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Jta and By-paths," by Horace Lnnt : in "Under 

 Trees ami Elsewhere," by Hamilton Wright 



; in Mird-d..m." by Leaiider S. KI 

 nd in "Arcadian Days," actually written out of 

 rs l>\ William Howe Downes, and devoted to 

 inerican landscapes in nature and art. " (Iray 

 i (iold, 1 liy William Winter, wove 

 .."light and fancy into t went y-fonr essays and 

 i poems on rambles in the British Isles, 

 Laurence Hnlion traced "Literary Land- 

 Edinbnrgh." "The Sabbath In Puri- 

 A England " was handle<l in an interest- 

 ;iij and at times racy manner by Mrs. Alice 

 Earle, and Mrs. Caroline E. I'pham pre- 

 ited "Salem Witchcraft in Outline." Rev. 

 11. M \ei-s gave a series of lectures on "The 

 nineteenth Century Young Man," and C. C. 

 'verett wrote "Ethics for Young People." 

 [>rge Sumner Weaver, D. D., was " Looking 

 rward for Young Men," while Annie Nathan 



edited " Woman's Work in America," 

 an introduction by Julia Ward Howe. 

 The Woman's Club " was a practical guide and 

 uid-hook prepared by Olive Thome Miller, and 

 porter compiled "Women's Thoughts for 

 i omen." Eliza Chester held " Chats with Girls 

 Self-culture " ; Eleanor A. Hunter, " Talks to 

 _rU"; Annie II. Ryder bade "Go right on, 

 iris" ; and William II. Black, D. D., wrote on 

 Womanhood." "The New Womanhood," vig- 

 uisly studied by James C. Fernald, had an in- 

 luction by Marion Harland. "The Stage 



torv of Famous Plays " was traced by Henry 



'. Phclps, giving Hamlet from the actor's stand- 

 int, its representatives, and a comparison of 

 ir performances; William D. O'Connor re- 

 iewed " Mr. Donnelly's Reviewers," while "The 

 lortal Moon : or Bacon and his Masks," by J. 

 Roe, ascribed not only Shakespeare's works, 

 it the entire literature of his age, to Lord Veru- 

 George Willis Cooke gave us "A Guide to 

 Poetic, and Dramatic Works of Robert 

 >wuinir"; "A Few Words on Robert Brown- 

 were said anonymously : " Petrarch : a 

 of his Life and Works," is to be attrib- 

 May Alden Ward, while the translation 

 prose of the two first parts of " The Divine 

 >medv of Dante Alighieri," by Prof. Charles 

 Sliot Norton, is unique, and one of the finest lit- 

 ary productions in years. A book of much in- 

 stto Dante scholars is a translation of "Eleven 

 etters of Dante," by Charles S. Latham ; and 

 le completion of Prof. Geo. H. Palmer's trans- 

 tion of Homer's " Odyssey" in rhythmic prose 

 worthy of special note. G. Bernard Shaw ex- 

 cted "The Quintessence of Ibsenism," and 

 ulcs Morris devoted three volumes to " King 

 Irthur and the Knights of the Round Table." 

 'A Study in Corneille" was made by Lee Davis 

 Lodge. "Sparks from a Backlog," by Nathan 

 <iiven. was a collection of short, detached miscel- 

 lanies : Sarah Ball Kitchen suggested " Thoughts 

 on Lite" in the form of helpful aphorisms; and 

 "The Professor's Letters," by Theophilus Par- 

 S'-ns written many years ago to a young girl, 

 and now published, are concerned largely with 

 the doctrines of Swedenborg. Louis P. Day 

 laid down " Some Principles of Every-day Life,*' 

 and Henry C. Trumbull eulogized " Friendship, 

 the Master Passion." "George Washington's 

 Rules of Civility " were traced to their sources 



and restored by Moncnic I). Con way. Vol. 

 II of " Hermetic Philosophy " apinand, and 

 Prof. Mnrri- .la-trow translated "A Kraginent 

 of the Babyliiiiian ' Dibarra ' Kpic." (in-enough 

 White was responsible' for a "Sketch of the 

 Philosophy of American Literature," Charles P. 

 Richardson directed "The Choice of Book-." 

 and a popular edition was also made of his work 

 on "American Literature, 160? upris- 



ing ln>th volumes under one binding. Other 

 works of value are "Short Studies in Literature." 

 by Hamilton Wright Mabie; English Ver-ifi- 

 cation for the Use of Students." by Kev. .lames 

 C. Parsons; "The Compounding of English 

 W T ords," by F. Horace Teall ; " English Words," 

 an elementary study of derivations, by Charles 

 F. Johnson; "English Composition." eight lect- 

 ures given at Lowell Institute by Barrett Wen- 

 dell; "The World's Literature'," by Mary E. 

 Burt, a course in English, in four parts ; From 

 Chaucer to Tennyson : English Literature in 

 Eight Chapters," by Henry A. Beers (from the 

 Chautauqua Press) ; " English Authors," by M iss 

 Millie Rutherford ; " The Study Class," a guide 

 for the student of English Literature, by Anna 

 B. McMahon ; "American Literature: an Ele- 

 mentary Text-book for Use in High Schools 

 and Academies," by Julian Hawthorne and 

 Leonard Lemmon ; " Lamb's Essays : a Bio- 

 graphical Study," selected and annotated by> 

 Elizabeth D. Hanscom ; " Notes on English 

 Literature," by F. Parker Emery ; " Poetic and 

 Verse Criticism of the Reign of Elizabeth," by 

 Felix E. Schelling (in the University of Penn- 

 sylvania series in Philology, Literature, and 

 Archaeology). "The Story of the Odyssey" 

 was told by E. Brooks, as were " Children's 

 Stories in English Literature " by Henrietta C. 

 Wright. "Child Classics" were compiled by 

 Mary R. Fitch. A new Riverside edition in 

 thirteen volumes was published of " The Writ- 

 ings of Oliver Wendell Holmes." An invalu- 

 able work accomplished by John Foster Kirk 

 was " A Supplement to Allibone's Critical Dic- 

 tionary of English Literature and British and 

 American Authors," in two volumes, contain- 

 ing over 37,000 articles (authors) and enumer- 

 ating over 93,000 titles; while "The American 

 Slang Dictionary," by James Maitland, in a 

 limited edition of 250 copies, embodied all 

 American and English slang phrases in current 

 use, with their derivation and philology. J. 

 Devoe Belton's "Literary Manual of Foreign 

 Quotations " found a place also, as did Rev. 

 Try on Edwards's " Dictionary of Thoughts." 



IMctionaries. See special article on page 

 249 of this volume. 



Educational. Treating the subject of educa- 

 tion from a general point of view, we have " The 

 Teacher as he should be," an address delivered 

 by C. W. Bardeen before the New York Teach- 

 ers' Association, July 8, 1891, and, with slight 

 changes. July 21, 1891, before the Chautauqua 

 A cmbly : "Organization and System rs. Origi- 

 nality aiid Individuality on the P"art of Teacher 

 and "Pupil," a paper read before the National 

 Ediicational Association at St. Paul, by Henry 

 Sabin. and " Inspirations of the School-teacher." 

 by Eva H. Walker. C. A. Barry asked "AY hat 

 shall we do with our Children!" and T. G. 

 Rooper published a monograph, "Apperception, 



