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LITERATURE AND LITERARY PROGRESS IN 1867. 



A Text-Book of Ethics, for Bible Classes, by Key. 

 J. Alden, D.D.,LL.D. 



The Life and Teachings of Confucius, with Ex- 

 planatory Notes, by Joseph Legge, D. D. 



Hints on Common Politeness. 



Amusements ? their Uses and Abuses, by Eev. 

 Washington Gladden. 



Amusement a Force in Christian Training. Four 

 Discourses, by Eev. Marvin E. Vincent. 



Besides these there were eleven Essays, Beports, 

 and Discussions on the Temperance Question, 

 including a Controversy between D. E. Thom- 

 ason and Eev. Dr. John Marsh, on the question, 

 Whether the Scriptures Inculcated the Doctrine 

 of Total Abstinence from Alcoholic Liquors. 



In LOGIC AND KIIETORIO there were four 

 treatises, three of them from the able pen of 

 Prof. Henry N. Day, of Yale College, viz. : 

 "Elements of Logic;" "The Art of English 

 Composition," and " The Art of Discourse ; a 

 System of Rhetoric for Colleges, Academies, 

 und Private Study." There was also a "Man- 

 ual of Elementary Logic, for Teachers and 

 Learners," by Lyman H. Atwater. 



In the wide range of topics coming under the 

 head of SOCIAL SCIENCE, the number of books, 

 though considerable, was less than might 

 have been expected. One of the most impor- 

 tant and valuable was a " Report on the Prisons 

 and Reformatories of the United States and 

 Canada," made to the Legislature of New York, 

 January, 1867, by E. C. Wines, D. D., LJL D., 

 and Theodore W. Dwiglit, LL. D. Other 

 works on the topics of Social Science were : 

 History of the Albany Penitentiary, by David Dyer, 



Chaplain. 



Cooperative Stores ; their History, Organization 



and Arrangement. Based on the recent work ot 



Eugene Eichter. Adapted for use in the United 



States. 



Man, and the Conditions that surround Him : His 



Progress and Decline, Past and Present. 

 Marriage in the United States, by A. Carlier. 



Translated from the French, by B. J. Jeffries. 

 Evangelical Sisterhoods ; in Two Letters to a 

 Friend. Edited by Eev. W. A. Muhlenburg, 

 D.D. 



Prometheus in Atlantis : a Prophecy of the Extinc- 

 tion of the Christian Civilization. 

 Handbook of the Oneida Community, with a Sketch 



of its Founder, etc. 

 Woman's Eights .by Eev. John Todd. 

 Serpents in the Dove's Nest (a Denunciation of 

 criminal Abortion, especially among the Married), 

 by Eev. John Todd. 



Abattoirs : a Paper read before the Polytechnic 

 Branch of the American Institute, by Thomas 

 F. DeVoe. 



The Diary of a Milliner, by Belle Otis. 

 Eemarkable Trials of All Countries, etc., by T. 



Dunphy and T. J. Cummins. 

 A Eecord of the Metropolitan Fair in Aid of the 

 U. S. Sanitary Commission, with Photographs. 

 There were also six or eight Treatises and Manuals 

 of Cookery and Housekeeping of various degrees 

 of merit. 



In the important department of books on 

 MECHANICS AND TECHNOLOGY, the following 

 were the principal works : 

 The Management of Steel, by George Ede. 

 The Eeducer's Manual and Gold and Silver Work- 

 er's Guide, by Victor G. Bloede. 

 The Slide Valve Practically Considered, by N. P. 

 Burgh. 



A New Guide to the Sheet Iron and Boiler Plate 

 Boiler : Containing a Series of Tables of Weight 

 and Thickness, etc.. Estimated and Collected oy 

 C. H. Perkins and J. G. Stowe. 



General Problems of Shades and Shadows, by S. E. 

 Warren, C. E. 



An Essay on the Steam Boiler, by Joseph Harrrisou, 

 Jr., M. E., with Eeport of Franklin Institute 

 Committee on the Harrison Boiler, etc. 



The Nicolson Pavement, and Pavements Generally, 

 by Frank G. Johnson, M. D. 



Sorghum and its Products. A New Method of 

 Making Sugar and Eeflned Syrup from it, by F. L. 

 Stewart. 



Facts about Peat as an Article of Fuel, with a 

 Chapter on the Utilization of Coal Dust with 

 Peat, by T. H. Leavitt. Third edition. Ee- 

 vised and enlarged. 



The Modern Carpenter and Builder. New and 

 Original Methods for every Cut in Carpentry, 

 Joinery, and Hand-Bailing, by Eobert Eiddell. 



Beet-Eoot Sugar and the Cultivation of the Beet, 

 by E. B. Grant. 



The Art of Manufacturing Soap and Candles, with 

 the most Eecent Discoveries, Modes of Detect- 

 ing Frauds, etc., by Adolf Ott, Ph. D. 



Skeleton Structures ; especially in their Applica- 

 tion to the Building ot Stone and Iron Bridges, 

 by Olaus Henrici, Ph. D. 



An Exposition on the most Improved Telegraph 

 Cable, and the Theories connected therewith, 

 with 'Tables of Comparison and Lists of Sub- 

 marine Cable now in use and those that have 

 failed, by A. J. DeMorat and J. N. Pierce. 



Self-Instructor in the Art of Hair- Work, Dressing 

 Hair, making Curls, Switches, Braids, and Hair 

 Jewelry of every Description, by M. Campbell. 

 Illustrated. 



The Iron Manufacture of Great Britain, Theoreti- 

 cally and Practically Considered, including De- 

 scriptive Details of Ores, Fuels, and Fluxes, Cal- 

 cination, Blasts, etc., by W. Truran. 



Handbook on Cotton Manufacture or, Guide to 

 Machine Building, Spinning, and Weaving, by 

 Geldard. 



The Engineers' and Mechanics' Pocket-Book, by 

 Charles H. Haswell. Twenty-first edition. Be- 

 vised and enlarged. 



In POLITICAL ECONOMY, there were : 



The Cotton Question : the Production, Export, 

 Manufacture, and Consumption of Cotton, with 

 Illustrations, by W. J. Barbee, M. D. 



The Market Assistant : containing a brief Descrip- 

 tion of every Article of Human Food, sold hi the 

 Public Markets of New York, Boston, Philadel- 

 phia, and Brooklyn, by Thomas F. DeVoe. 



Oil on the Waters. 



Elements of Political Economy, by Arthur Latham 

 Perry. Second edition. Eevised. 



The Financial Economy of the United States il- 

 lustrated ; and some of the Causes which retard 

 the Progress of California ; by John A. Ferris. 



The Public Debt of the United States ; its Organi- 

 zation, its Liquidation, Administration ot the 

 Treasury, the Financial System, by J. S. Gib- 

 bons. 



What is Free Trade ? An Adaptiition of F. Bas- 

 tiat's Sophismes Econ&miques,t>y E. Walter. 



Eeview of the Decade of 1857-1867. 



Protection a Boon to Consumers. An Address, by 

 John L. Hayes. 



First Book ot Civil Government, for the Young 

 Classes in Schools, by Andrew W. Young. 



Of the large number of works on POLITICS 

 and POLITICAL SCIENCE, the following were the 

 most important : 



American Neutrality : its Honorable Past, its Ex- 

 pedient Future, by George Bemis. 



