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can be settled. He makes an earnest appeal 

 to the land leagues. Mrs. H. Jackson, in a 

 volume entitled " A Century of Dishonor " 

 (New York, Harper & Brothers), presents a 

 terrible indictment against the United States 

 Government's dealings with some of the In- 

 dian tribes. She makes out her case only too 

 well, and causes one's ears to tingle with shame 

 at the unprincipled conduct of our Government 

 in past years toward the aborigines. C. Bar- 

 nard's " Co-operation as a Business " (New 

 York, Putnam's Sons) discusses, in an able 

 manner, this important element in economic 

 science at the present day. Mrs. D. M. Craik 

 gives " A Woman's Thoughts about Women " 

 (New York, G. Munro), with admirable fresh- 

 ness and point. Herbert Spencer's " Descrip- 

 tive Sociology, or Groups of Sociological Facts, 

 classified and arranged" (New York, D. Ap- 

 pleton & Co.), is steadily advancing toward 

 completion. No. 7, Division II, Part II, B, 

 treats of the Hebrews and Phoenicians. P. C. 

 Centz's " The Republic of Republics, or Ameri- 

 can Federal Liberty " (Boston, Little, Brown 

 & Co.), appears in a fourth edition, and is a 

 very able work. Mrs. A. G. Paddock's " The 

 Fate of Madame La Tour, a Tale of Great Salt 

 Lake " (New York, Fords, Howard & Hurl- 

 bert), though cast in the form of a novel, yet 

 displays with great force and success what a 

 foul blot and burning disgrace Mormonism and 

 its abominations are in this nineteenth cen- 

 tury. W. Hickey's " Constitution of the United 

 States " (Baltimore, J. Murphy & Co.) is a 

 valuable manual of political information, as 

 revised by A. Cummins and brought down to 

 date. F. Martin furnishes "The Statesman's 

 Year-Book " (New York, Macmillan & Co.), 

 containing statistical and historical records of 

 the states of the civilized world for 1881. The 

 same publishers bring out Sir J. B. Phear's 

 " International Trade, and the Relation be- 

 tween Exports and Imports." It is concise, 

 but able and interesting. Thomas Pitt Tas- 

 well-Langmead's " English Constitutional His- 

 tory, from the Teutonic Conquest to the Present 

 Time " (Boston, Houghton, Mifflin & Co.), is 

 worthy of mention in this connection. It ap- 

 pears in a second edition, with additions and 

 improvements. From English sources also, we 

 get Luigi Cossa's " Guide to the Study of Po- 

 litical Economy " (New York, Macmillan & 

 Co.) ; it is translated from the second Italian 

 edition, and is a clear and well-arranged work. 

 In Poetry, the Drama, etc., there is little of 

 special moment in the productions of 1881. 

 Hardly anything original or new appears ; 

 while compilations and collections of poetry, 

 and new editions of standard poets, American 

 and English, are numerous and excellent. Mrs. 

 D. M. Craik's " Thirty Years " contains " poems 

 new and old," and is a charming volume ; H. 

 W. Longfellow appears in the " Seven Voices 

 of Sympathy," selected from his works by 

 Charlotte F. Bates; O. W. Holmes's "Poet- 

 ical Works " are issued in a new handy-volume 



edition; J. G. Whittier presents ns with "The 

 King's Missive, and other Poems " ; Bayard 

 Taylor's " Home Ballads " keep alive his genial 

 memory; and T. B. Aldrich sends out his 

 "Friar Jerome's Beautiful Book, and other 

 Poems " (all these published by Houghton, 

 Mifflin & Co.). T. Buchanan Read also adds 

 to this list of home productions his pleasing 

 poem, entitled " Brushwood " (Philadelphia, 

 Lippincott & Co.). C. De Kay's "Vision of 

 Nimrod " (New York, D. Appleton & Co.) is 

 an Oriental romance, on the whole very well 

 worked out. The same publishers give us Dr. 

 A. Coles's " The Microcosm, and other Poems." 

 Will Carleton's "Farm Festivals" (New York, 

 Harper & Brothers) is full of interest and 

 instruction. A collection of poems entitled 

 " Green Mountain Poets " (Boston, Lee & 

 Shepard) illustrates very capitally the best 

 talent in the Green Mountain State. Dr. P. 

 Schaff and A. Gilman furnish a valuable work, 

 under the title of "Library of Religious Poe- 

 try" (New York, Dodd, Mead & Co.). D. R. 

 Locke (P. V. Nasby) makes a new contribu- 

 tion, in his peculiar line, entitled "Hannah 

 Jane " (Boston, Lee & Shepard). H. N. Hud- 

 son's "Complete Works of William Shake- 

 speare " (Harvard edition, Boston, Ginn & 

 Heath) is a very admirable exhibition of lit- 

 erary skill, devotion, and ability; this edition 

 takes rank of all others by American hands, 

 in its full and genial life of the poet, its capital 

 notes, its full glossary, etc. A. C. Swinburne's 

 "Mary Stuart," and ""Studies in Song" (New 

 York, Worthington) come to us from abroad, 

 as do several other contributions to poetic 

 literature ; viz., Jean Ingelow's " Poems " (Bos- 

 ton, Roberts Brothers) ; F. R. Havergal's 

 " Poems " (New York, E. P. Dutton & Co.) ; 

 T. H. Ward's " The English Poets, Selections 

 with Critical Introductions by Various Writers, 

 and a General Introduction by Matthew Ar- 

 nold"; and 'A. W. Ward's "English Dramatic 

 Literature to the Death of Queen Anne " (New 

 York, Macmillan & Co.). 



As a specialty, Art, the Fine Arts, Mwic, 

 etc., occupv a fair space in the literary record 

 of 1881. P. G. Hamerton's "Graphic Art" 

 (New York, J. W. Bouton) appears in a splen- 

 did edition ; " Art Essays " No. 2, " Modern 

 Schools of Art, American and European " (New 

 York, Barnes), are from the same author. Mrs. 

 C. E. Clement's " Hand-Book of Legendary 

 and Mythological Art " ; " Painters, Sculptors, 

 Architects, Engravers, and their Works " 

 (Boston, Houghton, Mifflin & Co.), appear in 

 new editions. C. C. Abbott furnishes a very 

 interesting and useful work, entitled " Primi- 

 tive Industry, or Illustrations of the Handi- 

 work in Stone, Bone, and Clay, of the Native 

 Races of the Northern Atlantic Seaboard of 

 America " (Salem, Massachusetts, G. A. Bates). 

 Julia B. De Forest supplies an excellent " Short 

 History of Art" (Dodd, Mead & Co.); and the 

 same publishers issue the standard work of 

 Wilhelm Lubke, " Outlines of the History of 



