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LITERATURE AND LITERARY PROGRESS IN 1863. 



H. Salter (" Asthma ") ; 0. F. Taylor (" Potts' 

 Disease of the Spine"); W. T. Helmuth 

 ("Diphtheria, Homoeopathic Treatment") ; Isaac 

 Ray ("Mental Hygiene"); Erasmus Wilson 

 ("Disease of the Skin," Reprint) ;W. A. Ham- 

 mond, Surgeon General, U. S. A. (" Hygiene 

 with reference to Military Service," and " Phy- 

 siological Memoirs"); J. Ordronaux ("Hints 

 on Health in Armies"); "J. J. Woodward 

 ("Camp Diseases in the U. S. Armies"); C. 

 Baunscheidt ( u On Diseases of the Eye, and 

 tlieir Cure by a New Method "). On medical 

 science there were : Dr. Martyn Paine's " In- 

 stitutes of Medicine," a new edition ; Dr. T. R. 

 Beck's "Medical Jurisprudence," new edition; 

 Dr. J. Carson's " Lectures on Materia Medica ; " 

 Dr. C. Dunham's " Homoeopathy : the Science 

 of Therapeutics ; " Dr. F. Chance's translation 

 of R. Virchow's " Cellular Pathology " (Re- 

 print); Dr. Norton's Prize Essay "On the 

 Senses of Smell and Taste ; " Dr. H. I. Bow- 

 ditch's "Medical Profession, a Means oft De- 

 veloping the whole Nature of Man ; " Dr. C. A. 

 Lee on ''Hospital Construction and Foreign 

 Hospitals," and an account of the " Hospital 

 Transports " of the Sanitary Commission. To 

 these may be added Dr. G. H. Tucker's "Medi- 

 cal Register of the City of New York ; " Dr. H. 

 Millard's " Homoeopathic Guide for Emergen- 

 cies," and the reprint of Dr. Brinton's " Medi- 

 cal Selection of Lives for Assurance. 



In the department of law, the most numer- 

 ous works were reports of cases decided in 

 the supremo courts and courts of appeal of the 

 States, and the United States ; of these, there 

 were published during the year, one or more 

 volumes of reports of the courts of seven- 

 teen States, two cities (New York and Phila- 

 delphia), and the Supreme Court of the United 

 States. There were also published. Digests 

 of the Laws of N. Y., by Abbott Brothers; 

 and Pennsylvania, by F. C. Brightly ; of Patent 

 Laws, by S. Law ; and of Taxation in the States, 

 by A. B. Sturt. Still other legal works were 

 devoted to the practice and pleadings, or his- 

 tory and jurisdiction of State or local courts, as 

 of the Surrogate Court, in N. Y., or probate 

 courts elsewhere, chancery courts, and The 

 Law of Trusts, Trustees, Administrators, Ex- 

 ecutors, Guardians, etc., by the late Judge T. 

 Reeve and other writers ; Equity Courts, by 

 Van Santvoord ; and Courts of Record, by 

 "Whittaker. Aside from the " Statutes at Large 

 of the U. S.," edited by G. P. Sanger, there 

 were published numerous editions of special 

 acts of Congress, as "The Direct and Excise 

 Tax Laws " (eight editions, some of them with 

 notes, decisions, explanations,' etc.); "Postal 

 Law," " Bank Law," " Loan, Revenue and Cur- 

 rency Acts," kc., &o., &c. ; a new edition of 

 Wheaton's "International Law," with notes W. 

 B. Lawrence ; and " The Law of Nations, Af- 

 fecting Commerce during the War," by F. II. 

 Upton, LL.B. There were also some reprints 

 of " Foreign Law Reports," and reports of two 

 important trials. 



In educational science aside from four or 

 five books on the new method of object teaching, 

 by Mr. E. A. Sheldon, Prof. Alphonso Ward, 

 and " Scotia," and a few works on general edu- 

 cational topics, of which the most important 

 were : " The Practical Education of Boys," by 

 Otis Bisbee, of the Poughkeepsie High School ; 

 " Help to Education in the Houses of our Coun- 

 try," by Rev. Warren Burton; "Levana; or 

 the Doctrine of Education," by J. P. F. Richter, 

 translated by Rev. C. T. Brooks ; " The Semi- 

 Centennial Anniversary of the Albany Acad- 

 emy," &c. the publications were mostly school 

 books. Of these there were English gram- 

 mars, by Messrs. H. Kiddle, N. G. Clarke, and 

 J. M. B. Sill; French grammars, by A. Vail- 

 lant and Prof. W. J. Knapp ; German gram- 

 mars, by Dr. Emil Otto and J. S. Oehlschlager 

 (Ahn's) ; a Portuguese Grammar, by E. J. 

 Grauert. Of arithmetic and works on pure 

 and mixed mathematics, there were treatises by 

 Prof. C. Davies, J. F. Stoddard, S. A. Felter, 

 Elias Loomis, LL.D. ; Oren Root (Robinson's 

 Series) ; Bryant and Stratton (C. H. Book-keep- 

 ing); Lassing (Manual of Electricity); and 

 Prof. E. S. Snell (Olmsted's Natural Phi- 

 losophy, revised and re-written). The new 

 geographies were by C. C. Morgan, E. E. 

 White, and D. W. Camp ; histories by J. J. 

 Anderson and Miss Yonge (Reprint). Readers 

 and spellers, by M. Willson, W. T. Adams, C. 

 W. Sanders, and G. S. Hillard. Of other 

 school books, there were " Text Books on Pen- 

 manship," by H. W. Ellsworth, and Payson, 

 Dunton, and Scribner; "Rudimentary Draw- 

 ing," by W. E. Worthen ; " A Child's Chemis- 

 try," by Prof. W. Hooker, M.D, ; " Conversa- 

 tions in French and English" (Bellenger's), by C. 

 & H. Whitcomb ; and " Translation Exercises " 

 (Petit Cours de Versions), by P. Sadler ; " Man- 

 ual of Gymnastic Exercises in Families," by 

 S. W. Mason ; and " Hand-book of Calis- 

 thenics and Gymnastics," a valuable and need- 

 ed work, hy J. Madison Watson. To these 

 should be added the little treatise of Mrs. H. 

 Mann and Miss A. P. Peabody, "Moral Culture 

 of Infancy and Kinder-Garten Guide." The 

 reprint of Prof. Craik's " Compendious History 

 of English Literature," and of "Chambers' En- 

 cyclopaedia," which reached its fifth volume 

 during the year ; as well as the issue of " The 

 Annual Cyclopajdia," for 1862, may be reck- 

 oned among the items of educational progress. 

 Among the numerous educational periodicals, 

 all ably conducted, a new monthly, called 

 " The American Educational Monthly," appear- 

 ed near the close of the year. The numbers 

 issued thus far give evidence of decided ability. 



In the department of geography and travel, 

 the most remarkable original works were : H. 

 D. Thoreau's "Excursions; " "In the Tropics," 

 by a settler in Santo Domingo ; Dr. S. D. 

 Phelps's " The Holy Land ; with Glimpses of 

 Europe and Egypt; " W. T. Coggeshall's "Sto- 

 ries of Frontier Adventure ; " " Three Years 

 in Chili," by a lady ; " William Hoffman's 



