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men," and Joel Benton edited " Greeley on Lincoln," 

 with which were included letters of the great journal- 

 ist to Charles A. Dana and a lady friend. Vols. Ill 

 and IV of the " Memoir and Letters of Charles Sum- 

 ner," by Edward L. Pierce, completed a work the tirst 

 half of which was given to the public in 1877. In the 

 " Great Commanders " series, " General Greene " was 

 by Capt. Francis Vinton Greene, " General Jackson," 

 by James Parton, " General Johnston "( Joseph E.), 

 by Kobert M. Hughes, and " General Thomas," by- 

 Henry Coppee. A critical biography of " General 

 George H. Thomas," by Bonn Piatt, was also pub- 

 lished, the concluding chapters of which were by 

 Gen. H. V. Boynton. " Leonidas Polk, Bishop and 

 General," by William M. Polk, M. D., in two volumes, 

 and " Memoirs of William Nelson Pendleton, D. D.," 

 the Confederate general of artillery, by his daughter, 

 Susan P. Lee, may be classed together. " Personal 

 Reminiscences, 1840-1890," by L. E. Chittenden, in- 

 cluded some not hitherto published of Lincoln and 

 the war, and he also published the true and romantic 

 story of "An Unknown Heroine." A new issue of 

 Mrs. Elizabeth B. Custer's " Tenting on the Plains " 

 was made and given for the first time to the general 

 trade. A " Life of Hon. James G. Blaine," by T. C. 

 Crawford, was published, and in the " Men of Achieve- 

 ment " series we had " Statesmen," by Noali Brooks, 

 " Men of Business," by W. O. Stoddard, and " Invent- 

 ors," by Philip G. Hubert, Jr., while " Explorers and 

 Travelers " found a sympathetic chronicler in Gen. 

 A. W. Greely. Mrs. Sarah K. Bolton's latest volume 

 was upon " Famous Voyagers and Explorers." In the 

 series of " American Reformers," " John B. Gough, the 

 Apostle of Cold Water," was by Carlos Martyn, and 

 " Henry Ward Beecher, the Shakespeare of the Pul- 

 pit," by John H. Barrows, D. D. Redelia Brisbane 

 supplied a mental biography and character study of 

 "Albert Brisbane." The first volume of " Orations 

 and Addresses by George William Curtis," on the 

 principles and character of American institutions and 

 the duties of American citizens, was edited by Charles 

 Eliot Norton. " The Builders of American Litera- 

 ture," whose biographical sketches we owe to Francis 

 II. Underwood, were all born previous to 1826 ; to the 

 same hand belongs " The Poet and the Man," recollec- 

 tions and appreciations of James Russell Lowell, while 

 two volumes of the " Letters of James Russell Lowell," 

 edited by Charles Eliot Norton, are essentially an auto- 

 biography as complete as it is charming. 'Two vol- 

 umes also contain the valuable " Letters of Asa Gray," 

 edited by his widow, Jane Loring Gray, and from 

 Charles F. Holder we have " Louis Agassiz " in the 

 " Leaders of Science " series. " Descartes," in the 

 " Modern Philosophers " series, was by Dr. Joseph 

 Torrey. " A. Bronson Alcott, His Life and Philoso- 

 phy," were treated by F. B. Sanborn and Hon. W. T. 

 Harris, largely from hitherto unpublished materials, 

 and George S. Merriam edited a memorial volume by 

 friends of " Noah Porter." Notes of the life and 

 friendship of " Whittier" we owe to Mrs. James T. 

 Fields, "Personal Recollections of John G. Whit- 

 tier" (prefaced by an unpublished poem of Edna Dean 

 Proctor) to Mary B. Claflin, and " Whittier with the 

 Children" to Mrs. H. M. Lothrop (Margaret Sidney). 

 " Personal Recollections of Nathaniel Hawthorne," by 

 his college classmate, Commodore Horatio Bridge, 

 were published posthumously. The " Memoirs " "of 

 Charles Godfrey Leland (Hans Breitmann) abound 

 in_ interest, and William Dean Howells gives us a 

 glimpse at his early experiences in " My Year in a 

 Log Cabin." Edward Everett Hale described "A 

 New England Boyhood" with all the charm we 

 should expect, and Mrs. Laura E. Richards intro- 

 duced others than her young readers to the home life 

 of Dr. and Mrs. Julia Ward Howe in her series of pa- 

 pers " When I was your Age." " The One I knew 

 the Best of All," by Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett, 

 tells the story of her childhood. By no hand could 

 the " Life and Art of Edwin Booth " have been more 

 sympathetically touched than that of his near and 

 dear friend William Winter, and Laurence Huttou 



also offered a tribute based on observation and an in- 

 timate knowledge, entitled " Edwin Booth " in Har- 

 per's " White and Black " series. " Leaves from the 

 Autobiography of Tommaso Salvini " were welcomed 

 by his admirers. Henry T. Finck devoted two vol- 

 umes to "Wagner and his Works," and Daniel W. 

