by Abram English Brown, in the series of " Foot- 

 prints of the Patriots,'' gave a view of the opening 

 of the Revolution; the first of five volumes which 

 will contain "The People's Standard History of 

 the United States, from the Landing of the Norse- 

 men to the Present Time," by Edward S. Ellis, was 

 issued, and from the same author we had " Stories 

 from American History" and "Epochs in Ameri- 

 can History," both in the " American History Se- 

 ries." Arthur Middleton Reeves edited "The 

 Finding of Wineland the Good," the history of the 

 Icelandic discovery of America, translated from 

 the earliest records ; " The Evolution of an Empire," 



by Mrs. Mary P. Parmele, in the "Evolution of 

 Empire Series" gave a brief historical sketch of 

 the United States; William A. and Arthur May 

 Mowry wrote " A History of the United States for 

 Schools"; and Thomas Hunter "A Narrative His- 

 tnry of the United States" for the same purpose. 

 The first of about 60 volumes destined to contain 

 " The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents " was 

 edited by Reuben Gold Thwaites, and covered 

 "Acadia: 1610-1613," and S. M. Hamilton per- 

 formed a similar service for "The Hamilton Fac- 

 similes of Manuscripts in the National Archives 

 ii latiug to American History," Part I of which 

 was given to the " The Monroe Doctrine : Its Origin 

 and Intent," and appeared in the series of "The 

 Study of History from Original Sources." William 

 Hayden English wrote an extensive work upon the 

 " Conquest of the Country Northwest of the River 

 Ohio, 1778-1783," including a life of Gen. George 

 Rogers Clark, which filled two volumes. Dr. Ezra 

 Hoyt Byington made a study of " The Puritan in 

 England and New England"; William Bradford's 

 "History of the Plimoth Plantation" was repro- 

 duced in facsimile by photography of the original 

 manuscript, and published with an introduction by 

 John A. Doyle ; three volumes of " Old South Leaf- 

 lets," published by the Directors of the Old South 

 Work, Old South Meeting House, 1896. were issued ; 

 and Edward Field gave an historical account of 

 Revolutionary Defenses in Rhode Island." The 

 " History of the Transition from Provincial to Com- 

 monwealth Government in Massachusetts" was writ- 

 ten by Harry A. Gushing in the " Columbia College 

 Studies in History, Economics, and Public Law " ; 

 and " The Bay Colony " was a civil, religious, and 

 social history of the Massachusetts colony and its 

 settlements from the landing at Cape Ann in 1624 

 to the death of Gov. Winthrop in 1650, by William 

 Dummer Northend. Sydney G. Fisher told of 

 " The Making of Pennsylvania" ; and two novelists 

 appeared in a new role, Frank R. Stockton telling 

 "Stories of New Jersey" and Joel Chandler Harris 

 (Uncle Remus) "Stories of Georgia" in serious 

 vein. " Miscellanies of Georgia," historical, bio- 

 graphical, descriptive, etc., came from Absalom H. 

 ChappelL Two volumes contained the "Economic 

 History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century," 

 by Philip Alexander Bruce; and the "Proceedings 

 of the Virginia State Society of the Cincinnati from 

 the 6th of October, 1783, to the Disbanding of the 

 Society, Oct. 13, 1824" were put in print. In the 

 "Johns Hopkins University Studies" appeared 

 " Causes of the Maryland Revolution of 1689," by 

 Francis Edgar Sparks ; and " A Study of Slavery 

 in New Jersey," by Henry Schofield Cooley ; " Naval 

 Actions of the War of 1812" were chronicled by 

 James Barnes "The Story of Canada" was written 

 by John G. Bourinot for the " Story of the Nations 

 Series " ; while " The Province of Quebec and the 

 Early American Revolution " was a study in Eng- 

 lish-American colonial history, by Victor Coffin, 

 published in the " Bulletins of the University of 

 Wisconsin." "One Hundred Years of American 

 Commerce, 1795-1895," in two superb volumes, was 

 edited by Chauncey M. Depew, being a history of 

 the first century of American commerce by 100 

 Americans. In the series of "Harvard Historical 

 Studies" we had "The Contest over the Ratifica- 

 tion of the Federal Constitution in the State of 

 Massachusetts," by Samuel Bannister Harding; "A 

 Critical Study of Nullification in South Carolina," 

 by David Franklin Houston ; and " The Suppres- 

 sion of the African Slave Trade to the United States 

 of America, 1638-1870," by W. E. B. Du Bois. 

 " Modern Battles of Trenton " was a history of New 

 Jersey's politics and legislation from 1868 to 1894, 

 by William Edgar Sacketts ; " A Bibliography of 



