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LITERATURE, AMERICAN, IN 1892. 



natural surroundings, was outlined by Irving 

 Bacheller. Other novels of a sensational charac- 

 ter were " Gold Dust," by Emeline Daggett Har- 

 vey ; " Wedded Unwooed," by Julia H. Gate- 

 wood ; " His Angel," by Henry Herman ; " Her 

 Mistake," anonymous ; and " The Other Bond," 

 by Dora Russell. " Slaves of the Sawdust " was 

 w'ritten by Amye Reade to expose the cruelties 

 of trainers for the circus ring, and " The Mys- 

 terious Beggar," by Albert A. Day, to perform a 

 similar service for professional beggars. Tales 

 of the marvelous were " Messages from Mars by 

 the Aid of the Telescope Plant," by Robert D. 

 Braine ; " Born of Flame," a Rosicrucian story, 

 by Mrs. Mary B. Peeke ; " The Devil's Gold," by 

 Oscar P. G. Day ; " The Goddess of Atvatbar," 

 by William R. Bradshaw ; " A Maiden of Mars," 

 by F. M. Clarke ; " A Bargain in Souls : An Im- 

 possible Story," by Ernest de Lancey Pierson ; 

 " Poseidon's Paradise," by Elizabeth G. Birk- 

 maier ; " The Austral Globe," by Milton W. 

 Ramsey ; " Lost in the Wilderness," by R. II. 

 Jayne ; " Two Men and a Girl," by Franklyn 

 Lee ; and " Linked with Fate," by J. L. Berry. 



Capital volumes of short stories, in addition 

 to those already mentioned, are " In Sunflower 

 Land," by Roswell Martin Field (a brother of 

 Eugene Field) ; " A New England Cactus, and 

 Other Tales," by Frank Pope Humphrey ; " Tales 

 of a Time and Place," by Grace King, the author 

 of " Monsieur Motte "; " My Friend Pasquale, and 

 Other Stories," by James Selwin Tait ; " The 

 Lesson of the Master," by Henry James ; " The 

 Governor, and Other Stories," by George A. Hib- 

 bard ; '" In Beaver Cove and Elsewhere," by Matt 

 Grim; "Far from To-day," by Gertrude Hall; 

 " The History of a Failure, and Other Tales," by 

 E. Chilton ; " A Capillary Crime, and Other 

 Stories," by F. D. Millet ; " A Charge for France, 

 and Other Stories," by John Heard, Jr. ; " A 

 Christmas at Sea," edited by E. Shippen ; " Old 

 Ways and New," by Viola Roseboro; " Improb- 

 able Tales," by Clinton Ross; "A Millbrook 

 Romance, and Other Tales," by A. L. Donaldson ; 

 " Merry Tales," by Mark Twain (Samuel L. 

 Clemens) ; " The Bull Calf, and Other Tales," by 

 A. B. Frost; and "In a Steamer Chair, and 

 Other Shipboard Stories," by Robert Barr (Luke 

 Sharp). " Truth in Fiction," by Paul Carus, con- 

 sisted of twelve tales with a moral. Katharine 

 Jenkins wrote " Was it a Lost Day, and Other 

 Stories"; Helen M. Gardiner, " Pushed by Unseen 

 Hands " ; and Fanny Purdy Palmer, " A Dead 

 Level, and Other Episodes." " Stories from In- 

 dian Wigwams and Northern Camp Fires," by 

 Egerton Ryerson Young, portrayed the North 

 American Indian from the experience of a mis- 

 sionary. " O'er Railroad Cross-Ties with Grip- 

 sack." by George L. Marshall, was a compilation 

 of stories by and about drummers ; " The Story- 

 Teller, No. 1," was the first bound volume of 

 " Two Tales," and No. 6 was issued of " Tales 

 from Town Topics." The recent death of Her- 

 man Melville led to a new issue of his four 

 novels, " Typee," " Omoo," " White Jacket," and 

 "Moby Dick; or, The White Whale"; and 

 George W. Curtis's " Prue and I " was beautifully 

 illustrated by Albert E. Sterner. " Tales from 

 the Dramatists," in four volumes, by Charles 

 Morris, and " Tales from Ten Poets" (of the Vic- 

 torian reign), by Harrison S. Morris, in three vol- 



umes, made a success. " The Fate of Fenella '" 

 was unique in that it was decided by twenty-four 

 different authors, American and English, in as 

 many chapters. Useful " Descriptive Lists " of 

 novels dealing with life in Germany, France, 

 Italy, and Russia were compiled by William M. 

