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LITERATURE, AMERICAN, IN 1881. 



CLASS. No. 



Fiction ...................................... 



.1 ii v niilfa ................................... 



Tbw>k>ry and Kelitfon ....................... 



Biography Mi moirs, Correspondence, etc ..... 



.-.inn. ljmffuae ........................ 



Description, Truvi-1, etc 

 Medical Scli-m-i , Ujpi 

 I'.H-tryand the Drauia 

 Literary History and Miscellany 

 POJttfeN and Social Science 



* 



UseftU Arts, Commerce 

 Law and Government 

 Physical BetaBM, Muihruratica, etc 

 Fine Art*, Illustrated Works 

 Domestic and Itural 

 Amusements, Sports, etc 

 Humor md Satire 

 Music (Church and School) 

 Mental and Moral Philosophy 

 Books of Reference 



the more prominent books. The result fur- 

 nishes the following approximate numbers tit 

 books of various i-!a.- k-uod in 1881 (being 

 nearly 1,000 more than were published during 

 tlie preceding year): 



of work*. 

 6S7 

 884 

 41 

 lil'J 

 157 

 164 

 190 

 169 

 123 

 86 

 108 

 73 

 76 

 89 

 67 

 83 

 21 

 86 

 28 

 27 

 71 



Total ................................ . 2,991 



In Theology and Religion there are few, if 

 any, really great works which have appeared 

 during the year ; yet the contributions to this 

 department are numerous and not unworthy 

 of record. American divines have published 

 largely in the way of sermons and lectures. 

 The Rev. Dr. L. Sevan's " Sermons to Students 

 and Thoughtful Persons" (New York, Scrib- 

 ner's Sons) are excellent in tone and teaching. 

 Dr. H. C. Potter's "Sermons of the City" 

 (New York, E. P. Dutton & Co.), addressed to 

 a large and wealthy congregation, are equally 

 appropriate and effective. Rev. E. E. Hale 

 issues two volumes (Boston, Roberts), "The 

 Kingdom of God " and " The Life in Common, 

 and other Sermons," which are marked by the 

 author's usual style and mode of dealing with 

 his subject. Dr. E. II. Chapin's " Church of 

 the Living God " and " God's Requirements, 

 and other Sermons " (New York, James Mil- 

 ler), have been published since his death, and 

 will serve to perpetuate his memory. Bishop 

 A. N. Littlejohn's " Individualism : its Growth 

 and Tendencies, with some Suggestions as to 

 the Remedy for its Evils" (New York, T. 

 Wliittaker), contains the admirable discourses 

 preached by him before the University of Cam- 

 bridge, England. It is one of the most valu- 

 able and thoughtful volumes of the year. 

 " Christ and Modern Thought " (Boston, Rob- 

 erts) are the Boston Monday Lectures for 

 1880-'81, delivered by eminent American cler- 

 gymen (Dr. J. C. Smith, Dr. Howard Crosby, 

 Dr. McCosh, Bishop Clark, etc.), in the absence 

 of Mr. Joseph Cook. It deals with topics no 

 less interesting than important. Dr. M. Dix's 

 " Lectures on the First Prayer-Book of King 

 Edward VI " (New York, E. & J. B. Yonng & 

 Co.) have excited much attention in the Epis- 

 copal Church, because of their severe treatment 

 of the English Reformers, and the author's dis- 

 position to throw off, as much as possible, the 

 Protestant character of the English Reforma- 



tion. Rev. J. W. Chadwick's " The Man Je- 

 sus " (Boston, Roberts) ; Rev. Phillips Brooks's 

 u The Candle of the Lord, and other Sermons " 

 (New York, E. P. Dutton & Co.) ; Dean How- 

 son's "Evidential Value of the Acts of the 

 Apostles" (same publishers), are among the 

 noteworthy books of this class. The tenth and 

 last volume of ''McClintock and Strong's Cy- 

 clopaedia" (New York, Harper & Brothers) 

 renders complete this valuable work; a sup- 

 plementary volume is promised. In the way 

 of republication the sermons of F. "W. Robert- 

 son, of Stopford A. Brooke, of Dr. Vaughan, the 

 Scotch Sermons, Hatch's Bampton Lectures on 

 the organization of the early Church, and W. 

 Robertson Smith's Old Testament in the Jewish 

 Church (twelve lectures on Biblical Criticism), 

 deserve brief mention here, as indicating the 

 drift of theological opinion and speculation on 

 the important topics of inspiration, right inter- 

 pretation of Holy Scripture, the eternal world, 

 etc. Dr. Geikie's "Hours with the Bible" 

 (3 volumes, New York, James Pott) is well- 

 timed, and presents in a popular style the re- 

 sults of biblical study and research in connec- 

 tion with Old Testament history and exegesis. 

 Punchard's " History of Congregationalism, 

 from about A.. D. 250 to the Present Time " (Bos- 

 ton, Congregational Publishing Society) gives 

 " Congregationalism in America " in the fourth 

 volume; it is regarded as the standard histo- 

 ry of that denomination. Merle D'Aubigne's 

 " History of the Reformation in the Sixteenth 

 Century " has been brought out, five volumes 

 in one, by Carters, New York. Its merits and 

 defects, as some esteem them, are too well 

 known to need special mention here. In Exe- 

 gesis, Dr. H. Cowles has added two volumes 

 ("St. Matthew and St. Mark" and " St. Luke 

 and the Acts of the Apostles ") to his other 

 valuable contributions, making in all nine vol- 

 umes on the Old Testament and seven upon 

 the New (New York, D. Appleton & Co.). A 

 " Commentary on the Gospel of St. Luke," 

 from the French, by Rev. F. Godet, edited by 

 Dr. John Hall (New York, I. K. Funk & Co.), 

 and Dr. "W. H. Van Doren's " Suggestive Com- 

 mentary " on the same Gospel (same publishers), 

 deserve mention in this connection. So also 

 does Dr. Young's " Analytical Concordance to 

 the Bible " (republished by Funk & Co., New 

 York), as being the most learned and complete 

 work of the kind in the English language. 

 Apologetical works are quite numerous. Pro- 

 fessor J. L. Diman's " The Theistic Argument 

 as affected by Recent Theories," such as de- 

 velopment, evolution, natural selection (Boston, 

 Houghton, Mifflin & Co.); Dr. B. Franklin's 

 "The Creed and Modern Thought" (E. & J. B. 

 Young & Co, New York) ; and Godet's " Lect- 

 ures in Defense of the Christian Faith " (New 

 York, A. D. F. Randolph & Co.), are each in 

 its way able, effective, and well-timed, in view 

 of the wide range which has been given to the 

 discussion of the evidences of Christianity. 

 The most noteworthy event, however, in the 



