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LITERATURE AND LITERARY PROGRESS IN 1874. 



In Six Months ; or, The Two Friends. By Mary 

 M. Meline. 



Charteris. A Eomance. By the same. 



PhemSe Frost's Experiences. By Mrs. Ann S. 

 Stephens. 



The Log o Commodore Eollingpin : His Adven- 

 tures Afloat and Ashore. By John S. Carleton. 

 Illustrated. 



The Minister's Wife ; or, Life in a Country Parish. 



The Orphan's Trials ; or, Alone in the Great City. 

 By Emerson Bennett. 



Sunshine and Shadow. A Novel. By Mrs. C. J. 

 Newby. 



The Lost Model. A Eomance. By Henry Hooper. 



The Confessions of a Minister. Being Leaves from 

 the Diary of the Eev. Josephus Leonhardt, D. D. 



Katharine Earle. By Adeline Trafton. 



West Lawn, and the Eector of St. Mark's. By 

 Mrs. Mary J. Holmes. 



Not in their Set ; or, In Different Circles of Soci- 

 ety. From the German of Mary Leuzen. By M. S., 

 translator of " By His Own Might." 



Princess Isle. A Story of the Hartz Mountains. 

 Translated from the German by an American Lady. 

 With an Introduction by Prof. J. L. Lincoln. 



His Prison Bars, and the Way of Escape. By 

 A. A. Hopkins. 



Urbane and His Friends. By the author of " Step- 

 ping Heavenward." 



OneWoman's Two Lovers ; or, Jacqueline Thayne's 

 Choice. By Virginia F. Townsend. 



Our New Crusade. By Edward Everett Hale. 



ART AND CEITIOISM. There is room for 

 doubt of the substantial value of the study of 

 the fine arts, as it is pursued in some of our 

 colleges, by means of text-books and profess- 

 ors' lectures on the principles of art and of art- 

 criticism, in most cases with very scanty means 

 of illustration to the eye. It is doubtless a 

 legitimate department of philosophy, and needs 

 to be included in a complete exposition. And 

 certainly the volume of academic lectures by 

 the late Prof. Joseph Torrey, of the University 

 of Vermont, under the title, " A Theory of 

 Fine Art," gives a favorable impression of what 

 a sound and highly-cultivated thinker can do in 

 that way. His principles of criticism savor of 

 a " school " that is a little past date, but there 

 is enough vigorous and fresh thought to repay an 

 attentive reading. Of literary criticism some 

 noticeable works have appeared. Mr. Emerson 

 has favored the public with a selection of his 

 favorite poems, in a volume entitled " Parnas- 

 sus, " with some of his thoughts on the poems 

 and the poets. " A Free Lance in the Field 

 of Life and Letters," by Prof. William 0. Wil- 

 kinson, contains critical essays on " George 

 Eliot," Mr. Lowell (his prose and poetry), and 

 Mr. Bryant (poems and translations), the crit- 

 icism of a sort that is rare, and for the most 

 part admirable. It is generous in praise, severe 

 in censure, and both praise and censure sup- 

 ported on sound principles and justified by de- 

 tailed once or twice by almost oppressively 

 detailed quotations and analyses. A course 

 of lectures before the Lowell Institute, Boston, 

 by President Bascom, of the University of Wis- 

 consin,-on the " Philosophy of English Liter- 

 ature," though laboring under the disadvan- 

 tage of attempting to discuss a very large 

 subject within arbitrarily-defined -limits, is 



thoughtful and suggestive. Reference was 

 made to the deficient means for prosecuting 

 art study in our institutions of learning. It is 

 remarkable that two translations should bo 

 almost simultaneously announced in this coun- 

 try and in England of a work, the author of 

 which died nearly a century ago " Laocoon : 

 an Essay upon the Limits of Painting and 

 Poetry, with Remarks illustrative of the Va- 

 rious Points in the History of Ancient Art," 

 by Lessing. It is translated in this country by 

 Ellen Frothingham. A new publication in the 

 interest of art was projected the reissue in 

 this country of the " London Art Journal." 

 with liberal additions devoted to American 

 art, to appear from the press of D. Appleton 

 &0o. 



A Series of Studies designed and engraved after 

 Five Paintings by Raphael. With Historical and 

 Critical Notes, by M. T. B. Emeric-David. Twenty- 

 four plates reproduced by the heliotype process. 



Toschi's Engravings. From the Frescoes by Cor- 

 reggio and Parmegiano. Twenty-four Plates repro- 

 duced by the heliotype process from the " Gray Col- 

 lection of Engravings, Harvard Universty. 



The Picturesque Architecture of Switzerland. 

 Containing Designs of Country Houses from several 

 Swiss Cantons. By A. & E. Varin. Eeproducedby 

 the heliotype process. 



Illustrations of the Book of Job. Invented and 

 Engraved by William Blake. Twenty-two Plates 

 reproduced by the heliotype process, with Descrip- 

 tive Notes and a Sketch of the Artist's Life aud 

 Works. By Charles Eliot Norton. 



The Gates of the Baptistery at Florence. By Lo- 

 renzo Ghiberti. Published by the Yale School of 

 the Fine Arts. 



On the Nile. A Series of Sketches by Augustus 

 Iloppin. 



Specimens of the Decoration and Ornamentation 

 of the Nineteenth Century. By Lie'nard. Upward 

 of 120 Designs reproduced in fac-simileby the helio- 

 type process. 



An Essay contributing to the Philosophy of Liter- 

 ature. By B. A. M. 



A Manual of French Poetry. With Historical In 

 troduction and Biographical Notices of the Principal 

 Authors. By A. H. Mixer, A. M. 



Brief Essays and Brevities. By George H. Cal- 

 vert. 



Singers and Songs of the Liberal Faith ; being 

 Selections of Hymns and other Sacred Poems of the 

 Liberal Church in America, with Biographical 

 Sketches of the Writers, and with Historical and 

 Illustrative Notes. By Alfred P. Putnam. 



The Poets and Poetry of England in the Nine- 

 teenth Century. By Eufus W. Griswold. Carefully 

 revised, much enlarged, and brought down to the 

 Present Time. By R. H. Stoddard. 



PHILOSOPHY AND SCIENCE. Philosophy, in 

 the ancient and proper sense of the word, is 

 now regarded as the rival rather than the part- 

 ner of Science, being concerned exclusively 

 with what are more specifically defined as in- 

 tellectual and moral, in distinction from natural 

 or physical science, and which discover their 

 materials in the knowledge the mind has of its 

 own operations. But they are too intimately 

 related to be set apart from each other, and the 

 essential harmony between them, we may hope, 

 will in no Jong time be vindicated by a more 

 comprehensive intelligence. A veteran and 



