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LITERATURE, AMERICAN, IN 1896. 



by Mrs. Harriet M. Lothrop, beloved of children as 

 Margaret Sidney, told the tale of an heirloom; "Isla 

 Heron," by Mrs. Laura E. Richards, a companion 

 volume to her " Nautilus," was illustrated by Frank 

 T. Merrill ; Sarah E. Morrison described " Chil- 

 howee Boys at College " ; Elizabeth Westyn Tim- 

 low told of "Cricket at the Seashore"; Amy E. 

 Blanchard wrote "Taking a Stand"; Alida W. 

 Graves, " A Little Maiden's Victory " ; Mary A. 

 Denison, " An Everyday -Heroine " ; and Mrs. Myra 

 S. Hamlin, " Nan at Camp Chicopee : or, Nan's 

 Summer with the Boys." "Christine's Career" 

 was a story for girls, by Pauline King ; " Malvern," 

 a neighborhood story, by. Ellen Douglas Deland ; 

 " Bushy," a romance founded on fact, by Cynthia 

 M. Westover (now Mrs. John Alden), while from 

 Eliza Orne White we had " A Little Girl of Long 

 Ago " ; from Joel Chandler Harris (Uncle Re- 

 mus), " The Story of Aaron (so named) the Son of Ben 

 AH " ; from A. G. Plympton, " The Black Dog, and 

 Other Stories " ; from Mrs. Evelyn H. Raymond, 

 " A Cape May Diamond " ; from Amanda M. Dou- 

 glas, " A Little Girl in Old New York" and "The 

 Mistress of Sherburne," the last for grown-up folks ; 

 from Edith Robinson, "A Loyal Little Maid' ; from 

 Nora Perry, " Three Little Daughters of the Revolu- 

 tion " ; and from Barbara Yechton (Lydia F. Krause) 

 " We Ten." " One of the Sweet Old Chapters " was 

 a fragment by Rose Porter, in the series of " Re- 

 naissance Booklets." Mrs. Jeanie Gould Lincoln 

 pictured "A Genuine Girl"; Mrs. Clarke Johnson 

 told of " Her College Days " ; " Above the Range " 

 was a story for girls by Theodora R. Jenin-^: 

 "The Boys of Clovernook," by Mary Barnes Beal, 

 told the story of five boys on a farm; and Mrs. 

 Mary H. Henry (Howe Benning) made "Grandpa's 

 Desk" interesting. Mary M. Mears published 

 "Emma Lou: Her Book"; Mrs. Kate Tannatt 

 Woods, " Mopsy : Her Tangles and Triumphs '' ; 

 Anna Chapin Ray, " Dick : A Story for Boys and 

 Girls"; Marshall Saunders, "Charles and his 

 Lamb " and " For the Other Boy's Sake, and Other 

 Stories " ; Lily F. Wesselhoeft, " Jerry the Blun- 

 derer " ; Mrs. M. A. H. Fisher, " Max and Zan and 

 Nicodemus " ; Rev. Charles S. Wood, " Alice and 

 her Two Friends '.' ; Winifred Johnes, " Memoirs of 

 a Little Girl " ; Mrs. Lucy C. W. Lillie, " Elinor 

 Belden : or, The Stepbrothers " ; Mrs. Alicia As- 

 pinwall, " Short Stories for Short People " ; and 

 Virge Reese Phelps (Victor Meredith Bell) "Lit- 

 tle Nin." " Happy Children " were the theme of 

 Mrs. Ella F. Pratt ; " Tommy-Anne and the Three 

 Hearts," by Mabel Osgood Wright, was illustrated 

 by Albert D. Blashfield ; " Sir Knight of the Golden 

 Pathway " was tenderly outlined by Anna S. P. 

 Duryea: Annie Key Bartow added "The Sign of 

 the North Star " to the " Little Heroine Series " ; as 

 R. H. Jayne did "The Golden Rock" to the "St. 

 Nicholas Series " ; and Mrs. Helen H. Farley 

 (Ernest Gilmore) told the story of " Sweetheart." 

 " Zigzag Stories of History, Travel, and Adven- 

 ture," by Hezekiah Butterworth, contained selec- 

 tions from the best stories from the " Zigzag Series " ; 

 and among the tales of the marvellous with which 

 the young are never satiated are " The Wallypug of 

 Why," by G. E. Farrow, with page illustrations by 

 Harry Furniss and vignettes by his daughter, Doro- 

 thy ; " The Dwarf's Tailor, and Other Fairy Tales," 

 compiled by Mrs. Zoe Dana Underhill ; " Sayings 

 and Doings in Fairyland," by D. S. Sinclair ; " The 

 Fairies of Fern Dingle," by Mrs. Harriet A. Cheev- 

 er, who convey information concerning natural his- 

 tory in pleasing form, as " The Wonderful Fairies 

 of the Sun," by Ernest Vincent Wright,- and " Seed- 

 Babies," by Margaret Warner Morley, explain va- 

 rious workings of Nature. " What the Dragon Fly 

 Told the Children" was repeated by Frances Bell 



Corn-sen. Henrietta Christian Wright was the au- 

 thor of " Children's Stories in American Literature, 

 1861-1896." A handsome new edition was issued 

 of " The Boys of '61," by Charles Carleton Coffin 

 which has held its own for thirty years. 



