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LITERATURE AND LITERARY PROGRESS IN" 1866. 



" Insanity in its Medico-Legal Relations, Opin- 

 ion relative to the Testamentary Capacity of 

 the late James 0. Johnson," by "W. A. Ham- 

 mond, M. D. ; "The Story of a Stomach, an 

 Egotism, by a Reformed Dyspeptic ; " The 

 Science and Practice of Medicine," by "William 

 Aitken, M. D. ; first American from the fourth 

 London edition, with additions by Meredith 

 Clymer, M. D. ; Dr. Roberts Bartholow " On 

 the Progressive Locomotor Ataxia, its History, 

 Symptomatology, Pathology, and Treatment ; " 

 Drs. Laurence and Moon's "Hand-Book of 

 Ophthalmic Surgery for the Pratitioner; " a 

 new edition of Neligan's " Practical Treatise on 

 Diseases of the Skin," edited by T. W. Belcher, 

 M. D. ; " What Effect has the Meat or Milk 

 from Diseased Animals on the Public Health ? " 

 n prize essay, by Samuel R. Perry, M. D. ; Dr. 

 T. II. Tanner's t "Index of Diseases and their 

 Treatment ; " a' new edition, with notes, by 0. 

 B. Penrose, of Dr. A. S. Taylor's " Manual of 

 Medical Jurisprudence ; " a translation by "VY. 

 0. B. Fifield, M. D., of Velpeau's "Lessons 

 upon the Diagnosis and Treatment of Surgical 

 Diseases ; " a reprint of "Practical Therapeutics, 

 considered chiefly with reference to Articles of 

 the Materia Medica," by E. J. Waring, F. R. C. S. 

 In the way of poetry, fifty-two American as- 

 pirants for Parnassian honors appeared before 

 the public. Of these, eight either published 

 their poems anonymously, or under a nom de 

 plume whose identity is not yet recognized. 

 Eight were new poems or collections by poets 

 of established reputation, viz., J. G. Whittier 

 (Suow-Bound) ; J. G. Saxo (Masquerade and 

 other Poems) ; T. Buchanan Read (collected 

 Poems in three volumes) ; Bayard Taylor (The 

 Picture of St. John); Alfred B. Street (col- 

 lected Poems in two volumes); Alice Gary 

 (Ballads, Lyrics, acd Hymns); James Russell 

 Lowell (The Biglow Papers, second series) ; 

 and H. W. Longfellow (Flower de Luce). Seven 

 had acquired some reputation in other walks of 

 literature, viz. : G. H. Oalvert (Anyta and other 

 poems) ; 0. D. Gardette (The Fire Fiend and 

 other poems) ; G. H. Hollister (Thomas d 

 Becket, a Tragedy, etc.) ; J. J. Piatt (Poems in 

 Sunshine and Firelight) ; Herman Melville 

 (Battle Pieces and Aspects of the War) ; George 

 Arnold (Drift, a Seashore Idyl, and other poems), 

 and Abraham Coles, M. D. (The Microcosm, a 

 Poem). The others came before the public for 

 the first time, at least in a volume of poems. 

 Their names and the titles of their works were 

 as follows : Helen L. Parmelee (Poems, Reli- 

 gious and Miscellaneous) ; Constantino E. 

 Brooks (Ballads and Translations) ; Mrs. Wm. 

 H. Milburn (Poems of Faith and Affection) ; 

 Thomas Clarke (Sir Copp, a Satirical Poem) ; 

 Mrs. Anna Marie Spaulding (Poems) ; G. Henry 

 Rogers (The California Hundred) ; Jay H. 

 Naramore (Poems) ; Annie E. Clark (Poems) ; 

 Myron Coloney (Manomin, a Rhythmical Ro- 

 mance of Minnesota) ; John Christian Schaad 

 (Nicholas of the Flue, the Savior of the Swiss 

 Republic) ; Elizabeth Thurston (Mosaics of 



Human Life) ; William S. Sharswood (The 

 Betrothed, or Love in Death) ; Frances da 

 Haes Janvier (Patriotic Poems) ; M. Elva Ford 

 (Songs of the Noon and Night) ; Dave Mur- 

 phy (Emogene, a Legend of Lookout Moun- 

 tain) ; Henry L. Abbey (Ralph and other 

 poems) ; Leonard Brown (Poems of the. Prai- 

 ries) ; Mrs. Bogart (Driftings from the Stream 

 of Life) ; Margaret H. Preston (Beechenbrook, a 

 Rhyme of the War); William P. Tomlinson 

 (Poems of Home and Abroad) ; Aubrey de 

 Vere (May Carols, Hymns, and Poems) ; George 

 P. Carr (The Contest, a Poem) ; Richard Henry 

 Wilde (Hesperia, a Poem); George H. Milea 

 (Christine, a Troubadour's Song, and other 

 poems) ; Elizabeth Akers (Poems) ; Ada Cam- 

 bridge (Hymns on the Holy Communion) ; For- 

 ceythe Willson (The Old Sergeant and other 

 poems) ; John A. Dorgan (Studies) ; Harriet 

 McEwen Kimball (Hymns) ; A. D. F. Randolph 

 (Hopefully Waiting and other verses) ; Edgar 

 Lewis Wakeman (Winter Freed, a Summer 

 Idyl) ; Mary E. Tucker (Poems) ; Robert K. 

 Weeks (Poems); J. C. Hey wood (Antoniusand 

 Herodias, Dramatic Poems) ; Emma Lazarus 

 (Poems and Translations). Aside from these, 

 there were about the usual nnmber of compila-. 

 tions, including three of the lyric poems elicited 

 by the War one, of the Northern poems, by 

 Richard Grant White, and two, of the South- 

 ern poems, by W. Gilmore Simms and Miss 

 Emily V. Mason ; a new and materially en- 

 larged edition of Mr. Charles A. Dana's " House- 

 hold Book of Poetry ; " one of Mr. J. W. 

 Palmer's "Folk Songs; " "Poems of Religion, 

 Sorrow, Comfort, Counsel, and Aspiration, "se- 

 lected by Prof. F. J. Childs, and several other 

 volumes of consolatory poetry; "Hymns of 

 Progress," collected by Levi K. Coonley ; and 

 two pretty volumes of selected poetry, entitled 

 "Drifted Snow Flakes," and " Home Songs for 

 Home Birds." There were also reprints and 

 new illustrated editions of Longfellow's, James 

 and Horace Smith's, Whittier's, and Lowell's 

 poems, of Drake's "Culprit Fay," and Ameri- 

 can editions of .Tennyson's, Swinburne's, Bu- 

 chanan's, Mrs. E. B. Browning's, Miss Christina 

 G. Rossetti's, Rev. H. R. Bonar's, T. K. Her- 

 vey's, Miss Mulock's, and Mrs. Charles's poems, 

 as well as of the standard poets of a former 

 generation. Some of the latter were finely il- 

 lustrated. In addition to these, there were 

 several collections of hymns for religious 

 worship. 



In Essays and Light Literature, along with a 

 considerable amount of trash and some ephem- 

 eral essays, there were a number of valuable 

 works. The most importantof these were: "The 

 Ethics of the Dust, Ten Lectures to Little House- 

 wives on the Elements of Crystallization," by 

 John Ruskin (a reprint); "The Criterion, or 

 the Test of Talk about Familiar Things, a se- 

 ries of Essays," by Henry T. Tuckerman; an 

 admirable collection of choice epistolary writ- 

 ings, under the title of "Literature in Letters, 

 or Manners, Art, Criticism, Biography, His- 



