LITERATURE AND LITERARY PI:- IN 1874. 





Tbo Cui>tain' Story. A Poem. 87 Mary Aihley 

 lenu. 



mm Musings. By Elizabeth Hazard. 

 Bslph Elmwood. A Poem. By J. Henry Vosburg. 



.s. By 11. 11. Hudson. 

 r li.-m Ballad*. By Edward L. Anderson. 

 A Wilil I5.-U iii.'t. I5y Leon Clairo. 

 Tlu< 1'ioiic-T. My "William Seaton. 

 Atula : or, Love in a Desert. A Metrical Indian 

 Legend. My William Watson Waldrpn, A. B. 



i.s. I'.v K.lijiir Allan I'oo. With an Original 

 Memoir. By Richard Henry Stoddiml. 



Thv Voyage; or. A Song of the Seas, and other 

 Poems. By Rev. E. F. Burr, D. D 



FICTION. Considerable fertility was shown 

 in the production of novels, and, if none of them 

 were of the first order of excellence, several 

 were of more than average merit. Perhaps the 

 complotost succossof the year was u A Foregone 

 Conclusion," by Mr. IIowolls. It, of course, 

 --iod a very high measure of literary grace, 

 and of delicate humor, and of felicitous descrip- 

 tion. Those qualities might have been presumed, 

 insomuch that a failure to recognize them would 

 be felt as a reproach upon one's power of dis- 

 cernment, rather than an imputation on the 

 author. But it also revealed an unsuspected 

 command of the forces of passion. Its humor 

 deepens to tragedy. And all the varied effects 

 are wrought by the action of four characters 

 with very little shifting of scenes. Noticeable 

 also for fine literary art working to exquisite 

 liuish, is "Prudence Palfrey," by Thomas Bai- 

 ley Aldrich. The plot is the least admirable 

 feature. The trick of mystification is played 

 too grossly, and is made to involve, in Charles 

 Lamb's phrase, too much of the hateful in- 

 credible. "Mose Evans," by W. M. Baker, 

 combines rich local coloring of the South and 

 Southwest : with freshness in the conception 

 and freedom in the treatment of character. 

 He draws with bold strokes, with unnecessary 

 roughness of style, but with admirable effect 

 on the whole. Mr. Julian Hawthorne's ro- 

 mance, "Idolatry," is a phenomenon fear- 

 fully and wonderfully made. His inherited 

 tendency to the abnormal in his plots and 

 personalities carries him to the verge of mon- 

 strosity the preternatural becoming unnatu- 

 ral. The work shows great power lacking dis- 

 cipline. " Lord of Himself," by F. H. Under- 

 wood, is believed to be the author's first attempt 

 in this kind. If so, it is a very successful at- 

 tempt. Life in Kentucky, as it was, is well 

 depicted, and the general management of the 

 story is good. " The Circuit Rider," by Ed- 

 ward Eggleston, regarded as a picture of char- 

 acter and manners in what were at the era of 

 the story the new settlements of what was then 

 the West, is a work of more than ordinary 

 excellence. Its weakness is a commonplace 

 plot. " Antony Brado," by Prof. R. T. S. Low- 

 ell, is an admirable story of school-life, with 

 such pictures of village-life in New England 

 as show nice observation and an artist's touch. 

 "Gunnar, a Norse Romance," by Hjalmar 

 Hjorth Boyesen, is marked by the simplicity 

 and earnestness, the mystery and tho pensive- 

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ness, that are common to None literature. 

 Tho individuality of the writer is shown in the 

 IV licity with which he has given form to the 

 elements of romance. Among examples of 

 avowed moral fiction, " Tho Opening of a 

 Chestnut-Burr," by the Rev. E. P. Koe, de- 

 serves a very high place. From a long list of 

 novels and talcs, including translations from 

 foreign languages, but excluding reprints, tho 

 following are named : 



Willow Brook. By tho author of "The Wide, 

 Wide World." 



Pretty Mrs. Gaston, and other Stories. By John 

 Esten Cooke. 



Justin Harley. A Romance of the Old Dominion. 

 By the same. 



Alido. A Bomance of Goethe's Life. By Emma 

 Lazarus. 



Fettered for Life : or. Lord and Master. A Story 

 of To-day. By Li Hie Devereux Blake. 



Ninety-three. By Victor Hugo. Translated by 

 Frank Lee Benedict. 



John Andross. By Rebecca Harding Davit*. 



A Daughter of Bohemia. By Christian Reid. 



The Italian Girl. By Mrs. Katharine Sedgwick 

 Washburn. 



Waldfried. A Novel. By Bcrthold Auerbach. 

 Translated by Simon Adlcr Stern. 



Gerda. A Novel. By Mme. Marie Sophie Schwartz. 

 Translated from the Swedish by Selrna Borg and 

 Marie A. Brown. 



Good Luck. By E. Werner. Translated from the 

 German by Francis A. Shaw. 



Broken Chains. Same author and translator. 



Spring Floods. By Ivan Tourgudnief. Translated 

 by Mrs. Sophie Michell Butts. 



Some Women's Hearts. By Louise Chandler 

 Moulton. 



The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax. A Novel. By 

 Holme Lee. 



Hulda ; or, The Deliverer. A Romance, after the 

 German of F. Lewald. By Mrs. A. L. Wistar. 



The Second Wife. A Romance, from the German 

 of K. Marlitt. By Mrs. A. L. Wistar. 



The Mysteries and Miseries of the Great Metropo- 

 lis, with some Adventures in the Country ; being the 

 Disguises and Surprises of a New York Journalist. 

 By A. P., the Amateur Vagabond. 



Brookley Moor. A Novel. By J. W. L. 



Tempest-Tossed. By Theodore Tilton. 



The Living Link. By James De Mille. 



The Lily and the Cross. A Tale of Acadie. By 

 the same. 



The Babes in the Wood : a Tragic Comedy. By 

 the same. 



Scrope ; or, The Lost Library. By F. B. Perkins. 



Money and Music. By Charles Barnard. 



The Notary's Nose. Translated from the French 

 of Edinond About. By Henry Holt. 



The Clique of Gold. Translated from the French 

 of Emile Garbonau. ' By Prof. Schele do Vero. 



Toinette. A Tale of Southern Life. By Henry 

 Churton. 



Salem. A Tale of the Seventeenth Century. By 



D. R. Castlemon. 



Losing to Win. A Novel. By Theodore Davies. 



Linley Roohtbrd. By Justin McCarthy. 



South Meadows. A Tale of Long Ago. By Miss 



E. T. Disoswnj. 



Honest John Vane. A Story. By J. W. De 

 Forest. 



From my Youth Up. By M.irian Harland. 



His Two Wives. By Mary ("lummer Araea. 



Caleb Crinkle. A Story of American Lite. By 

 Charles Carleton Coffin. 



Science in Story; or, Sammy Tubbs, tho Boy- 

 Doctor, and Sponsie, the Troublesome Monkev. 

 By E. B. Foote, M. D. 



