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LITERATURE, AMERICAN, IN 1892. 



found time for two contributions to the world 

 of romance, "Roland Blake" and "Character- 

 istics"; "A First Family of Tasajara" and 

 "Colonel Starbottle's Client and Some Other 

 People " proved that Francis Bret Harte had 

 lost none of his power ; " The Average Woman," 

 by the late gifted Wolcott.Balestier, had a pref- 

 ace by Henry James, and the same author 

 wrote in collaboration with Rudyard Kipling, 

 "The Naulahka: A Story of West and East." 

 " Life and Sylvia " was from the pen of Jose- 

 phine Balestier ; James Brander Matthews wrote 

 alone " In the Vestibule Limited," and with 

 George H. Jessop " A Tale of Twenty-five 

 Hours " ; Francis M. Peard told a Dutch story 

 entitled "The Baroness"; Annie Trumbull 

 Slosson rehearsed "The Heresy of Mehetable 

 Clark," and wrote also ' Aunt Liefy " ; Blanche 

 Willis Howard (now Baroness von Teuffel) col- 

 laborated with the well-known English author 

 William Sharp to produce " A Fellowe and his 

 Wife " ; and wrote alone " A Battle and a Boy," 

 for children. " Lorelei, and Other Stories," was 

 by Mary J. Safford; Harold Frederic described 

 "The Return of the O'Mahony"; and a new 

 revised edition was published of " The Hoosier 

 Schoolmaster," by Edward Eggleston, in com- 

 memoration of the publication of 100,000 

 copies of the book. Ignatius Donnelly, under 

 his pseudonym of Edmund Boisgilbert, painted 

 Utopian pictures of life in " The Golden Bottle : 

 or, The Story of Ephraim Benezet of Kansas " ; 

 and Mrs. Katharine Pearson Woods, the author 

 of " Metzerott, Shoemaker," advanced ethical 

 theories in " From Dusk to Dawn." " His 

 Great Self," by Marion Harland (Mrs. M. V. H. 

 Terhune), and " Miss Bagg's Secretary," a West 

 Point romance, by Mrs. Clara Louise Burnharn, 

 represented two popular authors. " An Earthly 

 Paragon" was portrayed by Eva Wilder Mc- 

 Glasson ; Sarah P. McLean, author of "Cape 

 Cod Folks," was again heard from in " Vesty of 

 the Basins " ; and Mary Hallock Foote was at 

 home in " The Chosen Valley." Capt. Charles 

 King told " A Soldier's Secret," a story of the 

 Sioux war of 1890, and " An Army Portia " was 

 written by him also. Richard Harding Davis 

 described New York life in " Van Bibber and 

 Others " ; while genial John Habberton narrated 

 the adventures of " A Lucky Lover," and 

 showed how an ex-teacher was " Well out of 

 it." " San Salvador," by Mary Agnes Tincker. 

 pictured life as it might be. Novels which had 

 a basis in history or dealt with historical char- 

 acters were : " Columbus and Beatriz," who were 

 both vindicated by Constance Goddard Du Bois ; 

 " Saint Augustine," a story of the Huguenots in 

 America, by John R. Musick, who continued his 

 series of " Columbian Historical Novels " with 

 " Estevan," a story of the Spanish conquests, 

 and " Pocahontas," of course a story of Vir- 

 ginia. Elise L. Lathrop adapted from the Ger- 

 man of C. Falkenhorst " With Columbus in 

 America," " With Pizarro in Peru," and " With 

 Cortez in Mexico." " David Alden's Daughter, 

 and Other Stories of Colonial Times," twelve in 

 number, were from the pen of Mrs. Jane G. 

 Austin ; and Augusta Campbell Watson de- 

 scribed " The Old Harbor Town " as visited by 

 Benedict Arnold. "Fergus M. Tavish; or, 

 Portage and Prairie," was a story of the Hud- 



son Bay Company, by J. Macdonald Oxley ; 

 and a tale of old Pennsylvania, by Olivia L. 

 Wilson, was entitled " At the Sign of the White 

 Swan." Henry W. French, as Abd el Ardavan, 

 told the story of " The Lance of Kanana," the 

 Bedouin boy who delivered Arabia ; and " Ben- 

 Beor" was a story of the Antimessiah, in two 

 divisions, by Rabbi H. M. Bien, intended as a 

 companion romance to Eugene Sue's " Wander- 

 ing Jew." " Thrilling Scenes in the Persian 

 Kingdom " purported to be the story of a 

 scribe, by Edwin MacMinn ; A. D. Hall and 

 Robert L. Downing discovered " A True 

 Knight " in the days of Dionysius of Syracuse ; 

 " A Highland Chronicle " was written by S. 

 Bayard Dod ; and " In the Vulture's Nest," by 

 Mildred Fairfax, depicted the Huguenots at the 

 court of France in 1572. " Virginia Dare," the 

 first white child born in the colony of Virginia, 

 gave her name to a romance by E. A. B. S. ; "A 

 Golden Gossip," by Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney, was 

 " Neighborhood Story Number Two," and made 

 a pleasant addition to her wholesome, cheery 

 books ; " Silhouettes of American Life," by Mrs. 

 Rebecca Harding Davis, was the first collection 

 made of her shorter stories; and she was also 

 the author of " Kent Hampden." From Eliza 

 Orne White, author of "Miss Brooks," came 

 " Winterborough," another typical New England 

 story; "Quabbin," by Francis H. Underwood, 

 was the story of a small town, with outlooks 

 upon Puritan life ; " Walter Graham, States- 

 man," an American romance, by " An Amer- 

 ican," dealt with the political situation prior to 

 the war for the Union and until 1887; New 

 York life formed the theme of " Gramercy 

 ' Park," by John Seymour Wood (who wrote also 

 " A Daughter of Venice "), and of " Some Chil- 

 dren of Adam," by R. M. Manley ; the scene of 

 "From Schoolroom to Bar," by W. H. W. 

 Moran, was laid in Virginia; while from the 

 author of "Drew Drake and his Nets" we had 

 "Far out on the Prairies." "Early Times in 

 Texas" were described by J. C. Duval, who con- 

 tinued the adventures of Jack Dobell in " The 

 Young Explorers." " Monica, the Mesa Maiden," 

 became the heroine of Mrs. Evelyn Raymond. 

 Southern life was portrayed by Jeanie Drake in 

 a striking novel, " In Old St. Stephen's," the 

 historic church of Charleston, S. C. ; by Joel 

 Chandler Harris in "Uncle Remus and his 

 Friends " which, to the regret of many, con- 

 cludes the series of Uncle Remus stories and 

 in his story of a Georgia boy's adventures dur- 

 ing the civil war, entitled, " On the Planta- 

 tion." Richard Malcolm Johnston published 

 "Mr. Billy Downs and his Likes" in the "Fic- 

 tion, Fact, and Fancy Series," edited by Arthur 

 Stedman ; " Mr. Fortner's Marital Claims, and 

 Other Stories " ; and six of his original " Dukes- 

 borough Tales," being " The Chronicles of Mr. 

 Bill Williams," in " Appletons' Town and Coun- 

 try Library." "Winona," by Ella M. Powell, 

 "A Blonde Creole," by Alice Howard Hilton, 

 "A Modern Quixote," by S. C. McCay, "The 

 Modern Pariah," by Francis Fontaine, and 

 " Buffeting," by Jeannette Pemberton, deal also 

 with life south of Mason and Dixon's line; 

 while " People at Pisgah " (in Vermont) were 

 seen by Edwin W. Sanborn, and "The Down- 

 East Master's First School '"was described by 



