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Ilhistratiotis from Old Paintings and Print*" wan 

 II. Clark, and Charles Knowles Bolt-.n 

 described "Saskia. tin- Wife of Rembrandt." The 

 u Qnealog V of the Plumb Family," liy Ilcnrv Black- 

 iii. IM Plum D, u Qenoalogical sketches nt 1 Robert and 



.lolin Ha/.lcton lilld some of their Descendants," by 

 \V. 15. Lapham, M. D., " The K-t.- 1 1< ncalogies," by 

 Charles F.Mes, the " Genealogy of tli'- Cutts Family 



in America," i\ c. Jl. c. Howard, and tin- "Creou 

 4,cii.-alogy " i of St. Louis i, l>v 1'aul Beck with, are of 

 family interest. William Elroy Curtis published 

 1'art II of a descriptive catalogue of "Christopher 

 Columbus: His I'ortrait-sainl his Monument*," Charles 

 1'aul Mai-Kic described "The Last Voyages of the 

 Admiral of the Ocean Sea," uiul a facsimile of the 

 pictorial edition of " The Letter of Columhus on the 

 bis,-.. very of America" was printed by order of the 

 trustees of the Lenox Library, which possesses the 

 onlv perfect copy, with anew and literal translation 

 and a complete reprint of the oldest 4 editions in 

 Latin. A quadricentennial edition (limited to 402 

 set* i of Washington Irving's "Life and Voyages of 

 Christopher Columbus " was also issued in tliree vol- 

 umes. Y'ols. II and III appeared of the "National 

 Cyclopaedia of American Biography," and T. A. Bus- 

 bey edited and compiled a " Biographical Directory of 

 thd Railway Officials of America" for 1898. 



Two important translations were " John and Sebas- 

 tian Cabot" from the Italian of Francesco Tanlucci, 

 by Henry F. Brownson, and" The Story of My Life," 

 from the ( icrmnn of George Ebers, by Mary J. Saftbrd. 



Criticism and General Literature. To this department 

 belong "Essays in London and Elsewhere," by Hen- 

 ry James: "Other Essays from the Easy Chair" of 

 George W. Curtis ; " Essays in Idleness," by Agnes 

 Repplier; "As we go," by Charles Dudley Warner, 

 who also made a study of " The Work of Washing- 

 ton Irving"; and "Stelligeri," a volume of essays 

 concerning America, by Barrett Wendell. F. Marion 

 Crawford, who is certainly entitled to be heard, ques- 

 tioned " The Novel, What is it?" and George Haven 

 Putnam considered " Authors and their Public in 

 Ancient Times." George C. Lorimer told "What! 

 know about Books and how to use them," and 

 Joseph H. Thayer, D. D., delivered a lecture upon 

 "Books and their Uses" before the Harvard Di- 

 vinity School, to which was appended a list of books 

 for students of the New Testament. Marion D. 

 Shutter, I). D., made a literary study of the "Wit 

 and Humor of the Bible." Arthur MacArthur wrote 

 a " Biography of the English Language," and also 

 made " An Examination into the Present Position of 

 English among the Languages of the World " in the 

 same volume. Maurice Thompson delivered the 

 Carew lectures of 1893 before Hartford Theological 

 Seminary upon "The Ethics of Literary Art." John 

 F. Genung gave us " Outlines of Rhetoric embodied 

 in Rules." "Persian Literature, Ancient and Mod- 

 ern," was rendered accessible to us bv Mrs. Elizabeth 

 A. K'eed, who did so much for "Hindu Literature" a 

 year or two ago, and ' The Growth and Influence of 

 Classical Greek Poetry 1 ' was traced by Prof. H. C. 

 Jebb in lectures delivered in 1892 on the Percy Turn- 

 bull Memorial Foundation in the Johns Hopkins Uni- 

 versity. " The Private Life of the Romans " was 

 compiled for the use of students by Harriet Waters 

 Preston and Louisa Dodge, and " The Development 

 <>f the Athenian Constitution" was traced by George 

 Willis Botsford in the Cornell Studies in Classical 

 Philology. Miss E. S. Kirkland wrote "A Short 

 History of English Literature for Vomit: People." a 

 com|umion volume to her" Short Histories" of Trance 

 and England. " The Classic Myths in English Lit- 

 erature," edited by Prof. Charles Mills Gavley. while 

 based chiefly on Bulnnch's " Age of Fable" < 

 ditl'ers from that work in many important respect* 

 and contains much new material, and "Tales from 

 Shakespeare," by Harrison S. Morris, in four volumes, 

 included those of Charles and Mary Lamb. Prof. 

