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ber of Lincoln's Cabinet "), compiled from family 

 records and congressional documents. George 

 W. Julian attempted to fix " The Rank of Charles 

 Osborn as an Antislavery Pioneer," and wrote 

 also a " Life of Joshua R. Giddings." " The 

 Moral Crusader, William Lloyd Garrison," was 

 a biographical essay, by Goldwin Smith, founded 

 on the story of Garrison's life told by his children. 

 The ' Life of Charles Sumner, the Scholar in 

 Politics," in the " American Reformers " series, 

 was by Archibald H. Grimke ; and in the " Makers 

 of America " series we had " Charles Sumner," 

 by Anna Laurens Dawes. " Horace Greeley and 

 other Pioneers of American Socialism," by 

 Charles Sotheran, partakes at once of the nature 

 of biography and sociology ; while a new revised 

 edition of the " Life and Times of Frederick 

 Douglass, written by himself," with 100 pages 

 of additional matter, may not inaptly be men- 

 tioned here. ' James Russell Lowell " was the 

 theme of an address delivered by George W. 

 Curtis at Brooklyn Institute, Feb. 22, 1892; 

 and " John G. Whittier, the Poet of Freedom," 

 was commemorated by William Sloane Kennedy, 

 in the ' American Reformers " series. " Auto- 

 biographia ; or, The Story of a Life " selected 

 from the prose writings of Walt Whitman, were 

 edited by Arthur Stedman ; and the South 

 Carolinian, "William Gilmore Simms," was the 

 subject of a volume by William P. Trent. " The 

 Life and Letters of Washington Allston," with 

 reproductions from Allston's pictures, we owe to 

 Jared B. Flagg. Vols. Ill, IV, VI, and VII of 

 ' Chronicles of the Builders of the Common- 

 wealth," by Hubert Howe Bancroft, were issued, 

 with an index covering Vols. I to VII inclusive. 

 George F. Parker selected and edited, by per- 

 mission, the " Writings and Speeches of Grover 

 Cleveland," writing also "A Life of Grover 

 Cleveland, with a Sketch of Adlai E. Stephen- 

 son " ; and " Speeches of Benjamin Harrison," 

 were compiled by Charles Hedges. Katharine 

 Prescott Worrnley, the translator of the great 

 French novelist, contributed " A Memoir of 

 Honore de Balzac " : Poultney Bigelow described, 

 largely from personal acquaintance in early life, 

 " The German Emperor and his Eastern Neigh- 

 bors " ; and. the " Life of Christian Daniel Rauch, 

 of Berlin, Germany, Sculptor," was drawn from 

 German authorities by Ednah D. Cheney. " A 

 Memorial Volume to Charles Stewart Parnell," 

 by Robert F. Walsh, contained also the " Life 

 and Public Services of Daniel O'Connell," with 

 an outline of important events in Irish history, 

 by Thomas Clarke Luby. Mrs. Sarah K. Bolton's 

 latest volume was entitled " Famous Types of 

 Womanhood," and the first series also appeared 

 of " Women Writers, their Works and Ways," 

 by Catherine J. Hamilton. Susan Dallas edited 

 the " Diary of George Mifflin Dallas while United 

 States Minister to Russia, 1837 to 1839, and to 

 England, 1856 to 1861 " ; and " Orations and Ad- 

 dresses on Various Occasions. Civil and Military," 

 by Charles Devens, were edited by his nephew, 

 Arthur L. Devens, with a memoir by John Cod- 

 man Ropes. " Memoirs of Elias Loomis and 

 William Kitchen Parker," from the "Smith- 

 sonian Report for 1890," found readers, as did 

 " Lyman Copeland Draper," a memoir by Reuben 

 Gold Thwaites, reprinted from Vol. Xll'of " Wis- 

 consin Historical Collections." " John Hancock," 



