LITERATURE, AMERICAN, IN 1891. 





pits en route, with which his book is illus- 

 ;. and Charles A. Stoddard going "AoNMi 



from the Baltic, to the Danube." Henry 

 ,'. Kind; published" Spain and Morocco i Studies 



,-d Color," and George Bailey Loring, 

 l)..e\-l i, ited Stales minister I.. Lisbon, de- 

 ribcd "A Year in Portugal, issiMWM." - The 



.'Mvci.-r- in N.irlheni Europe," by T. W. 



and "Our Young People in Norway," by 

 Augusta W. Kellogg, were juvenile in tone,'as in- 



I by their names, and from Virginia W. 

 Johnson we had "The Lilv of the. Amo, or Flor- 

 ence Pa>t and Present." "1 he Swiss Republic," by 

 Winchester Boyd, consists of notes made during 

 four years of diplomatic service in that country, 

 and " Three Vassar (iirls in the, Tyrol " suggests 

 at once Mrs. Elizabeth W. Champney. "The 



i of Pleasure "is the title given a narra- 

 i\e of a journey on the Thames, from Oxford 

 to London, by Joseph and Mrs. Elizabeth Robins 

 IVnnell, with a practical chapter by J. G. Legge, 

 and Leonard Allison Morrison made a tour in 

 seven countries "Among the Scotch-Irish." "By 

 Land and Sea " chronicled incidents 'of travel, 

 \\ith chats about history and legends, and was 

 from the pen of Mrs. J. M. Francis, wife of the 

 Tinted States minister at the courts of Greece, 

 Portugal, and Austria-Hungary. Alpheus Spring 

 Packard, M. D., in " The Labrador Coast " gave a 

 journal of two summer cruises, with notes on the 

 history, geology, etc., of that region, and Helen 

 Mather described "One Summer in Hawaii." 

 From Edward Everett Hale we have " Afloat and 

 Ashore," and from Matthew Woods, M. D,, 

 Rambles of a Physician," in two volumes. 

 Under the title of "Our Italy" Charles Dudley 

 Warner describes southern California in his own 

 inimitable way, and Charles Ledyard Norton 

 completed his'" Hand-book of Florida," Part I 

 of which appeared in 1890. C. V. Hine writes 

 with enthusiasm of his trip in a canoe "On the 

 Indian River," in that State, and from Cecil 

 Charles we have "Honduras: the Land of Great 

 Depths," which supplies much practical infor- 

 mation. " The South and its People " are treat- 

 ed by W. Robbins Falkiner, and " Southwest 

 Virginia and Shenandoah Valley " by Thomas 

 Bruce. Alfred Robinson delineates "Life in 

 California during a Residence of Several Years," 

 and '.26 papers by Frank Bollesare entitled" Land 

 of the Lingering Snow : Chronicles of a Stroller 

 in New England from January to June." " Cal- 

 ifornia and Alaska" were visited by William 

 Se ward Webb, and in "Atlantis arisen" Mrs. 

 Frances F. Victor described " Washington and 

 Oregon." Book 4 of " The World and its Peo- 

 ple," edited bv Larkin Dunton, is by Fanny E. 

 Coe, mid devoted to "Our American Neighbors." 

 "The Spanish American Republics" is a richly 

 illustrated volume for which we are indebted 

 to Theodore Child, and in this connection 

 may be mentioned bulletins issued by the 

 Bureau of American Republics, State Depart- 

 ment, Washington, D. C., entitled "Hand-books 

 of the American Republics." "A Run around 

 the World," anonymous, describes the advent- 

 ures of three young Americans, and from Eliza- 

 beth Bisland we have " A Flying Trip around 

 the World." " Noto : an Unexplored Corner 

 of Japan " was welcomed from Percival Lowell ; 

 Alice Mabel Bacon described "Japanese Girls 



and YYmncn "; Eliza Ruhamah SHdrnore, " Jin- 

 rikishu Days in Japan " ; ami M. P. < '<k," Jupun, 

 a Sailor's Visit.' "How we went and what 

 we saw," by Charles McCormick l;< eve, was the 

 record of u flying trip through K^ypt, Syria, and 

 the .Kgciui fslands, and "The Beautiful Land, 



Pale-tine," by .John Fulton, I>. I)., had an intro- 

 duction by Bishop llenrv C. Potter. Uev. Na- 

 than Ilubbdl chronicled "My Journey to Jeru- 

 salem," with travels in other countries, and a 

 tour around the world to study missions was 

 summed up by Daniel M. March, I). I)., in "Morn- 

 ing Light in Many Lands." Martin Brimmer pub- 

 lished an illustrated volumedescribing the history, 

 religion, and art of ancient Egypt. Samuel A. 

 Mutdiuiore, D. D., devoted two volumes to "The 

 Moghul, Mongol, Mikado, and Missionary." Bish- 

 op John F. Hurst wrote " Indika : the Country 

 and People of India and Ceylon," and supplied 

 an introduction to " A Winter in India and Ma- 

 laysia among the Methodist Missions," by M. 

 B. V. Knox, D. D. Rev. Josiah Tyler described 

 " Forty Years among the Zulus." " The Land 

 of the Lamas," by William Woodville Rockhill, 

 consists of notes on a journey through China, 

 Mongolia, and Tibet, made in disguise by the 

 adventurous young American, who has had but 

 two predecessors in the region, and who traveled 

 TOO miles where no white man had ever set foot 

 before. Herbert Ward gave to the world "My 

 Life with Stanley's Rear Guard," and important 

 translations bearing on the vexed question of 

 the Emin Relief Expedition are " New Light on 

 Dark Africa " from the German of Carl Peters, 

 by II. W. Dulcken, and " Ten Years in Equatoria 

 and the Return with Emin Pasha," from the 

 Italian of Gaetano Casati, by Mrs. J. Randolph 

 Clay, assisted by I. Walter Savage Landor. Heze- 

 kiah Butterworth continued his "Zigzag Jour- 

 neys in Australia," and from Charles Erskine. the 

 only survivor of the United States exploring ex- 

 pedition under Admiral Charles Wilkes (1838- 

 40), we have " Twenty Years before the Mast." 

 Charles Paul Mackie went "With the Admiral 

 of the Ocean Sea " on his momentous voyage. 

 Hugh Craig compiled " Great Arctic Travelers," 

 and among guide-books may be mentioned, " Chi- 

 cago and its Environs," by L. Schick ; " Chicago, 

 the Marvelous City of the West," by John J. 

 Flinn ; " San Antonio de Bexar, a Guide and 

 History," by William Corner; " Glimpses of Pil- 

 grim Plymouth," anonymous ; " The Canadian 

 Guide-book," by Charles G. D. Roberts; "A 

 Week in New York," by Ernest Ingersoll ; " Ap- 

 pletons' Dictionary of New York, in its thir- 

 teenth year; and Appletons' Hand-books of 

 summer and winter resorts. 



Unclassified. On an all-absorbing topic we 

 have " The World's Fair : its Meaning and 

 Scope," by H. G. Cutler, and " World's Fairs, 

 from London, 1851, to Chicago, 1893," by Gen. 

 Charles B. Norton, a pamphlet of 93 pages, pro- 

 fusely illustrated, sent out by the committee of 

 the World's Columbian Exposition. " The New 

 York Obelisk : Cleopatra's Needle " was the sub- 

 ject of a volume by C. E. Moldenke, and Robert 

 Coltman, Jr., M. D., treated " The Chinese ; their 

 Present and Future ; Medical, Political, and So- 

 cial." " Federal Finances," or the income of the 

 United States, by W. E. Burke, explains simply 

 and concisely the system of taxation as earned 



