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ness of the Righteous Dead," by Rev. J. 0. 

 French ; " Hosmer's Funeral Address on Na- 

 thaniel Fillmore ; " "Funeral Oration over Rev. 

 John McDowell, D. D.," by Rev. Morris C. Sut- 

 phen ; " Sketch of Antonio Bishallany," by Rev. 

 Chas. Whitehead ; " Funeral Discourses by Rev. 

 "W. B. Sprague, D.D., over Rev. Samuel Os- 

 good, D.D., of Springfield, Mass., and Rev. 

 Timothy Woodbridge, of Spencertown, N. Y. ; " 

 " Commemorative Sermon of Reverend Samuel 

 H. Turner, D.D.," by Rev. S. R. Johnson, D.D. ; 

 " Discourse at the Funeral of Rev. Richard 

 Pike, of Dorchester," by Rev. Nathaniel Hull, 

 D.D. ; " Biographical Memoir of Dr. "William D. 

 Brinckle," by Dr. E. B. Gardette ; Rev. S. M. Has- 

 kins's " The Child of Grace " (Margaret L. B. 

 Ballou) ; " Rev. Theodore Tebbetts, a Memori- 

 al," by Rev. E. 0. Turner. Other biographies 

 are the following : "Memoir of Genevra Guer- 

 rabella; " "Essay on the Character and Influ- 

 ence of Washington in the Revolution of the 

 United States of America," by Guizot ; " The 

 Harvest work of the Holy Spirit, illustrated in 

 the Evangelistic Labors of Rev. Edward Pay- 

 son Hammond," by Rev. P. 0. Headley; "A 

 new Memoir of Hannah More," by Mrs. Helen 

 C. Knight; "A Brief Memoir of Sir Walter 

 Raleigh ; " "A popular Life of St. Patrick, by 

 an Irish Priest ; " " Sketch of the Life of Rev. 

 Michael Wigglesworth, A. M., author of The 

 Day of Doom," by John Ward Dean; "Drift- 

 ing About, an Autobiography," by Stephen C. 

 Massett; Dr. Winslow Lewis's "Address at the 

 Annual Meeting of the New England Historic 

 Genealogical Society ; " " Ninetieth Birthday 

 Gathering of Rev. Chas. Cleveland, Jan. 21st, 

 1862;" "Following after Jesus: A Memorial 

 of Susan Maria Underwood," by Mrs. Eliza H. 

 Anderson; " The Captivity of Gen. Corcoran;" 

 Major W. D. Reynolds's " Miss Martha Brown- 

 low, or the Heroine of Tennessee; " "Reminis- 

 cences of Amherst College, Biographical, Auto- 

 biographical," fec, by Ed ward Hitchcock, D.D.; 

 "A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of 

 Levi Hanford, a Soldier of the Revolution," by 

 Chas. J.Bushnell; " Life of Archbishop Laud," 

 by Rev. John N. Norton, D. D. ; " Toussaint 

 L'Ouverture, a Biography and Autobiography." 

 There were very few biographic reprints. The 

 most important were: "'Christopher North,' a 

 Memoir of John Wilson," by his daughter Lady 

 Gordon; "Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta 

 Family," by one of themselves ; " Remains, in 

 Prose and Verse of Arthur Henry Hallam, with 

 a memoir; " " Victor Hugo, by a Witness of his 

 Life " (Mme. Hugo) ; " Renan's Life of Jesus; " 

 "Life of Bishop Wilson, of Calcutta," by Rev. 

 John N. Norton, D. D. ; "Life of Chopin," by F. 

 Liszt. The contributions to genealogy have 

 been larger than usual. We subjoin the most 

 important : " The Sutton Dudleys in England, 

 and the Dudleys of Massachusetts in New Eng- 

 land, from the Roman conquest to the present 

 time," by George Adlard ; A letter concerning 

 Family History, by Andrew Brown ; " The Cha- 

 pin Genealogy," by Orange Chapin; "The 



Toppans of Toppan's Lane," by Joshua Coffin ; 

 "The true Genealogy of the Dunnel and Dwin- 

 nel Family of New England," by Henry G. Dun- 

 nel, M. D. ; " Genealogy of Othniel Phelps, Esq., 

 of Aylmer, C. W. ; " Genealogy of a portion of 

 the Pope Family, together with Biographical 

 Notices of Col. William Pope, of Boston, and 

 some of his descendants ; " " Genealogical Me- 

 moir of the Huntington Family in the United 

 States," by Rev. E. B. Huntington ; " Genealogy 

 of the Montgomery Family," by T. H. Montgom- 

 ery; "Genealogy of the Stiles Family, "by Henry 

 R. Stiles, M. D. Several collections of biogra- 

 phies have been published during the year, some 

 of them serials, others in volumes. The prin- 

 cipal were : " Portraits of Celebrated Women, 

 with brief Biographies; " " The Old Merchants 

 of New York," by Walter Barrett, clerk ; "Am- 

 erican Annual Monitor, or Obituary of the Mem- 

 bers of the Society of Friends," for the years 1861 

 and 1862 ; " Men of the Time," three numbers, 

 being biographies of Hooker, Rosecrans, Pope, 

 Burnside, Banks, Butler, &c. ; " BramhalTs Mil- 

 itary Souvenir, a Portrait Gallery of our Military 

 and Naval Heroes ; " " The American Nation Il- 

 lustrated in the Lives of her Fallen Braves and 

 Living Heroes," by J. Gilmary Shea, LL. D. ; 

 "The National Portrait Gallery of Eminent 

 Americans," by Evert A. Duyckinck ; " The 

 Portrait Monthly;" "The New England His- 

 toric Genealogical Register," quarterly; "Obit- 

 uary Record of the Alumni of Yale College." 

 The number of works of a theological or relig- 

 ious character published during the year was 

 greatly in excess of former years. Including 

 translations, there were 40 reprints. The Co- 

 lenso controversy, in the early part of the 

 year, attracted much attention, three volumes 

 of Bishop Colenso's works being reprinted dur- 

 ing the year, and replies from Rev. W. H. 

 Green, D. D., Rev. Dr. Gumming, Rev. Dr. Ma- 

 h:m, Rev. Abiel Silver, Rev. C. Walworth, Rev. 

 M. Heiss, and others, being published. Of 

 works on the Scriptures, illustrative or explana- 

 tory, the following were the most important : 

 " The Life of our Lord upon Earth, considered 

 in its Historical, Chronological, and Geograph- 

 ical Relations," by Rev. Samuel J. Andrews; 

 "The New Testament: the common English 

 Version Corrected by the final Committee of 

 the American Bible Union ; " " The New Tes- 

 tament, with critical Explanatory Notes and 

 Scholia," by Howard Crosby, D. D.; "The 

 Bible Atlas and Gazetteer;" "An Exposition 

 of the Epistle of Paul to the Romans, 

 according to the Analogy of the Catholic 

 Faith," by Rev. Morgan Dix ; " A Morning 

 Beside the Lake of Galilee " (reprinted), by J. 

 Hamilton, D.D. ; " The Bible as an Educating 

 Power among the Nations," by John S. Hart, 

 LL.D.; "A Year with St. Paul," by Charles 

 E. Knox ; " The Risen Redeemer," by F. W. 

 Krummacher, D.D. ; " The Astronomy of the 

 Bible," by O. M. Mitchel ; " Bible Illustrations ; 

 being a Storehouse of Similes, Allegories, and 

 Anecdotes, selected from Spencer's Things 





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