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LITERATURE, AMERICAN, IN 1892. 



versity William Jewett Tucker discussed " The 

 New Movement in Humanity : From Liberty to 

 Unity " ; Caroline F. Corbin found a solution 

 for many problems of life in " A Woman's Phi- 

 losophy of Love," and Julia Duhring propounded 

 theories of her own in " Amor in Society," bear- 

 ing on the same subject. Robert Grant vouch- 

 safed " Reflections of a Married Man," and Oscar 

 Fay Adams collected his strictures on women 

 from the North American Review into a volume 

 entitled " The Presumption of Sex, and Other 

 Papers." " Old Shrines and Ivy," by William 

 Winter, contains more of the delightful impres- 

 sions of the wanderer and dreamer, while his 

 " Shadows of the Stage " gives, in 38 brief let- 

 ters, a permanent record of the theatrical world 

 of this generation. " Social Ethics and Society 

 Duties," by Mrs. H. 0. Ward (Mrs. Bioomfield 

 Moore), plead for the thorough education of girls 

 for wives and mothers and for professions ; G. 

 T. Howerton gave " Short Talks on Character 

 Building"; W. Taylor, D. D., spoke a word to 

 young men on " Good Character," and " Look- 

 ing out. on Life," by F. E. Clark, D. D., was in- 

 tended for young girls. Grace H. Dodge edited 

 "Thoughts of Busy Girls"; Eliza Chester, the 

 author of " Chats with Girls," was this time elo- 

 quent on " The Unmarried Woman " : " Women 

 of the World : With a Search Light of Epigram," 

 was compiled by Mrs. Alethe Lowber Craig ; Rose 

 Porter chose and arranged " Men's Thoughts for 

 Men " in a tasteful manner ; and Mrs. Alice L. 

 W'lliams selected a " Handful of Letters, Old 

 and New." Definitions and opinions from vari- 

 ous sources as to " What makes a Friend," were 

 put together by Volney Streamer ; " The School- 

 master in Literature " was another compilation, 

 with an introduction by Edward Eggleston ; 

 "Plantation Life before Emancipation" was 

 treated by R. Q. Mallard, D. D. ; " Philadelphia 

 Magazines and their Contributors, 1741-1850," 

 by Albert H. Smyth ; and " Quakers in Pennsyl- 

 vania," by Albert C. Applegarth, the last in the 

 " Johns Hopkins University Studies." " Famous 

 Pets of Famous People" were described by 

 Eleanor Lewis ; Hamilton B. Tompkins prepared 

 a " Burr Bibliography," the edition of which was 

 limited to 250 copies; 6 charming essays were 

 constructed " From the Books of Laurence 

 Hutton " by their owner ; " Martyrdoms of Lit- 

 erature," by Robert H. Vickers, deplored the de- 

 struction of famous libraries ; Daniel M. Tred- 

 well contributed "A Monograph on privately 

 Illustrated Books: A Plea for Bibliomania"'; 

 " Four Private Libraries of New York," by 

 Henri Pene Du Bois, was a contribution to the 

 history of bibliophism in America ; " Public Sup- 

 port of Public Libraries " was the subject of a 

 paper read before the American Library Asso- 

 ciation at San Francisco, Gal., by W. E. Foster ; 

 an " Index to the Subject Catalogue of Harvard 

 College Library " was given to the public ; and 

 " Indexing : A Manual for Librarians, Authors, 

 and Publishers," came from J. B. Nichols. 

 " Studies and Notes in Philology and Litera- 

 ture " were made by various writers in the " Har- 

 vard University Studies," and Vol. Ill of " Har- 

 vard Studies in Classical Philology " was edited 

 by a committee of the classical instructors of the 

 same institution. In line with these is a " Sylla- 

 bus on the History of Classical Philology," by 



Alfred Gudeman ; " Germanic Origins : A Study 

 in Primitive Culture," from the pen of Francis 

 B. Gummere; and from Hjalmar Hjorth Boye- 

 sen we have " Essays on German Literature." 

 A series of tabular studies of " The Hebrew 

 Verb " was made by Augustus S. Carrier, F. 

 Horace Teall contributed a valuable aid to writers 

 in " English Compound Words and Phrases," and 

 Samuel Ramsey proved exhaustive on " The Eng- 

 lish Language and English Grammar." Hiram 

 Corson drew up a " Primer of English Verse : 

 Chiefly in its Esthetic and Organic Character " ; 

 Henry Matson prepared " References for Liter- 

 ary Workers"; Prof. George H. Howieson re- 

 vised and enlarged " Soule's Synonyms " ; " To 

 Write or not to Write," hints arid suggestions 

 concerning all sorts of literary and journalistic 

 work personally contributed by leading authors 

 of the day, was a useful compilation made by 

 Alice R. Mylene ; and for a " Handy Book of 

 Literary Curiosities " we were indebted to W. S. 

 Walsh. " Echoes of the Sunset Club," of Chi- 

 cago, were collected by W. W. Catlin, to form a 

 readable volume, and a new revised edition was 

 published of " Sea Phantoms ; or, Legends and 

 Superstitions of the Sea and of Sailors in all 

 Lands and all Times," by Lieut. Fletcher S. 

 Bassett, U. S. N. ; and " Legends of the Pike's 

 Peak Region : Sacred Myths of the Manitou," 

 by Ernest Whitney and W. S. Alexander, were 

 illustrated by Thomas C. Parrish. " Lyre, Pen, 

 and Pencil: Essays, Studies, and Sketches," of 

 Fannie Raymond Ritter, were edited by Millie 

 W. Carpenter; the fourth series was issued of 

 "The Best Reading," edited byLynds E. Jones; 

 and George E. Hardy selected and classified 

 " Five Hundred Books for the Young." 



Educational. " The History of Modern Edu- 

 cation " was written by Samuel G. Williams, 

 in the " School Bulletin " publications, and Lou- 

 isa Parsons Hopkins treated of " The Spirit of 

 the New Education." In the " International 

 Education Series " " Psychology applied to the 

 Art of Teaching," by Joseph Baldwin, contained 

 the observation and experience of many years, 

 and " English Education in the Elementary and 

 Secondary Schools " was handled by Prof. John 

 Sharpless. " Let him first be a Man, and Other 

 Essays," by W. H. Venable, related chiefly to 

 education and culture, and " Literature for Chil- 

 dren " was the title of a paper read before the 

 National Educational Association at Saratoga, 

 July 14, 1892, by George E. Hardy. " Circulars of 

 Information of the United States Bureau of Edu- 

 cation." published in 1892, were histories of higher 

 education, respectively, in Ohio, by George W. 

 Knight and John R. Commons ; in Massachu- 

 setts, by George Gary Bush ; and in Michigan, by 

 Andrew C. McLaughlin ; also " Southern Women 

 in the Recent Educational Movement in the 

 South," by Rev. A. D. Mayo. " Handbook of 

 University Extension, No. 1," edited by George 

 F. James, was a reprint of about fifty signed 

 articles by prominent writers and educators in 

 the monthly journal of the University Extension 

 Society. " College Requirements " in English 

 entrance examinations, by Rev. Arthur Went- 

 worth Eaton, and in algebra (a final review), by 

 George Parsons Tibbets, met special needs. 

 "Methods of Instruction and Organization of 

 the Schools of Germany " we're set forth for 