a memoir with selections from Hancock's writ- 

 ings, by W. H. Venable, commemorated the 

 Ohio educator ; while " Men and Events of Forty 

 Years : Autobiographical Reminiscences of an 

 Active Career," by Josiah B. Grinnell, told of 

 pioneer days in Iowa. " A Knight that smoi.o 

 the Dragon ; or, The Young People's Gough," by 

 Edward A. Rand, was the story of the famous 

 temperance advocate. Rev. Abijah P. Marvin 

 treated " The Life and Times of Cotton Mather, 



D. D. ; or, A Boston Minister of Two Centuries 

 Ago, 1663-1728"; Rev. Richard S. Storrs, in eight 

 lectures, presented " Bernard of Clairvaux," the 

 great abbot of the twelfth century, against a 

 striking historic background ; " Our Birthdays 

 toward Sunset : Seventy-one to One Hundred," 

 by A. C. Thompson, told illustrative anecdotes 

 of more than 300 distinguished persons who out- 

 lived the allotted span and continued to labor in 

 their several lines ; and " Seventy Years in Dixie," 

 by F. D. Srygley, in addition to recollections, 

 sermons, and sayings of T. W. McCaskey, pre- 

 sented typical scenes of Southern life. " Leaders 

 of Thought in the Modern Church," by Reuben 

 Thomas, and " Some American Churchmen," by 

 Frederick Cook Moorehouse, may be classed 

 together, as may " Representative Women of 

 Methodism," by Charles W. Buoy, D. D., and 

 "Some Christian Endeavor Saints," by Francis 



E. Clark. " Mark Hopkins," by Franklin Carter, 

 and " Henry Boynton Smith," by Louis F. 

 Stearns, D. D., were the contributions to the 

 " American Religious Leaders " series, as were 

 "The Life and Times of Bishop White," by 

 Julius H. Ward, with an introduction by Bishop 

 Potter, " Most Reverend John Hughes, First 

 Archbishop of New York," by Henry Brann, 

 D. D., and "Jean Baptiste Le Moyne. Sieur de 

 Bienville " (and the first Governor of Louisiana), 

 by Grace King, to the " Makers of America" 

 series. To religious biography belong " Preacher 

 and Teacher : A Sketch of the Life of Thomas 

 Rambaut, D. D.," by Norman Fox, D. D. ; " The 

 Early Days of my Episcopate," by Bishop W. 

 Ingraham Kip, of California; "Henry Jackson 

 Van Dyke," a memorial volume ; " A Sketch of 

 the Lives and Missionary Work of Rev. Cephas 

 Bennett and his Wife, Stella Kneeland Bennett, 

 1829-1891," by Ruth Whitaker Ranney; the 

 " Journal of the Life and Religious Labors of 

 Sarah Hunt," published by the Friends ; " Caspar 

 Wistar Hodge," a memorial address by Prof. 

 Francis L. Patton ; " William Carey : A Sketch 

 of Beginnings in Modern Missions," by Rev. 

 Arthur C. Chute ; and the numerous biographies, 

 by Americans of the great English evangelist, 

 among which may be mentioned : " From the 

 Usher's Desk to the Tabernacle Pulpit," by Rev. 

 Robert Shindler ; followed by " From the Pulpit 

 to the Palm Branch," by Dr. A. T. Pierson ; 

 " Charles H. Spurgeon, Our Ally," by Dr. Justin 

 D. Fulton ; " Spurgeon," a collection of anec- 

 dotes and reminiscences from the pen of Thomas 

 W. Handford ; G. Holden Pike's " Charles Had- 

 don Spurgeon, Preacher, Author, Philanthro- 

 pist " ; " Charles H. Spurgeon, his Faith and 

 Works," by H. L. Wayland ; and a monograph 

 by G. C. Lorimer, entitled " Charles Haddon 

 Spurgeon, the Puritan Preacher of the Nineteenth 

 Century." "A Christian Business Man" was 

 the biography of Deacon C. F. Gates, by his son, 



