414 



LITERATURE, AMERICAN, IN 1891. 



readers and were excellent of their kind. "A 

 Nameless Novel," by M. G. McClelland, opened 

 "The Nameless Series": "In Office," a story 

 of department life in Washington, by Louis 

 Vital Bogy, " Back to Life," by T. W. Speight, 

 " Two Men of the World," by Harriet True 

 Bates, " Her Playthings, Men," by Mabel E. Ca- 

 hill, and " A God of Gotham," by Lee Baseom, 

 are all of the sensational type ; while " Lost in 

 Samoa," by E. S. Ellis, and " The Spanish Gal- 

 leon," by Charles Sumner Seeley, with "The 

 Braganza Diamonds," by James Otis Kaler, treat 

 of the adventurous. Healthy, wholesome books 

 are " Out at Twinnett's," " The Chautauquans," 

 and " Country Luck," all three by the familiar 

 author of " Helen's Babies " ; " In the Cheering- 

 up Business," by Mary Catherine Lee ; " Adopt- 

 ing an Abandoned Farm," by Kate Sanborn ; 

 " Farming." by Richard Kendall Munkittrick ; 

 " Around Bronton," by Mrs. Mary R. Baldwin ; 

 " In One Girl's Experience," by Mary H. Howell ; 

 " An Entire Stranger," by Rev. T. L. Baily ; " A 

 Modern Exodus," by Faye Huntington ; " Chris- 

 tie's Home-making," by Minnie E. Kenney ; and 

 ' Thrown on her own Resources," by Mrs. Jennie 

 E. Croly (Jennie June), which tells what girls 

 can do under similar circumstances. " A Fish- 

 erman's Daughter " was written for the Order of 

 King's Daughters by Jenny Harrison. 



Short stories were numerous, and we have sev- 

 eral excellent volumes, among which may be 

 mentioned " Balaam and his Master," by Uncle 

 Remus (Joel Chandler Harris) ; " Zadoc Pine and 

 other Stories," by H. C. Bunner ; " With my 

 Friends," tales told in collaboration, but written 

 out by James Brander Matthews ; " The Chase 

 of the' Meteor and other Stories," by Edwin Las- 

 setter Bynner, the author of " The Begum's 

 Daughter " ; " Gallegher and other Stories," by 

 Richard Harding Davis, who published also 

 " Stories for Boys " ; " Main-traveled Roads : Six 

 Mississippi Valley Stories." by Harnlin Garland ; 

 " Three Tales," by William Douglas O'Connor ; 

 " Elsket and other Stories," by Thomas Nelson 

 Page ; " Holiday Stories," by Stephen Fiske ; "The 

 Johnstown Stage," by Robert Howe Fletcher; 

 " Maid Marian and other Stories," by Molly 

 Elliot Seawell ; " Iduna and other Stories," 

 by George A. Hibbard ; " Fourteen to One," by 

 E'lizabeth Stuart Phelps; "A Violin Obligato 

 and other Stories," by Margaret Crosby ; " A 

 Book o' Nine Tales," by Arlo Bates; "Stories 

 of the Land of Evangeline," by Grace Dean 

 McLeod ; " The Will and the Way Stories," by 

 Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont ; two volumes by 

 Thomas A. Janvier, " The Uncle of an Angel 

 and other Stories " and " Stories of Old New 

 Spain " ; Juliana Horatio Swing's " Last Words " ; 

 " The Old Stone House and other Stories," by 

 Anna Katharine Green (Mrs. Rohlfs) ; " A New 

 Mexico David and other Stories and Sketches of 

 the Southwest," by Charles F. Lummis ; and " A 

 Woman's Talent and other Stories," by Julia M. 

 Hunt. " Eleven Possible Cases " were proposed 

 by Frank R. ^Stockton, Joaquin Miller, and sev- 

 eral other briNiant authors, who combined to 

 make an entertaining book. " Twenty Good 

 Stories " were told by Opie P. Read, the Arkan- 

 sas Traveler. 



