LITERATURE AND LITERARY PROGRESS IN 1863. 



I Monitor; or Jottings of a New York Mer- 

 Jiant," &c. ; W. L. G. Smith's " China and the 

 Chinese;" Aaron Ward's "Around the Pyra- 

 mids ; " H. P. Leland's " Americans in Rome ; " 

 Captain J. Mullan's "Report on the Military 

 Road between Forts Walla-Walla and Ben- 

 ton;" F. H. Howard's "Fourteen Months in 

 American Bastiles; " C. H. Jones's "Recollec- 

 ;ions of Venice;" "The Great Lakes," by J. 

 isturnell ; " Harper's Hand-book for Travel- 

 TS in Europe and the East," by W. P. Fet- 

 Ige. Of reprints the most important were : 

 . C. Baldwin's "African Hunting from Natal 

 the Zambese," &c. ; Sir R. Alcock's " Capi- 

 il of the Tycoon ; " De Smet's " Western Mis- 

 and Missionaries," and " New Indian 

 Sketches;" Mrs. F. Kemble's "Journal of a 

 iesidence on a Georgia Plantation ; " C. G. Le- 

 md's translation of H. Heine's " Pictures of 

 ravel;" Mendelssohn's "Letters from Italy 

 id Switzerland," and W. S. Gage's translation 

 rf Karl Ritter's " Geographical Studies." The 

 Ibum for postage stamps, American and for- 

 3ign, with maps and descriptions, belongs also 

 this department. 



The essays were not numerous, but many of 

 lem were of great excellence. Among the 

 jest were: O. W. Holmes's "Soundings from 

 Atlantic;" Dr. J. G. Holland's "Letters 

 the Joneses ; " " Our Old Home," by N. Haw- 

 lorne; "Gala Days," by Gail Hamilton (Miss 

 Dodge) ; Miss L. M. Alcott's "Hospital 

 Sketches ; " Wendell Phillips's " Speeches, Lec- 

 ires," &c. ; M. G. Ware's "Thoughts in my 

 irarden ; " Theo. Winthrop's " Life in the Open 

 Lir," &c. ; T. W. Higginson's " Out Door Pa- 

 pers; " J. H. Hackett's "Shakespeare Notes, 

 Criticisms," &c. ; W. W. Brown's " The Black 

 [an; his Antecedents," &c. ; C. G. Leland's 

 'Sunshine in Thought;" J. F. W. Ware's 

 " Home Life ; what it is, and what it needs ; " 

 "lev. Dr. Jacobs's " Notes on the Rebel Invasion 

 jf Maryland and Pennsylvania, and the Battle 

 if Gettysburg." There have been new editions in 

 jeautiful forms of several of Irving'sbest essays, 

 ind of Ik Marvel's (D. G. Mitchell's) " Dream 

 Life," and "Reveries of a Bachelor," and a new 

 lition, with additional notes, of Christopher 

 forth's ( John Wilson's ) " Noctes Ambrosi- 

 anae," of which the first American edition was 

 for many years the only complete one, though 

 Wilson had been for a long time a leading con- 

 ributor to Blackwood's, and a popular author 

 in Great Britain. Of the reprints, the most 

 iportant were Alex. Smith's " Dreamthorp ;" 

 Thackeray's " Roundabout Papers ; " Sala's 

 " Breakfast in Bed ; " A. K. .H. Boyd's " E very- 

 Day ^Philosopher in Town and Country ; " 



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Savage ("Faith and Fancy "); E. C. Stedman 

 ("Alice of Monmouth,") &c. Among the new 

 poets of the year, are J. H. Hopkins, jr. 

 (" Carols, Hymns and Songs ") ; Lizzie Dolen 

 ("Poems from the Inner Life"); Sarah E. 

 Knowles (" Orlean Lamar,") &c. ; Mrs. E. T. 

 Porter Beach (" Pelayo ; an Epic of the Olden 

 Moorish Time ") ; W. A. Devon (" War 

 Lyrics"); C. J. Stedman ("The Russian Ball; 

 or Adventures of Miss Clementina Shoddy ") ; 

 Kane O'Donnell (" The Song of Iron and the 

 Song ,of Slaves"); "L." (Sybelle and other 

 Poems ") ; " Don Pedro Quserendo Reminis- 

 ce," (" Life in the Union Army, "&c.,) ("Ameri- 

 ca ; a Dramatic Poem,") ("Songs of Alpha-Delta- 

 Phi,") and (" Songs for the Union,") by anony- 

 mous authors. Frank Moore has collected a 

 number of war poems, under the title of 

 " Lyrics of Loyalty," and Mr. A. C. Remington, 

 a choice selection of religious and consolatory 

 pieces, under the title, "Poems of Religion, 

 Sorrow, Comfort, Counsel, and Aspiration." 

 Of the reprints, the most important are : Jean 

 Ingelow's Poems, Goethe's, Bulwer Lytton's, 

 Burns's, H. Heine's,Uhland's, C. Swain's, and H. 

 Taylor's (" Philip Van Artevelde ") ; Palgrave's 

 " Golden Treasury," and Roundell Palmer's 

 " Book of Praise," are the best foreign collec- 

 tion of poems, published recently. 



The number of novels, original and reprinted, 

 is larger than usual, and many of them possess 

 a good degree of merit. 



Among the most successful and meritorious 

 of the American novels, were : " Hannah Thurs- 

 ton; a Story of American Life," by Bayard 

 Taylor ; " Husks," by Marion Harland (Mrs. 

 Terhune) ; " Peculiar ; a Tale of the Great 

 Transition," by Epes Sargent; "The Fatal 

 Marriage," by Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth ; 

 " Was He Successful," by Richard B. Kim- 

 ball ; "The Old Helmet," by Miss Susan 

 Warner (" Elizabeth Wetherell ") ; " Round the 

 Block ; an American Novel ; " " The Days of 

 Shoddy; a Novel of the Great Rebellion in 

 1861," and " Shoulder Straps; a Novel of New 

 York and the Army," both by Henry Morford ; 

 "" Vincenzo, or Sunken Rocks," by John Ruf- 

 fini ; " Peter Carradine ; or the Martindale Pas- 

 toral," by Caroline Chesebro ; " The Rejected 

 Wife," by Mrs. Ann S. Stephens ; " Frank War- 

 rington," by the author of " Rutledge ; " "The 

 Orpheus C. Kerr Papers ; a Second Series ; " 

 " Madge ; or Night and Morning," by H. B. G. ; 

 " Two Pictures; or what We think of Ourselves 

 and what Others think of Us," by Miss Maria J. 

 Mclntosh ; " Marian Gray ; or the Heiress of 

 Redstone Hall," by Mrs. Mary J. Holmes. 

 Other American novels which met with some 



and Mrs. Browning's "Essays on the Greek success, were: "Broken Columns;" " Rock- 



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Poets and the English Poets. 

 A larger number than usual of our poets have 

 issued new volumes of poems. Among these 

 are W. C. Bryant (" Thirty Poems ") ; II. W. 

 Longfellow ("Tales of a Wayside Inn"); J. G. 

 Whittier ("In War Times," &c., and "Poetical 

 Works"); T. B. Aldrich ("Poems"); John 



ford ; or Sunshine and Storm," by Mrs. L. D. 

 Umsted; "Light," by Helen Modet; "Etna 

 Van de Noir ; a Romance of Kentucky," by 

 Sallie J. Hancock ; " Mabel ; or Heart Histo- 

 ries," by Rosella Rice; " Temptation and Tri- 

 umph," by Virginia F. Townsend; "The Am- 

 ber Gods," by Harriet E. Prescott; "Tactics; 



