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books referring to United States history during 

 and since the war of the rebellion, the follow- 

 ing are noteworthy : " The Recent Past from a 

 Southern Standpoint," by R. II. Wilraer, D. 

 D. ; "A History of the Negro Troops in the 

 War of the Rebellion, 1861 to 1865," by George 

 W. Williams, LL. D. ; " Baltimore and the 

 19th of April, 1861," by George Wm. Brown; 

 " Drum Beat of the Nation," by Charles Carle- 

 ton Coffin; "The Great Invasion of 1863, or 

 General Lee in Pennsylvania," by Jacob Hoke; 

 J. S. Mosby's " War Reminiscences and Stu- 

 art's Cavalry Campaigns," and a memorial of 

 Gen. Winfield S. Hancock in connection with 

 the "Military Order of the Loyal Legion of 

 the United States." Books upon the Indian 

 tribes include " Mary and I ; Forty Years with 

 the Sioux," by Stephen R. Riggs; " The Story 

 of the American Indian," by Elbridge S. 

 Brooks ; and Henry S. Welcome's " The Story 

 of Metlakahtla," which gives an account of the 

 expulsion of a tribe of Indians from the British 

 possessions, and which has attracted so much 

 attention as to raise almost a national question 

 concerning it. In history other than Ameri- 

 can, we have " The Story of Ancient Egypt," 

 by George Rawlinson and Arthur Giluian ; 

 " Ancient History," by George Rawlinson ; 

 " Modern History," by Arthur St. George Pat- 

 ton ; " The Story of Persia," by Hon. S. G. W. 

 Benjamin ; " The Story of the Normans ; told 

 chiefly in Relation to their Conquest of Eng- 

 land," by Sarah Orne Jewett; "The Fall of 

 Maximilian's Empire, as seen from a United 

 States Gunboat," by Seaton Schroeder; a 

 " Young People's History of Ireland," by 

 George Makepeace Towle ; " Mediaeval His- 

 tory," by George Thomas Stokes, D. D. ; " On 

 the Track of Ulysses," by William J. Stillman; 

 "Decisive Battles since Waterloo; the Most 

 Important Military Events from 1815 to 1887," 

 by Thomas W. Knox ; "Recollections of a 

 Minister of France," by E. B. Washburne, 

 LL. D. ; "The Story of Alexander's Empire" 

 (in "The Nation's Series"), by John P. Ma- 

 haffy and Arthur Gilman ; "Reminiscences of 

 the Filibuster War in Nicaragua," by C. W. 

 Doubleday ; "Brazil; its Condition and Pros- 

 pects," by C. C. Andrews ; and " The Course 

 of Empire," by C. G. Wheeler. 



Biography. Of the making of biographies 

 about Washington there is no end ; accord- 

 ingly we have published last year Virginia F. 

 Townsend's " Life of Washington," and Ed- 

 ward Everett Bale's "The Life of George 

 Washington studied Anew," for which he had 

 previously unpublished resources of no slight 

 value; W. S. Baker's "Character Portraits of 

 Washington, as delineated by Historians, Ora- 

 tors, and Divines " ; and John Fiske's " Wash- 

 ington and His Country," which is a reduction 

 from Irving's " Life," with additions. William 

 O. Stoddard has written the "Lives of the 

 Presidents," including Adams, Jefferson, Mon- 

 roe, John Quincy Adams, Jackson, and Van 

 Buren ; and to the series of " American States- 



men " Moses Coit Tyler has added " Patrick 

 Henry," Theodore Roosevelt " Thomas H. 

 Benton," and Carl Schurz " Henry Clay." In 

 general biography we have first "Catholic 

 Heroes and Heroines of America," the " Ladies 

 of the White House," by Laura C. Holloway; 

 William Elliott Griffis's " Mathew Galbraith 

 Perry " ; E. S. Brooks's " Historic Girls, Stories 

 of Girls who have influenced the History of 

 their Times"; Mrs. M. E. W. Sherwood's 

 " Royal Girls and Royal Courts " ; and " Bio- 

 graphical Record of the Officers and Graduates 

 of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1824 to 

 1887." The lives of the generals and others 

 who served in the late war include the fol- 

 lowing : " Memories of the Men who saved 

 the Union," by Donn Piatt ; " The Life, Char- 

 acter, and Service of Gen. G. B. McClellan," 

 by George Ticknor Curtis ; Oliver Optic's 

 (William T. Adams) " Our Standard Bearer, 

 Gen. U. S. Grant " ; " The Personal Memoirs 

 and Military History of U. S. Grant, vs. the 

 Record of the Army of the Potomac," by Cars- 

 well McClellan ; " Grant as a Soldier," by A. 

 W. Alexander; and John Esten Cooke's "Life 

 of Robert E. Lee." in a new edition. Of auto- 

 biographical works and lives of distinguished 

 personages other than warriors, there were 

 published "The Life and Times of John Jay," 

 by William Whitelock ; Mrs. Jessie Beuton 

 Fremont's " Souvenirs of My Time " ; D. 

 Stuart Dodge's " Memorials of William E. 

 Dodge," "Thomas A. Edison," and "S. F. B. 

 Morse " (in the " World's Workers Series ") ; 

 by Van Buren Denslow and Jane M. Parker, 

 " Letters of Horatio Greenough to his Brother 

 Henry Greenough," edited by Frances B. 

 Greenough; Ben: Perley Poore's "Reminis- 

 cences of Sixty Years in the National Metropo- 

 lis " ; C. J. F. Binney's " Binney Family Gen- 

 ealogy "; " Channing's Note Book; Passages 

 from the Unpublished Manuscripts of William 

 Ellery Channing," edited by Grace Ellery 

 Channing. This brings us to the more strictly 

 literary biographies, of which Prof. Charles 

 Eliot Norton's " Reminiscences of Thomas 

 Carlyle" was quite the most important work, 

 and has corrected much of the unpleasant im- 

 pression produced by Froude's editing of Car- 

 lyle's diary, receiving the highest encomiums 

 from both American and English critics. Side 

 by side with this should be placed James Elliot 

 Cabot's "Memoir of Ralph Waldo Emerson," 

 a work of high merit, and one of the few 

 recent American books destined to become 

 authoritative. "John Sevier as a Common- 

 wealth Builder," by James R. Gilmore, is a 

 most interesting biography of the pioneer Gov- 

 ernor of the Territory of Tennessee. " Frank- 

 lin in France," by Edward Everett Hale and 

 his son, strikes the chord of American Colonial 

 history. Mr. Samuel Longfellow published 

 "Final Memoirs of H. W 7 . Longfellow," while 

 Helen Gray Cone and Jeannette L. Gilder 

 edited " Pen Portraits of Literary W onion 

 by Themselves and Others," and William H. 



