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Vineland," and Elizabeth G. Shepard prepared " A 

 Guide to Norumbega and Vineland." " Some Old 

 Puritan Love Letters," which passed between John 

 and Margaret Winthrop, 1618-1638, were edited by 

 Joseph Hopkins Twichell. Two of the six volumes 

 of the " Distaff Series," issued bv the Board of Lady 

 Managers for the State of New Y v ork at the World's 

 Columbian Exposition to show the representative 

 work of women of the State, were respectively " Wom- 

 an and the Higher Education," edited by Miss 

 Anna C. Brackett, and " Early Prose and Verse," in 

 the arrangement of which Mrs. Alice Morse Earle 

 and Emily E. Ford collaborated. " Emerson's Year- 

 book," prepared by " A. R. C.", and " Helpful Words 

 from the Writings of Edward Everett Hale," con- 

 tained much of the best work of both authors, and F. 

 Saunders edited over 100 " Historical and Patriotic 

 Addresses." " The Lover's Lexicon," which we owe 

 to Frederick Greenwood, begins, as sometimes hap- 

 pens, with " abhorrence " and ends with " wife " ; and 

 from an unknown hand we have a selection ot 

 " Masterpieces of Prose," English and American. 

 " Liber Scriptorum," the first book of the Authors' 

 Club, in an edition limited to 250 copies, represented 

 109 contributors who signed their several articles, in 

 prose and verse, written especially for the work, with 

 pen and ink ; it was the most unique as well as the 

 most sumptuous volume of the year. The tirst of the 

 two volumes of " The Standard Dictionary," edited 

 by Isaac K. Funk. D. D., Francis A. March, and 

 Daniel S. Gregory, IX D., was issued at the close of 

 the year; Mrs. Ella Sterling Cummins reviewed Cali- 

 fornia writers and literature in ' The Story of the 

 Files"; the United States Bureau of Education pub- 

 lished " Statistics of Public Libraries in the United 

 States and Canada," prepared by Weston Flint: 

 "Bibliotheca Americana, 1893," appeared, as did 

 "The A. L. A. Index," compiled oy William I. 

 Fletcher, and the second supplement to " Poole's In- 

 dex to Periodical Literature," bringing the work 

 down to Jan. 1, 1892. " The Writings of Henry David 

 Thoreau " were issued in the Riverside edition in ten 

 handsome volumes, with biographical introductions 

 and full indexes, and " The Natural History of In- 

 tellect, and Other Papers," by Ralph Waldo Emer- 

 son (some of which have never before been printed), 

 came to us in three editions, with a general index to 

 Emerson's collected works. 



Education. From no source could we have " The 

 Theory of Education " better set forth than by Hon. 

 William T. Harris in a short paper forming No. 15 of 

 " Schoolroom Classics." " Education and Educators " 

 were exploited bv David Kay in "School Bulletin 

 Publications," and Malcolm Mac Vickardefined " Prin- 

 ciples of Education." " The Public-School System 

 of the United States," by J. M. Rice, M. D., deals with 

 the subject after careful and detailed observation, and 

 William S. Muproo made a study in the history 

 of American pedagogy under the title of " The Edu- 

 cational Labors of Henry Barnard." S. S. Laurie 

 wrote of " John Amos Comenius, Bishop of the Mo- 

 ravians, His Life and Educational Works " ; Isaac 

 Sharpless made a short study of " The Relation of 

 the State to Education in England and America," and 

 Charles W. Bennett wrote a " History of the Philoso- 

 phy of Pedagogics." The " History of Educational 

 Journalism in the State of New York " was the theme 

 of a paper read July 28, 1893, before the Department 

 of Educational Publications of the International Con- 

 gresses of Education of the World's Columbian Ex- 

 position, by C. W. Bardeen: "School Management" 

 was a practical treatise by Emerson Elbridge White ; 

 Montague R. Leverson, M. D., published ""Thoughts 

 on Institutions of the Higher Education " ; Charles 

 Franklin Thwing told of what goes on " Within Col- 

 lege Walls " ; and Lida Rose McCabe treated of " The 

 American Girl at College." " Benjamin Franklin arid 

 the University of Pennsylvania" consists of 27 papers 

 by as many eminent Philadelphians, edited by Francis 

 Newton Thorpe, and published by the United States 

 Bureau of Education. " Princeton Sketches," by 



George R. Wallace, and "Harvard Stories," by W. K. 

