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LITERATURE AND LITERARY PROGRESS IN 1874. 



O. B. Frothingham. The Hon. John Bige- 

 low, who had the good fortune to discover a 

 perfect copy of Dr. Franklin's autobiography, 

 has made up, from this and his printed corre- 

 spondence and other works, a " Life of Benja- 

 min Franklin written by himself." It has 

 been very successfully done, and forms what 

 may well be received as the standard popular 

 biography. Dr. William B. Sprague, whose re- 

 searches into American ecclesiastical biogra- 

 phy are unequaled and incomparable, has put 

 forth a " Life of Jedidiah Morse, D. D.," the 

 father of the late Prof. Morse and Mr. Sidney 



E. Morse, and a man of merited distinction 

 on his own account. The memory of an al- 

 most forgotten celebrity is pleasantly revived 

 in the " Memoir, Letters, and a Selection from 

 the Poems and Prose Writings of Anna Letitia 

 Barbauld," by Grace A. Ellis. The corre- 

 spondence of Miss Lucy Aikin a niece of Mrs. 

 Barbauld, and a lady of some literary credit 

 with Dr. William Ellery Ohanning has been 

 liberated from its state of suppression, to 

 which both parties had voted it, and forms a 

 volume of biographical interest. If it cannot 

 be said that any new developments are made 

 of Dr. Channing's character or sentiments, 

 still these are seen in some new lights, and 

 show to advantage. Two characters of our 

 Revolutionary era are recalled to notice in Mr. 



F. S. Drake's " Life of General Henry Knox," 

 and a new edition of the " Memoir of the 

 Life of Josiah Quincy, Jr., of Massachusetts, 

 by Josiah Quincy, with Additions," edited by- 

 Eliza Susan Quincy. Also the following : 



The Life of Samuel F. B. Morse, Inventor of the 

 Recording Telegraph. By Samuel Irenseus Prime. 



The Life of Edwin Forrest, with Reminiscences 

 and Personal Recollections of the Great American 

 Tragedian. By James Rees. With Portrait and 

 Autographs. 



Lite of George Dashiell Bayard, late Captain U. 

 S. A. and Brigadier-General of Volunteers. By 

 Samuel J. Bayard. 



The Lite of Rudolph Stier, from German Sources. 

 By John P. Lacroix. 



Life and Public Services of Charles Sumner. 

 By C. Edwards Lester. 



Sketches of Illustrious Soldiers. By James Grant 

 Wilson. 



The History of a Great Mind. A Survey of the 

 Education and Opinions of John Stuart Mill. By 

 B. A. Hinsdale, A. M., President of Hiram College. 



Life of Charles Sumner. ByJ. and J. D. Chap- 

 lin. With an Introduction by William Claflin, lately 

 Governor of Massachusetts. 



Life of David Crockett. By J. S. C. Abbott. 



Rev. Phineas Stowe, and Bethel Work. By Rev. 

 H. A. Cooke. 



Memorial of Thomas Ewing, of Ohio. 



The Life and Times of Charles Sumner ; his Boy- 

 hood, Education, and Public Career. By the Rev. 

 Elias Nason. 



Reminiscences, Sketches, and Addresses, selected 

 from my Papers during a Ministry of Forty-five 

 Years, in Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas. By 

 Rev. J. R. Hutchison, D. D. 



Tel-l it All: The Story of a Life's Experience in 

 Mormonism. An Autobiography. By Mrs. T. B. 

 H. Stenhouse. 



A Memorial of Charles Sumner. By the City of 

 Boston. 



A History of the Character and Achievements of 

 the so-called Christopher Columbus. By Aaron 

 Goodrich. 



Autobiography and Journal of Rev. Heman 

 Bangs. Edited by his Daughter. 



The Venerable Mayhews. By W. A. Hallock, 

 D. D. 



The Life of Horace Greeley. Including Graphic 

 Notices of Important Historical Events, etc. By L. 

 D. Ingersoll. 



The Life and Times of Rev. George Peck, D. D. 



Maria Monk's Daughter. An Autobiography. 

 By Mrs. J. St. John Eckel. 



The Life and Adventures of Rear-Admiral John 

 Paul Jones. By John S. C. Abbott. 



Lives of the Governors of Pennsylvania. With 

 the Incidental History of the State from 1609 to 

 1873. By William C. Armor. 



POETRY. Our poets have for the most part 

 been silent, or uttered brief snatches Of song. 

 Most of the volumes worth noticing are col- 

 lections of pieces heretofore published singly 

 at intervals. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes has 

 put out such a volume, entitled " Songs of 

 Many Seasons," quite a number of them those 

 occasional poems in which he is so adept. 

 Mr. Whittier's collection, "Hazel-Blossoms," 

 contains one or two poems that deserve to be 

 ranked among the best of his recent produc- 

 tions. Another republication is Mr. T. B. Al- 

 drich's " Cloth of Gold, and other Poems "- 

 productions which will please the new friends 

 he has made by successes in another walk of 

 literature. " Satan : a Libretto," by Christo- 

 pher Pearse Cranch, is a bold attempt (after 

 Milton and Goethe) to form an original concep- 

 tion of the Evil One. More impersonal than 

 the old Adversary of God and man, he (or it) 

 loses in proportion the capacity to impress the 

 imagination. Mr. Bayard Taylor has produced 

 "The Prophet," a tragedy, which shows a 

 good deal of power in invention and skill in 

 construction. Mr. Longfellow has written a 

 poem for illustration, which is noticed in an- 

 other place. Mr. J. T. Trowbridge has a pe- 

 culiar knack of telling or partly telling and 

 partly suggesting a story in verse, which is 

 quite effective. " The Emigrant's Story, and 

 other Poems," includes some pieces of this 

 sort. His " other poems " are not strikingly 

 poetical. Nora Perry, we believe, is a new 

 candidate for the public favor, and made a 

 good impression by her " After the Ball, and 

 other Poems." The following titles are noted : 



The Maid of Orleans. An Historical Tragedy. By 

 George H. Calvert. 



Vers de Socie'te'. By Praed, Landor, Thackeray, 

 Moore, Holmes, Calverley, Saxe, Lock-er, Dobson, 

 and the other recent authors in this department. 

 Selected by Charles H. Jones. With illustrated title 

 and vignettes. 



A Voyage to the Fortunate Isles, and other Poems. 

 By S. M. B. Piatt. 



Poems. By Charles Alanson Munger. 



Verses of Many Days. By Wm. Osborn Stoddard. 



Echoes of the Foot-Hills. By Bret Harte. 



The Circassian Boy. A Poem. Translated through 

 the German from the Russian of Lermontoff. By 

 T. S. Conant. 



Poems of Twenty Years. By Laura Wmthrop 

 Johnson. 



