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ere ample, nor from want of employment ; reach 400. There are then not less than 1,650 

 but from his intense delight in literary pursuits, original American works which have passed 

 Before he graduated at Oxford he had become through the press during the past year, and an 

 a frequent contributor to the " Classical Jour- unusually large number of these have attained 

 nal and Foreign Quarterly Review," and at the a sale of more than 10,000 copies, while a few 

 age of twenty-one he had published a transla- have exceeded 50,000, and one or two 100,000 

 tion from the German of Boeckh'a " Treatise on TI,/ of T,,,^,.,.,,., *.!<.<. ~* ~.,vi:. 

 the Public Economy of the Athenians." At 

 e age of twenty -four, in conjunction with Mr. 

 lenry Tufnell, he translated Mailer's "His- 

 iry and Antiquities of the Doric Race." He 

 as editor of the " Edinburgh Review," from 

 December, 1852, to March, 1855, and left it re- 

 luctantly, when called to become Chancellor 

 of the Exchequer. Of the long list of his books, 

 many of them of great merit (though it is said 

 lot one of them ever paid ihe cost of publica- 



ion), the principal were : " Essay on the Use tory of the existing war there were 110; and 

 in d Abuse of Political terms ; " " On the Origin about 100 biographical works. Forty-six works 

 d Formation of the Romance Languages ; " 



copies. The most numerous class of publica- 

 tions were those for juvenile readers. Of 

 these, 420, or more than one fifth of the whole 

 number, were issued during the year. 203 

 were novels, of which somewhat more than 

 one half were reprints ; 205 were theological 

 and religious works. The number of works 

 on military science did not exceed 65, while 

 those on legal science numbered 75, and those 

 on medicine, 50. Of works devoted to history 

 a large portion of them referring to the his- 



; Inquiry into the Credibility of Early Roman 

 listory ; " " Influence of Authority in Matters 

 af Opinion ; " ''A Glossary of Provincial 

 fords used in Herefordshire ; " " Treatise on 

 10 Methods of Observation and Reasoning in 

 Politics ; " " On the Astronomy of the An- 

 cients," a work of great learning and research; 

 id a " Dialogue on the Best Form of Govern- 

 lent." He avowed promptly and boldly his 

 ympathy with the Northern States in the 

 present civil war in this country, and, though 

 "10 majority of Lord Palmerston's cabinet was 

 gainst him, his services were regarded as in- 

 lispensable. In private life, Sir G. C. Lewis 

 was a warm-hearted, happy man, always cheer- 

 ful and equable, and, though undemonstrative 

 in manner, strongly attached to his friends, 

 id greatly beloved by them. His death was 

 ary sudden, and affected the House of Com- 

 lons deeply. Even his political opponents 

 eulogized his worth, his conscientious adher- 

 ance to duty, and his devotion to the interests 

 Df the nation. 



LITERATURE AND LITERARY PROG- 

 JESS IN 1863. In no period of the past 

 listory of the United States has the literary 

 Btivity of the country been so manifest as in 

 36 year 1863. While the price of paper has 

 lore than doubled, and the cost of printing 

 id binding been greatly enhanced, and at the 

 same time the scarcity of skilled labor has ren- 

 dered production difficult, the number of news- 

 papers, periodicals, and magazines, has greatly 

 increased, and the circulation of those previ- 

 ously established been much enlarged, and the 

 number of new books issued surpasses that of 

 any previous year. A tolerably complete cata- 

 logue of the books of the year enumerates 

 2,050 distinct publications, a considerable num- 

 ber of them extending to two or more volumes. 

 The number of reprints has not been large. 

 Aside from translations, and books on which a 

 large amount of editorial labor has been be- 

 stowed in the way of notes, additions, appen- 

 dices, or introductions, there are but 297, and 

 including these the whole number does not 



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were devoted to physical science, and 25 to 

 mathematics and technology. Twelve works 

 were added to the domain of philology, of 

 which but one was reprinted from foreign pub- 

 lications. Political science was discussed in 130 

 distinct essays and treatises. Seventy works 

 were devoted to education. There were also 42 

 books in the department of art and illustrative 

 science ; 37 volumes of poems, including new 

 poems or collections of poems, by Bryant, 

 Longfellow, Whittier, &c. ; and 52- volumes of 

 essays. 



A considerable portion of the works on mili- 

 tary science are technical treatises for the in- 

 struction and guidance of particular arms of 

 the service. To this class belong "Hints to 

 Company Officers on their Military Duties," by 

 Capt. 0. C. Andrews, U. S. A. ; " The Auto- 

 maton Company, Regiment, and Battery," by 

 G. Douglas Brewerton, U. S. A. ; "Cavalry 

 Tactics," by Col. (now Gen.) Philip St. George 

 Cooke ; " A Military Manual for Schools," by 

 F. N. Freeman ; " Instructions for Officers and 

 Non-Commissioned Officers on Outpost and 

 Patrol Duty," &c. ; "Advanced Guard, Out- 

 post, and Detachment Service of Troops, with 

 the Essential Principles of Strategy and Grand 

 Tactics," by D. H. Mahan, LL.D. ; " Uniform 

 for Officers of U. S. Navy ; " " United States 

 Infantry Tactics for the use of Colored Troops; " 

 "The Company Clerk," by Capt. August V. 

 Kautz ; " Instructions for the Government 

 of Armies in the Field," by Francis Lieber, 

 LL.D. ; " The Military Laws of the U. S.," com- 

 piled by John F. Callan ; "De Hart on Courts 

 Martial;" "Manual of Instructions for Mili- 

 tary Surgeons in Examination of Recruits and 

 Discharge of Soldiers," by John Ordronaux, 

 M.D.; " Instructions for Enlisting and Discharg- 

 ing Soldiers," by R. Bartholow ; " The Army 

 Eegulations of 1861, Revised to 1863;" Gen. 

 Q. A. Gillmore's " Practical Treatise on Limes, 

 Hydraulic Cements, and Mortars ; " " Seaman- 

 ship," by Lieut.-Com. S. B. Luce ; " Strategy 

 and Tactics," by Gen. G. H. Dufour, translated 

 from the French, by Captain W. P. Craighill ; 

 Gen. John Gibbon's "Artillerist's Manual;" 



