440 LITERATURE, AMERICAN, AND LITERARY PROGRESS IN 1875. 



The Literature of Kissing, gleaned from History, 

 Poetry Fiction, and Anecdote. By C. C. Bom- 

 baugn, M. A., M. D. (LippincOtt.) 



Laurel Leaves. Original Poems, Stories, and 

 Essays. By Eminent Authors. (W. F. Gill & Co., 

 Boston.) 



Gleanings for the Curious from the Harvest Fields 

 of Literature. Collated by C. C. Bombaugh, M. A., 

 M. D. (H. D. "Worthington & Co., Hartford.) 



Annals of a Fortress. By E. Viollet-le-Duc. 

 Translated by Benjamin Bucknall, Architect. 



REPUBLIC ATIONS. The sale of English books 

 in this country increases year by year, partly 

 through the establishment by London houses 

 of agencies here, partly because English au- 

 thors and publishers have more faith in cheap 

 editions than they formerly had, manufactur- 

 ing them both for home use and for exporta- 

 tion. , It seems also to be found profitable to 

 import the sheets of English books, which are 

 thus republished without reprinting. In one 

 or another form of publication, or by importa- 

 tion, all the more important English works are 

 placed within reach of American readers. The 

 most popular authors in either country may be 

 presumed to address readers in the other, and 

 it is true to an increasing extent that " the read- 

 ing public " in both constitutes one community. 

 The fact does not make American authors 

 less distinctively American, any more than the 

 study of the Greek and Latin classics is likely 

 to counteract the force of the modern spirit. 



With the exception, perhaps, of works of 

 fiction, of which the influx is perpetual, it is a 

 sign of the tendency of thought that works of 

 science and philosophy outnumber all others. 

 To the " International Scientific Series " (Ap- 

 pletons) have been added "The Doctrine of 

 Descent and Darwinism," by Oscar Schmidt, 

 Professor in the University of Strasbuig ; 

 " The Chemistry of Light and Photography," 

 by Prof. Vogel, Berlin; and "Fungi: their 

 Nature and Uses," by M. 0. Cook, M. A., 

 edited by the Rev. M. J. Berkeley, M. A. In 

 the " Popular Science Library " (of the same 

 publishers) are included "Health," by Ed- 

 ward Smith, M. D., F. R. S., and " English Men 

 of Science, their Nature and Nurture," by 

 Francis Galton, F. R. S. The same house gives 

 us Darwin's "Insectivorous Plants," and the 

 new enlarged edition of his "Descent of Man ; " 

 " Heredity," from the French of Ribot ; " The 

 Science of Music," by Sedley Taylor, M. A. ; 

 " Currency and Banking," by Prof. Bonamy 

 Price; "Money and the Mechanism of Ex- 

 change," by Prof. Stanley Jevons; "Nature 

 and Life," by Ferdinand Papillon, translated 

 by A. R. Macdonough ; " Climate and Time in 

 their Geological Relations," by James Croll ; 

 " Boys and Girls in Biology ; or, Simple Studies 

 of the Lowr Forms of Life, based upon the 

 Latest Lectures of T. H. Huxley," by Sarah 

 Hackett Stevenson; "The Childhood of Reli- 

 gions," by Edward Clodd, F. R. A. S. ; a new 

 edition of Mill's " Political Economy," with 

 the author's final revisions ; a revised edition 

 of Prof. Tyndall's " Belfast Address," with a 



preface replying to his critics, and an append- 

 ed article on " Scientific Materialism ; " " On 

 Paralysis in Brain-Disease," by H. Charlton 

 Bastian, M. D. ; " Clinical Essays and Lectures, " 

 by Sir James Paget, Bart. ; Steiner's " Com- 

 pendium of Children's Diseases ;" " Our Place 

 among Infinities," by Richard A. Proctor ; and 

 a Science Primer on "Astronomy," by Prof. 

 Norman Lockyer. If no other publishing-house 

 makes so marked a specialty of scientific and 

 philosophical books, others show no little enter- 

 prise in the same direction. A new volume 

 the fifth of "Dissertations and Discussions," 

 by J. S. Mill (Holt), includes the Posthumous 

 Essays. A new edition of Sir H. S. Maine's 

 " Ancient Law," and the "Lectures on Juris- 

 prudence," by the late John Austin, abridged 

 for the use of students, by Robert Campbell, 

 have the same publishers. " The Border Lands 

 of Insanity," by Andrew Wynter, M. D., and 

 "Navigation in Theory and Practice," by 

 Henry Evers, LL. D. (Putnams) ; " The Char- 

 acter and Logical Method of Political Econo- 

 my," by J. E. Cairnes, LL. D. the author's 

 final edition and " Man and Beast, Here and 

 Hereafter," by the Rev. J. G. Wood (Harpers); 

 Schiller's "YEsthetical Essays," containing also 

 his "Philosophical Letters," and the "Essay 

 on the Connection between the Animal and 

 Spiritual Nature in Man ;" " Science By-Ways," 

 by Richard A. Proctor, and the " Log-Book of 

 a Fisherman and Zoologist," by Frank Buck- 

 land (Lippincott) ; " How to Teach Chemis- 

 try," by Edward Frankland, summarized and 

 edited by George Chaloner, F. C. S., and " The 

 Philosophy of Marriage in its Social, Moral, 

 and Physical Relations," by Michael Ryan, 

 M. D. (Lindsay & Blakiston, Philadelphia); 

 " Problems of Life and Mind," by G. H. Lewes, 

 first series (Osgood); "Popular Physiology," 

 by R. T. Trail, M.D. (Wells); "Practical 

 Guide to the Determination of Minerals by the 

 Blowpipe," by Dr. C. W. C. Fuchs, translated 

 by C. W. Danby (Claxton) ; with the various 

 "Primers," "Recreations," etc., in science, 

 and the contributions before recorded of our 

 own authors, must be regarded as marked in- 

 dicia of the direction of the popular mind to 

 scientific and philosophical investigation. 



In the departments of history, antiquities, 

 biography, and memoirs, the following have 

 been republished : 



Merivale's General History of Borne. (D. Apple- 

 ton & Co.) 



History of Greece. By C. A. Fy if e. History of 

 Rome, by M. Creighton. Historical Primers, edited 

 by J. E. Green, fib.) 



The Life of the Greeks and Eomans, described 

 from Antique Monuments. By E. Gunl and W. 

 Koner, translated by F. Huefier. Illustrated. (Ib.) 



The Eighteenth Century : Manners, Customs, and 

 Costumes in France, 1700-1789. By Paul Lacroix 

 Kichly illustrated. (Ib.) 



Martin's Life of the Prince Consort. (Ib.) 



GreviJle's Journal of the Eeigns of George IV. 

 and William IV. (Ib.) 



Ancient History from the Monuments. 3 Vols. : 

 Egypt, Assyria, Persia. (Scribner.) 



