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LITERATURE, AMERICAN, IN 1885. 



Some valuable additions have been made to 

 our stock of folk-lore. " Gombo Zhebes " is 

 a dictionary of Creole proverbs compiled by 

 Lafcadio Hearn. D. G. Brinton has collected 

 the "Legends of the Lenape" and translated 

 a " Grammar of the Cakchiquel Language." 

 "The Lenape Stone," by H. C. Mercer, de- 

 scribes a stone bearing curious Indian designs, 

 the genuineness of which has, however, been 

 disputed. T. F. Crane has made a translation 

 of "Italian Popular Tales," and Fletcher S. 

 Bassett has collected " Legends and Supersti- 

 tions of the Sea and of Sailors." 



An edition of the collected works of Alex- 

 ander Hamilton has been begun by the publi- 

 cation of one volume. Those of George P. 

 Marsh are in process of publication. The " Es- 

 says and Speeches " of Judge J. S. Black are 

 prefaced with a biographical sketch by his son, 

 Chauncey F. Black; and "The Literary Re- 

 mains of Henry James " are edited by his son. 



In books of literary reference, " Initials and 

 Pseudonyms, a Dictionary of Literary Dis- 

 guises," by Rev. William Cushing, with which 

 was incorporated the material collected by 

 Albert R. Frey for a similar work, gives about 

 12,000 of these pen-names, and names of about 

 Y,000 authors who have used them. "A Con- 

 cise Poetical Concordance to the Principal 

 Poets of the World," by C. A. Durfee, em- 

 braces titles, first lines, characters, subjects, 

 and quotations. Miss M. G. Phillips has pre- 

 pared a "Manual of English Literature," which 

 meets with approval. "Echoes of Many 

 Voices," by Eliza A. Thurston, is a general 

 collection of extracts without any prevailing 

 subject or tone. 



Travel. Of books of travel in the extreme 

 north we have had this year, " Farthest North," 

 by C. Lanman, giving the life and explorations 

 of Lieut. James B. Lockwood, of the Greely 

 Arctic Expedition, who reached the most north- 

 erly point yet attained by any one, and "The 

 Rescue of Greely," by Commander W. S. Schley 

 and Prof. J. R. Soley, giving accounts of the 

 original undertaking and of the relief expedi- 

 tions. Lieut. F. Schwatka has detailed his ad- 

 ventures in " Nirnrod in the North " and 

 "Along Alaska's Great River," details of a 

 journey of over 1,300 miles up the Yukon. 

 Miss E. R. Scidmore's newspaper letters have 

 been collected under the title "Alaska: Its 

 Southern Coast and the Sitkan Archipelago." 

 Sophus Tromholt's "Under the Rays of the 

 Aurora Borealis " is edited and published by C. 

 Siewers. " In the Lena Delta," the record of 

 a search for Commander De Long, is by George 

 W. Melville. 



Winfrid A. Stearns is the author of " Labra- 

 dor: A Sketch of its Peoples, its Industries, 

 <and its Natural History " ; and Canniff Haight 

 of "Country Life in Canada." William H. 

 Bishop describes "Fish and Men in the Maine 

 Islands," and J. S. Webber "In and around 

 Cape Ann." Francis Parkman's " Hand-Book 

 of a Northern Tour" is, of course, a guide- 



book and something more. " Here and there 

 in our own Country " is a volume made up of 

 sketches of travel and descriptions of places 

 by various writers Edmund Kirke, W. H. 

 Rideing, Amelia E. Barr, Alfred T. Bacon, 

 Louise S. Houghton, and others. 



The far West is described in several books 

 which may be classed as travels Ernest Inger- 

 soll's "The Crest of the Continent," J. A. 

 Tait's " Cattle-Fields of the Far West," Roose- 

 velt's " Life on a Cattle Ranch " ; " With the 

 Invader: Glimpses of the Southwest," by Ed- 

 wards Roberts ; " Cattle-Raising on the Plains 

 of New Mexico," by Walter Baron von Richt- 

 hofen ; and " Prairie Experience in Raising 

 Cattle and Sheep," by W. Shepherd. 



Cuba is described in J. W. Steele's " Cuban 

 Sketches," M. M. Ballou's "Due South," and 

 W. Drysdale's " In Sunny Lands," a collection 

 of his newspaper letters from Nassau and Cuba. 



J. T. Headley's account of " The Darien Ex- 

 ploring Expedition," under command of Lieut. 

 Strain, has been reprinted from the magazine 

 in which it first appeared. 



Books of European travel, good and bad, 

 abound as usunl. Among them are : " Tuscan 

 Cities," by William D. Howells; "Literary 

 Landmarks of London," by Laurence Hut- 

 ton ; " A Canterbury Pilgrimage," the text by 

 Mrs. E. R. Pennell, the illustrations by Mr. 

 Pennell ; and " The Greek Islands and Turkey 

 after the War," by Henry M. Field, D.D. Rev. 

 R. L. Collier writes of " English Home Life," 

 and Miss Mary L. Ninde in " We Two Alone 

 in Europe" describes the wanderings of two 

 young ladies aside from the regular lines of 

 travel. "Waymarks," by Josephine Tyler, 

 gives the experiences of another lady in Eu- 

 rope. "A Summer in Scandinavia" is by 

 Mrs. Mary A. Stone, and "Norwegian Pict- 

 ures " by R. Lovett. " Sunny Spain " is by 

 Olive Patch, and " Through Spain " by S. P. 

 Scott. 



Rev. Dr. W. P. Breed publishes "Aboard 

 and Abroad in 1884"; H. F. Reddall. "From 

 the Golden Gate to the Golden Horn"; W. 

 H. Cord, "A Knight Templar Abroad "; and 

 Eliza A. Slade, "Pilgrims and Shrines." 



The most noteworthy book of the year on 

 Africa is Henry M. Stanley's " The Congo and 

 the Founding of its Free State." Joseph Thom- 

 son's "Through Masai Land," an account of 

 his experiences with a warlike tribe in eastern 

 Africa, has appeared in this country. W. M. F. 

 Petrie has described " The Pyramids and Tern" 

 pies of Ghizeh," and G. A. Shaw has written 

 of " Madagascar and France." "Choson, the 

 Land of the Morning Calm," is a sketch of 

 Corea, by Percival Lowell. 



The last volume of "The Land and the 

 Book," by William M. Thomson, D. D., takes 

 up descriptions of Lebanon, Damascus, Bey- 

 rout, and the Jordan. D. Van Home has 

 written of " Tent and Saddle Life in the Holy 

 Land," H. Lansdell of " Russian Central Asia," 

 W. Elliot Griffis of " Corea Without and With- 



