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LITERATURE AND LITERARY PROGRESS IN 1876. 



The Domestic History of the American Revolu- 

 tion. By F. Ellet. (Lippincott.) 



As to Roger Williams ana his Banishment from 

 the Massachusetts Plantation. With a Few Words 

 concerning the Baptists, the Quakers, and Religious 

 Liberty. A Monograph. By Henry Martyn Dexter, 

 J). D., etc. (Congregational Publication Society.) 



March 17, 1876. Celebration of the Centennial 

 Anniversary of the Evacuation of Boston by the 

 British Army, March 17, 1776. Reception of the 

 Washington Medal. Oration delivered in Music 

 Hall, and a Chronicle of the Siege of Boston. By 

 George E. Ellis. (Williams, Boston.) 



An Historical Account of the Old State-House of 

 Pennsylvania, now known as the Hall of Indepen- 

 dence. By Frank M. Etting. W ith numerous Helio- 

 types and Woodcuts. (Osgood, Boston.) 



Concise History of the American People, from the 

 Discovery of the Continent to 1876. By Jacob Harris 

 Patton, A. M. (Ford.) 



Political and Constitutional History of the United 

 States. By Dr. H. Van Hoist. Translated by John 

 J. Lalor and Alfred B. Mason. (Callaghan.) 



Our Country and Government for One Hundred 

 Years Statistical, Political, and Biographical. In- 

 cluding Declarations, Constitutions, Conventions, 

 Election Ruturns, Annual Expenditures and Indebt- 

 edness, and numerous other Statistics. By Frank C. 

 Bliss. (F. C. Bliss & Co.) 



The History of Pennsylvania, from the Earliest 

 Discovery to the Present Time. By William Mason 

 Cornell, 'D. D., LL. D. (Quaker City Publication 

 Company.) 



America discovered by the Welsh in 1170 A. D. 

 By Rev. Benjamin F. Bowen. (Lippincott.) 



A History of New Hampshire, from its First Dis- 

 covery to the Year 1830. By Edwin D. Sanborn, 

 LL. D. _(J. B. Clarke, Manchester, N. H.) 



The History of Massachusetts, from the Landing 

 of the Pilgrims to the Present Time. By George 

 Lowell Austin. (Estes & Lauriat, Boston.) 



The Annals of Kansas. By Daniel W. Wilder. 

 (G. W. Martin, Topeka.) 



The Journal of Claude Blanchard, Commissary of 

 the French Auxiliary Army sent to the United States 

 during the American Revolution. Translated from 

 a French Manuscript by William Duane, and edited 

 by Thomas Balch. (Munsell, Albany.) 



Pioneers in the Settlement of America ; from 

 Florida in 1510 to California in 1849. By William 

 A. Crafts. (Walker, Boston.) 



The Century of Independence ; embracing a Col- 

 lection from Official Sources of the most Important 

 Documents and Statistics connected with the Politi- 

 cal History of America. Also a Chronological Rec- 

 ord, etc. (Union Book Concern.) 



The Declaration of Independence, and the Effects 

 of it. An Oration delivered before the Citizens of 

 New York at the Celebration of the Centenninl An- 

 niversary, July 4, 1876. By Richard S. Storrs, D. D., 

 LL. D. (Randolph.) 



Notes on the Settlement and Indian Wars of the 

 Western Parts of Virginia and Pennsylvania, from 

 1763 to 1783 inclusive ; together with a View of the 

 State of Society and Manners of the First Settlers 

 of the Western Country. By Joseph Doddridge. 

 With a Memoir of the Author by his Daughter. 

 Edited by Alfred Williams. (Munsell.) 



Our Western Border One Hundred Years ago. 

 By Chnrles McKnight. (J. C. McCurdy & Co., 

 Philadelphia.) 



