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LITERATURE AND LITERARY PROGRESS IN 1866. 



la Agriculture, the most important works 

 were : Frederick Mucnsch's " School for Amer- 

 ican Grape Culture (\vith especial reference to 

 Vineyards);" Edward Eufield's "Indian Corn, 

 its Value, Culture, and Uses ; " the New Eng- 

 land Agricultural Society's " Transactions ;" 

 Mr. W. 0. Strong on "The Culture of the 

 Grape;" a fifth edition of Mr. Robert Morris 

 Copeland's " Country Life, a Hand-book of 

 .Agriculture, Horticulture, and Landscape Gar- 

 dening;" Edward Sprague Rand's "Garden 

 Flowers and how to Cultivate them ;" Thomas 

 Rivers's " Miniature Fruit Garden, or the Cul- 

 ture of Pyramidal and Bush Trees ;" a transla- 

 tion of M. George Ville's "High Farming 

 without Manure;" "My Vineyard at Lake- 

 view," by a "Western Grape Groover; Simon 1ST. 

 Saunders's " Treatise on Domestic Poultry;" 

 " The Cultivation of the Native Grape and 

 Manufacture of American Wine," by George 

 Husmann ; Mr. D. H. Jacques's " The Garden, 

 a Manual of Horticulture;" and "The Barn- 

 Yard, a Manual of Cattle, Horse, and Sheep 

 Husbandry;" Mr. Elliot 0. Cowdin's address 

 on "Agriculture, its Dignity and Progress;" 

 " The Horse Book, being Simple Rules for Man- 

 aging and Keeping a Horse ;" J. Talboys Wheel- 

 er's " Madras versus America, a Hand-book to 

 Cotton Cultivation " (London print) ; a new 

 edition of Thomas Bridgeman's " American 

 Gardener's Assistant." 



The ENGLISH LITERATURE of the year was some- 

 what more extensive than ours. The publication 

 of books in Great Britain is effected either medi- 

 ately or immediately through London publish- 

 ing houses, and during tha year there appeared 

 in London 4,204 new books and new editions : 

 Religious books and pamphlets, 849 ; biograph- 

 ical and historical, 194; medical and surgical, 

 160; poetry and the drama, 232; novels, 190; 

 minor fiction and children's books, 544 ; trav- 

 els, biography, and geography, 195 ; annuals and 

 serials (volumes only), 225 ; agriculture, horti- 

 culture, etc., 64; English philology and educa- 

 tion, 196; European and classical philology 

 and translation, 161 ; law, 84; naval, military, 

 and engineering, 39; science, natural history, 

 etc., 147; trade and commerce, Y9 ; politics 

 and questions of the day, 167; illustrated 

 works, 85; art, architecture, etc., 34; miscel- 

 laneous, not classified, 359 total, 4,204. We 

 have space to review hastily only the leading 

 works of this large mass of literature. 



In HISTORY, the first work of importance in 

 1866 was Mr. Chai-les Duke Yonge's " History 

 of France under the Bourbons. " With this 

 work we should couple Mr. Eyre Evans Crowe's 

 "History of France," published in the autumn. 

 Mr. J. II. Bridges, M. P., delivered before the 

 Philosophical Society of Edinburgh, and has 

 now published in a volume, four lectures, with 

 the title of " France under Richelieu and Col- 

 bert." Another work on French history is 

 that of Miss Freer, on "The Regency of Anne 

 of Austria, Queen Regent of France, Mother of 

 Louis XIV. " We have two more volumes of 



Mr. Froude's great work on the " History of 

 England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death 

 of Elizabeth." In the sections which he now 

 puts forth, he gives an account of the plots 

 and machinations of Mary Stuart, stripping 

 away the romantic disguises which have long 

 hidden from accurate observation the char- 

 acter of that woman who, by the way, has 

 been defended by Mr. A. McNeel-Caird, in a 

 work entitled "Mary Stuart, her Guilt or In- 

 nocence : an. Inquiry into the Secret History 

 of her Times." Mr. J. Heneage Jesse has issued 

 three volumes of " Memoirs of the Life and 

 Reign of King George III. " and the very 

 source of our race has been inquired into by 

 Mr. Luke Owen Pike, in his curious work, 

 "The English and their Origin: a Prologue to 

 Authentic English History." The origin of the 

 Scotch Highlanders has been made a subject of 

 inquiry by Colonel Robertson F. S. A. Scot, 

 in his " Concise Historical Proofs respecting the 

 Gael of Alban," a Celtic race allied to the Brit- 

 ons. Oriental history has been illustrated by 

 Mr. Robert Grant Watson, in " A History of 

 Persia from the Beginning of the Nineteenth 

 Century to the Year 1858, with a Review of 

 the Principal Events that led to the Establish- 

 ment of the Kajar Dynasty." Mr. Lionel James 

 Trotter has issued the second volume of his 

 " History of the British Empire in India, from 

 the Appointment of Lord Hardinge to the Po- 

 litical Extinction of the East India Company." 

 Surgeon Rennie, of the 20th Hussars, has 

 written a volume entitled "Bhotan, and the 

 Story of the Dooar War; including Sketches 

 of a Three Months' Residence in the Himala- 

 yas, and Narrative of a Visit to Bhotan in May, 

 1865." Mr. Bryce has published a second 

 edition of his historical study on " The Holy 

 Roman Empire," with enlargements. The an- 

 cient Roman Republic is in safe and worthy 

 hands when treated by such an author as Mr. 

 George Long, who last year published the 

 second volume of his great work. Mr. J. Wil- 

 liam Law issues two volumes (with map and 

 plan) on " Hannibal's Campaign." Mr. W. J. 

 Fitzpatrick, J. P., has written a small book on 

 the Irish disturbances at the close of the last 

 century : this work, to which the author gives 

 the title of " The Sham Squire, and the Inform- 

 ers of 1798," reached a third edition in the 

 spring of the year. Mr. William Fox, A. M., 

 late Colonial Secretary and Native Minister of 

 New Zealand, publishes an account of the last 

 war with the Maories ; and from Mr. Paul C. 

 Sinding we have "A History of Scandinavia, 

 from the Early Times of the Northmen, the 

 Sea-kings, and Vikings." Lord de Ros, Lieuten- 

 ant-Governor of the Tower, gives us an illus- 

 trated volume of "Memorials of the Tower;" 

 and Mr. J. T. H. Thurlow has written an ac- 

 count of the East India Company's rule in Ilin- 

 dostan, .under the title of "The Company and 

 the Crown." Colonel Heros von Borcke, lately 

 Chief of the Staff to General J. E. B. Stuart, of 

 the Confederate Cavalry, has punished some 



