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LITERATURE AND LITERARY PROGRESS IN 1867. 



ferent writers, to accomplish some particular 

 purpose. The compiler may not be, and often 

 is not, himself a poet ; but if he possesses poeti- 

 cal taste, and a competent knowledge of the 

 poetical literature of the language, and of the 

 object he lias in view, there is nothing more 

 needed. Of the books of this description the 

 more important were: 

 War Poetry of the South, edited by W. Gilmore 



Simms. 



Prison Hymn Book, for more especial use in Pris- 

 ons, Penitentiaries, Houses of Eefuge, etc., com- 

 piled by Eev. J. Byington Smith. 

 The Church Hymn Book. 

 Hymns from Happy Voices. 

 Eevival and Camp-Meeting Minstrel. 

 Himnos Cristianos : compuestos por los Jovenes, 



&a. 



Slave Songs of the United States, with Music. 

 The Hymns of Hildebert, and other Mediaeval 



Hymns, with Translations, by E. C. Benedict. 

 Eeliques of Ancient English Poetry, by Thomas 



Percy. A new edition. 3 vols. 

 Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott ; with Biograph- 

 ical and Critical Memoir by F. T. Palgrave. 

 Selected Songs sun at Harvard College, 1862-1866. 

 Carmina Yalensia ; Ifale College Songs, with Piano- 

 Forte Accompaniments, compiled and arranged 

 by F. V. D. Garretson. 



One Hundred Choice Selections in Poetry and 



Prose, both New and Old, by N. K. Eichardson. 



Patriotic Songs for Coming Campaigns, by S. N. 



Holmes. 



A Household Book of Poetry, compiled and edit- 

 ed by Chas. A. Dana. New and enlarged edition. 



There were also published, during the year, 

 editions of the complete poetical works of H. 

 W. Longfellow, and of J. G. Whittier, in the 

 single volume, diamond style, which has be- 

 come so popular, and what is called by the 

 publishers a " Red Line Edition " of the works 

 of Alfred Tennyson, and an edition in three 

 volumes of the poems of Mrs. Elizabeth Barrett 

 Browning. The following were the original 

 poems, translations, etc., of the most importance 

 published during the year : 



Eeligious Poems, by Harriet Beecher Stowe. 

 Songs of Seven, by Jean Ingelow. Illustrated. 

 Poems, Grave and Gay, by George Arnold. 

 The Forest Pilgrim and other Poems, by M. F. 

 *" Bigney. 



The Moniads ; a Satire, by " Truth." 

 Cannon-Flashes and Pen-Dashes, by Claes Mar- 



tenze. 



The Magnolia, by T. W. Parsons. 

 Catena Dominica ; a Series of Sunday Idyls, by 



John H. Alexander. 



War Poems, by Elbridge Jefferson Cutler. 

 The Tent on the Beach, and other Poems, by John 



G. Whittier. 



Daily Hymns ; or, Hymns for Every Day in Lent. 

 The Poet's Song for the Heart and the Home, by 



S. Dryden Phelpa. 

 Poems of Nazareth and the Cross, by W. Allen, 



D. D. 

 Drops of Water from Many Fountains, by Nina 



Eldridge. 

 The Votary ; a Narrative Poem, by James D. 



Hewett. 

 St. Johnland ; Ideal and Actual, by W. A. Muhlen- 



berg. 



Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman. 4th edition. 

 Two Victories ; a New England Idyl, by Joseph 



Anderson. 



The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, trans- 

 lated by Henry W. Longfellow. 3 vols. 



Poems, by Mrs. Frances Dana Gage. 



A Song of Italy, by A. C. Swinburne. 



The Day of Doom ; or, a Popular Description of 

 the Great and Last Judgment, with other Poems, 

 by Michael Wie:glesworth. From the edition or 

 1715. 



Frithiof's Saga. From the Swedish of Esaias 

 Tegner, by Eev. W. L. Blackley. Edited by 

 Bayard Taylor. 



Ellen ; a Poem for the Times. 



May Day, and other Pieces, by Ealph Waldo Em- 

 erson. 



History of England.' In Ehyme. 



An Elegiac Ode. Eecited by James Barron Hope, 

 at completing the Monument erected by the 

 Ladies of Warren County, N. C., over the Ee- 

 mains of Annie Carter Lee. 



The History of the Church in Verse, by J. H. Hop- 

 kins, Bishop of Vermont. 



Love in Spain, and other Poems, by Martha P. 

 Lowe. 



Peace, and other Poems, by John J. White. 



A Book of Sonnets, by a Virginian. 



A Story of Doom, and other Poems, by Jean Inge- 

 low. 



Melpomene Divina ; or, Poems on Christian Themes, 

 by Christopher Laomedon Pindar. 



Poems, by Eliza A. Starr. 



The Life and Death of Jason ; a Poem, by William 

 Morris. 



New Poems, by Matthew Arnold. 



Hymns Selected from F. W. Faber, D. D. 



The First Canticle (Inferno) of the Divine Comedy 

 of Dante Alighieri, translated by T. W. Parsons. 



The New Life of Dante Alighieri, translated by 

 C. E. Norton. 



Kathrina : Her Life and Mine, in a Poem, by J. G. 

 Holland. 



Osseo, the Spectre Chieftain ; a Poem, by Evander 

 C. Kennedy. 



Themes and Translations, by John W. Montclair. 



Hymns of Faith and Hope, by H. Bonar, D. D. 

 3d Series. 



Glimpses of the Spirit-Land ; Addresses, Sonnets, 

 and other^oems, by Samuel H. Lloyd. 



Voices of the Border ; comprising Songs of the 

 Field, Songs of the Prairie, Indian Melodies, and 

 Promiscuous Poems, by Lieut.-Col. G. W. Patten. 



Indian Idyls, by G. W. Weeks. 



Poems of Faith, Hope, and Love.by Phoebe Gary. 



One Wife too Many ; or, Eip van Bighorn. A Tale 

 of Tappan Zee, by Edward Hopper. 



Lucile, by Eobert Lytton (Owen Meredith). * 



Poems, by C. W. Stoddard. 



The Sexton's Tale, and other Poems, by Theodore 

 Tilton. 



Hymns of my Holy Hours, by Bay Palmer. 



Poems, by Et. Eev. George Burgess, D. D., Bishop 

 of Maine. 



Tarn O'Shanter, by Eobert Burns. With Photo- 

 graphic Illustrations. 



Hymns of the Higher Life. 



Snow Bound ; a Winter Idyl, by J. G. Whittier. 



Poems, by Elizabeth C. Kinney. 



Minding the Gap, and other Poems, by Mollie E. 

 Moore. 



The Hermit, by Thomas Parnell. 



The Hermitage, and other Poems, by Edward K. 

 Sill. 



The Heavenly Land. From the " De Contemptu 

 Mundi" ot Bernard de Morlaix. In English 

 Verse, by S. W. Duffield. 



The Glad New Year, and other Poems, by Ethel 

 Wolf. 



Visions of Paradise : an Epic, by D. N. Lord. 



Poems, by Amanda T. Jones. 



The Voyage to Harlem Thirty Years Ago, and 

 other Poems, by E. J. Leedom. 