 Felix K. Schclling published " The Life and Writings 

 of Cconje Gascoigne," with three poems of that au- 



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thor heretofore not i.-j.rint. d ; Katharine Lee Ratal 

 madeastud\ of The Rngliab Hcli-jioui. Drama," and 

 William l.you Phclps traced "The Be^itming* oithr 

 English Romantic Movement. Prof. I.. A. Micrman'a 

 "Analytics of Literature" purj>ort* to )>< u manual 

 for the' objective study of English pro..- ami j-Htr\, 

 ami EdWMd T. Mclaughlin edited "Literary Crit'i 

 cism for Students" with an introduction and note*. 

 Vol. IV of "Harvard Studios in Classical Philo|../\ " 

 wa. issued, an was Vol. Ill of "A Journal of Ameri- 

 can Kthnology and Archa-ology." edited hy .]. Walter 

 Fewkes. James C. Pilling, of the Inite.i 

 Bureau of Ethnology, continued hi.s valuable aerie* 

 with The Bibliography of theSalishan Languages," 

 and Rev. W. Muss-Arnolt published a volun,. 

 Semitic Words in Greek and Latin," a.s well as two 

 pamphlets on " The As.-yro-BabN loni.m Months and 



their He-rents" ami the names of the same. Vol. Ill 

 appeared of Hermetic Philosophy." two papers by 

 Morris Jastrow, Jr.. and Talcott Williams on " Magfc 

 and Prodigy in the Kast" were reprinted Iron, 

 Lore," and Morris Jastrow compiled Part 1 1 

 Dictionary of the Targumin." Dccton J. Snider 

 was heard from in a commentary on "Dante'- In 

 ferno." "The Work of John Ruskin" in its influ- 

 ence upon modern thought and life was reviewed by 

 Charles Waldstein in the Harper's " American Essay- 

 ists" series, and an edition limited to 150 copies was 

 issued of "Robert Browning as an Exponent of a 

 Philosophy of Life," by Braincrd Man- Burridge. 

 The " Literary, Scientific, and Political Views of 

 Orestes A. Brownson" wire selected from that au- 

 thor's works by Henry F. Brownson, and u Sir Fraucm 

 Bacon's Cipher Story " was again discovered and de- 

 ciphered by Orville W. Owen, M. D. Julia Duhring, 

 who appeared last year as " Amor in Society," - i 

 herself in 1893 to -'Mental Life and Culture," Wil- 

 liam Morton Fullerton made some studies in historic 

 psychology entitled "Patriotism and Science," and 

 Daniel G.Brinton, M. D., turned from his accustomed 

 fields to" The Pursuit of Happiness " in what he calls 

 "a book of studies and strowings." Charles Dudley 

 Warner wrote an introduction to " Seen from the 

 Saddle," by Isa Carrington Cabell, and W. Ann- 

 strong Collins was equally expert "At Long and 

 Short Range " of a variety of suojects. " Coffee and 

 Hepartee," by John Kcndrick Bangs. "Bachelor 

 Buttons,'' by Frank Chatlee. "Wayside and Fire- 

 side Rambles," by Almon Gunniaon, u Humanies," 

 by John Staples W'hite. " What One Woman thinks." 

 by Mrs. Harvot Holt Cah<M)n. "More than Kin," by 

 James Vila Blake, " Ruminations," by Paul Siegvolk 

 (Albert Matthews), and "Only a Flock of Women." 

 by Mrs. A. M. Diaz, discuss every question, JHT- 

 haps, that is capable of interesting tlie human mind. 

 while Mrs. Helen H. Gardener exploited what she 

 terms " Facts and Fictions of Life." " The < (pinions 

 of a Philosopher," by Robert Grant, is a sequel 

 to "The Reflections of a Married Man." "The 

 Latter-Day Eden,'' by Henry Tuekley. treated of 

 wedlock and the home: from Isaac F.rrctt we had 

 " Linsey-woolsey, and Other Addresses." I Mm Piatt's 

 "Sun.lay Meditations and Selected Pn-.c >ketchea" 

 were posthumously published, and Ella Wheeler 

 Vilcox was at home in dealing with " Men. Women, 

 and Emotions." Rev. J. W. Daniel took " A Ramble 

 amoiii,' Surnames,'' and Mai-shall Brown edited a col- 

 lection of "Bulls and Blunders." Our ancestors 

 came in tor a full share of attention in " <>ur Colonial 

 Homes." by Samuel Adams Drake, and "Customs 

 and Fashions in Old New Eiiirlwiid," by Mrs. Alice 

 Morse Karle. while Anne Ilol lings worth Wharton 

 peeped profitably "Through Colonial l>oorv 

 "The Old Colony Town, and Other Sketches" of 

 William l!<>t Bliss worthily succeeds his "Colonial 

 Times -Hi Buzzard's Bay,"' and "An old Town by 

 the Sen," described by Thomas Bailey Aldrich, 

 proved to be Portsmouth, N. H. " Authors and 

 Writers assin-iated with Morristown," by Mrs. Julia 

 ' ollei, possesses local interest also. Prof. F.l>en 

 Horsford Norton reconstructed - LcifV HOUM in 



