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LITERATURE AND LITERARY PROGRESS IN 1868. 



There were about the usual number of ES- 

 SAYS, REVIEWS, AND WOEKS OF CEITICISM, some- 

 what more than sixty. The following are all 

 that seem to be worthy of a place in our record : 



'Woman's "Wrongs. A Counter-irritant, by Gail 

 Hamilton (Miss M. A. Dodge). 



Sense and Nonsense, by Brick Pomeroy (M. M. 

 Pomeroy). 



The Great Exhibition: Continental Sketches, 

 Practical and Humorous, by H. P. Arnold. 



The Irish in America, by J. F. Maguire. 



Oratory Sacred and Secular j or, the Extempora- 

 neous Speaker, by W. Pettinger. 



The Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland, by J. P. 

 Prendergast. 



Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the High- 

 lands, by Queen Victoria. Edited by Arthur 

 Helps. 



Sketches on the Ice ; or, the Skating Mania Ee- 

 viewed, by Horace Cope. 



Human Life in Shakespeare, by Henry Giles., 



"Wayside Thoughts : a Series of Desultory Essays, 

 by D'Arcy W. Thompson. 



Spiritual Significance of Gems, by Cora Wilburn. 



An Historical Account of the Providence Stage, by 

 Charles Blake. 



Behind the Scenes, by Elizabeth Keckley. 



A Sister's Bye-Hours, by Jean Ingelow. 



A Mother's Love tor, A Young Man's Lighthouse. 

 Letters, by the Wife of a late Distinguished Cit- 

 izen of New Haven to a Son. 



The Early Years of the Prince Consort. Compiled 

 under the direction of the Queen, by Lieutenant- 

 General Sir C. Gray. Cheap edition. 



Mathieu Kopars, by an ex-Editor. 



Folly as it Flies. Hit at by Fanny Fern (Mrs. S. 

 Parton). 



Faraday as a Discoverer, by John Tyndall. 



Yang-Pih-We-Wing-Tzonga-Foh; or, Lessons 

 from a Cup of Tea. 



Was it a Ghost? The Murders in Bussey's "Wood : 

 an Extraordinary Narrative. 



On Ice and Other Things, by Josh Billings (H. 

 W. Shaw). 



Transcript Pieces, by Frank Foxcroft. 



The Love-Life of Brigadier-General H. M. Naglee : 

 consisting of a Correspondence in Love, war, 

 and Politics. 



The Philosophers of Foufouville, byEadical Freil- 

 mann, Esq. 



Miscellaneous Prose "Works, by E. Bulwer Lytton. 



About Woman, Love, and Marriage, by F. Saun- 

 ders. 



Asmodeus in New York. 



Tablets, by A. B. Alcott. 



Excelsior; or, Essays on Politeness, Education, 

 and the Means of Success in Life, Part I. For 

 Young Gentlemen, hy T. E. Howard. Part II. 

 For Young Ladies, by a Lady (E. V. E.). 



Plain Thoughts on the Art of Living, by W. Glad- 

 den. 



The Tragedian : an Essay on the Histrionic Genius 

 of Jumus Brutus Booth, hy T. E. Gould. 



Calamities and Quarrels of Authors, by I. Dis- 

 raeli. Edited by B. Disraeli. 2 volumes. 



The Literary Character ; or, the History of Men 

 of Our Genius, Literary, Miscellaneous, etc., by 

 I. Disraeli. Edited by B. Disraeli. 



Theatrical Management in the West and South for 

 Thirty Years, by Sol. Smith. 



Passages from the Note-Books of Nathaniel Haw- 

 thorne. 



My Paris : French Character-Sketches, by E. King. 



The New England Tragedies in Prose, by E. H. 

 Allen. 



Mrs. Partington's Knitting-Work; and what was 

 donehy her Plaguy Boy, Ike, by B. P. ShiUaber. 



Smoked Glass, by Orpheus C. Kerr (E. H. New- 



Cakes and Ale at Woodbine, by Barry Gray (B. 



G. Coffin). 

 The Wickedest Woman in New York, by C. H. 



Webb. 

 Eealmah, hy Arthur Helps. 



Of the 320 novels published during the year, 

 a very considerable number were included 

 among the four or five editions of the fictions 

 of Dickens, Sir Walter Scott, Marryatt, Charles 

 Reade, Bulwer Lytton, Thackeray, etc., put 

 upon the market by rival publishers. There 

 were also reprints, and usually two or three, 

 of the new novels of Wilkie Collins, Miss M. 

 E. Braddon, Annie Thomas (Mrs. Fender Cud- 

 lip), Mrs. Henry Wood, Mrs. C. Jenkin, Ouida, 

 and J. Sheridan Le Fanu, George Lawrence, 

 "Holme Lee," Mrs. Edwards, Mrs. Oliphant, 

 Miss Sewell, Miss M. B. Edwards, Mrs. D. 

 M. Craik, Miss Georgiana Craik, George Mac- 

 donald, Anthony and T. Adolphus Trollop e, 

 and other popular English novelists. Five 

 more have been added to the already long list 

 of Louisa Mtihlbach (Mrs. Clara Mundt's) nov- 

 els, and one of -her late husband's (Theodor 

 Mundt) historical fictions has been translated. 

 Berthold Auerbach, F. Dingelstedt, A. E. 

 Brachvogel, F. W. Hacklander, J. 0. Hauch,- 

 J. A. Sigmund, Fritz Renter, Heribert Raue, 

 Max Ring, and others, have been added to the 

 list of German novelists, from whom our pub- 

 lishers have drawn their supplies. Among the 

 French writers whose novels have been deemed 

 worthy of translation, we notice the literary 

 firm of Erckman and Chatrian, two of whose 

 novels have been translated and published ; 

 Alexander Dumas, Octave Feuillet, Madame de 

 Lesdernier, and Alphonse de Lamartine. Two 

 or three novels by Spanish writers were also 

 published. From the Scandinavian countries, 

 there were novels by Miss Bremer, Emilie 

 Carlen, and two from a new writer, a young 

 Norwegian of great promise, Bjornstjerne 

 Bjornson. Of the novels by American writers, 

 which did not exceed a hundred, the larger 

 proportion were by new writers, though some 

 of the older novelists were not remiss in the 

 production of new works. A few novels, 

 standard works in our earlier literary history, 

 such as those of Paulding, have been repub- 

 lished, but have met with no great success. 



The following are the principal American 

 novels of the year : 



Norwood ; or, Village Life in New England, by H. 

 W. Beecher. 



Proverb Stories, by Miss L. M. Alcott. 



Sheltern, by C. Coningsby. 



Dallas Galbraith, by Mrs. E. Harding Davis. 



Fairfax ; or, the Master of Greenway Court, by J. ' 

 Esten Cooke. 



Mohun ; or, the Last Days of Lee and his Pala- 

 dins, by J. Esten Cooke. 



Hilt to Hilt, by J. Esten Cooke. 



Uncle Timothy; or, Our Bible Class, by Mrs. C. F. 

 Corbin. 



Alice Tracey ; or, Faint f yet Pursuing, by Mrs. S. 

 Currier. 



What Answer ? by Anna Dickinson. 



Sydnie Adriance ; or, Trying the World, by Aman- 

 da M. Douglas. 