JuTenile Books. The quality as well as the 

 number of this class of books increases year by 



year. Many are read and enjoyed by older peo- 

 ple, and among the best of 1891 are : " The Mod- 

 ern Aladdin" and " Men of Iron," by Howard 

 2" le ; " The Abandoned Claim," by Mrs. Flora 

 lines Loughead, who also opened "a new series, 

 to be issued monthly, with " The Man from No- 

 where " ; " Frii Dagmar's Son," by Julia McNair 

 Wright ; " Ryle's Open Gate," by Mrs. Susan T. 

 Moore ; " We All," by Octave Thanet (Miss Alice 

 French) : " The Scarlet Tanager and other Bi- 

 peds," by J. T. Trowbridge; "Four and Five: 

 a Story of a Lend-a-Hand Club," by Edward 

 Everett Hale; Kirk Munroe's "Prince Dusty: 

 a Story of the Oil Regions " and "Campmates: 

 a Story of the Plains " ; Oliver Optic's (W. T. 

 Adams) " Stand by the Union " and " A Missing 

 Million " ; " Among the Camps : Young People's 

 Stories of the War," by Thomas Nelson Page ; 

 "Through Forest and Fire," by E. S. Ellis; 

 "The New Senior at Andover," by Herbert D. 

 Ward, partly autobiographical ; " John Auburn- 

 top, Novelist : his Development in the Atmos- 

 phere of a Fresh-water College," by Anson Uriel 

 Hancock ; " How I became a Sailor " and other 

 sketches by Omer T. Gillett, M. D. ; " The Boy 

 Settlers," a story of early times in Kansas, by 

 Noah Brooks ; " Our Clerk from Barkton." by 

 Rev. E. A. Rand ; " The Boyhood of John Kent," 

 by Willis Boyd Allen ; " The Jo-Boat Boys," by 

 Rev. J. F. Cowan ; " The Little Corporal " and 

 its companion volume, " The Colonel s Charge," 

 war stories, by Carlisle B. Holding; "Master 

 William Mitten," by A. B. Longstreet, D. D. ; 

 " Percy Wynn," by Francis J. Finn ; " Gid 

 Granger " and " Little Smoke : a Tale of the 

 Sioux," by William 0. Stoddard ; " Wynema : a 

 Child of the Forest," another Indian 'tale by S. 

 Alice Callahan ; " The Boy Convict of Bermuda," 

 by Margaret Winslow ; " Old Rough, the Miser," 

 by Lily F. Wesselhoef t ; " A Queer Family," by 

 Effie VV. Merriman ; " Extraordinary Experiences 

 of Little Captain Doppelkop on the Shores of 

 Bubbleland, described by Ingersoll Lockwood 

 and illustrated by Clifton Johnson; "Betty, a 

 Butterfly," by A. G. Plympton, the author of 

 "Dear Daughter Dorothy ' f ; "Lady Jane," a 

 story of child life in New" Orleans, by Mrs. C. V. 

 Jamison ; and " Witch Winnie's Mystery," by 

 Mrs. Elizabeth W. Champney. Pansy (Mrs. Isa- 

 bella M. Alden) wrote " Helen the Historian " 

 and " Miss Dee Dunmore Bryant" ; Mary E. Barn- 

 ford, "Eleanor and I: a Tale of the Days of 

 King Richard II," "Number One or Number 

 Two." and "Janet and her Father"; and Mrs. 

 H. Dorsey, "Tomboys" and "Two Ways," two 

 stories in one volume. John Kendrick Bangs 

 was responsible for " Tiddledywink Tales." 



" A Descriptive List of Romantic Novels " and 

 "A Descriptive List of International Novels" 

 were compiled by William M. Griswold. 



Fine 'Arts. The decline in the character of 

 art books was even more marked this year. From 

 Josephine L. Abbott we have " Outlines for the 

 Study of Art in its Three Main Divisions : Archi- 

 tecture, Sculpture, Painting"; and from F. N. 

 Scott, " ^Esthetics, its Problems and Litera- 

 ture"; George 0. Scilharner's "History of the 

 American Theatre, New Foundations," carries 

 on the work (of which three volumes have now 

 appeared), and covers the period 1792-1797. El- 

 len Russell Emerson wrote on " Masks, Heads, 



