LITERATURE AND LITERARY PROGRESS IN 1878. 



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tion ago. Bat ho hnd also "the accomplish- 

 ment of verse," in which he expressed gracefully 

 and with the glow of natural feeling sentiments 

 appropriate to the domestic affections and com- 

 mon sympathies of mankind, but without strik- 

 ing to great depths of thought or sensibility. 

 " Deirdre" (Roberts) was brought before the 

 public with the promise (or threat) of absolute 

 and resolute anonymity (if such a word may be 

 pardoned) ; but it received praise so loud that 

 the author could not keep his secret. When it 

 became known that it was by Dr. Joyce, author 

 of some previously published but not specially 

 successful works, people began to spy faults 

 and failings to a surprising amount. A dispas- 

 sionate judgment will hardly go with either ex- 

 treme. It is a poem of much merit in conception 

 and power in execution, but by no means to be 

 ranked in the highest walk of genius in this 

 age of mediocrity. Miss Harriet W. Preston's 

 previous translations from the Provencal dis- 

 posed the public to welcome as it deserves her 

 volume on " Troubadours and Trouveres, New 

 and Old " (Roberts). Mr. Charles G. Leland's 

 "Pidgin-English Singsong" (Lippincott) is a 

 feat successfully performed, but, except as a 

 trial of ingenuity, of not much value. 



A Vision of the Arch of Truth. An Allegory, 

 and Additional Poems. By John Foster Knicker- 

 bocker. (W. H. Young.) 



Hawthorn-Blossoms. Poems. By Emily Thorn- 

 ton Charles. (Lippincott.) 



One Summers Dream. An Idyl of the Vineyard, 

 and Other Poems. By E. Norman Gunnison. (H. 

 Young, York, Pa.) 



Centennial and Other Poems. By K. Harrington. 

 (Lippincott.) 



Mujor John Andre". An Historical Drama in Five 

 Acts. By P. Leo Haid.O. S. B., etc. (Murphy.) 



Clarel. A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land. 

 By Herman Melville. (Putnam*.) 



A Nation's Birth, and Other National Poems. By 

 George II. Calvert. (Loo & Shepard.) 



Verses from the Harvard Advocate. (Hurd <fc 

 Hough ton.) 



Morning Songs of American Freedom. By C. F. 

 Orne. (Williams, Boston.) 



The Epic of Hades. By Lewis Morris. (Lippin- 

 cott.) 



Song of America, and Minor Lyrics. By V. Voldo. 

 (Hanscom & Co.) 



The Fallen, and Other Poems. By James B. Ken- 

 yon (author and publisher, Utica, N. Y.). 



The Declaration of Independence. A Poem com- 

 memorating the One Hundredth Anniversary of the 

 National Birthday. By Joseph H. Martin. (Clax- 

 ton, Philadelphia.) 



Poems. By Sidney Lanier. (Lippincott.) 



Flower and Thorn. Later Poems. By Thomas 

 Bailey Aldrich. (Osgood.) 



That New World, and Other Poems. By Mrs. S. 

 M. B. Piatt. (Osgood.) 



Napoleon and Josephine. A Tragedy in a Pro- 

 logue and Five Acts. By E. S. Dement. (Legal 

 News Co.) 



The Politician, and Other Poems. By H. R. H. 

 (Claxton, Philadelphia.) 



Sappho. A Tragedy in Five Acts. By Franz Grill- 

 parzer. Translated by Ellen Frothingham. (Rob- 

 erts.) 



Goethe's West-Easterly Divan. Translated, with 

 Introduction and Notes, by John Weiss. (Roberts.) 



King Saul : A Tragedy. By Byron A. Brooks. 

 (Nelson & Phillips.) 



Poems, Devotional and Occasional. By Benjamin 

 Dionvsiua Hill, C. 8. P. (Cutholio Publicutiou So- 

 ciety.) 



Colony Ballads. An Attempt to represent oroe- 

 thing ot the Spirit and Circumstances attending the 

 Separation of the British C. Ionics of Middle North 

 America from their Mother-Country. By George L. 

 Raymond. (Hurd <& iloughton.) 



AKT. Of works on the fine arts, including 

 music and engravings, the number is not 

 large, but a gradually growing interest and 

 intelligent appreciation are indicated. The 

 country is becoming every year richer in the 

 possession of objects of art, the presence of 

 which makes possible a degree of art-culture 

 that formerly was unattainable on this side the 

 Atlantic ; and agencies for making them avail- 

 able are multiplying. 



American Engravers and their Works. By W. S. 

 Baker. (Gebbie.) 



A Dictionary of Musical Information. Containing 

 also a Vocabulary of Musical Terms, and a List of 

 Modern Musical Works published in the United 

 States. By John W. Moore. (Ditson.) 



Charcoal-Drawing. Translated from the French 

 of Auguste AllongJ, by S. D. W. With an Intro- 

 duction by C. C. Perkins, Esq. (Hurd & Hough- 

 ton.) 



Centennial Portfolio. A Souvenir of the Inter- 

 national Exhibition at Philadelphia. Comprising 

 Lithographic Views of Fifty of its Principal Build- 

 ings, with Letter-press Descriptions. By Thomp- 

 son Westcott. 



Theory of Music. A Practical Guide to the Study 

 of Thorough-Bass, Harmony, and Composition. By 

 W. R. Palmer. (Church, Cincinnati.) 



Schools and Masters of Painting. With an Appen- 

 dix on the Principal Galleries of Europe. By A. G. 

 Rarlcliffe. (D. Appleton & Co.) 



The Theory of Color in its Relation to Art and Art 

 Industry. By Dr. Wilhelra von Bezold. Translated 

 from the German by S. R. Koehler. With an Intro- 

 duction by Edward C. Pickering, Professor in the 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Authorized 

 American edition, revised and enlarged by the 

 Author. (Prang, Boston.) 



Marine and Landscape Painting in Oil. [Art Man- 

 ual Saries.] (J. Haney <fe Co.) 



Sorrento and Inlaid Work, for Amateurs. By Ar- 

 thur Hope. (J. Wilkinson, Chicago.) 



Gems of the Dresden Gallery. Comprising the 

 most Famous and Popular Wo'rks in the Dresden 

 Collection, reproduced in Heliotype from the Beet 

 Engravings. With Notices of the Works and the 

 Artists. (Osjjood ) 



Gallery of Great Artists. A Series of Portrait* en- 

 graved on Steel by Eminent Engravers, reproduced 

 in Heliotype. With Biographical and Descriptive 

 Letter-press. (Osgood.) 



Gems of the Gray Collection. A Series of Twenty- 

 four Engravings, reproduced in Heliotype from the 

 Originals in the Grav Collection of Engravings, Har- 

 vard University. With full Historical and Descrip- 

 tive Letter-press. (Osgood.) 



The Titian Gallery. A Series of Twenty-four of 

 the most Renowned Works of Titian, reproduced in 

 Heliotype. With a Sketch of the Life and Works 

 of the Author. (Osgood.) 



ESSAYS AND CRITICISM. A second series of 

 Mr. Lowell's "Among my Books" (Oagood), 

 was a welcome addition to many people's choice 

 books. The essays contained in this volume 

 are not indeed such as will add to his repu- 

 tation. They are of unequal value, yet portions 

 of them are equal to the author's best. The 



