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LITERATURE AND LITERARY PROGRESS IN 1876. 



The Centennial Gazetteer of the United States. 

 By A. von Steinwehr, A. M. (MoCurdy, Philadel- 

 phia.) 



The Century: Its Fruits and its Festival. A His- 

 tory and Description of the Centennial Exhibition. 

 By Edward C. Bruce. (Lippincott.) 



Caxtou's Book. Poems, Sketches, etc., by the 

 Late W. H. Ehodes [Caxton]. (Bancroft, San Fran- 

 cisco.) 



Treasury of "Wisdom, Wit, and Humor, Odd Com- 

 parisons and Proverbs. Authors. 931 ; Subjects. 

 1,393 ; Quotations, 10,299. Compiled and arranged 

 by Adam Woolever. (Claxton. Philadelphia.) 



A French View of the Grand International Expo- 

 sition of 1876. By L. Simonin. Translated by Sam- 

 uel H. Needles, jfClaxton.) 



GhoaVLand. By E. H. Britten. (Williams, Bos- 

 ton.) 



A Classification and Subject-Index for cataloguing 

 and arranging the Books and Pamphlets in a Li- 

 brary. By Helvil Dewey. (Ginn & Heath, Bos- 

 ton.) 



The Early and Later History of Petroleum. With 

 Authentic Facts in regard to its Development in 

 Western Pennsylvania, etc. By J. T. Henry. 

 (Baird.) 



A Manual for Visitors of the Poor. By John W. 

 Kramer, M. D. (D. Appleton & Co.) 



K. K. K. Sketches. Humorous and Didactic. 

 Treating the more Important Events of the Ku-klux- 

 Klan Movement in the South. With a Discussion 

 of the Causes which gave rise to it, and the Social 

 and Political Issues emanating from it. By James 

 Melville Beard. (Claxton, Philadelphia.) 



Not a Day without a Line. Original and Selected 

 Lines in Prose and Poetry, for Fireside Contempla- 

 tion. 



REPTJBLICATIOITS. The English - speaking 

 world is rapidly becoming, for literary and 

 scientific purposes, one community. Books 

 adapted to popular circulation published in one 

 country are at once reproduced in others, and 

 not a few of those which, from the nature of 

 their topics or their necessary costliness, are 

 addressed to more limited circles of readers, 

 also gain a wide diffusion. It is to be regretted 

 that our defective copyright system makes this 

 literary exchange a practical wrong to Eng- 

 lish authors a wrong which is avenged by 

 the discouragement of our own authors. Our 

 Government endeavors (mistakenly) to protect 

 American manufactures, but discriminates 

 against American literature. A reference to 

 the literature "consumed" in this country 

 over and above the home product properly 

 supplements the preceding review. 



The departments of science, religion, and 

 fiction, are those most numerously represented 

 in the list of reprints. In science, the contin- 

 ued issue and undiminished popular apprecia- 

 tion of the "International Scientific Series" 

 (D. Appleton & Co.) deserve mention. To this 

 have been added Lommel's "Nature of Light," 

 Van Beneden's " Animal Parasites and Mess- 

 mates," Bernstein's " Five Senses of Man," and 

 Blaserna's "Theory of Sound." To the same 

 publishers American readers are indebted for 

 editions of Darwin's "Variations of Animals 

 under Domestication " and " Climbing Plants," 

 St. George Mivart's " Lessons from Nature " 

 and "Contemporary Evolution," Hartley's 

 " Air and its Relations to Life," Dr. B. W. 



Richardson's " Diseases of Modern Life," and 

 Miss Arabella B. Buckley's ' Short History of 

 the Natural Sciences." Other noticeable pro- 

 ductions of this class, or related with it, are 

 Rau's " Early Man in Europe " (Harpers) ; Dr. 

 J. D. Macdonalu's "Microscopical Examina- 

 tion of Drinking Water" (Lindsay & Blakis- 

 ton) ; Prof. David Ferrier on " The Functions 

 of the Brain " (Putnams) ; " Modern Mate- 

 rialism: Its Attitude toward Theology," by 

 James Martineau (Putnams) ; " The Chaldean 

 Account of Genesis," by George Smith (Scrib- 

 ner) ; " Discoveries of Ephesus," by J. T. 

 Wood (Osgood) ; Smith and Cheetham's " Dic- 

 tionary of Christian Antiquities " (J. B. Burr 

 Publishing Company, Hartford), and a fourth 

 volume of Max Muller's " Chips from a Ger- 

 man Workshop " (Scribner). 



Of religious works the number is consider- 

 able, but, confining ourselves to such as are of 

 general interest, we note the republication of 

 several series of lectures : Jackson's Bampton 

 Lectures, on " The Doctrine of Retribution " 

 (Randolph) ; Stralfen's Hulsean Lectures, on 

 " Sin, as set forth in Holy Scripture " (Dut- 

 ton) ; three series of the Congregational Lect- 

 ures: Rev. R.W. Dale's, on " The Atonement " 

 (Randolph) ; Dr. Mellor's, on " Priesthood," 

 and Dr. Reynolds's, on " John the Baptist " 

 (Barnes) ; and the Christian Evidence Society's 

 Lectures, on " The Credentials of Christian- 

 ity," with a preface by the Earl of Harrowby 

 (Whittaker). The issue of what is known in 

 England as the "Speaker's Commentary," 

 under the title of "The Bible Commentary" 

 (Scribner), has been carried forward to the 

 end of the Old Testament. To these may be 

 added Norris's " Rudiments of Theology " 

 (Dutton); "The Bridge of History over the 

 Gulf of Time, a Popular View of the Histori- 

 cal Evidences of Christianity," by Thomas 

 Cooper (Whittaker); "The Religious De- 

 mands of the Age : a Preface to the W T orks of 

 Theodore Parker," by Frances Power Cobbe 

 (H. B. Fuller); "Endeavors after the Chris- 

 tian Life," by James Martineau (American 

 Unitarian Association) ; " Mystic London," by 

 Rev. Charles Maurice Davies (Lovell) ; " The 

 Battle and Burden of Life," by the Rev. J. 

 Baldwin Brown (Whittaker) ; "The Vision of 

 God, and Other Sermons," by Henry Allon, 

 D. D. (Barnes) ; and " The Discipline of Drink : 

 an Historical Inquiry into the Principles and 

 Practice of the Catholic Church regarding the 

 Use, Abuse, and Disuse of Alchoholic Drinks, 

 especially in England, Ireland, and Scotland, 

 from the Sixth to the Sixteenth Century," by 

 Rev. T. E. Bridgett (Kelly, Piet & Co., Balti- 

 more). 



In fiction there are certain authors whose 

 fame is world-wide. Editions of the works of 

 ' George Eliot," of William Black, and R. D. 

 Blackmore, are a matter of course ; scarcely 

 less so, of Thomas Hardy, Wilkie Collins, Mrs. 

 Oliphant, Mrs. Dinah and Mrs. Georgiana M. 

 Craik, Miss Yonge, and others. Besides the 