Medicine and Surgery. Vols. V and VI ap- 

 peared of " Twentieth Century Practice," an interna- 

 tional cyclopedia of modern medical science, by au- 

 thorities of Europe and America, edited by Thomas 

 L. Stedman, M. D., and George M. Gould edited 

 " The American Yearbook of Medicine and Surgery, 

 being a yearly digest of scientific progress and au- 

 thoritative opinion in all branches of medicine and 

 surgery. " Physical and Natural Therapeutics," by 

 Georges Hayem, M. D., and Dr. Hobart Amory 

 Hare, discussed the remedial use of heat, electricity, 

 modifications of atmospheric pressure, climates, and 

 mineral waters; Frank P.Foster, M. D., edited a 

 Reference Book of Practical Therapeutics," by 

 various authors, in two volumes ; Dr. Hare's " Text- 

 book of Practical Therapeutics" went through a 

 new fifth edition ; George Frank Butler, M. D., was 

 the author of "A Text-book of Materia Medica, 

 Therapeutics, and Pharmacology"; James B. Her- 

 rick, M. D., of a " Handbook of Diagnosis " ; and 

 Dr. Jacob M. Da Costa's " Medical Diagnosis" went 

 through a new eighth edition, revised and enlarged. 

 The first of five volumes containing "A System of 

 Medicine, by Many Writers," edited by Thomas 

 Clill'ord Allbutt, M. D., contained "Prolegomena 

 and Infectious Diseases " ; George Roe Lockwood 

 prepared a " Manual of the Practice of Medicine ; " 

 an eleventh revised edition appeared of Dr. Alfred 

 L. Loomis's "Text-book of Practical Medicine"; 

 and a fourth revised and enlarged edition of Dr. C. 

 G. Rand's " Special Pathology and Diagnostics, 

 with Therapeutic Hints." "An American Text- 

 book of Physiology," by Henry P. Bowditch, M. D., 

 John G. Curtis, ML D., Henry 'II. Donaldson. M. D., 

 and others, was edited by William H. Howell ; Dr. 

 Henry Newell Martin's work upon " The Human 

 Body" went through a seventh revised edition; 

 Dr. George A. Piersol's " Text-book of Normal His- 

 tology " through a fourth edition. " The Eye and 

 its Care " was the theme of Dr. Frank Allport ; 

 " Epidemic Ophthalmia," of Sydney Stephenson ; 

 and Dr. Thomas Barr's " Manual of Diseases of 

 the Ear " appeared in a second revised and rewrit- 

 ten edition. " Cutaneous Medicine " was the title 

 of a systematic treatise on diseases of the skin by 

 Dr. Louis A. Duhring ; Dr. H. Radcliffe Crocker's 

 " Atlas of the Diseases of the Skin " was completed 

 by the issue of Parts XI to XVI ; and from S. P. 

 Impey, M. D., came "A Handbook of Leprosy." 

 "A Guide to the Aseptic Treatment of Wounds" 

 was supplied by Dr. C. Schimmelbusch : and Dr. 

 John K. Mitchell dwelt upon " Remote Conse- 

 quences of Injuries of Nerves and their Treatment," 

 making an examination of the present condition of 

 wounds received in 1863-'65, with additional illus- 

 trative cases. A new second edition was published 

 of Dr. Landon Carter Gray's " Practical Treatise on 

 Nervous and Mental Diseases," and a third revised 

 enlarged edition of Dr. Byron Brain well's "Dis- 

 eases of the Spinal Cord." " The Treatment of 

 Pulmonary Consumption " was considered in a 

 practical manual by Vincent Dormer Harris, M. D., 

 and Edwin Clifford Beale, and Dr. Charles Wilson 

 Ingraham laid down " Don'ts for Consumptives." 

 "Voice Building and Tone Placing," by Dr. H. 

 Holbrook Curtis, M. D., showed a new method of 

 relieving injured vocal cords by tone exercises. A 

 new fifth edition was issued of Melville C. KeilhV 

 ' Diphtheria," and a third edition of Dr. Alexander 

 llaig's " Uric Acid as a Factor in the Causation of 

 Disease." "Eating and Drinking: The Alkalinity 

 of the Blood the Test of Food and Drink in Health 



