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Dwyer; "Elements of Tachygraphy," by D. 

 N. Lindsley, a new system of short-hand; 

 "American Chestnuts;" "How to Treat the 

 Sick without Medicine," by J. 0. Jackson; 

 "The Greenhouse as a Winter Garden," by 

 F. E. Field, with a preface by "W. 0. Bryant ; 

 " Pictures of Edgewood," by Mitchell, with 

 Photographic Views ; "On the Wing, a Book 

 for Sportsmen ; " " Hunter's Guide and Trap- 

 per's Companion;" "Mental Photographs," 

 an Album, edited by R. Saxton ; " Ten Working 

 Designs for Catholic Churches ; " " Specimens 

 of Fancy Turning executed with the Hand and 

 Foot Lathe, by an Amateur ; " Scott's " Fishing 

 in American Waters ; " " Velocipedes, and how 

 to use Them;" "Base-Ball Guide;" "Gun, 

 Rod, and Saddle, by Ubique ;" a " Treatise on 

 the Teeth of Wheels," translated from the 

 French ; Ludden's " Thorough Bass ; " " Farm 

 Implements and Machinery," by J. J. Thomas ; 

 Courtney's " Farmer's and Mechanic's Manual ;" 

 " The Philatelist's Album;" "Manual of the 

 Railroads of the U. S.," by H. V. Poor; M. de 

 Chateller's "Railway Economy," translated 

 by L. D. B. Gordon; "The Carpenter's and 

 Builder's Guide," by P. W. Plumer ; " How to 

 become a Successful Engineer," by B. Stuart ; 

 " Formulas for the Strength of the Iron Parts of 

 Steam Machinery," by J. D. Van Buren, Jr. ; 

 Quinn's " Pear Culture for Profit ; " an en- 

 larged edition of Downing's "Fruits and Fruit- 

 Trees of America ; " " Dictionary of Manufac- 

 tures, Mining, Machinery, and the Industrial 

 Arts." We have given these titles barely and 

 somewhat indiscriminately, because most of the 

 books are known to us only by the titles. 



XII. CLASSICAL AND OTHER TEXT-BOOKS. 

 Of Latin classics we have the " ^Eneid of Vir- 

 gil," edited by N. C. Brooks; the first Six 

 Books, edited by Prof. Searing, with a Vo- 

 cabulary, and the same Books by Chase and 

 Stuart ; an Epitome of Latin Grammar, and J. 

 T. White's Latin-English and English-Latin 

 Dictionary. In Greek, Boise's Homer's Iliad, 

 the first Six Books, and Grammars, one by W. 

 H. Waddell, the other a compilation from 

 Hadley's Grammar by an anonymous author. 

 To the study of German, Prof. Whitney has 

 contributed a Grammar and a Reader. Wor- 

 man's " German Echo," Evans's " German 

 Reader," Preu's "First Steps in German," 

 and Grauert's " German Manual," claim men- 

 tion. In French, Gasc's "Pocket Dictionary," 

 a translator of English into French. Other 

 text-books are Loomis's " Elements of Astron- 

 omy," Drew's "Manual of Astronomy," and 

 White's (0. J.) "Elements of Theoretical and 

 Descriptive Astronomy ; " Roscoe's " Lessons 

 in Elementary Chemistry;" " A New Arithme- 

 tic on the Unit System," by C. P. Buckingham ; 

 Lossing's "Grammar-school History of the 

 United States;" Walker's "First Book of 

 English Grammar; " Wiley's "Elocution and 

 Oratory;" "The Model Speaker," by Prof. 

 Philip Lawrence; Griffith's "Drill-Book of 

 Elocution and Oratory;" "A Treatise on 



Logic," by A. Schuyler; "A Two Hours' 

 Course in Standard Phonography." 



XIII. NOVELS. The year gave us a novel 

 by an author new to this field of letters, 

 "Malbone, an Oldport Romance," by Colonel 

 Higginson, and a new novel by a veteran who 

 had been supposed to be reposing on her lau- 

 rels, " Oldtown Folks," by Mrs. Stowe. " Fair 

 Harvard," a college novel, has attempted to do 

 for our most ancient university what Mr. Hughes 

 .has done for Rugby and Oxford. Among 

 novels of a secondary order of merit, a high 

 place must be assigned to " Hitherto, a Story 

 of Yesterdays," by Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney. 

 But, in general, for satisfaction in this sort of 

 reading, we fall back on the standard British 

 novelists, and, after Dickens, upon the two or 

 three late writers for whose stories our pub- 

 lishers emulously compete. Some French and 

 German novels have been translated, and met 

 with a hearty welcome. Those of Erkmann 

 and Chatrian, from the French, of which two, 

 " The Conscript," and " Waterloo," appeared 

 within the year, and those of Spielhagen, from 

 the German, by Prof. Schele de Vere, de- 

 serve particular mention the former, for their 

 simple truth to nature and history and their 

 pure moral tone; the latter, for vehement, 

 sometimes lurid passion, and the evident men- 

 tal power they indicate. Less powerful but 

 more pleasing and immediately popular are 

 the novels of Auerbach, of one of which, " The 

 Country House on the Rhine," there have 

 been rival translations and editions. Rev. 

 Edward Everett Hale has collected "The Ing- 

 ham Papers," a volume of those short stories 

 for which he has shown a peculiar talent. 

 Whether the concentration of his inventive 

 powers on the fuller development of a plot 

 would secure for him success as a novelist 

 equal to that he has earned as a story-teller 

 can only be determined by experiment. 



MISCELLANEOUS. It remains to speak of some 

 books not reducible under any of the heads of 

 our review. " The Dodge Club," a very humor- 

 . ous travesty of the Grand Tour, mingling racy 

 wit with riotous fun and burlesque ; " The In- 

 nocents Abroad," by Mark Twain, to the same 

 purpose ; "Five Weeks in a Balloon," translat- 

 ed from the French, an equally amusing take-off 

 of African discovery and adventure; "Men, 

 Women, and Ghosts," byE. Stuart Phelps, au- 

 thor of " The Gates Ajar," the popularity of 

 which was probably relied on to float a volume 

 made up of previously published sketches ; "Five 

 Acres too Much," by R. B. Roosevelt, turning 

 the laugh on amateur farmers and believers in 

 the dogma that " ten acres are enough ;" Colo- 

 nel Higginson's " Army Life in a Black Regi- 

 ment," and MissAlcott's "Hospital Sketches," 

 each excellent in its kind and both valuable 

 pictures of less-known features in the late war ; 

 " Sybaris and other Homes," by E. E. Hale, a 

 unique combination of fact and fancy for a 

 good purpose; "Adventures in the Wilder- 

 ness, or Camp Life in the Adirondacks," by 