The Centennial History of the United States, em- 

 bracing the Whole Period, from the Earliest Discov- 

 eries to the Present Time. Including a Full Descrip- 

 tion of the Opening Ceremonies of the Grand Inter- 

 national Exhibition, May 10, 1876. By C. B. Taylor. 

 (World Publishing Company.) 



Centennial History of the Public School System 

 of California. By John Swett. (Bancroft, San 

 Frflncisco.) 



Scheyichbe and the Strand ; or, Early Days along 

 the Delaware. With an Account of Present Events 

 at Sea Grove. To which is appended a Geological 

 Description of the Shore of New Jersey. By Ed- 

 ward S. Wheeler. (Lippincott.) 



The Illustrated History of the Centennial Exhibi- 

 tion, Philadelphia, 1876. By Thomas Bentley. (H. 

 W. Kelley, Philadelphia.) 



Battles of the American Revolution. Historical 

 and Military Criticism, and Topographical Illustra- 

 tion. By Henry B. Carrington, LL. D., U. S. A. 

 (Barnes.) 



The Great Republic. From the Discovery of 

 America to the Centennial, July 4, 1876. The His- 

 tory of the Great Republic, considered from a Chris- 

 tian Standpoint. By Jesse T. Peck, D. D., LL. D., 

 one of the Bishcps ot the M. E. Church. (Nelson & 

 Phillips.) 



To the history of our civil war no more val- 

 uable contribution has been recently made 

 than the " History of the Army of the Cum- 

 berland," by Thomas B. Van Home (Clarke, 

 Cincinnati). Chaplain Van Home was the de- 

 positary of the papers of the late General 

 Thomas, and enjoyed his confidence. His 

 work has less interest to the general reader, 

 from the fact that it is so carefully restricted 

 to an account of the operations carried on by 

 the army corps under General Thomas as to 

 give an inadequate notion of the campaigns in 

 which it took part. But, taken in connection 

 with other works, it yields much historical 

 material for that more authentic history of 

 those great events which can be written only 

 when the record is more completely made up. 

 A memorable piece of literary, philosophical, 

 and religious history is embodied in the Rev. 

 O. B. Frothingham's " Transcendentalism in 

 America " (Putnams). A local history of more 

 than ordinary value is in part published, Mrs. 

 Martha J. Lamb's 41 History of the City of New 

 York " (Barnes), and, as far as it has appeared, 

 fulfills the expectations that had been formed 

 of its character as a work of extended and well- 

 directed research. Other historical works, gen- 

 eral and local, or upon special topics, deserve 

 mention : 



Reminiscences of the Texan Republic. By Ashbel 

 Smith. (E. N. Gushing, Houston, Texas.) 



Historical Studies. By Eugene Lawrence. (Har- 

 pers.) 



Confederate View of the Treatment "of Prisoners. 

 Compiled from Official Sources. By the Rev. J. 

 William Jones, D. D., Secretary of the Southern 

 Historical Society. (Ellyson, Richmond.) 



A History of P'ittsfield, Berkshire County, Mass., 

 from the Year 1800 to the Year 1876. Bv J. E. A. 

 Smith. By authority of the Town. (C. W. Bryant 

 & Co., Springfield.) 



History of the City of Troy (N. Y.), from the Ex- 

 pulsion of the Mohegan Indians, in 1628, to 1876. 

 By A. J. Weise, A. M. To which are appended 

 Histories of Lansingburg, Waterford, Cohoes, West 

 Troy, and Green Island, from their Settlement to the 

 Present Time. (W. H. Young, Troy.) 



The Southern Side ; or, Andersonville Prison. 

 Compiled from Official Documents in the Hands of 

 R. Randolph Stevenson, M. I)., formerly Surgeon C. 

 S. A. (Turnbull Brothers. Baltimore.) 



History of Liberty. By JohnF. Aiken. (Barnrs.) 



Judaism at Rome. !Bv Frederick Huidekoper. 

 (Miller.) 



Centennial History of Erie County, N. Y. By 



