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LITERATURE AND LITERARY PROGRESS OF 1861. 



the United States," by the same author. In med- 

 ical science, the principal works were : " The- 

 ory and Practice of the Movement Cure," by 

 Chas. F. Taylor, M. D. ; " Phthisis Pulmonalis, 

 a Practical Treatise," by L. M. Lawson, M. D. ; 

 " Diphtheria, its Nature and Treatment," being 

 the essay which received the Fiske Fund prize 

 in 1860, by Daniel D. Sla.de, M. D. ; " A Warn- 

 ing to Fathers, Teachers, and Young Men, in 

 relation to a Frightful Cause of Insanity," by "W. 

 8. Chipley, M. D. ; " Diseases of the Throat and 

 Lungs," by R. T. Trail, M.D. ; "The Breath of 

 Life." by George Catlin, an admirable essay on 

 the advantages of keeping the mouth closed ; 

 " Currents and Counter-Currents in Medical 

 Science," by Oliver Wendell Holmes, M. D. ; 

 Guilmette's " Vocal Physiology ; " " Principles 

 and Practice of Obstetrics," by Gunning S. Bed- 

 ford, M. D. ; and " Tobacco, What It Is and 

 What It Does," by Dan King, M. D. 



In agricultural and geological science, the 

 elaborate work of J. H. Klippart, the Secretary 

 of the Ohio Board of Agriculture, on " The 

 Principles and Practice of Land Drainage ; " 

 " Manual of Agriculture for the School, Home, 

 and Farm," by Geo. B. Emerson and Charles 

 L. Flint ; and " The First Principles of Geol- 

 ogy," by David A. Wells, are worthy of notice. 

 The inventor is informed " How to get a pat- 

 ent," by Mr. T. P. How ; and in educational 

 science we have Calkins' " Primary Object Les- 

 sons," and Warren's " Manual of Elementary 

 Geometrical Drawings." 



In the department of belles-lettres, we find 

 not more than half-a-dozen novels, properly so 

 called, and some of these belong to the class of 

 religious fiction : Meta Lander (Mrs. Prof. 

 Lawrence) published " Marion Graham ; or 

 Higher than Happiness ; " Alexander Clark, 

 "The Old Log School House," an educational 

 story ; 0. E. K., " Daisy Deane ; ? and ' Mrs. 

 Madeline Leslie ' " Tim, the Scissors-Grinder ; " 

 the sequel to " Tim," and u The Dermott Fam- 

 ily," in 5 vols., all S. S. Stories ; Geo. W. Cur- 

 tis, " Trumps, a Novel ; " Mrs. Emma D. E. N. 

 Southworth, " The Gipsy's Prophecy ; " Miss 

 Virginia F. Townsend, " Amy Deane, and other 

 Tales ; " " Grace Greenwood," " Old Wonder 

 Eyes ; " the lamented Theodore Winthrop left a 

 posthumous novel, " Cecil Dreem." Poetry and 

 the drama were still less liberally represented ; 

 a new and enlarged edition of the " Poems " of 

 John G. Saxe ; a collection, now made for the 

 first time, of the " Poems " of Samuel Wood- 

 worth, the author of the "The Old Oaken 

 Bucket ; " "Elijah, a Sacred Drama, and other 

 Poems," by Rev. Dr. Davidson ; " The Shad- 

 owy Land, and other Poems," by Rev. Gur- 

 don Huntington, ; and " Flirtation, and what 

 comes of it," a comedy by Frank B. Goodrich ; 

 were all the new published poems, indigenous 

 to American soil, of the year, unless we add Mr. 

 Richard Grant White's " National Hymns, how 

 they are written, and how they are not writ- 

 ten," which gives numerous examples of the good 

 and bad among the hymns sent in for the $500 



prize. " The Dutch Dominie of the Catskills " 

 was a piece of descriptive and semi-biograph- 

 ical writing, by Rev. David Murdoch, D. D. ; 

 the Springfield philosopher " Timothy Tit- 

 comb " (Dr. J. G. Holland) made a successful 

 venture with another of his volumes of unique 

 but readable essays, entitled " Lessons in Life." 

 Prof. Chas. D. Cleveland, of Philadelphia, add- 

 ed to his list of popular compendiums of litera- 

 ture, an admirable " Compendium of Classical 

 Literature," and Rev. R. S. Maclay, a mission- 

 ary for many years in China, described in a 

 graceful little volume some features of " Life 

 among the Chinese." 



The magazine literature of the year was of 

 a high character. In original articles of great 

 literary excellence, the " Atlantic Monthly " 

 took the lead, its contributions being equal to 

 those of any magazine in the language ; while 

 " Harper's Monthly " added to a large number of 

 articles of great merit, the attractions of abun- 

 dant illustration ; the Knickerbocker Magazine, 

 Godey's, and Peterson's, all maintained a high 

 rank, and most of them obtained an increased 

 circulation. At the close of the year, a new 

 candidate for public favor made its appearance, 

 the " Continental Monthly," under the editor- 

 ship of Mr. C. G. Leland, and devoting more 

 space than the others to the discussion of politi- 

 cal questions. Besides those named, there were 

 a considerable number of monthly periodicals 

 of religious character, but occasionally discuss- 

 ing national or other popular questions, all of 

 them conducted with ability. 



Among the bi-monthly and quarterly period- 

 icals, which mostly belong to the class of re- 

 views, there were quite a number of marked 

 excellence, and which, during the past year, 

 gave proofs of extraordinary vigor and ability. 

 We may specify among these " The North 

 American Review," the oldest of our quarterly 

 periodicals, and always ably conducted ; the 

 " Christian Examiner," a bi-monthly review of 

 very high order ; Barnard's " American Jour- 

 nal of Education," unsurpassed in the ability 

 and range of its educational articles ; " The Na- 

 tional Review," a young but promising quar- 

 terly ; " The Bibliotheca Sacra," a valuable re- 

 pository of biblical and classic science and lit- 

 erature ; the " American Theological Review," 

 a periodical which at once took the front rank 

 in theological science ; the " Biblical Reposi- 

 tory," the organ of the Princeton theologians, 

 and inferior to none of the others in ability ; 

 the "New Englander," the representative of 

 the New Haven theology, but handling also, 

 with much freedom and spirit, the popular 

 questions of the day ; and " Brownson's Re- 

 view," a quarterly which, while professedly 

 Roman Catholic, discussed with an_earnestness 

 and liberality unusual in the periodicals of that 

 Church, subjects of national or political in- 

 terest. Besides these, which, though some of 

 them under the influence of particular classes 

 and sects of religionists, may in some sense be 

 considered national, each denomination has its 



