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LITERATURE AND LITERARY PROGRESS IX 1871. 



CLASSICAL AND OTHER TEXT-BOOKS. Some 

 important text-books are noticed under SCI- 

 ENCE. Worthy of particular mention are " The 

 Antigone of Sophocles, with an Introduction, 

 and Critical and Explanatory Notes," etc., by 

 M. J. Sraead, Ph. D., Professor in the Univer- 

 sity of Georgia, an excellent school and college 

 classic ; a new edition of that well-tested class- 

 book, Prof. J. L. Lincoln's " Selections from 

 Livy," with Notes, etc. ; an Elementary Greek 

 Grammar, by W. W. Goodwin, Ph. D., and a 

 Greek Reader (prose), by W. "W. Goodwin and 

 Joseph H. Allen ; Prof. George M. Comfort's 

 German Reader, and Manual of German Con- 

 versation; Prof. "William Henry Green's "Ele- 

 mentary Hebrew Grammar, with Reading and 

 Writing Lessons and Vocabulary," a work for 

 beginners, for which there was room, valuable 

 as are the Hebrew Grammars in use for stu- 

 dents further advanced in the study; Mr. 

 II. Alleyne Nicholson's Text-Books on Geol- 

 ogy and Physiology ; and the following : 



A Shorter Course in English Grammar. By Simon 

 Kerl, A. M. 



Analysis of the Latin Verb, illustrated by the 

 Forms of the Sanskrit. By Charles H. Parkhu'rst. 



Greek Grammar. By Alpheus Crosby, Revised 

 edition. 



The Elements of Natural Philosophy. By Sidney 

 A. Norton. 



Practical Treatise on the Differential and Integral 

 Calculus, with some of its Applications to Mechanics 

 and Astronomy. By William G. Peck, LL. D. 



A Treatise on the Differential and Integral Cal- 

 culus. By Prof. Theodore Strong, LL. D. 



A Primary Geography. An Intermediate Geogra- 

 phy. By A. von Stem wehr and D. G. Brinton. A 

 School Geography, embracing a Mathematical, Physi- 

 cal, and Political Description of the Earth. By A. 

 von Steinwehr. 



_ The Kindergarten. A Manual for the Introduc- 

 tion of Froebel's System of Primary Education into 

 Public Schools, and for the Use of Mothers and Pri- 

 vate Teachers. By Dr. Adolf Douai. 



A Practical Grammar of the German Language. 

 By Herman D. Wrage. 



The First Book of Botany. Designed to cultivate 

 the Observing Powers of Children. By Eliza A. 

 Youmans. Enlarged edition. 



Greek Lessons, adapted to Goodwin's Greek Gram- 

 miir. By R. F. Leighton, A. M. 



Natural System of English Grammar. Introduc- 

 tory Course. By D. B. Chamberlin. 



Natural Philosophy. For Common and High 

 Schools. By Le Roy C. Cooley.Ph. D. Easy Ex- 

 periments in Physical Science. For Oral Instruction 

 m Common Schools. By Le Roy C. Cooley. 



Easy and Practical French Grammar. By Dr. C. 

 Ploetz. Arranged for American Schools and Private 

 Use. By J. Noeroth. 



Manual of Reading, in Four Parts : Orthophonv, 

 Class Methods Gesture and Elocution. By H. L. 

 D. Potter. 



A Latin Exercise Book. By B. L. Gildersleeve, 

 Ph. D., LL. D. 



Key to the Iliad of Homer. For the Use of Schools, 

 Academies, and Colleges. By William R. Smith, 

 President of the University of Alabama. 



Elements of Plain Geometry, with an Appendix on 

 Mensuration.. By Thomas ITunter, A. M. 



The American Elocutionist, and Dramatic Reader. 

 By Joseph A. Lyons. 



Independent Sixth Reader. By J. Madison Wat- 

 son. 



Second Book on Analytic Anatomy, Physiology, 



and Hygiene, Human and Comparative. By Calvin 

 Cutter, A.M., M. D. 



MISCELLANEOUS. Some important medical 

 works are mentioned under the head of " Sci- 

 ence." Several works deserve mention, de- 

 signed for popular instruction in hygiene and 

 regimen, e. g., "Health and its Conditions," by 

 James Hinton ; " Human Life prolonged," by 

 A. A. Platt, M. D.; "Wear and Tear; or, 

 Hints for the Overworked," by S. Weir 

 Mitchell, M. D. ; " Our Eyes, and how to take 

 care of them," by Henry W. Williams, M. D. ; 

 "Fun better than Physic; or, Everybody's 

 Live-Preserver," by W. W. Hall, M. D. ; " Our 

 Girls," by Dio Lewis, A. M., M. D. ; " Bound, 

 and How ; or, Alcohol as a Narcotic," by 

 Charles Jewett, M. D. The last-named is one 

 of a series of books in which the "National 

 Temperance Society," without by any means 

 renouncing the faith in repressive legislation, 

 recognizes the necessity of recurring to those 

 moral and persuasive ineans by which the 

 reform was originally lifted into public im- 

 portance. 



Of illustrated books, some, in which the mat- 

 ter of the book is paramount to the mode of 

 presentation, have been noticed in their appro- 

 priate places. Besides these, some claim men- 

 tion that were published with special regard 

 to elegance of form and sumptuousness of 

 adornment. Such are " The Story of the 

 Fountain," by Bryant, admirably illustrated, 

 printed, and bound ; less expensive, and so 

 fitted for wider circulation, but scarcely less 

 perfect in its kind, is a complete (red-line) 

 edition of Bryant's Poems ; a fine illustrated 

 edition of Longfellow's Poetical Works, a beau- 

 tiful piece of book manufacture; "Child Life, 

 a Collection of Poems," edited by Whittier, in 

 which the choiceness of the selections and 

 the beauty of the material setting are well 

 matched ; an illustrated edition of " Maud Mul- 

 ler; " "FalstafF and his Companions," twenty 

 designs in silhouette, by Konewka; "One 

 with Christ in Glory : Thoughts on John xvii.," 

 with illuminations ; besides several English 

 works reproduced in the holiday season. In 

 "Nast's Comic Almanac" a deft pencil is 

 withdrawn momentarily from the field of po- 

 litical caricature to humorous delineation and 

 suggestion. 



In this connection may fitly be mentioned 

 the excellence of certain compilations. Im- 

 proved editions of that standard, work, "The 

 Household Book of Poetry," by C. A. Dana, 

 and of that less general but very choice selec- 

 tion, " Our Poetic Favorites," by Prof. A. C. 

 Kendrick, have appeared. We notice also, 

 " Ever New and Ever Old, or Twice-told Sto- 

 ries by the best Authors ; " " Public and Par- 

 lor Readings, Prose and Poetry, for the use of 

 Reading Clubs and for Public and Social En- 

 tertainments," edited by Lewis B. Monroe; 

 " The Historical Reader," by John J. Ander- 

 son; and "Treasury of Thought, forming an 

 Encyclopedia of Quotations," by M. M. Bal- 



