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LITERATURE AND LITERARY PROGRESS IN 1873. 



Memoir* of Maryland Volunteer. War with 

 Mexico, in lh Yean 184*-'4. By John K. Kealey. 



Jerusalem, Ancient and Modern. By Kov. Iirul 

 P. Warren. 



Our Naval School and Naval Officers : A Glanoo 

 at the Condition of the French Navy prior to the 

 late Franco - German War. Translated from the 

 French of M. do Crioenoy, by Commander K. W. 

 Meade, U. 8. N. 



Norwich Memorial. The Annals of Norwich, 

 New London County. Connecticut, in the Great Re- 

 bellion of 1861-'6. By Maloom M. G. Dana. 



Plymouth Church. Brooklyn. A History of this 

 Church, from 1S47-1B78. With Portraits, Illustra- 

 tions, and Plans. 



The Early and Later History of Petroleum, with 

 Authentic Fact* in regard to its Development in 

 Western Pennsylvania, the Oil-Fields of Europe and 

 America, etc. By J. r. Uenry. 



BIOGRAPHY. Of works under this bead few 

 can be named of a high order of merit. The 

 " Life of Samuel J. May " is the record of a 

 life memorable for goodness, so executed aa 

 truly to commemorate it. "Thoreau, the 

 Poet-Naturalist," by William Ellery Channing, 

 is nearly as eccentric in stylo as its subject was 

 in his style of character and life. Each may 

 hare a small circle of admirers. '.'Threading 

 my Way," is the appropriate title given by 

 Robert Dale Owen to the tirst installment of 

 an autobiography which will prove, if com- 

 pleted after this manner, exceedingly pleasant 

 and instructive, not only in respect of the 

 many points of interest of his own life, but of 

 the many persona worth hearing about, of 

 whom he has a store of entertaining anecdote. 

 "Biographical Sketches of Graduates of tho 

 Academical Department of Harvard Univer- 

 sity in Cambridge, Mass.," by John Langdon 

 Sibley, A. M., Librarian, of which one volume 

 is issued, is a needed work, executed with 

 care and good judgment. Tho " Life and Cor- 

 respondence of Samuel Johnson, D. I)., Mis- 

 sionary of the Church of England in Connect- 

 icut, and First President of King's College, 

 New York," by E. Edwards Beardsley, D. D., 

 throws light on colonial history from another 

 point of view than that from which most his- 

 tories of Now England have been wr 

 "The Life of John Warren, M. D., Snrgeon- 

 Oeneral during the War of the Revolution, 

 first Professor of Anatomy and Surgery in 

 Harvard College," etc., by Edward Warren, 

 M. I)., is a biography having an historical as 

 well as personal interest Tho following have 

 also appeared : 



Life of Horace Greeler. By L. D. Ingersoll. 



Memoir of Her. Nathaniel Colver. D. D. With 

 Lecture*. Plans of Sermons, etc. By Rev. J. A. 

 Smith, !>. l>. 



Thorvsldsen. His Life nnd Works. By Enron* 

 Plan. Translated by Mr*. Luystor. 



The Life of Emma Willard. BT John Lord, 1,1,. P. 



Fanny Fern. A Memorial Volume. By James 

 Psrton. 



and Works of Linir. From the German of 

 Adolf Stahr. By E. P. Evan*. 



Mementoes of Edward Parson, D. D. Embracing 



' his Life and Character, and 8el< 

 from his Works. By Rer. Bdwln L. .lame*. With 

 an Introduction, by W. B. Sprague, D. D., LL. D. 



The Life of the Most Rev. M. J. Scalding, 

 D. D., Archbishop of Baltimore. By J. L. Spal- 

 ding.S.T. L. 



A Voice from the Deep ; or. Twenty Years' Life 

 on the Ocean. By Captain 1'. Strickland. 



The Life of Sergeant Aml.lcT. In tlie (\ml-Uinea 

 of England, in the British Army, and iu the Late 

 Great Rebellion. 



Life of St. Augustine. Bishop, Confessor, and 

 Doctor of the Church. By P. K. Moriaritv, I>. U. 



An Orphan of tho old Dominion Her Triula and 

 Travels, embracing a History of her Life, taken prin- 

 cipally from her Journal and Letters. By Lumhia 

 Silvcrvale. 



Life of Demetrius Augustine Gallitzcn, Prince and 

 Priest. By Sarah M. Brownson. With an Introduc- 

 tion by 0. A. Brownson. 



The Life of Franz Schubert. By George Lowell 

 Austin. 



The Leaders of France; or, The Men of the 

 Third Republic. A Series of Twenty-six Biograph- 

 ical, Historical, and Character Sketches of Leading 

 Frenchmen of the Present Day. 



Anecdotes of Public Men. By J. W. Forney. 



Life of Alfred Cookman, including a Memoir of 

 his Father. Rev. George G. Cookman. By H. B. 

 Ridgaway, D. D. 



Lives and Portraits of the Presidents of the United 

 States. By Evert A. Duvckink. 



Journal and Letters of Colonel John May, of Bos- 

 ton, relative to Two Journeys to the Ohio Country 

 in 1788 and '89. With Biographical Sketch by B*v. 

 Richard S. Edcs, of Bolton, Mass., and Illustrative 

 Notes by William M. Darlington, of Pittsbunr, 

 Pa. (Publication of the Historical and Philosophical 

 Society of Ohio.) 



Memoir of Joseph White, showing his Connection 

 with the Introduction and Use of Anthracite Coal, 

 and Iron, and the Construction of some of the Ca- 

 nals and Railroads of Pennsylvania. By Richard 

 Richardson. 



GEOGRAPUT, TRAVEL, AND ADVBNTURK. 

 Mr. Nicolas Pike, United States consul at Port 

 Louis, Mauritius, has given us one admirable 

 book on that island, and promises another. 

 The present work is entitled "Suh-Tropical 

 Rambles in the Land of the Aphanapteryx," 

 and as the fruit of those rambles presents aa 

 with descriptions and drawings of a large 

 number of specimens in natural history. Mr. 

 Pike is a genuine lover of Nature, which ho 

 views with an instructed eye. IIo knows 

 what questions to ask, and thus interrogates 

 Nature to good purpose. Our consular service 

 has not many men, it is to be feared, wlio 

 are able to reflect like honor upon the nation. 

 Bayard Tnylor has traveled afar, but in "Tho 

 Lake Region of Central Africa; " his work is 

 that of a compiler, and that work ho has very 

 well done. "The Atlantic to the Pacific": 

 what to see and how to see It," by John 

 Erasing Lester, with nearly tho brevity of a 

 guide-book, has the agreoableness of a well- 

 written book of travels. " Palmetto Loaves : 

 Sketches of Southern Scenery. Life, and 

 Character," br Mrs. Harriet Beoobtt Stowe, 

 written from her winter home in Florida, are 

 rather slight in texture, but have the unmis- 

 takable impress of her genius. " Paradise in 

 the Pacific: a Bonk of Travel, Adventure, and 

 Facts, in the Sandwich Islands," by Willimn R. 

 Bliss, is pleasantly written, and tells much on 

 the inhabitants of tho Hawaiian Kingdom, 



