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Caleb Frank (Jutes; "Ireland and St. Patrick," 

 l>\ I;, v. \\'. 15. Morris, presented a Mialy of the 

 - fluiracter and of tin- results of his apns- 

 tolate; while "My Mother: An Appreciation," 

 ndcrly offered by Bishop John H. Vincent. 

 A 1 1. ink that aroused much attention was "Tim 

 l' Thomas Paine," in two volumes, by 

 Moiicure D. Con way, including an unpublished 

 sketch of Paine by William Cobbett. An auto- 

 graph edit ion of " An American Statesman : The 

 and Wordsof James G.Blaine," was issued 

 a tew months prior to the death of its illustrious 

 subject. The first of two volumes of a "Life 

 of Colonel Paul Revere," by Elbridge II. Goss, 

 appeared ; and the labors of John Alfred Poor for 

 '1 he First International Railway and the Col- 

 on i/ation of New England " were traced through 

 his life and writings, edited by Laura Elizabeth 

 Poor. " Memories of the Professional and Social 

 Life of John E. Owens " were published by the 

 wife of the actor ; and " Peter Henderson, Gar- 

 dener, Author, Merchant," was the subject of a 

 memoir by Alfred Henderson, his son, some- 

 what in line with which was L. Menaud's " Auto- 

 biography and Recollections of Incidents con- 

 nected with Horticultural Affairs, etc., from 

 1807 to 1892." In the "Great Captains" series 

 "Ca-sir" was handled by Captain Theodore 

 Ayrault Dodge. W. E. Fish supplied a " Biog- 

 raphy of Ignatius Donnelly," reprinted from 

 " Donnelliana"; "Mark Twain: His Life and 

 Work," was a biographical sketch by William M. 

 Clemens ; the " Life and Death of Jay Gould, and 

 how he made his Millions," was anonymous; 

 while from John L. Sullivan came the " Life 

 and Reminiscences of a Nineteenth-Century 

 Gladiator." A second edition was made of the 

 " Autobiography " of Dr. Samuel D. Gross, 

 edited by his sons. Vol. I of the "National 

 Cyclopaedia of American Biography," edited by 

 distinguished biographers selected from each 

 State, was issued, the whole to be complete in 

 twelve volumes: John 0. Austin edited an 

 " Ancestral Dictionary " ; in line with which were 

 a " History of the Putnam Family in England 

 and America," two parts of which were issued, 

 to be followed by eight more ; " Descendants of 

 George Wheeler, of Concord, Mass., 1688," com- 

 piled by Henry Warren Wheeler; the genealo- 

 gical, biographical and statistical record of the 

 "Stanton Family," by W. A. Stanton; and the 

 "Jones Genealogy," compiled by L. H. Jones. 

 " Andersonville: An Object Lesson on Protec- 

 tion," was the peculiar title of a critical sketch 

 of Captain Henry Wirtz; " First Days amongst 

 the Contrabands" set forth the results of thirty 

 years work of Elizabeth Hyde Botume; and Mrs. 

 Harriot S. Caswell detailed "Our Life among 

 the Iroquois Indians" of western New York. 

 "Darkness and Daylight: or, Lights and Shadows 

 of New York Life," was by Mrs. Helen Camp- 

 bell, Rev. Lyman Abbott, and others. 



Criticism and General Literature. Sev- 

 eral volumes in this department merit careful 

 perusal. Among these are the lectures of Ed- 

 mund Clarence Stedman on " The Nature and 

 Elements of Poetry,'' delivered at Johns Hop- 

 kins University, initiating the Percy Trumbull 

 Memorial Lectureship of Poetry, and collected 

 into a volume: "The Art of Poetry," by Prof. 

 A. S. Cook ; " The Desire of Beauty : Being In- 



dications for Esthetic Culture," by Theodore 



Child; "The (ioldcn Guess: Essays on I 

 and the Poets," by John Vance Cheney ; " I 

 the Evening Lamp," biographical arid critical 

 papers concerning some of the "unfortni 

 of literature, by Richard Henry Stoddard ; " The 

 Development of Literature and Lunguap 

 Prof. A. 11. Welsh, in two volumes; "Social and 

 Literary Papers," by the late ('. rhaiinccy Shack- 

 ford ; "The Real and Ideal in Literature." hv 

 Frank Preston Stearns; " Kssays i-i Miniature, 

 welcomed from Agnes Repplier: "Kssaysin Liter- 

 ary Interpretation," by Hamilton Wright Mabie; 

 " Intellectual Pursuits," by Robert Waters, which 

 supplied hints for culture by self-help; "Quest 

 and Vision : Essays in Life and Literature, by 

 W. J. Dawson, and a second series of "Studies, 

 Literary and Social," by Richard Malcolm John- 

 ston. P. F. Mullany published "Phases of 

 Thought and Criticism," under the pseudonym 

 of Brother Azarias. John Albee contributed 

 " Prose Idyls," which fell little short of poetry, 

 and Thomas Wentworth Higginson was heard 

 from once more "Concerning all of us," in 29 

 short papers. "Americanisms and Brittici>ms. 

 with Other Essays on Other Isms," was, of course, 

 by James Brander Matthews ; Edward Waterman 

 Evans, Jr., made a critical study of "Walter 

 Savage Landor"; Charles Eliot Norton, in ad- 

 dition to revising his translation of Dante's 

 " Vita Nuova," edited the lectures of James 

 Russell Lowell on " The Old English Drama- 

 tists," delivered in 1887, and published in Har- 

 per's Magazine ; Lucy Allen Paton's essay on 

 " The Personal Character of Dante," first pub- 

 lished by the Dante Society, was reprinted, by 

 permission ; W. F. C. Wigston stood up for 

 " Francis Bacon, Poet, Prophet, Philosopher, 

 versus Phantom Captain Shakespeare, the Rosi- 

 crucian Mask," and also dubbed the great Veru- 

 lam " The Columbus of Literature." " Tributes 

 to Shakespeare " were collected and arranged by 

 Mary R. bilsby, and a new edition was made of 

 " Typical Tales of Fancy, Romance, and History, 

 from Shakespeare's Plays in Narrative Form," 

 by Prof. Robert R. Raymond. Delicate delinea- 

 tion of nature was found in " Field-Farings : A 

 Vagrant Chronicle of Earth and Sky," by Martha 

 McCulloch Williams; "The Foot-Path Way," 

 by Bradford Terrey ; and " Recent Rambles," by 

 Charles C. Abbott, M. D., continuing "A Natu- 

 ralist's Rambles about Home." "Wood Notes 

 Wild: Notations of Bird Music." by Simeon 

 Pease Cheney, were collected and arranged by 

 his son, John Vance Cheney, and "Autumn' 1 

 was edited from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau 

 by H. G. O. Blake. "A Tour around New York 

 ainl my Summer Acre," by the late .John Klavel 

 Mines (Felix Oldboy), gave delightful personal 

 reminiscences of fifty years ago; "The New Eng- 

 land Country" was studied run nmnrf by Clif- 

 ton Johnson; Dr. W. C. Prime traveled "Along 

 New England Roads": and J. L. Allen wrote 

 "The Blue Grass Region of Kentucky, and Other 

 Kentucky Articles." " Witchcraft in Salem Vil- 

 lage in l()!h.V by Winfield S. Nevins. and " Bar- 

 bara Frietchie." by Mrs. Caroline Ilealey Dall. 

 nec-ial studies: another was " The (trnves 

 of Myles Standish and Other Pilgrims." by Rev. 

 E. J. V. Huiginn. In an oration before the 

 Phi Beta Kappa Fraternity of Harvard Vni- 