 Post, may be classed together. J. W. Stearns edited a 

 " Columbian History ol Education in Wisconsin," by 

 various authors, and Edward Smith wrote " A History 

 of the Schools of Syracuse." The record of " Twenty- 

 two Years' Work of the Hampton Normal and Agri- 

 cultural Institute " is an encouraging one. Kate 

 Douglas Wiggin edited " The Kindergarten " in the 

 " Distatf Series," and Emilie Poulsson wrote talks and 



grammar schools, and " Methods of teaching Modern 

 Languages " were discussed by A. Marshall Elliott, 

 Calvin Thomas, and others. Prof. Charles F. Kroeh 

 published " The Living Method for learning how to 

 think in German," with revised editions of his works 

 treating other foreign languages by a similar method, 

 and Oscar Weineck prepared "A Common-Sense 

 (iuide to English for Foreigners." The essentials for 

 true education are discussed by Abbot Kinney in 

 " Tasks by Twilight." " A Pathfinder in American 

 History " was devised for teachers by W. F. Cordy 

 and W. 1. Twitchell, while Eva Wilkins and Amos 

 M. Kellogg handled the same theme in " Descriptive 

 Geography taught by Means of Map Drawing " and 

 " Geography by Map Drawing." Paul H. Hanus 

 contributed an essay on " Geometry in the Grammar 

 School," and Paul Carus lectured on " The Philoso- 

 phy of the Tool," as did James MacAlister on " Art 

 Education in the Public Schools." "Figure Drawing 

 for Children" formed the theme of a volume by 

 Caroline Hunt Rimmer, while " Progressive Lessons 

 in the Art and Practice of Needlework for Use in 

 Schools " and " School Needlework " emanated from 

 Catherine F. Johnson and Olive C. Hapgood. Burke 

 A. Hinsdale published " How to Study and Teach 

 History, with particular reference to the history of 

 the United States." 



Fiction. -" The Prince of India : or, Why Constan- 

 tinople fell," in two volumes, by Gen. Lew Wallace, 

 was the leading novel of the year so far as popularity 

 is concerned, although several standard writers made 

 their accustomed contributions. F.Marion Crawford, 

 in " The Children of the King," told a tale of South- 

 ern Italy, while his " Pietro Ghisleri " makes us again 

 acquainted with many of the characters in his " Sara- 

 cinesca." " Marion Darche" is a story of New York 

 life of to-day. " The World of Chance," by William 

 Dean Howells, deals with the experiences of a young 

 author among publishers, and he also conducted a 

 heroine to " The Coast of Bohemia." " David Bal- 

 four," by Robert Louis Stevenson, was a sequel to 

 " Kidnaped," published in 1886, and from his fasci- 

 nating pen we have also " Island Nights' Enter- 

 tainments." Henry James sent out three volumes of 

 short stories. " Social Stragglers " were described by 

 Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen, from Arlo Bates we had 

 " In the Bundle of Time," and from Thomas Bailey 

 Aldrich " Two Bites of a Cherry, with Other Tales.!' 

 " Duffels " was the quaint title given by Edward Eg- 

 gleston to eleven short stories ; Mrs. Margaret Deland 

 introduced us to " Mr. Tommy Dove," with which 

 are included four other stories, and the latest heroine 

 of Ame'lie Rives (Mrs. John Armstrong Chanler) was 

 " Tanis, the Sang-Digger." Bret Harte makes " Susy," 

 whom we met in a former tale, the leading character 

 of a tale of the plains, while the scene of " Sally 

 Dows " (with which are three other stories) is laid in 

 Georgia during reconstruction times. Maurice Thomp- 

 son went to Louisiana in the days of 1812 for his out- 

 law, " The King of Honey Island," and Molly Elliot 

 Seawell gave us " Children of Destiny " in addition 

 to "Through Thick and Thin" and "The Mid- 

 shipman's Mess: A Soldier's Story and a Sailor's 

 Story," for boys. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (Mrs. 

 Herbert D. Ward) told of the awakening of " Donald 

 Marcy," and her husband published " A Republic 

 without a President, and Other Stories." Julien 

 Gordon (Mrs. Van Rensselaer Cruger) tells the 

 story of her lovers by means of " His Letters," and 



