LITERATURE AND LITERARY PROGRESS IN 1866. 



to America, published between the Years 1492 

 and 1551," by Henry Harrisse. 



Under the head of the Fine Arts, including 

 in this books of extraordinary beauty of illus- 

 tration, the number of American books, was 

 small. Perhaps the finest, certainly the most 

 remarkable of the 'American gift books, for the 

 work bestowed on it, was Mrs. Badger's " Floral 

 Belles from the Green House and Garden," with 

 sixteen large folio illustrations, all painted from 

 Nature for each copy, by Mrs. Badger herself. 

 Other illustrated books of some merit, were, 

 "The King's Ring," by Theodore Tilton, illu- 

 minated by Frank Jones ; " Roses and Holly, a 

 Book for all the Year ; " " Evangeline, illustrated 

 by Darley ; " Mr. P. B. Wright's " Photographs 

 and Descriptions of the National Academy of 

 Design ; " Mr. G. W. Carleton's humorous bro- 

 chure, " Our Artist in Peru," which possessed 

 great merit in its way; "^Esop's Fables," in 

 quarto, with lithographic illustrations, was very 

 creditable to the artist. The foreign illustrated 

 books were, many of them, of great beauty, 

 and were imported in large quantities. Dora's 

 Illustrated Bible in French, his illustra- 

 tions of Tennyson's "Elaine," John Leigh- 

 ton's " Life of Man Symbolized by the Months 

 of the Year," and many others which might be 

 named, were very creditable to the skill of for- 

 eign designers, engravers, and printers. Of 

 Art manuals, there were a few ; the most im- 

 portant were Newman's "Manual of Harmo- 

 nious Coloring, as applied to Photography;" 

 Palgrave's "Essays on Art," and Rev. Dr. 

 G. W. Samson's "Elements of Art Criticism." 

 Other works relating to art were Richard M. 

 Hunt's " Designs for the Gateways of the South- 

 ern Entrance to the Central Park ; " Mr. T. 

 Addison Richards's " Guide to the Central 

 Park." Mr. D. H. Jacques published "The 

 House, a Manual of Rural Architecture ; " and 

 Mr. G. W. Woodward a work on "Architec- 

 ture, Landscape Gardening, and Rural Art." 



The works published under the head of 

 Music during the year, consisted of collections 

 of church music, Sunday-school music books, 

 glee books, and charts, adapted to the service 

 of the Episcopal Church. Of the last descrip- 

 tion were Dr. H. S. Cutler's "Trinity Psalter," 

 and Mr. J. H, Hopkins, Jr.'s " Canticles Noted " 

 and accompanying " Harmonies and Common 

 Praise for the Book of Common Prayer." Of 

 church music books the principal were "The 

 Book of Praise of the Reformed Dutch Church ; " 

 Mr. J. E. Perkins's " Golden Promise," and 

 "The Psalm King;" Mr. Mclntosh's "Taber, 

 or the Richmond Collection of Sacred Music ; " 

 Dr. Lowell Mason's " New Sabbath Hymn and 

 Tune Book." For Sunday-schools, the princi- 

 pal books were Rev. E. P. Hammond's " Praises 

 of Jesus ; " Converse and Goodenough's " Sun- 

 day-School Singer ; " Philip Phillips's " Singing 

 Pilgrim ; " Mr. Bradbury's " Golden Hymns," 

 and his "New Golden Chain;" Dr. Lowell 

 Mason's "Song Garden," " Third Book," and 

 " The Band of Hope Melodies." Besides these 



there were " The New Melodeon," by Rev. J 

 W. Dadman ; " The Social Hymn Book " (with 

 tunes) of the Presbyterian Publication Com- 

 mittee; and Mr. G. L. Taylor's "Six Cen- 

 tenary Hymns," with music. Of new secular 

 music books, the only important ones were Mr. 

 G. F. Root's " Coronet, a Collection of Music; * 

 and Mr. T. F. Seward's " Sunnyside Glee Book." 

 The space necessarily allotted to this article does 

 not permit us to give the titles in full of the two 

 hundred and forty-one works of fiction, or the 

 three hundred and ninety juveniles published 

 during 1866 ; we can at best only give the names 

 of the authors and perhaps the titles of a few of 

 the most remarkable in each class. Of Amer- 

 ican writers of fiction the following published 

 more than one work during the year : Mrs. J. 

 Sadlier, six ; Edward Willett and W. J. Hamil- 

 ton, each four ; Roger Starbuck and J. Stanley 

 Henderson, each three ; Lieutenant Murray, C. 

 Dunning Clarke, J. T. Trowbridge, James L. 

 Bowen, " Anna Argyle," A. Stewart Harrison, 

 Mrs. Louise Clack, Mrs. E.' D. E. N. South- 

 worth, " Ned Buntline " (E. Z. C. Judson), Mrs. 

 Anna E. Porter, Mrs. Ann H. Stephens, Capt. 

 L. C. Carleton, the author of "Luke Dan-ell," 

 Edward E. Ellis, the author of " Zeke Sternum," 

 two each. The authors of single novels, pub- 

 lished during the year, were: "E. Foxton," 

 " Mai-ion Harland " (Mrs. Virginia C. Terhune), 

 T. S. Arthur, John Esten Cooke, Sallie J. Han- 

 cock, " Meta Lander " (Mrs. Lawrence), Mrs. 

 Margaret Hosmer, H. B. Godwin, Anne H. M. 

 Brewster, Bayard Taylor, Mrs. E M. Bruce, 

 Charles Godfrey Leland, Anna Cora Ritchie 

 (Mowatt), William T. Adams, Mansfield T. 

 Walworth, F. A. Durivage, Augusta J. Evans, 

 Donald G. Mitchell, W. G. Simms, Seeley 

 Regcster, A. S. Roe, Amanda M. Douglas, J. 

 Ross Browne, Lucy Ellen Guernsey, the author 

 of "Rutledge;" Mrs. Bella Z. Spencer, Vir- 

 ginia F. Townsend, Henry Morford, George 

 Ward Nichols, the author of "Margaret and 

 her Bridesmaids ; " L. Augustus Jones, C. H. 

 Wiley, the author of "Kate Kennedy; " Captain 

 Hamilton Holmes, Francis Derrick, the author 

 of " Twice Married," " A Clergyman's Wife ; " 

 M. L. M. ; H. Milnor Knapp, the author of " The 

 Silent Woman ; " J. Thomas Wagrren, N. C. 

 Iron, Ada Clare, William North, J. M. Nichols, 

 Paul Preston, author of " Long-Legged Joe ; " 

 Boynton Randolph, Fred. Hunter, Joanna H. 

 Matthews, the author of "The Serf;" Fanny 

 M. Downing, Boynton H. Belknap, " Harry 

 Hazleton ; " Cora Bulkley, the author of " Ver- 

 non Grove ; " P. H. Myers. One of John 

 Saunders's novels was reprinted. The number 

 of reprints of foreign novels was one hundred 

 and ten, and included six each of Mrs. Amelia 

 B.Edwards and "Louisa Muhlbach's" (Clara 

 Mundt) works ; four each of Mrs. Gore's, Edmund 

 Yates's, Michael Banim's, and Mrs. Oliphaut's ; 

 three each of Mrs. Henry Wood's ; J. Sheridan 

 Le Fanu's, Mrs. C. J. Newby'a " Ouida's, 7 ' 

 Madame Dudevant (George Sand), and " George 

 Eliot " (Miss Marian Evaus) ; two each of Alex- 



