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LITERATURE AND LITERARY PROGRESS IN 1864. 



of Milton's Poetical Works, by Prof. 0. D. Cleve- 

 land, has also appeared. Mr. Benson J. Lossing 

 has done a good service to the public in editing, 

 with abundant historical and biographical notes, 

 Trumbull's Revolutionary Poem, " McFingal ; " 

 and for the first time we have a good transla- 

 tion of the German political and humorous bal- 

 lad, " Reynard the Fox." We are obliged, for 

 want of space, to omit all reference to works on 

 Music, and to collections of music, either sacred 

 or secular, as well as to the musical periodicals, 

 some of which are edited with great ability. 



Of the 233 Works of Fiction, not of a specially 

 religious character, published during the year, 

 164 belonged to the cheaper class in paper bind- 

 ings, and of these 65 were sold at prices rang- 

 ing from ten to fifteen cents, and the remainder 

 at from twenty-five to seventy-five cents each. 

 Of these cheapest novels we shall have more 

 to say further on. Twenty-six were French 

 and German works reprinted here in their 

 original language. Less than fifty were bound 

 volumes; and of these, several were new edi- 

 tions of popular favorites, Dickens, Thackeray, 

 Le Sage's Gil Bias, etc. Of the original novels 

 of a higher class published during the year the 

 most important were: "John Godfrey's For- 

 tunes," by Bayard Taylor; " Cudjo's Cave," by 

 J. T. Trowbridge ; " The Three Scouts," by the 

 same author; "Azarian, an episode," by Har- 

 riet E. Prescott; "Emily Chester, a novel," 

 " My Own Story," by Marian Leigh ; " The 

 Morrisons," by Margaret Hosmer; "Eliza 

 Woodson ; or, the Early days of one of the 

 World's Workers, a story of American Life ; " 

 '' Honor; or, the Slave Dealer's Daughter," by 

 Stephen G. Bulfinch; "Sophia; or, the Reign 

 of Woman," "Woodcliff," by Harriet B. Mc- 

 Keever; "Waifwood, a novel;" "Chateau 

 Frissac," by Oliver Logan ; four volumes of 

 Novelettes, by T. S. Arthur; "Hassan Ab- 

 dallah; or, the Enchanted Keys and other 

 Tales ; " a republicatiou of Robert Lowell's 

 " The Story of the New Priest in Conception 

 Bay," and of H. L. Barnum's " The Spy Un- 

 masked ; or, the original of Harvey Birch, 

 Cooper's Spy." Among the reprints of foreign 

 novels, not in pamphlet form, were " The Gyp- 

 sies of Dane's Dike," by George T. Phillips, 

 (January Searle); "Justice and Mercy, a tale 

 of All Hallows E'en," by Mrs. Am. Stewart ; 

 several volumes of the household edition of 

 Dickens ; a fine edition of " Le Sage's Gil Bias ; " 

 Thackeray's "Mr. and Mrs. Frank Berry." A 

 charming little German story, " Annie and her 

 Master," was also reprinted during the year 



Of the Religious fictions of the year, the 

 most remarkable, both in their merit and suc- 

 cess, were the books of Mrs. Charles, an English 

 writer, who as a delineator of the scenes, cus- 

 toms, and manners of past ages, has had no 

 superior in modern times. Her first work 

 which attained to a high popularity (although 

 she had written several previously), was " The 

 Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family, by 

 two of themselres." This, the scene of which 



was laid in Germany in the time of Luther 

 was published in two rival editions late in 1863, 

 and a subsequent illustrated edition of it in tho 

 summer of 1864, and all enjoyed a remarkable 

 popularity. In the summer of 1864 this was 

 followed by " The Early Dawn ; " a series of 

 sketches of Christian life in England, at dif- 

 ferent periods of the Christian centuries : and 

 several of her earlier works, such as the "Crip- 

 ple of Antioch," the "Martyrs of Spain," etc., 

 etc., written in the same vein, were also repub- 

 lished and had an extensive sale. Late in the 

 autumn of 1864 appeared her " Diary of Mrs. 

 Kitty Trevylyan," a story of the Great Revival 

 in the times of Whitfield and the Wesleys, 

 which in its creative power and its graphic 

 delineation of character surpassed all her pre- 

 vious works. The sale of these works has been 

 very large, and is still maintained. Other re- 

 ligious novels of high character, published 

 during the year, were " The Trial ; or, More 

 Links in the Daisy Chain," by Miss Yonge, 

 author of the " Heir of RedclyfFe; " " Melbourne 

 House," by Miss Susan Warner, author of the 

 "Wide W'ide World;" "The Grahams," by 

 Jane Gay Fuller ; " Margaret's Secret and its 

 Success," by Miss Carey Buck. A republica- 

 tion of Sargent's "Temperance Tales," by the 

 American Tract Society, Boston, belongs also 

 to this class of books. 



The number of juvenile publications is so 

 large, 428 distinct works having been issued 

 during the year, and many of these in several 

 volumes, that we can only indicate the authors, 

 without attempting to specify the books them- 

 selves. Indeed, the task of naming all the au- 

 thors of these books would itself be a laborious 

 work, since they number 204, were it not that 

 154 are anonymous, and 14 others conceal 

 their identity under initials or a nom de plume. 

 Among these writers for the young the English 

 writer A. L. O. E. still maintains her preemi- 

 nence in the number of her books, having is- 

 sued twelve during the year. She is followed 

 closely, however, by Aunt Fanny (Mrs. Fanny 

 Barrow), who has published eleven, and " Mrs. 

 Madeline Leslie," who has brought out ten. 

 "Nellie Grahame" comes next with seven, 

 Mrs. Charles with six, Uncle John and Jacob 

 Abbott with six, R. M. Ballantyne and Hans 



C. Anderson with five ; an anonymous writer 

 (author of Weldon Woods) with the same 

 number ; " Maxwell " with four ; Mayne Reid, 

 F. M. S., and two anonymous writers, with the 

 same number; while John S. Hart, "Sophie 

 May," T. S. Arthur, S. J. Donaldson, Jr., Rev. 

 P. C. Headley, Rev. Daniel C. Eddy, " Oliver 

 Optic," Susie M. Waring, rand Harriet B. 

 McKeever published three each, and Mrs. Jane 



D. Chaplin, Aunt Friendly, W. H. G. Kingston, 

 Mrs. Phebe Harris Phelps, Alice A. Dodge, 

 "Fluta," Mary Howitt, "Rose Ellenwood," 

 "Aunt Susan," "Cousin Kate," "Laurens," 

 Mrs. H. E. Brown, Mary Harvey Gill, Rev. W. 

 Blackburn, Rev. Ashton Oxenden, Miss Yonge, 

 Josephine Franklin, Sir C. F. Lascelles Wraxall, 



