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LATHEOP, JOHN H. 



LITERATURE, ETC., IN 1866. 



dored good service with his Kansas troops in 

 Western Missouri. He was a politician of posi- 

 tive ideas ; and, although disposed to be more 

 tolerant towards the administration than some 

 congressmen, he voted for the Civil Rights bill 

 after the veto. He had been suffering from 

 nervous disease : and on his way home from 

 Washington he was attacked with paralysis in 

 St. Louis, with so little prospect of recovery 

 that reason became unsettled, and he put an 

 end to his life. 



LATHROP, JOHN H., LL. D., President of 

 the University of the State of Missouri, born at 

 Sherburne, Chenango County, New York, Jan- 

 uary 22, 1799 ; died at Columbia, Mo., August 

 2, 1866. He studied two years in Hamilton 

 College, Clinton, N. Y., and entered Yale Col- 

 lege during the third term of the Sophomore 

 year. After his graduation he was preceptor of 

 the grammar-school at Farmington, Conn., and 

 of Monroe Academy at Weston, Conn., and 

 from 1822 to 1826 was tutor in Yale College. 

 While in the discharge of his duties as 

 tutor he pursued his legal studies in the law- 

 school at New Haven, then under the charge of 

 Judges Daggett and Hitchcock, and was ad- 

 mitted to the bar of Connecticut in 1826. He 

 commenced the practice of law at Middletown, 

 Conn., but had remained there only six months, 

 when he was employed as an instructor in the 

 Military Academy at Norwich, Vt., and was 

 connected with that institution during the 

 summer of 1827. He was then chosen prin- 

 cipal of the Gardiner Lyceum, a scientific school 

 on the Kennebec, Maine, and remained there 

 nearly two years. In 1829, he accepted the 

 professorship of Mathematics and Natural Phil- 

 osophy in Hamilton College ; and in 1835 was 

 transferred from that to the Maynard Professor- 

 ship of Law, History, Civil Polity and Political 

 Economy, in the same College. In 1840 he was 

 elected President of the University of the State 

 of Missouri, at Columbia; he entered on the 

 duties of that office in March, 1841, and dis- 

 charged them until September, 1849. In Octo- 

 ber, 1848, he was elected Chancellor of the 

 University of Wisconsin, an appointment which 

 he accepted, and entered on its duties in Octo- 

 ber, 1849. In 1859 he was elected President 

 of the Indiana State University, located at 

 Bloomington, Indiana; and held that position 

 till 1860, when he was chosen Professor of 

 English Literature in the University of Colum- 

 bia, Missouri ; in 1862 he was made Chairman 

 of the Faculty, and in 1865 President, which 

 position he held at the time of his death. In 

 1845, while President of the Missouri Univer- 

 sity, he received the degree of LL. D. from 

 Hamilton College. In 1851 he was a member 

 of the Board of Examiners at West Point, and 

 was chosen Secretary of the Board. Dr. La- 

 throp was a man of exalted character and ster- 

 ling worth, and was justly considered as among 

 the ripest scholars and most profound thinkers 

 of the country. He was eminently fitted both 

 by nature and culture for the high and re- 



sponsible position he held as ad educator of 

 youth. 



LIPPE, a principality in Northern Germany. 

 Prince Leopold, born in 1821, succeeded his 

 father in 1851. Area, 445 square miles ; popula- 

 tion, in 1864, 111,336, The capital, Detmbld, 

 has 5,308 inhabitants. The public revenue, in 

 1864, amounted to 273,909 thalers. and the ex- 

 penditures to 242,786 thalers surplus, revenue, 

 31,123. Public debt, in 1864, 369,055 thalers. 

 The army consists of 840 men, and 240 re- 

 serves. During the German-Italian war Lippe 

 sided with Prussia, and after the war joined tho 

 North German Confederation. 



LITERATURE AND LITERARY PROG- 

 RESS IN 1866. The same causes which tended 

 to limit the production of books in 1865, viz: 

 the high price of paper, the increased cost of 

 labor, and the heavy tax on the manufacture, 

 existed in still greater force in 1866; and there 

 were added to them, a general depression of 

 trade, and a flooding of the market with English 

 and Canadian books, which, owing to the lower 

 price of material and work, could be afforded 

 much below the cost of their manufacture in 

 the United States. Though the number of dif- 

 ferent works published was not materially 

 diminished by these causes, the editions sold 

 were much smaller than in the previous year, 

 and, with some exceptions, it proved a very un- 

 satisfactory year to publishers. 



The number 'of distinct publications, aside 

 from occasional pamphlets, reports, circulars, 

 catalogues, sermons, and official Government, 

 State, or municipal documents, as well as Eng- 

 lish and German works, of which very many 

 were imported in editions with an American 

 imprint, was 1905, an increase of 103 on the 

 number published in 1865. Of these 83 were 

 biographies, of which 18 were collective, 61 

 individual, and 4 genealogical works. In his- 

 tory there were 124 works, of which 7 were 

 general histories of the United States or of 

 North America ; 13 were local histories of towns, 

 cities, counties, or States of the Union ; 57 were 

 histories of the recent war, or of particular bat- 

 tles, campaigns, or corps, or of the action, of 

 particular States or classes in relation to it ; the 

 histories of revolutionary, or ante-revolutionary 

 times, were 17 ; there were 15 histories of 

 other countries, and 15 ecclesiastical histories. 

 In theology there were 75 works, of which 20 

 belonged to general and 55 to polemic theology. 

 In physics and natural science there were also 

 75 works ; 1 in natural philosophy, 9 in chem- 

 istry, 4 in botany, 16 in zoology, 3 in paleon- 

 tology, 35 in geography, 5 in geology, 1 in eth- 

 nology, and 1 in astronomy. There were but 

 2 each in intellectual and in moral philosophy, 

 4 in ethics, 25 in social science, 8 in political 

 economy, 31 in mechanical and technological 

 science, and 42 in politics and political science. 

 In mathematics there were 7; in education, 31 ; 

 in classical literature, 3 ; in law, 129 ; in medi- 

 cine, 94; in poetry, 105; in essays and light 

 literature, 65; in philology, 19 ; in statistics. 



