LITERATURE AND LITERARY PROGRESS IN 1873. 



413 



ity, and nil are valuable as contributions to tbe 

 investigation of a subject on which the public 

 attention is turned with increasing solicitude. 

 The same subject, viewed from the stand-point 

 of physiology, is ably treated in Dr. Edward 

 H. Clarke's -'Sex in Education." Mr. H. H. 

 Furness's new Variorum Shakespeare, a work 

 which puts him at the head of contemporary 

 students of the great dramatist, is continued 

 by the publication of " Macbeth." The Rev. 

 Henry N. Hudson has published a third series 

 of the plays for schools and families, with such 

 selections and revisions as adapt them to free 

 use. The process o,f selection and expurgation 

 is conducted by him with great delicacy and 

 tact, under the influence of a profound rever- 

 ence for the poet. " I go a Fishing," by Wil- 

 liam C. Prime, like Walton's " Complete An- 

 gler," has an interest quite apart from its pisca- 

 tory attributes. From a richly-cultured and 

 widely-discursive mind, and a varied experi- 

 ence of life, the author converses with the 

 reader or, what is to the same purpose, with 

 interlocutors who appear for the reader's help 

 on literary and religions, classic and roman- 

 tic, home and foreign themes, always fresh 

 and always interesting. Some of the follow- 

 ing deserve notice, bat must be passed with a 

 bare mention : 



Essays and Sketches. By George B. Wood. 



Outlines of Men, Women, and Things. By Mary 

 Clemiuer Ames. 



About Men and Things ; or, Papers from my Study 

 Table-Drawer. By C. S. Henry, D. D. 



Hap-Hazard. By Kate Field. 



Play and Profit in my Garden. By Rev. E. P. Roe. 



The Ways of Women in their Physical, Moral, nd 

 Intellectual Relations. By a Medical Man. 



Womanhood: its Sanctities and Fidelities. By 

 Isabella Bcecher Hooker. 



Reviews and Essays on Art, Literature, and Sci- 

 ence. By Almira Lincoln Phelps. 



Thoughts on Life and Character. By S. P. Herron. 



HISTORY. In this department of literature 

 less has been produced of special note than 

 usual. The historical works of William H. 

 Prescott, which have, since his decease, ap- 

 parently retired from the conspicuous place 

 they had held unchallenged in the public at- 

 tention, are coming forward for a renewed 

 recognition of their great merits. Under the 

 competent editorial supervision of Mr. John 

 Foster Kirk, a new edition, with the author's 

 last corrections, is in course of publication. 

 The "History of the Reign of Ferdinand nnd 

 Isabella," and "The History of the Conquest 

 of Mexico," have appeared. "The Reforma- 

 tion." by George P. Fisher, D. D., Professor 

 of Ecclesiastical History in Tale College, is a 

 work which clothes, in an eminently readable 

 ityle, the results of extensive research pur- 

 sued under the guidance of a singularly im- 

 partial judgment. "The Treaty of Washing- 

 ton ; its Negotiation, Execution, and the Dis- 

 cussions relating thereto," by Caleb Cushing, 

 preserves important materials for history, with 

 aids to a correct appreciation of them ; but Mr. 



Gushing was an advocate at Geneva, not an 

 arbitrator, and his book has more of the foren- 

 sic than of the judicial quality. The "Memo- 

 rial Address on the Lite and Character and 

 Public Services of William H. Seward," by the 

 Hon. Charles Francis Adams, is also a valua- 

 ble contribution to the materials of history; 

 and it has been the means, through the con- 

 troversies occasioned by some passages in it, 

 of calling out still other important disclusures 

 of facts connected with the administration of 

 the Government during the period of Mr. Sew- 

 ard's most important services to the nation. 

 A new edition has been issued of " The Na- 

 poleon Dynasty, by the Berkeley Men," with 

 an avowal of the authorship by C. Edwards 

 Lester, and evidence that the work had the 

 cordially expressed approbation of the late 

 Emperor Napoleon 111. How much of its 

 former popularity arose from the mystery of 

 the authorship, how much from the sympathy 

 with the Napoleonic superstition that has been 

 more or less widely diffused in this country, 

 and how much from the real merits of the 

 book, it might not be easy to determine. The 

 subject is of less interest to the public at this 

 time. Mr. John S. C. Abbott has added to his 

 other works on the Bonaparte family, a " His- 

 tory of Napoleon III." A " History of Am- 

 herst College during the First Half-Century," 

 by W.S.Tyler, has value not only to the gradu- 

 ates and patrons of the college, but to all who 

 are not indifferent to the interests of higher 

 education. 



Antislavery Opinions before the Year 1800. 

 Read before the Cincinnati Literary Club, by Wil- 

 liam Frederick Poole. To which is appended a Fac- 

 simile Reprint of Dr. George Buchanan's Oration 

 on the Moral and Political Evil of Slavery, delivered 

 at a Public Meeting of the Maryland Society for the 

 Abolition of Slavery, Baltimore, July 4, 1791. 



The Bonaparte-Patterson Marriage in 1808, and 

 the Secret Correspondence on the Subject, never 

 before made public. By W. T. R. Saffell. 



Antiquities of the Southern Indians. By Charles 

 C. Jones, Jr. 



Memorials of the Massachusetts Society of the 

 Cincinnati. Being a History of the Society from its 

 Institution in 1783, by the Officers of the Army of 

 the Revolution. Containing Proceedings and Biog- 

 raphies of its Members. Collected and edited by 

 Francis S. Drake. 



A History of Georgia, from its First Discovery by 

 Europeans, to the Adoption of the Present Constitu- 

 tion m MDCCCXVIII. By Rev. William Bacon 

 Stevens, M. D. 



The Great Riots of New York 1712-1873. By J. 

 T. Hcndley. 



Old New-England Traits. By George Lunt. 



A Brief History of Texas. By D. W. C. Baker. 



History of Virginia. By Mary Tucker Magill. 



An Historical Account of the Expedition against 

 Sandnsky, under Colonel William Crawford, in 1782; 

 with Biographical Sketches, PcrsonalReminiBcences, 

 and Descriptions of Interesting Localities, etc. By 

 C. W. Butterfleld. 



Narrative of the Mission to Russia, in 1866, of the 

 Hon. Gustavus Vasa Fox, Assistant Secretary of the 

 Navy. From the Journals and Notes of J. F. Lou- 

 hat. Edited by John D. Champlin. With Illustra- 



The Isle of Shoals. An Historical Sketch. By 

 John Scribner Jcnness. 



