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LITERATURE, AMERICAN, IN 1896. 



Kendall Munkittrick ; "The Skeleton's Message, 

 and Other Poems " from Mrs. Lydia Landon 

 Elliott; "The Pilgrim, and Other Poems" from 

 Sophie Jewett (Ellen Burroughs); "The Road to 

 Cast alii, y " from Alice Brown : a.nd " A Quiet Road " 

 from Lizette Woodworth Reese, the author of " A 

 .Ilaiidl'iil of Lavender." " Poems" of Caroline and 

 Alice Duer were given to the world ; " Out of a Sil- 

 ver Flute " was the title of a volume by Philip 

 Verrill Mighels : David W. McCourt wrote " Tlie 

 Treasures of Weinsberg, and Other Poems " ; Belle 

 Gray Taylor, "Captive Conceits"; John Langdon 

 Heaton, "The Quilting Bee, and Other Rhymes"; 

 and George Benson Hewetson, " The Strike, and 

 Oilier Poems." "Custer, and Other Poems.'' by 

 Ella Wheeler Wilcox, and " The March to the Sea," 

 by Samuel II. M. Byers, may be termed military 

 poetry ; " Abraham Lincoln " was the subject of a 

 poem by Lyman Whitney Allen: "What Cheer '. 

 or, Roger Williams in Banishment." by Job Durfee, 

 was revised and edited by Thomas Durfee ; and 

 " l!;illads of New Jersey in the Revolution" were 

 collected by Charles I). Platt. " The Poems of 

 (Vila Thaxter " appeared in an Appledore edition, 

 edited by Sarah Orne Jewett, and new editions 

 were made of the "Poems" of II. C. Bunner and 

 "The Collected Poems" of Dr. Silas Weir Mitchell. 

 Among collections of poetry are to be especially 

 mentioned the "Book of Old English Ballads," 

 with an accompaniment of decorative drawings by 

 George Wharton Edwards and ;in introduction by 

 W. Hamilton Mabie ; "A Cycle of Sonnets," edited 

 by Mabel Loomis Todd ; " National Epics," com- 

 piled by Kate Milman Rabb ; " Our Nation's His- 

 tory and Song," with the campaign songs our 

 fathers sung from Washington to Cleveland, by 

 Joseph M. Clary ; " Songs of the South," compiled 

 and edited by Jennie Thornlcy Clarke, with an in- 

 troduction by Joel Chandler Harris (Uncle Remus) ; 

 " Love's Demesne," a garland of contemporary love 

 poems gathered from many sources, by George 11. 

 Ellwanger, in two volumes; " In My Lady's Name," 

 poems of love and beauty compiled and arranged 

 by Charles Wells Moulton ; " Nine Love Songs and 

 a Carol," set to music by Kate Douglas Wiggin 

 (Mrs. George C. Riggs) ; "Through Love to Light," 

 a selection of songs of good courage, by John 

 White Chadwick and Annie Hathaway ; the two 

 volumes of the third series of Horace Parker Chan- 

 dler's " Lover's Yearbook of Poetry," devoted to 

 " The Other Life " ; and " The Medical Muse, Grave 

 and Gay," a collection of rhymes up to date by the 

 doctor, for the doctor, and against the doctor, com- 

 piled by John P. B. Lillard. "A Metrical History 

 of the Life and Times of Napoleon Bonaparte" was 

 arranged by William J. Hillis from poems and 

 songs; "Songs from the Greek" were translated 

 by Jane Minot Sedgwick ; "Armenian Poems ren- 

 dered into English Verse" were compiled and 

 translated by Alice Stone Blackwcll ; and " Songs 

 chiefly from the German " came from Bishop J. L. 

 Spalding. " Kallirrhoe " was a dramatic poem by 

 Philip Becker Goetz, and "Daphne: or, the Pipes 

 of Arcadia Three Acts of Nonsense,'' the libretto 

 of a comic opera, by Marguerite Merington, the 

 author of "Captain Lelterblair " ; "The Puppet 

 Booth" was the title of twelve plays by Henry B. 

 Fuller; John Kendrick Bangs published " The Bi- 

 cyclers, and Three Other Farces " : and " Three Irish 

 Bardic Tales " were metrical versions of the three 

 tales known as the " Three Sorrows of Story Tell- 

 ing," by John Todhunter. 



