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LITERATURE, AMERICAN, IN 1892. 



Bender Wilson; "Slavery in the District of 

 Columbia: The Policy of Congress and the 

 Struggle for Abolition," by Mary Tremam, m 

 the " University of Nebraska Seminary Papers " ; 

 " The Army of Northern Virginia in 1862," by 

 Col. William Allan, C. S. A. ; "Personal Recol- 

 lections of the War of the Rebellion," addresses 

 delivered before the New York Commandery of 

 the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the 

 United States; -'A Famous Battery and its 

 Campaigns, 1861-1864" (Varian's battery of 

 light artillery, formerly Company I of the 

 Eighth New 'York State Militia), by James E. 

 Smith, including " The Career of Corporal Tan- 

 ner in War and in Peace " ; a " History of the 

 Tenth New York Cavalry " ; " Early Days in the 

 Black Hills," and " Some Account of Capt. Jack 

 Crawford, the Poet Scout." The "History of 

 Battery E, First Regiment Rhode Island Light 

 Artillery, in the War of 1861 and 1865 to pre- 

 serve the Union," was written by George Lewis, 

 and the "History of the First Regiment of 

 Massachusetts Cavalry Volunteers" by B. W. 

 Crowninshield. W. F. Tiemann compiled " The 

 One Hundred and Fifty-ninth Regiment Infan- 

 try, New York State Volunteers, in the War of 

 the Rebellion, 1862-1865," and Louis F. Emilio 

 was the author of a " History of the Fifty-fourth 

 Regiment of Massachusetts Infantry, 1863-1865," 

 one of the first black regiments put into the 

 field. Benn Pitman edited "The Trials for 

 Treason at Indianapolis." Leaving our own 

 country, though not our continent, we have " A 

 History of Peru," by Clements R. Markham, an 

 authority, inaugurating the " Latin-American 

 Republics Series." and "Mexico in Transition 

 from the Power of Political Romanism to Civil 

 and Religious Liberty," by William Butler, 

 D. D. " Stories from English History for Young 

 Americans" were collected anonymously, and H. 

 Pomeroy Brewster and George H. Brewster drew 

 up a concise compendium of the history of Eng- 

 land and its people under the title of " England 

 and its Rulers " ; while several periods of French 

 history were treated in a masterly manner by 

 more than one American author, " France under 

 the Regency, with a Review of the Administra- 

 tion of Louis XIV " being by James Breck Per- 

 kins; "The Eve of the French Revolution," by 

 Edward J. Lowell, who took, for an American, a 

 conservative view of the situation in France at 

 the time preceding the great cataclysm ; and 

 " Monsieur Henri : A Footnote to French His- 

 tory," by Louise Imogen Guiney, the story of La 

 Rochejaquelin and La Vendee. " France in the 

 Nineteenth Century, 1830-1890," was treated by 

 Mrs. Elizabeth Worrneley Latimer, and " The 

 Rise of the Swiss Republic " by W. D. McCrack- 

 an. " A Footnote to History : Eight Years of 

 Trouble in Samoa," came from Robert Louis 

 Stevenson, while Edgar Saltus selected a re- 

 moter time and theme, recording in " Imperial 

 Purple" the crimes of the Caesars, from Julius 

 to Heliogabalus. " Select Mediawal Documents, 

 and Other Material illustrating the History of 

 Church and Empire," 7f=4-1254 A. D.," fell into 

 the hands of Shailer Matthews. "Bibliotheca 

 Americana " is a dictionary of books relating to 

 America from its discovery to the present time, 

 for which we are indebted to Joseph Sabin ; Parts 

 CXV and CXVI were published during the year. 



Phoebe Elizabeth Thorns compiled "Important 

 Events in the World's History," and a third edi- 

 tion, revised and brought down to 1892, was 

 issued of the " Historical Reference Book," by 

 Louis Heilprin. 



Housekeeping 1 . Two aesthetic volumes con- 

 trived in this most prosaic of departments were : 

 " The Art of Entertaining," by Mrs. M. E. W. 

 Sherwood, which contained much entertaining 

 reading matter of a varied literary character as 

 well as valuable practical instruction, and 

 "Three Hundred and Sixty-six Dinners sug- 

 gested by M. E. N.," the compiler of which was 

 Mary E.'Nichol. Mrs. Marie H. Taylor, widow 

 of Bayard Taylor, published for general benefit 

 the "'Letters to a Young Housekeeper," origi- 

 nally addressed to her daughter, while Miss Anna 

 B. Warner (Amy Lathrop) was " Up and Down 

 the House" in 19 papers, and Miss Elizabeth 

 F. Holt went " From Attic to Cellar," showing 

 how housekeeping could be made easy. " The 

 Little Dinner^' achieved by Christine Terhune 

 Herrick was a success, and the " majority edi- 

 tion " was issued of " Common Sense in the 

 Household," by Marion Haiiand (Mrs. Terhune). 

 Agnes Bailey showed how to make " The House 

 Comfortable " : Mary Lampson Clarke compiled 

 " Cookingfor the Sick and Convalescent." Wil- 

 liam Schmidt (The Only William), in " The Flow- 

 ing Bowl," gave full instructions what and when 

 to drink, and how to prepare, mix. and serve 

 drinks ; also recipes. Evelyn H. Raymond was 

 an authority on " Mixed Pickles." Edward 

 Atkinson wrote a " Treatise upon the Science of 

 Nutrition," and Annie E. Myers furnished in 

 "Home Dressmaking" a complete guide to 

 household sewing. 



Jurisprudence. Two volumes were devoted 

 to " Modern Equity " by Charles Fisk Beach, Jr., 

 whose " Counter Negligence : A Treatise on the 

 Law of Contributory Negligence," went through 

 a second edition during the year and Joel Pren- 

 tiss Bishop was heard from in two volumes of a 

 new work based on former editions of " New 

 Commentaries on the Criminal Law upon a New 

 System of Legal Exposition," bearing the same 

 title, Vol. I being " General and Elementary," 

 and Vol. II covering " The Specific Offenses," 

 each volume being complete in itself. Vol. VI 

 was issued of " The Adjudged Cases on Defenses 

 to Crime," by John D. Lawson, being the first 

 supplementary volume to the original series, 

 and Irving Browne drew up " The Elements of 

 Criminal Law, Principles, Pleading, and Pro- 

 cedure," for the use of law schools and students. 

 Louis Hochheimer prepared a " Digest of the Law 

 <# Crimes and Criminal Procedure in Maryland," 

 and Vol. VIII of " American Criminal Reports " 

 was issued, with notes and references by John Gib- 

 bons ; " Rights, Duties, Remedies, and Incidents 

 belonging to and growing out of the Relation 

 of Landlord and Tenant," were defined by David 

 McAdam and Wayland E. Benjamin ; and a 

 fourth edition, revised and greatly enlarged, was 

 made of " A Treatise on the Law of Judgments," 

 by A. C. Freeman, in two volumes. Samuel 

 Maxwell wrote a " Treatise on the Law of Plead- 

 ing under the Code of Civil Procedure, de- 

 signed for all- the Code States," with forms and 

 directions ; Frank S. Rice, " General Principles 

 of the Law of Evidence," in' 2 volumes ; James 



