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LITERATURE, AMERICAN, IN 1887. 



serving the King," Josiah Royce of " The 

 Feud of Oak field Creek," and Esther B. Car- 

 penter of " South County Neighbors." Mary 

 Greenleaf Darling wrote " Gladys, a Ro- 

 mance," Emily Sarah Holt " Our Little Lady, 

 or Six Years Ago," Miss J. T. Hopkins " Ar- 

 rowhead Light," Mary Hubhard Howell " Out 

 o the Shadow," and Mrs. Leith Adams 

 "Geoffrey Stirling" and " Madelon Lemoine." 

 Edward Fuller wrote "The Terrace of Mon 

 Desir,"Miss E. A. Dillwyn "Jill and Jack," 

 and Rosa N. Carey " Uncle Max " and " Wee 

 Wifee " From Walter L. Campbell we have 

 " Civitaa, a Romance of onr Nation's Life." 

 Theo. Gift wrote " Victims " for " The Leisure 

 Hour Series," and M. G. McClelland " Jean 

 Monteith " for the same collection. Alice 

 King Hamilton published " One of the 

 Duanes," Maria L. Pool "A Vacation in a 

 Buggy," Melville Philips "The Devil's Hat," 

 and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps "Jack the Fish- 

 erman." Henry Peterson gave us an amusing 

 local story entitled " Bessie's Six Lovers, a 

 New York Belle's Summer in the Country." 

 Nora Perry, who is always bright and viva- 

 cious and true to nature, published " A Flock 

 of Girls and their Friends." Thomas Nelson 

 Page wrote " In Ole Virginia, or Marse Chan 

 and other Stories," all of which sketches are 

 clever and characteristic. Mrs. Amelia E. Barr 

 manages to bring out her two or three books 

 per annum, and very winning and clever sto- 

 ries they are. They comprised last year " Paul 

 and Christina," "A Border Shepherdess," and 

 '' The Squire of Sandal-Side, a Pastoral Ro- 

 mance." Frances Courtenay Baylor published 

 "Behind the Blue Ridge" and" Juan and 

 Juanita"; Howe Benning "One Girl's Way 

 Out," which is instructive as well as interest- 

 ing to all girls possessed of ambition ; Benj. 

 F. Taylor ' Theophilus Trent, Old Times in 

 the Oak Openings " ; Florine Thayer McCray 

 " Environment, a Story of Modern Society " ; 

 Julia Magruder " A Magnificent Plebeian " ; 

 and Grace Livingston " A Chautauqua Idyl," 

 which will doubtless have special interest for 

 the vast number of readers who follow the 

 course of that peculiar institution, the Chau- 

 tauqua School. Emma Marshall is the author 

 of " Daphne's Decision," and May Agnes 

 Fleming comes to the front with "A Terrible 

 Secret." Martha Livingston Moody wrote 

 " The Tragedy of Brinkwater." Julian Haw- 

 thorne, who, considering his father's reputa- 

 tion as well as his own, might really seem to 

 be better employed, is responsible, in company 

 with Inspector Byrnes, for " An American 

 Penman," " A Tragic Mystery," and " The 

 Great Bank Robbery." Bret Harte has writ- 

 ten " The Crusade of the Excelsior " and " A 

 Millionaire of Rough and Ready and Devil's 

 Ford." " Bar Harbor Days," by Mrs. Burton 

 Harrison, is a bright book by a bright writer. 

 Sarah Doudney published "Prudence Winter- 

 bottom." Christian Reid (Miss Fisher) reap- 

 peared with "Miss Churchill," and Edwin L. 



Bynner with "Agnes Snrriage." "Told at 

 Tuxedo," by A. M. Emory, comprises a collec- 

 tion of short stories. Among anonymous 

 works of fiction are "A Question of Identity," 

 "Cracker Joe," written for the "No-Name 

 Series," " Dethroned, a Story for Girls," " A 

 Child of the Revolution," " After the Failure," 

 and " A Club of One." Among translations, 

 one of the best in the vein of Jules Verne is 

 u The Startling Exploits of Dr. J. B. Quies," 

 by Paul Celiere. A finely illustrated edition 

 of "The Story of Manon Lescaut," by the 

 Abbe Prevost, was published in a translation. 

 Ernest Daudet's " Which? or Between Two 

 Women" arid "La Belle Nivernaise," and 

 Henri Gr6ville's " The Princess Roubine," are 

 the more important modern French novels 

 translated. Of the translations from Balzac 

 we have "The Two Brothers," "The Country 

 Doctor," and " The Alkahest." Tolstoi, who 

 is the present society fad in literature, has 

 been translated in his "Katia," "Ivan Ilyitch 

 and other Stories," " The Invaders and other 

 Stories," and " A Russian Proprietor." From 

 the German of Paul Heyse we have "In Para- 

 dise" and "The Romance of the Canoness." 

 Madame Spyri is the author of "Heydi," and 

 any books from her pen are welcome to the 

 child readers of America. Recent transla- 

 tions are " Gritli's Children " and " Swiss 

 Stories for Children." 



History. Works on American history, be- 

 ginning with the more general, are the follow- 

 ing: "Retrospections of America, 1797 to 

 1811," by J. Bernard, assisted by Lawrence 

 Hutton and Brander Matthews ; T. M. Cooley's 

 "The Acquisition of Louisiana"; Arthur Gil- 

 man's " The Discovery and Exploration of 

 America, a Book for American Boys and 

 Girls"; W. A. Greene's "Providence Planta- 

 tions for 250 Years"; "The Kentucky Reso- 

 lution of 1798," by Ethelbert D. Warfield; 

 " Pioneers of the Western Reserve," by Har- 

 vey Rice; "John Anderson's New Grammar- 

 School History of the United States " ; " The 

 Pioneer History of Illinois," by J. Reynolds, 

 with a specially complete and valuable index ; 

 and Catherine B. Yale's "Story of the Old 

 Willard House of Deerfield, Mass." To the 

 series of "American Commonwealths," Hor- 

 ace E. Scudder has added "New York" and 

 Alexander Johnston " Connecticut." Mr. 

 George Makepeace Towle published " The 

 Nation in a Nutshell ; a Rapid Outline of 

 American History." On more local history 

 we have Samuel A. Drake's "The Making of 

 the Great West"; Prof. E. W. Claypole's 

 "The Lake Age of Ohio"; " Annals of Au- 

 gusta County, Virginia," by Joseph A. Wad- 

 dell ; " A Short History of the City of Phila- 

 delphia from its Foundation to the Present 

 Time," by Susan Coolidge ; " A Half Century 

 in Salem," by Marianne C. D. Silsbee; and 

 " The History of the Town of Medford (Mass.), 

 1650 to 1886, with Genealogies of Families, 

 etc.," edited by William S. Tilden. Among the 



