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LITERATURE AND LITERARY PROGRESS IN 1868. 



Optic "), Badeau, Barney, Brisbane, Brockett, 

 Coppge, Crafts, Dana, Deming, Dye, Eddy, J. 

 T. Headley, P. 0. Headley, Howland, Larke, 

 Lawrence, Lossing, Mansfield, Phelps, Reid, 

 Richardson, Stiles, Stowe, Willett, and Wilson ; 

 two special biographies of Vice-President Col- 

 fax, one by Rev. A. Y. Moore, the other by E. 

 W. Martin ; a memoir of Messrs. Seymour and 

 Blair, by D. Gr. Croly, and an abridgment of 

 the same for campaign purposes. There was 

 also a pamphlet life of these candidates pub- 

 lished in Philadelphia. 



The other important biographies of the year 

 were : the interesting original autobiography 

 of Benjamin Franklin, as prepared by himself, 

 which was unearthed by Hon. John Bigelow, 

 late United States minister to France, who 

 supplied an introduction and notes to it. 



A life of Horace Greeley. by James Parton, revised 



and brought down to the present time by the ad- 

 dition of two hundred pages to his first edition 



of 1854. 

 Sev. John S. C. Abbott's Life of Napoleon III., 



which perhaps might with as much propriety be 



placed in another class. 

 The Life, Letters, and Posthumous Works of Fred- 



rika Bremer, edited by her Sister, and translated 



from the Swedish by F. Milow. 

 The Life and Campaigns of General Kobert E. 



Lee, by J. D. McCabe, Jr. 

 A Life of Oliver Cromwell, by C. Adams, D. D. 

 The Life of John P. Crozer, by J. Wheaton Smith. 



D. D. 



Life and Letters of Wilder D wight. Lieutenant- 

 Colonel Second Massachusetts Infantry Volun- 

 teers. 



Fitz-Greene Halleck, a Memorial, by F. S. Cozzens. 

 Christian Womanhood. 

 Life of Mrs. M. K. Everts. 

 A Man in Earnest. 



Life of A. H. Conant, by Eev. E. Colyer. 

 James Mott, a Biographical Sketch, by Mary^ Grew. 

 Memoir of William H. Prescott, the Historian, by 



Charles H. Hart. 

 Fifty Years in the Itinerant Ministry, by S. Lan- 



don. 



Life of John Carter, by F. J. Mills. 

 The Military Services" and Public Life of Major- 



General John Sullivan.by Thomas C. Amory. 

 Life of A. P. Dostie, by Emily H. Eeed. 

 Illustrations of the Life of Martin Luther, by Dr. 



Merle D'Aubigne. 

 The Official Life of Governor John A. Andrew, by 



A. G. Browne, Jr. 

 A Memorial of the Eight Eev. M. Meade, Bishop 



of Virginia, by the Eight Eev. J. Johns, Bishop 



of Maryland. 

 Memoirs and Letters of Jenny C. White Del Bal, 



by Ehoda E. White. 

 The Eichmond Examiner during the war, or the 



Writings of John M. Daniel, with Memoir, by 



his Brother,F. S. Daniel. 

 The Life of William Forster, edited by Benjamin 



Seebohm. 

 Memoirs of Stephen Gullet, edited by Benjamin 



Seebohm. 

 Ulrich Zwinglius, the Patriot Eeformer, by Eev. 



W. M. Blackburn. 

 The Confederate Soldier. 

 A Memorial Sketch of G. N. and B. W. Harris, by 



Eev. J. E. Edwards, D. D. 

 Life of Gustavus Adolphus, by Eev. L. W. Hey- 



denreich. 

 Sermons by Eev. G. Shepard. D. D., late Professor 



at Bangor, with a Memorial by Professor D. S. 



Talcott. 



Life of Maximilian I., late Emperor of Mexico, by 

 Frederick Hall. 



Memoir of S. Basset, D. D., by L. G. Pray. 



Discourse on the Death of Eev. W. Allen, D. D., 

 by W. B. Sprague, D. D. 



Life and Times of Eobert Emmet, by E. E. Mad- 

 den. 



St. Columba, Apostle of Caledonia, from the French 

 of Count de Montalembert. 



The Life of George Stephenson, and of his Son 

 Eobert Stephenson, by Samuel Smiles. 



The Early Years of the Prince Consort, by Lieu- 

 tenant-General Sir C. Grey, cheap edition. 



A Memoir of Baron Bunsen, chiefly from Family 

 Papers, by the Baroness Bunsen (imported edi- 

 tion). 



Life of M. M. Pomeroy (Brick Pomeroy), by Mrs. 

 Mary E. Tucker. 



Autobiography of Elder Jacob Knapp. 



The Life of J. Davis, by F. H. Alfnend. 



Eecollections of a Busy Life, by Horace Greeley. 



There were also three contributions to 

 Christology, which, though perhaps more ap- 

 propriately classed under the head of Religious 

 Works, yet, being in biographical form, may be 

 noticed here: "Immanuel; or, the Life of 

 Jesus Christ," by Z. Eddy, D. D. ; "The Life 

 of Jesus Christ," by John Fleetwood, D. D., 

 a new and improved edition with notes and 

 corrections by J. Newton Brown, D. D. ; and 

 "Jesus of Nazareth, His Life and Teachings," 

 by Rev. Lyman Abbott. 



The Genealogical WorTcs of the year form a 

 distinct department of biography, and, though 

 not numerous, were important to a class of 

 readers. The following were all of which we 

 have been able to learn : 



Genealogy of the Van Brunt Family, by T. G. 



Bergen. 



A Golden Wedding, and the Dinsmore Genealogy. 

 History of the Bill Family, edited by Ledyard Bill. 

 Genealogical History of the Lee Family of Virginia 



and Maryland, from A. D. 1300 to 1866, edited 



by E. C. Mead. 

 A Genealogical Eecord of Several Families bearing 



the name of Cutler, in the United States, by Eev. 



Abner Morse. 

 Descendants of John Guild, Dedham, Mass., by 



Calvin Guild. 

 The American Genealogist, being a Directory of 



Family Histories and Publications, by W. H. 



White ore. 

 Genealogy of the Spots wood Family in Scotland 



and Virginia, by C. Campbell. 

 Some Materials for a > Memoir of John Daly Burke, 



and a Sketch of his only Child, Judge John J. 



Burke, by C. Campbell. 

 A Memoir of Eev. N. Ward, with Notices of his 



Family, by John W. Dean. 

 The Janes Family, with Notice of Bishop Janes, 



etc., by Eev. F. Janes. 

 Genealogy of the Macy Family from 1635 to 1868, 



by S. J. Macy. 

 Glover Memorials and Genealogies ; John Glover, 



of Dorchester, and his Descendants, by Anna 



Glover. 



The ninety volumes of HISTOKICAL WORKS 

 published during the year were more equally 

 distributed among the different subdivisions 

 of history than usual, though of course Ameri- 

 can History, either remote or recent, predomi- 

 nated. The most important works appertain- 

 ing to General American History were the 

 following : 