Political, Social, and Moral Science. Works 

 of this class were of necessity numerous during 1896, 

 a few possessing lasting value, but many of epheme- 

 ral interest. The history and influence of " Political 

 Parties in the United States " was traced by Jacob 



Harris Patton, and " Problems of Modern Democ- 

 racy" was the title of political and economic essays 

 by Edwin Lawrence Godkin. Westel W. Willough- 

 by made "An Examination of the Nature of the 

 State," as a study in political philosophy. John R. 

 Commons wrote on " Proportional Representation" 

 for "Crowell's Library of Economics arid Politics"; 

 " Biennial Elections" were briefly treated by Ray- 

 mond Langdon Bridgman ; "The Speaker of the 

 House of Representatives," by M. P. Follett, had an 

 introduction by Albert Bushnell Hart ; "A Catechism 

 of the Constitution of the United States of America.'' 

 by John W. Overall, was adapted to students and 

 statesmen, and William Bondy considered " The 

 Separation of Governmental Powers in History, in 

 Theory, and in the Constitutions" in the " Columbia 

 College Studies," other issues of which comprised a 

 "History of Proprietary Government in Pennsyl- 

 vania," by William Robert Shepherd, and " Munici- 

 pal Government in Michigan and Ohio," by Delos F. 

 Wilcox. "The Legislation of Congress for the 

 Government of the Organized Territories of the 

 United States, 1789-1895," was traced by Max Far- 

 raud. " Municipal Reform in the United States," 

 by Thomas ( '. Devlin, appeared in the " Questions of 

 the Day Scries," another issue of which was the sug- 

 gest ion of "A General Freight and Passenger 

 Post," by James L. Cowles. A. Lawrence Lowell 

 devoted two volumes to "Governments and Parties 

 in Continental Europe," and Herbert M. Thompson 

 investigated "Russian Politics": "Southern Side 

 Lights," by Edward Ingle, in the " Library of Econo- 

 mics and Politics," gave a picture of social and 

 economic life in the South a generation before the 

 war: and Frederic L. Hoffman wrote on "Race 

 Traits and Tendencies of the African Negro" for the 

 " Publications of the American Economic Associa- 

 tion." In the "Johns Hopkins University Studies " 

 appeared " Southern Quakers and Slavery," a study 

 in institutional history, by Stephen B. Weeks; 

 "Colonial Origins of New England Semites," by 

 F. L. Riley ; " Representation in Virginia," by 

 Julian A. C. Chandler; a "History of Taxation 

 in Connecticut, 1636-1776," by Frank Robertson 

 Jones ; " Slavery and Servitude in the Colony of 

 North Carolina," by Frank Spencer Bassett ; " Gov- 

 ernment and Religion of the Virginia Indians," by 

 Samuel Rivers Hendrin: and "The City Government 

 of Baltimore," by Thaddeus P. Thomas. " America 

 and Europe : A Study of International Relations," 

 by eminent authorities, formed one of the issues of 

 the " Questions of the Day Series." and the " Proceed- 

 ings of the American Conference on International 

 Arbitration, held in Washington, D. C., April 22 

 and 23, 1896, were also published. John Bach 

 McMaster wrote on " The Origin, Meaning, and 

 Application of the Monroe Doctrine" for the 

 " Belles-Lettres Series " ; and Lindley M. Keasebey 

 discussed "The Nicaragua Canal and the Monroe 

 Doctrine" at full length in a political history of 

 isthmus transit, with special reference to the Nica- 

 ragua Canal project and the. attitude of the United 

 States Government thereto, and also in one of the 

 brief publications of the American Academy of 

 Political and Social Science. Finance, the leading 

 issue of political parties, was discussed at fullest 

 length and from every conceivable standpoint. "A 

 1 1 i story of Money and Prices " from the thirteenth 

 century to the present time was written by J. 

 Schoenhof in the " Questions of the Day Series"; 

 "An Essay on the Present Distribution of Wealth 

 in the United States." by Charles B. Spahr, for the 

 " Library of Economics and Politics " ; Logan C. Mc- 

 Pherson "studied " The Monetary and Banking Prob- 

 lem "; Alexander Del Mar's "History of Monet lary 

 Systems " went through a second revised edition ; 

 Charles A. Dana contributed a pamphlet on " Prou- 



