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LITERATURE, AMERICAN, IN 1896. 



its origins and teachings investigated by Elizabeth 

 A. Reed. " Turkey and the Armenian Atrocities," 

 by Rev. Edwin Bliss and Rev. Cyrus Hamlin, had 

 an introduction by Miss Frances E. Willard ; and 

 " Armenia's Ordeal," by Armayis P. Vartooguian, 

 went through a second edition. " The Mystery of 

 Sleep " was explained by John Bigelow as the 

 means of developing the spiritual power of man ; 

 and "True Memory; the Philosopher's Stone; its 

 Loss through Adam ; its Recovery through Christ" 

 was a theory advanced by Mrs. Calvin K. Reifsnider. 

 "Contributions to the History of Christ Church, 

 Hartford " filled a large volume ; " History and Rec- 

 ords of the First Congregational Church, Hanover, 

 Mass., 1727-1865, and Inscriptions from the Head- 

 stones and Tombs in the Cemetery at Center Han- 

 over, 1727-1894," by L. Vernon Briggs, was the first 

 volume of a work upon " The Church and Cemetery 

 Records of Hanover, Mass." "A Silver Jubilee" 

 celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of the First 

 Congregational Church, Montclair, N. J., and of the 

 pastorate of Amory Howe Bradford, its first and 

 only minister, 1870-'95. " Our Seminaries" was 

 the title of an essay on clerical training, by Rev. 

 John Talbot Smith, and the "Alumni Record of 

 Drew Theological Seminary, 1869-1895" was pub- 

 lished. Frank Landon Humphreys traced "The 

 Evolution of Church Music," the work having a 



Preface by Bishop Henry C. Potter : and Hiram 

 orson wrote on " The Voice and Spiritual Educa- 

 tion." Anna Robertson Brown advocated " Culture 

 and 'Reform," and Charles Sunmer Nickerson edit- 

 ed " Noble Living," a series of studies as to the de- 

 velopment of the deeper life in men. 



Unclassified. Books of a general character not 

 falling under any of the classifications heretofore 

 made include : " The Story of the Mine as illus- 

 trated by the Great Comstock Lode of Nevada," 

 contributed by Charles Howard Shinn to the " Story 

 of the West Series "; "The Mineral Industry: It's 

 Statistics, Technology, and Trade in the United 

 States and Other Countries from the Earliest Times 

 to the End of 1895," edited by Richard P. Roth- 

 well; "The Story of American Coals," by William 

 Jasper Nicolls; and Vol. I of "Great American In- 

 dustries," described for young people by W. F. 

 Rocheleau. " Whom to Trust " was a treatise on 

 mercantile credits by P. R. Earling; J. H. Lewis 

 told " How to buy Life Insurance " ; and " Pennsyl- 

 vania Securities, 1894-'9o," was published by the 

 Securities Company. " Poor's Manual of 'Rail- 

 roads of the United States for 1896 " completed its 

 twenty-ninth year, and the tenth annual issue was 

 also made of " Poor's Directory of Railway Offi- 

 cials." J. Glover prepared " Formulae for Railway 

 Crossings and Switches," and L. F. Loree discussed 

 " Emergencies in Railway Work " in the " University 

 of Wisconsin Engineering Series." A new rewritten 

 and revised edition appeared of John B. Henck's 

 " Field Book for Railway Engineers." " Cavalry 

 Studies from Two Great Wars" formed No. 2 of the 

 " International Series " ; Laurence L. Bruff prepared 

 " A Text-book of Ordnance and Gunnery " for the 

 use of cadets of the United States Military Academy ; 

 and " Cadet Life at West Point " was described by 

 Lieut. Hugh T. Reed. "The Final War" was an- 

 ticipated by Louis Tracy. "The Ship's Company 

 and Other Sea People," by James D. Jerrold Kelley, 

 consisted of eight articles about life on the water 

 board, on the great Atlantic steamers, on yachts, 

 and on men-of-war; and " Whalers and Whaling" 

 were the theme of Nannie Belle Maury. J. Slater 

 Lewis wrote on " The Commercial Organization of 

 Factories"; R. R. Williams compiled "The Amer- 

 ican Hardware Store " ; " Modern Stonecutting 

 and Masonry" came from John S. Siebert and F. 

