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Character ; " Mrs. Jameson's " Sacred and Le- 

 gendary Art," and " Legends of the Monastic 

 Orders;" Mr. E. M. Whitty's "Bohemians of 

 London; " Leigh Hunt's "The Seer; or, Com- 

 mon Places Refreshed ; " Guizot's " Love in Mar- 

 riage, a Historical Study ; " " Lady Rachel Rus- 

 sell ; " Hugh Miller's Essays, Historical Bio- 

 graphies, &c., edited by Peter Bayne ; " Pearls 

 from Heine." 



In Poetry there was an alarming increase 

 of the number of new poets, who for the most 

 part had come before the American public for 

 the first time in a collected volume of their own 

 poems. Forty of these adventurous spirits 

 have thus laid claim to a literary immortality, 

 and there is a slight possibility that some one 

 of the forty may possibly attain to it. The 

 poetry of most of these volumes is respectable, 

 while three or four exhibit abilities above me- 

 diocrity ; and while none as yet have given 

 marked evidence of the possession of the divine 

 afflatus, they may yet develop into something 

 beyond their present condition. 



We name a few of the most promising : Mr. 

 Harvey Rice's " Mount Vernon and other Po- 

 ems," has sold sufficiently to require a second 

 edition ; Mr. Edward Hopper's " Fire on the 

 Hearth in Sleepy Hollow," has passages of great 

 merit ; " Utterances," by Col. A. J. H. Duganne, 

 contains some songs and ballads which had al- 

 ready attained high reputation in the newspaper 

 columns; "Idylls of Battle and Poems of the 

 Rebellion," by Miss Laura C. Redden, a lady who 

 is a semi-mute, exhibits harmony, grace of versi- 

 fication, and in a few of the pieces a poetic fire 

 worth cultivating ; " Faith and Fancy," by John 

 Savage, is a volume of which its author has no 

 occasion to be ashamed. The little volumes of 

 Mr. F. G. Tuckerman and Mr. Henry F. Tuck- 

 erman, are worthy of the reputation of those 

 gentlemen as elegant belles lettres scholars. 

 Bishop Coxe's " Christian Ballads," and Messrs. 

 Bayard Taylor, John G. Saxe, N. P. Willis, and 

 Robert Lowell's collections of poems, now pub- 

 lished in new forms, have been for some years 

 before the public. One of the most remarkable 

 volumes of poetry published during the year 

 was a little collection printed in Germany, 

 though nominally published in Milwaukie, from 

 the pen of an American lady (Mrs. Mary H. C. 

 Booth), since deceased at the early age of thirty- 

 four ; it "bore the title of " Wayside Blossoms 

 among Flowers from German Gardens," and 

 some of the poems exhibited rare poetic genius. 

 Mr. George H. Boker has published a volume 

 entitled "Poems of the War," containing a 

 number of lyrics which are favorites with the 

 army. Other volumes of original poems issued 

 during the year were : " Poems from the Inner 

 Life," by Lizzie Doten; " Poems," by Henry 

 Peterson; "Poems," by Una; "Secession, or 

 Prose in Rhyme, and East Tennessee, a Poem," 

 by an East Tennessean ; " Sacred Poetical Par- 

 aphrase, and Miscellaneous Poems," by Rev. J. 

 B. Steele; "The Book of Job in Poetry" 

 (more correctly in rhyme), by Rev. H. W. 



Adams ; " Voices from the Hearth ; or, a Col- 

 lection of Poems," by Isidor (Isidor G. Ascher), 

 a Montreal book ; " Lyrics of a Day ; or, News- 

 paper Poetry," by a United States Volunteer ; 

 " A Tribute to the Fair ; a Collection of Vers 

 de Societe ; " " Poems of the Republic," by 

 William Oland Bourne ; " " Hymns of the Spir- 

 it," by Rev. S. Longfellow and Rev. S. John- 

 son; " Memorial Poems and Hymns," by Prof, 

 E. Turney ; " The Wind Harp, and other Po . 

 ems," by Ellen C. Howarth ; "The Burden of 

 the South," in verse, by Sennoia Rubek ; " The 

 Poet, and other Poems," by Achsah W. Sprague ; 

 "War Songs for Freemen; " "Fhst and Last; 

 a Poem, intended to illustrate the Ways of God 

 to Man ; " A Poetical Cook Book ; " Cabiro," a 

 poem, by George H. Calvert; "Marble Isle, and 

 other Poems," by Sallie Bridges; "Chimasia: 

 y> Reply to Longfellow's Theologian and other 

 I'oems," by Orthos; "Visions and Verses," by 

 Charles Dexter ; " Elim ; or, Hymns of Holy 

 Refreshment," by Rev. F. D. Huntington; 

 "Young America; a Poem," by Fitz Greene 

 Halleck; "The Palace Beautiful and other 

 Poems," by Orpheus C. Kerr (Newell) ; " Rosa 

 Mystica, Mary of Nazareth, the Lily of the 

 House of David," by Maria Josephine; "Real 

 and Ideal," by John W. Montclair ; "Poems,"' 

 by Astarte. Among the collections of poems 

 by different authors, were three little volumes 

 arranged and edited by Frank Moore ; " Rebel 

 Rhymes and Rhapsodies; " " Songs of the Sol- 

 diers ;" and " Personal and Political Ballads ; " 

 " Poetry of the Age of Fable," by Thomas Bui- 

 finch, a new edition ; " Golden Leaves froir 

 British Poets," and " Golden Leaves from 

 American Poets," both selected and arranged 

 by Prof. John W. S. Hows ; " Lyra Anglicana," 

 and " Lyra Americana," both edited by Rev. 

 George T. Ryder ; " A Selection of War Lyr- 

 ics," illustrated by F. 0. C. Darley ; Rev. W. D. 

 Potts' " Campaign Songs for Christian Patriots 

 and True Democrats ;" " Ballads of the War and 

 Ballads of the South ; " " Hymns of the Ages," 

 third series ; " Sacred Poetry, selected from 

 the Writings of Charles Wesley ; " four Amer- 

 ican Poems, metrically translated into German 

 by Charles Theodore Eben ; twenty Hymns with 

 Music; and three or four Selections of the 

 Psalms, with Chants for Responsive Service. 

 The reprints, though few in number, were im- 

 portant in character. Among them were Ten- 

 nyson's " Enoch Arden and other Poems," of 

 which seven editions appeared in as many dif- 

 ferent styles ; Robert Browning's " Sordello, 

 Strafford," &c., and his "Dramatis Persona? ; " 

 Adelaide Procter's Poems; "An Artist's Po- 

 ems, written and illustrated by Carl Heinricfr ' 

 Schurze," and translated by Chas. G. Leland ; 

 a beautiful edition of Schiller's Poems and Bal- 

 lads; Poems by David Gray, with a Memoir 

 and an Introduction by Lord Houghton. An 

 elegant uniform edition of the Poems of Byron, 

 Moore, Scott, Burns, Keats, and Gray, has been 

 issued by a Boston publishing house. A new 

 edition of Keble's "Christian Year," and one 



