428 LITERATURE, AMERICAN, AND LITERARY PROGRESS IN 1875. 



May Stoddard Johnson. (Congregational Publish- 

 iQo" Society.) 



The Story of a Working Man's Life, with Sketches 

 of Travel in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, as 

 related by Himself. By Francis Mason, D. D. 

 With an Introduction by William E. Williams, 

 D. D. (A. Mason.) 



The Life and Writings of John Howard Payne. 

 By Gabriel Harrison. (Munsell.) 



Life of Rev. Thomas A. Morris, D. D., late Senior 

 Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church. By 

 Kev. John F. Marlay, A. M. With an Introduction 

 by Bishop Janes. (Hitchcock & Walden, Cincin- 

 nati.) 



Wild Life in the Far West, being the Life and 

 Personal Adventures of Captain James Hobbes. 

 Narrated by Himself. (F. A. Hutchinson & Co., 

 St. Louis.) 



Life and Adventures of a Quaker among the In- 

 dians. By Thomas C. Battey. (Lee & Shepard, 

 Boston.) 



Pestalozzi: His Life, Work, and Influence. By 

 Hermann Kriisi, A. M. (Wilson, Hinkle & Co., 

 Cincinnati.) 



Brief Biographies. European Contemporaries. 

 Vol. I. English Statesmen. By T. W. Higginson. 

 Vol. II. English Kadical Leaders. By K. J. Hin- 

 ton. (Putnams.) 



Personal Eecollections of the Wreck of the 

 Ville du Havre and the Loch Earne. By N. Weiss, 

 Delegate to the Evangelical Alliance Conference in 

 1873. Translated from the French. (Randolph.) 



The Life of Father Bernard, Missionary Priest of 

 the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer. Tho 

 Apostolate of a Redemptorist. By P. Claesens. 

 Translated from the French. (Catholic Publishing 

 Society.) 



Lives of the Clergy of New York and Brooklyn, 

 embracing Two Hundred Biographies of Eminent 

 Living Men in all Denominations ; also, the History 

 of each Sect and Congregation. By J. Alexander 

 Patten. (Atlantic Publishing Co.) 



Prince Bismarck. A Biographical Sketch. By 

 Wilhelm Gorlach. Translated from the German by 

 Miss M. E. Von Glehn. (Holt.) 



Madame Recamier and her Friends. From the 

 French of Madame Lenormont. By the Translator 

 of Madame Recamier' s Memoirs. (Roberts.) 



The Biographical Encyclopaedia of Pennsylvania 

 of the Nineteenth Century. (Galaxy Publishing 

 Co., Philadelphia.) 



POETRY. One new poet, at least, has been, 

 added to the choir of American, singers. " The 

 New Day ; a Poem in Songs and Sonnets," by 

 Richard Watson Gilder (Scribner), reveals the 

 possession by the author of some elements of 

 poetical genius a blending of imagination and 

 passion with a certain subtilty of conception 

 which veils the purpose by which unity is sup- 

 posed to be given to the series of " songs and 

 sonnets" constituting it "a poem." He has 

 too much power, to be lightly regarded, yet it 

 has not adequate manifestation. Our poetic 

 veterans still earn new laurels. Mr. Longfel- 

 low's volume, "The Masque of Pandora," etc. 

 (Osgood), exhibits, in the sonnets especially, 

 some of the choicest work his practised pen 

 has effected. Mr. Whittier's " Mabel Martin " 

 (Osgood) may not add to his fame, but will 

 support it, while its adaptation to the illustra- 

 tor's pencil permits it to be enshrined in an 

 exceedingly attractive volume. " The Ship in 

 the Desert," by Joaquin Miller (Roberts), while 

 it is not wanting in the qualities that won so 



warm a welcome to his first published poems, 

 shows no such advance upon his earlier pro- 

 ductions as to save the public from a shade of 

 disappointment. The flow of verse for the 

 year is not very copious, but includes a num- 

 ber of volumes of considerable worth : 



Leisure Day Rhymes. By John Godfrey Saxe. 

 (Osgood.) 



Home Pastorals and other Poems. By Bayard 

 Taylor. (Osgood.) 



Songs of Yesterday. By Benj. F. Taylor. (Griggs, 

 Chicago.) 



The Bird and the Bell, with other Poems. By 

 Christopher Pearse Cranch. (Osgood.) 



Poetic Studies. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. 

 (Osgood.) 



Cartoons. By Margaret J. Preston. {Roberts.) 



Rose and Rooftree. A Volume of Poems. By 

 George P. Lathrop. (Osgood.) 



Farm Legends. By William J. Carleton. (Har- 

 pers.) 



An Idyl of Work. By Lucy Larcom. (Osgood.) 



The Poetical Works of Ray Palmer. (Barnes.) 



Point-Lace and Diamonds. Poems by George A. 

 Baker, Jr. (Lee & Shepard.) 



Several volumes of translations, and appar- 

 ently of new candidates for poetic honors, 

 are included in the following : 



Exotics. A Volume of Poems translated from the 

 German, French, Latin, and Persian. By J. F. C. 

 and L. C. (Osgood.) 



Alpine Lyrics. A Selection from the Poems of 

 Meta Heusser-Schweitzer. Translated by H. L. S.. 

 one of the authors of "Hymns from the Land oi 

 Luther. (Randolph.) 



English Gypsy Songs in Romany. With Metri- 

 cal English Translations. By Charles G. Leland, 

 Prof. E. H. Palmer, and Janet Tuckey. (Lippin- 

 cott, Philadelphia.) 



Carmina Yalensia. A Collection of Yale College 

 Songs, with Music and Piano-forte Accompaniment. 

 Compiled by Ferd. V. D. Garretson. Enlarged Edi- 

 tion, with Popular New Songs, arranged by J. 0. 

 Heald and S. T. Dutton. (Taintor.) 



A Wayside Flower, and other Poems. By Char- 

 lotte Lenox. (Kelly, Piet & Co., Baltimore.) 



A Few Thoughts for a Few Friends. By Alice 

 Arnold Crawford. (Jansen, Mc.Clurg & Co., Chi- 

 cago.) 



The Mirror of a Mind. A Poem. By Algernon 

 Sydney Logan. (Putnams.) 



The Mountain of the Lovers : with Poems of Na- 

 ture and Tradition. By Paul H. Hayne. (Hale.) 



The Woman and the'Queen : A Ballad, and other 

 Specimens of Verse. By Arthur W. Austin. (Wil- 

 liams, Boston.) 



Roland of Algernon, and other Poems. By Al- 

 bert Bradburn Barrows. (Williams.) 



Ensenore, and other Poems. By P. H. Myers. 

 (Dodd & Mead.) 



Songs of the Year, and other Poems. By " Charl- 

 ton." (Clarke, Cincinnati.) 



The Soil-Call, and other Poems. By George John- 

 son. (Lippincott.) 



American Boyhood, a Poem. By Horace P. Bid- 

 die. (Lippincott. ) 



Heart Echoes. Poems. By Helen A. Mannville. 

 (S. R. Wells & Co.) 



The Poems of Duvall Porter. (J. P. Bell & Co., 

 Lynchburg, Va.) 



Poems and Essays. By Edgar A. Poe. Contain- 

 ing the late Ingram Memoir and Vindication. ( Wid- 

 dleton.) 



FICTION. In prose fiction the product of the 

 year was scanty. Mrs. Stowe, in " We and our 

 Neighbors ; or, The Records of an Unfashion- 