 C. Biggin ; " The Chronicle Fire Tables for 1896 " 



was an expensive volume ; and William Paul Ger- 

 hard selected "Theater Fires and Panics: Their 

 Causes and Prevention " for his consideration. 

 Edward Wegmann chronicled "The Water Supply 

 of the City of New York, 1658-1895 " ; Harold Col- 

 let published " Water Softening and Purification " ; 

 E. Barley Denton, "Sewage Purification brought 

 up to Date"; Henry Robinson, "Sewage and Sew- 

 age Disposal " ; and M. N. Baker, " Sewerage and 

 Sewage Purification." James J. Lawler gave rules 

 for " American Sanitary Plumbing," and P. J. 

 Davis's " Standard Practical Plumbing," in two vol- 

 umes, went through a fourth revised edition. Ed- 

 mund B. Weston published " Tables showing Loss 

 of Head due to Friction of Water in Pipes " ; Lute 

 Wilcox gave his attention to " Irrigation Farming " ; 

 Gifford Pinchot and Henry S. Graves made a study 

 of " The White Pine," with tables of volume and 

 yield; Abbot Kinney advocated the cultivation of 

 "Eucalyptus"; Andrew S. Fuller advised "The 

 Nut Culturist " ; and a fourth edition, revised and 

 rewritten, of " American Grape Growing and Wine 

 Making," by George llusmann, contained several 

 added chapters on the grape industries of Califor- 

 nia. Daniel Denison Slade traced " The Evolution 

 of Horticulture in New England " ; " American 

 Highways," by Prof. N. S. Shaler, gave a popular 

 account of their conditions and of the means by 

 which they may be bettered ; and Alfred Perkins 

 Rockwell described "Roads and Pavements in 

 France." A manual for " Bicycle Repairing " was 

 compiled by S. D. V. Burr from articles in "The 

 Iron Age," and " Bicycles and Tricycles " were the 

 subject of a volume by Archibald Sharp. " Occu- 

 pations of the Negroes," by Henry Gannett, was 

 published by the trustees of the John F. Slater 

 fund ; Charles W. Reinhardt wrote on " Lettering 

 for Draftsmen " ; and Charles F. Jackson on 

 "Mechanical Drawing." James E. Munson gave 

 much space to the " Art of Phonography " ; Rev. 

 D. A. Quinn to " Stenotypy : or, Shorthand by the 

 Typewriter"; Norman P. Heffley prepared "A 

 Complete Manual of the Pitman System of Pho- 

 nography " ; and W. L. Mason arranged " Phono- 

 graphic Lesson Cards in Isaac Pitman ' Phonogra- 

 phy.' " " The Complete Bachelor : Manners for 

 Men," came from the author of the "As Seen by 

 Him " papers ; " Social Observances," from " Au 

 Fait " ; and " Official, Diplomatic, and Social Eti- 

 quette of Washington " was compiled by Kathcrine 

 Elwes Thomas, and had an introductory note by 

 Mrs. John A. Logan. W. H. Bailey, Sr., wrote of 

 "The Detective Faculty as illustrated from Judi- 

 cial Records and Actualities of Experience " ; 

 Henry W. McVickar described " The Evolution of 

 Woman " ; and George Wolfe Shinn gave " Friend- 

 ly Talks about Marriage." " Among the Freaks," 

 by William L. Alden, was illustrated by J. F. Sul- 

 livan and Florence K. Upton ; " Vikings of To- 

 day," by Wilfred T. Grenfell, told of life and med- 

 ical work among the fishermen of Labrador; and 

 Kansas in 1856 was the scene of " For Freedom's 

 Sake," by Arthur Paterson. "The New Charter" 

 was a discussion of the rights of men and the rights 

 of animals by J. C. Kenworthy, A. L. Lilley, J. 

 Oldfield, and others. Morgan Homer Dyer' was the 

 author of " Dyer's Index to Land Grants in West 

 Virginia " ; " A Manual for Boards of Health and 

 Health Officers" was the work of Lewis Balch. 

 Charles Comins treated of " Newspaper Bookkeep- 

 ing and Accounts " ; and J. Harrington Keene 

 (Grapho) of " The Mystery of Handwriting." " Cya- 

 nide Processes'" were described by E. B. Wilson; 

 "Professional Papers" on mining and metallurgy, 

 read by Thomas A. Rickard before the Ameri- 

 can Institute of Mining Engineers, were collected 

 into a volume ; Oberlin Smith treated of the 



