I.ITKKATURE AND LITERARY PROGRESS IN 1806. 



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in the lino arts, 15; in music, 80; in flo 

 of which i-al, and 20 



; the number <jf juveniles was 

 Unions, 25 tales ofad- 

 . elementary; of books of travel 

 15 ; of military and 

 agriculture, 23, and miscel- 

 laneous books, 80. In tin- department of Gen- 

 eralliiogr ' the most interesting books 



Sanderson's Hiography of 

 laration of Independence," 

 l.crt T. Conrad, with 



an historical account of their residences, by Wil- 

 linin Urothcrhcad, :ind portraits and views. This 

 \pcnsivo and elegant work. Other 

 lie kind, wore Madame Eugenie Foa's 

 aphiques ; " " The Women of 

 di.-m, its three Foundresses, Susanna 

 Wc>lcv. tho Countess of lluntingdon, and Bar- 

 i leek," by Abel Stevens, LL. D. ; " South- 

 ern <;. -n. Tals, their Lives and their Campaigns," 

 by William P. Snow; an enlarged edition of 

 " Onr Great Captains, Grant, Sherman, Thomas, 

 '.in and 1'arragut," hy L. P. Brockett, M. 

 I>. : 1 T. Samuel W. Francis's "Biographical 

 ies of I >i>tinguishcd New York Surgeons;" 

 " 1'. r-onal Recollections of Distinguished Gen- 

 . ' by W. F. G. Shanks; "National Por- 

 trait Gallery of Eminent Americans," portraits 

 by Alonzo Chappel, with biographical and his- 

 i narratives, by Evert A. Duyckinck. Of 

 Single Biographic* the number was very largo, 

 and many of them possessed considerable merit. 

 The principal works of this class were, Professor 

 II. M. I'.aird's life of his father, " Rev. Robert 

 Baird, D. D. ; " " Memoirs of General Louis 

 Bell, late Colonel of the 4th N. II. Regiment, 

 \\ ho 1V11 at Fort Fisher," by John Bell Bouton ; 

 Kcv. C. W. Denison's "Illustrated Life, Cam- 

 paigns, and Public Services of Philip II. Sheri- 

 dan ;" Kev. Dr. Gardiner Spring's "Personal 

 Reminiscences of his own Life and Times;" 

 Mr. John R. G. Hassard's carefully prepared 

 "Life of the Most Reverend John Hughes, D. 

 1 >.. First Archbishop of New York ; " Mr. 

 Vt'illiam V. "Wells' admirable history of tho 

 " Life and Public Services of Samuel Adams ; " 

 harming " Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus 

 Mozart " (1709-1791), translated from tho col- 

 ,i of Ludvvig Nohl, by Lady Wallace ; Mr. 

 John Savage's " Life and Public Services of 

 Andrew Johnson, Seventeenth President of the 

 . including his State Papers, 

 Speeches, and Addresses ; " " James Louis Peti- 

 gni, of South Carolina, a Biographical Sketch; " 

 " Life and Letters of LeonidasL. llamline, I). D., 

 late one of the Bishops of the M. E. Chnrch," 

 by Walter 0. Palmer, M. D. ; John Estec 

 I'ookr's Stonewall Jackson, a Military Biog- 

 raphy ; " "The life of Emanuel Swedcuborg," 

 by William White; "The Life of Blessed John 

 Berchmnns of the Society of Jesus," from the 

 Italian of Father Boero, S. J. ; "Letters of 

 Life " (an autobiography), by Mrs. LydiaHunt- 

 .ey Sigonrnc-y ; " Life of Emanuel Swedenborg," 

 oy Sarah P. Doughty; "Life of Benjamin 



Silliman, M. D., LL. D.," by Professor George 

 I'. l'i-hr; "Temperance Recollections, La- 

 bors, Defeats, and Triumphs (an autobiogra* 

 phy)," by John Marsh, I). l>. ; u Narratives of 

 of I lernaiidodeSoto, in the Conquest 

 rida, ns told by a Knight of Elvas," etc., 

 translated by Buckingham Smith ; " Eulogy on 

 the late Valentine Mott, M.D., LL. D.," by Al- 

 fred Post, M. D. ; "Memorial Address on the 

 Lite and Character of Abraham Lincoln," by 

 George Bancroft; "Prison Life of Jefferson 

 Davis," by Lieutenant-Colonel John J. Craven, 

 M. I).; "Memoirs of the Rev. William Met- 

 calfe, M. D., late minister of tho Bible Chris- 

 tian Church, Philadelphia," by his son, l:> v. 

 Joseph Metcalfe; "Six Months at the White 

 House with Abraham Lincoln, the Story of a 

 Picture," by F. B. Carpenter; "Life and Times 

 of John Milton," by W. C. Martyn; "William 

 Farel, and the Story of the Swiss Reform," by 

 the Rev. William M. Blackburn ; " The Chris- 

 tian Statesman ; a Portraiture of Sir Thomas 

 Fowell Buxton," by Z. A. Mudge; "Charles 

 Lamb," a memoir, by B. W. Procter (Barry 

 Cornwall) ; " Tho Life and Letters of James 

 Gates Percival," by Julius II. Ward; "In 

 Memoriam, Right Rev. John B. Fitzpatrick ; " 

 " Great in Goodness ; a Memoir of George N. 

 Briggs, Governor of Massachusetts, 1844 to 

 1851," by W. 0. Richards; "Tho Life of St. 

 Vincent do Paul, and its Lessons," by Rev. 

 Thomas S. Preston ; " Half a Century's Labors 

 hi tho Gospel," an autobiography, by Rev. 

 Thomas S. Sheardomn; "Biographical Intro- 

 duction to the Writings of Roger Williams," by 

 R. A. Guild ; " Trials of an Inventor ; Life and 

 Discoveries of Charles Goodyear," by Rev. B. 

 K. Pierce ; " Life and Letters of John Win- 

 throp," by Robert C. Winthrop. Only four 

 genealogies are reported as published during 

 the year. 



HISTORY, either in general or in its details. i.s 

 a favorite subject for American authorship; 

 and the number of books in its various depart- 

 ments is always largo. The General History of 

 the United States would seem to have been well 

 nigh exhausted, but thero were seven volumes 

 published on it in the year 1866, one or two of 

 them, however, reprints of early works. To this 

 last class belong the reproduction of Alexander 

 Hamilton's " Observations on Certain Docu- 

 ments in ' The History of the United States for 

 the year 1796,' " issued by the Hamilton Club; 

 "A Youth's History of the Great Civil War in 

 tho United States from 1861 to 1865," from a 

 Southern stnnd-point. Rev. J. A. Spencer com- 

 piled, in several illustrated quarto volumes, "A 

 History of the United States from the earliest 

 Period to the Administration of President John- 

 son." The number of works on Local American 

 History was not largo, unless we reckon among 

 them those which were devoted to the history 

 of the regiments and officers who were engaged 

 in the late war, and they come more appro- 

 priately into another class. The principal local 

 histories were : " Old New York ; or Reminis- 