 Wilder wrote "The Life of Shakespeare," copying 

 from the best sources without comment. A. GrowoU 

 made a short biographical and bibliographical sketch 

 of the pessimist poet, " James Thomson." A life of 

 "Phillips Brooks, the Man. the Preacher and the Au- 

 thor," by Newell D unbar, had an introduction by 

 Joseph Cook and an estimate by F. W. Farrar, D. D., 

 and " Phillips Brooks in Boston," compiled by M. C. 

 Ayres, consisted of five years' editorial estimates. "A 

 Modern Paul in Japan," by Jinzo Naruse gave an ac- 

 count of the life and work of the Rev. Paul Saway aina, 

 with an introduction by Alexander McKenzie, D. D. ; 

 Ellis Schreiber wrote a " Life of Augustus Henry Law, 

 Priest of the Society of Jesus"; and Rev. J. R. Slat- 

 tery, " The Life of St. Peter Claver, S. J., the Apostle 

 of the Negroes." Other volumes of clerical biography 

 were " Israel Edson Dwinnell, D. D.," by Rev. Henry 

 E. Jewett, " Memorials of Richard H. Richardson, 

 D. D.," and a "Memoir of James Petigru Boyce, 

 D. D.," late President of the Southern Baptist Theo- 

 logical Seminary at Louisville, Ky., by John A. 

 Broadus, D. D. " My Life and Times," of Cyrus 

 1 1 :n 1 1 I'm. tells much of missionary work in Turkey, far 

 enough removed from which are "The Wizard of 

 Wall St. and his Wealth ; or, The Life and Deeds of 

 Jay Gould," chronicled by Trumbull White. Charles 

 H. Bell sketched " The Bench and Bar of New Hamp- 

 shire," " Speeches and Addresses of William McKin- 

 ley " were collected into a volume ; and Thomas Went- 

 worth Iligginson supplied an introduction to the 

 "Speeches and Addresses" of William E. Russell, ed- 

 ited by Charles T. Russell, Jr. " College Tom," by 

 Caroline Hazard, tells the story of one other ancestors 

 (Thomas R. Hazard), whose "lifelong protest against 

 slavery was his most noteworthy achievement," and 

 another volume of unpretentious biography is that by 

 Adela E. Orpen, who in " The Chronicles of the Sid " 

 tells of the hie arid extensive travels of Adelia Gates. 

 " An All-Around Boy " contained the life and letters 

 of Ralph Robinson Green, published by his father, 

 Rufus S. Green, D. D. " Brave Lads and Bonnie 

 Lassies," by F. Myron Colby, told the stories of young 

 folks who have helped to make history, beginning 

 with Egypt. A sailor's life fifty years ago is depicted 

 in " Twenty Years at Sea," by Frederick Stanhope 

 Hill, and " Sketches of Border Adventures of Major 

 Moses Van Campen " were written by his grandson, 

 J. Mies Hubbard. "Seventy Years on the Frontier" 

 was the title of Alexander Major's memoirs, and " ' Buf- 

 falo Bill ' from Prairie to Palace "gave an authentic 

 and authorized history of the wild West and its hero. 

 An edition of 725 copies only was issued of the "Life 

 and Works of Alexander Anderson, M. D., the First 

 American Wood Engraver," by Frederick M. Burr. 

 J. A. Coles, M. D., was the author of a biographical 

 sketch of "Abraham Coles," and J. Howe Adams, 

 M. D., of the " Historv of the Life of D. Hayes Ag- 

 new, M. D." " Donn Piatt : His Work and his Ways," 

 was by Charles Grant Miller. "What America owes 

 to Women," a series of pen portraits of American 

 women past and present, edited by Lydia Hoyt Farm- 

 er, Columbian poems and prose sketches of " Ken- 

 tucky Pioneer Women," by Mary Florence Taney, 

 "A Woman of the Century," biographical sketches 

 accompanied by portraits of leading American women, 

 edited by Frances E. Willard and Mary A. Livermorc. 

 and "Women of Cleveland," by Mrs. W. A. Ingham, 

 bear testimony to the prominent position assumed by 

 the sex during the Columbian year ; and, retracing our 

 steps, we have " Presidential Inaugurations from 

 George Washington, 1789, to Grover Cleveland, 1893," 

 by Thomas Hudson McKee. F. B. Heitman also drew 

 up the " Historical Register of Officers of the Conti- 

 nental Army during the War of the Revolution, April, 

 1775, to December, 1783." "Oliver Cromwell: With 