 Griswold. 



Juvenile Books. The young people of this 

 generation are exceptionally favored. Many of 

 the books provided for their entertainment are 

 now written by authors who have earned their 

 fame in a wider field, and find so many grown- 

 up readers that it is almost impossible to draw 

 the dividing line between adult and adolescent 

 literature. William Dean Howells was the au- 

 thor of ' Christmas Every Day, and Other Stories 

 told for Children " ; Mrs. Frances Hodgson Bur- 

 nett published but one book during the year, 

 " Giovanni and the Other : Children who have 

 made Stories" ; and "The End of a Rainbow, an 

 American Story," bright and breezy, came from 

 Rossiter Johnson. Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen de- 

 scribed " Boyhood in Norway," " The Fortunes 

 of Toby Trafford " were traced by John T. Trow- 

 bridge, and " Gulf and Glacier ; or, The Percivals 

 in Alaska," by Willis Boyd Allen, appeared in 

 the " Pine Cone Series." Familiar writers were 

 well represented : Charles F. Holder, by " Along 

 the Florida Reef " ; Horatio Alger, Jr., by " Dig- 

 ging for Gold," a story of California, and " The 

 Young Boatman of Pine Point " ; Oliver Optic 

 (W. T. Adams) by " A Millionaire at Sixteen," 

 "Fighting for the Right," and "A Young Knight 

 Errant ; or, Cruising in the West Indies " : Harry 

 Castlemon (Charles A. Fosdick) by " Marcy the 

 Refugee"; W. 0. Stoddard by "The Battle of 

 New York " ; Kirk Munroe by " Cab and Ca- 

 boose," the story of a railroad boy, and " Canoe- 

 mates " ; Edward S. Ellis by " From the Throttle 

 to the President's Chair " and " On the Trail of 

 the Moose " ; and Ingersoll Lockwood by "Baron 

 Trump's Marvelous Underground Journey," il- 

 lustrated by C. Howard Johnson. " Diego Pin- 

 zon" was commemorated in "Harper's Young 

 People," new series, by John Russell Coryell; 

 W. E. Meyer narrated the thrilling adventures 

 of three boys " Wrecked on the Bermudas " ; and 

 Henry W. French carried two others " Through 

 Arctics and Tropics around the World." " Five 

 Little Peppers Grown-Up," by Margaret Sidney 

 (Mrs. H. M. Lothrop) ; " In Blue Creek Canon '" 

 and " The Cadets of Flemming Hall," by Anna 

 Chapin Ray ; " Tom Clifton ; or, Western Boys in 

 Grant and Sherman's Army, 1861-'65," by War- 

 ren Lee Goss " ; " In Camp with a Tin Soldier," 

 by John Kendrick Bangs, a sequel to the " Tid- 

 dledywink Tales " ; " Marjorie's Canadian Win- 

 ter," by Agnes Maule Machar; "Elsie at Via- 

 mede," by Martha F. Finley (Martha Farquhar- 

 son) ; " Witch Winnie's Studio," by Mrs. Elizabeth 

 W. Champney ; " Miss Malcolm's Ten," by Mar- 

 garet E. Winslow (both stories for the King's 

 Daughters); "What Girls can do," by Mrs. H. 

 K. Potwin ; " Hildegarde's Home," by Mrs. Laura 

 E. Richards ; " Flying Hill Farm,'" by Sophie 

 Swett; "Santos' Brother" and "A Crown of 

 Thorns," by Flora Haines Loughhead ; " At the 

 End of a Rainbow," by Julia A. Sabine ; ' The 

 Rovings of a Restless Boy," by Katharine B. 

 Foot ; " Englishman's Haven," by W. J. Gordon ; 

 " More Good Times at Hackmatack," by Mary P. 



