LITERATURE AND LITERARY PROGRESS IN 1874. 



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States of America in 1840, 1850, I860, and 1870. Ar- 

 ranged Geographically and by Nationalities. By 



. -I H. KuiTtfl.-s. 



.>,iot tin Soa; or, the American >V haloman. 

 :li:irn M. D:ivis. 

 'An Ksiay ou the Resumption of Specie Payments. 



or. 

 [naian Question. By Francis Walker, Late 



(.'"iiimisMom'r for Iiidiun A Hair*. 

 Wealth : Its Acquisition. Investment, and Use. By 

 FnmU.ii Wilson, D. D. 



Hothoca Diabolica; being a Choice Selection 



most Valuable Books relating to the Devil ; 



4'tn, Greatness, and Influence ; comprising the 



I Miportant Works on the Devil, Satan, Demons, 



Hi 11, Mtigic, etc. 



Fluid, Cover, and Trap Shooting. By Adam II. 

 JJiiuardus. Edited bv Charles J. Foster. 



The Sportsman's Club among the Trappers. By 

 Hurry Custlemon. 



Prairie and Forest. A Description of the Game 

 of North America, with Personal Adventures in 

 their Pursuit. By Parker Gilmore, " Ubiaue." 



Ten Years among the Mail-Bags ; or, Notes from 

 the Diary of a Special Agent of the Post-Office De- 

 partment. By J. II. Holbrook. 

 Woman ana the Divine Republic. By Leo Miller. 

 Around the Tea-Table. By Do Witt Talmage. 

 Unwritten History; Life among the Modocs. By 

 Joaquin Miller. 



What a Boy I What shall we do with Him ? What 

 will lie do for Himself? Who is to blame for the 

 Consequences ? Ky Julia A. Willis. 

 Deacons. By W. H. H. Murray. 

 Dress Reform : A Series of Lectures delivered in 

 Boston. By Abba Goold Woolson. 

 The Ugly Girl Papers, or Hints for the Toilet. 

 Tlie Finances : Panics and Specie Payments. By 

 J. \V. Sohuckers. 



REPRINTS ANT> REPCBUCATIONS. An in- 

 creasing proportion of repiiblications are not 

 reprints. Editions for American circulation 

 are printed in England with the imprint of 

 American publishers. In one way or the other 

 English books that promise a remunerative 

 sale are speedily put upon the market here, 

 with what effect upon American authorship it 

 is hardly necessary to remark. Of these re- 

 publications the most numerous are novels. 

 The works of William Black, of which "A 

 Princess of Thule " is preeminent ; of Thomas 

 Hardy, whose " Far from the Madding Crowd " 

 won the compliment of being suspected to be 

 the production of " George Eliot ; " of 13. L. 

 Fargeon, who succeeds Dickens at a distant 

 interval as a delineator of the humbler grades 

 of London life, and (though a Jew) in embody- 

 ing the festive spirit of the Christmas season ; 

 of Mrs. Oliphant, whoso fertility of production 

 is marvelous when the excellence of quality is 

 considered ; of Miss Mulock, the unsensational 

 qniet of whose works would become tameness 

 but for the engaging characters she conceives 

 and delineates; of Wilkie Collins, who dedi- 

 cates to the American people a now uniform 

 edition of his works ; of tho author of " The 

 Rose Garden," "Unawares," and (last writ- 

 ten), " Thorpe Regis ; " of Miss Braddon, and 

 Edmund Yates, and Jules Verne, and F. W. 

 Robinson, and Anthony Trollope, and R. D. 

 Blackmore, and Florence Marryat, and others, 

 who need not be characterized, are promptly 



reproduced. An attempt was made to interest 



tho public in Sara Coleridge's fuiry talc, " Than- 

 tusmion," but the present public was not much 

 more impressible by it than that to which it 

 was first submitted. The lady who assume* 

 tho name of "Edward Garrett" has an in- 

 creasing number of admirers among serious 

 readers, and George Macdonald among all sorts 

 of readers except the frivolous. 



Next to works of fiction come works of sci- 

 ence. There are "Science Primers," "Halt- 

 hour Recreations in Popular Science," "Ele- 

 mentary Science," and "Advanced Science Se- 

 ries," in sizes and at prices which adapt them 

 to wide circulation. At the other extreme is 

 to be mentioned Herbert Spencer's "Descrip- 

 tive Sociology," of which successive parts have 

 been circulated in this country. The works of 

 Richard A. Proctor on astronomy, ' The Ex- 

 panse of Heaven," "The Borderland of Sci- 

 ence," etc., seem to be popular and successful. 

 "Man and Apes," by St. George Mivart, of 

 course interests the (at present) superior race 

 represented in the title. Other important 

 works in this department are "Problems of 

 Life and Mind," by G. H. Lewes ; " Animal Lo- 

 comotion," by Pettigrew; "Responsibility in 

 Mental Diseases," by Maudsley; "Tho Great 

 Ice Age," by Geikie; "Mental Physiology," 

 translated from the French of Th. Ribot; 

 "Manual of Metallurgy," by W. II. Green- 

 wood ; " The Science of Law," by Prof. Shel- 

 don Amos; and the eighth edition, presenting 

 the final form, of Mill's Logic. 



In extent of circulation religious works vie 

 with any others, and they are promptly laid 

 hold of for republication, more especially as 

 every school of religious thought in Great 

 Britain has its representatives here. To the 

 " Library of Philosophy and Theology," edited 

 by Drs. Philip Schaff and II. B. Smith, has 

 been added, by simultaneous publication in 

 England and the United States, a translation of 

 Van Oosterzee's " Christian Dogmatics." The 

 " Speaker's Commentary " is regularly repro- 

 duced here under the title, " The Bible Com- 

 mentary." Dr. Farrar's " Life of Christ " has 

 had an immense circulation, considering the 

 form of issue and the price. The Bampton 

 Lectures of the Rev. J. G. Smith and the Rev. 

 Stanley Leathes appeared here as soon almost 

 as in London. " The Paraclete : an Essay on 

 the Personality and Ministry of the Holy 

 Ghost," published anonymously, has been au- 

 thentically attributed to the Rev. Dr. Joseph 

 Parker, author of "Ecce Deus," and, while 

 still anonymous, attracted much attention. 

 Other notable works were Mr. Mill's posthu- 

 mously published " Three Essays of Religion ; " 

 "The State of the Blessed De'ad," by the late 

 DeanAlford; "Modern Doubt and Christian 

 Belief," by Dr. Theodor Christlieb ; " Theology 

 in the English Poets," by the Rev. Stopfonl A. 

 Brooke ; " The Silence and Voices of God, and 

 other Sermons," by Dr. F. W. Farrar ; " Dic- 

 tionary of Sects, Theories, and Schools of 





