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LITERATURE, AMERICAN, IN 1893. 



Crim ; " A Modern Agrippa " (with Patience Barker : 

 A Tale of Old Nantucket), by Caroline Earle White ; 

 " A Washington Symphony," by Mrs. W. Lament 

 Wheeler ; " Fencing with Shadows," by Mrs. Hattie 

 Tyng Griswold ; ' Third Hand high," by W. N. Mur- 

 dock; "The Kose of Love," by Angelina Teal; 

 " Ashes of Eoses," by Louise Knight Wheatley ; 

 " Eachel Stauwood," by Lucy Gibbons Morse ; " A 

 Question ot Honor," by Lynde Palmer ; " Margaret 

 Davis, Tutor," by Anna Chapin Eay ; " That Mary 

 Ann," by Kate Upson Clark ; " A Marriage of Rea- 

 son," by Maurice F. Egan ; " A Daughter of This 

 World," by Fletcher Battershall ; "Life's Battle 

 Won," by Julia A. W. DeWitt; "Brothers and 

 Strangers," by Agnes Blake Poor; "Bertha's Sum- 

 mer Boarders"," by Linnie S. Harris ; " None Other 

 Name ; or, The Blacksmith of Minnaberg," a story of 

 the Eeformation, by Sarah J. Jones ; u The Twentieth 

 Door," by Eev. Charles M. Sheldon ; " Only Judith." 

 by Lydia L. Eouse ; " Tom Sylvester," by T. E. Sul- 

 livan ; "A Lover's Eeward," by Jacques Edouard ; 

 " Mrs. Clift-Crosby's Niece," by Ella Childs Hurlbut; 

 and " The Dugdale Millions," by W. C. Hudson 

 (" Barclay North "). Kate Douglas Wiggin described 

 "A Cath'edral Courtship" (with which is included 

 " Penelope's English Experiences ") abroad ; Alice E. 

 Lord found romance abundant in " The Days of Lamb 

 and Coleridge," and Augustus Filon painted for us 

 " Garrick's Pupil." " In the Dwellings of Silence " 

 was a romance of Eussia, by Walker Kennedy ; " The 

 Siberian Exiles" we owe to Thomas W. Knox, who 

 published also "The Talking Handkerchief, and 

 Other Stories " ; while C. E. D. Phelpd and Leigh 

 North collaborated upon " The Bailiff of Tewkes- 

 bury." "An Odd Situation," by Stanley Waterloo, 

 makes a plea for free trade with Canada and annexa- 

 tion, while " Washington Brown, Farmer," by Le Eoy 

 Armstrong, deals with the financial difficulties of Kan- 

 sas. Mary E. Stone directed " A Eiddle of Luck " 

 against too prolific authorship, and Mary A. Denison 

 narrated " The Eornance of a Schoolboy." " John 

 Paget," by Sarah Barnwell Elliott, tells the story of 

 twin brothers, and arraigns fashionable churches and 

 devotion to creeds, while " Hiram Golfs Eeligion " 

 was tenderly set lorth by an anonymous hand. Stories 

 more or less religious in tone were : " In the Pine 

 Woods," by Eev. T. L. Baily : " The New Minister," 

 by Paul Kenneth " A Hillside Parish," by S. Bay- 

 ard Dod ; " Ho\v I became a Preacher," a sequel to 

 " How I became a Sailor," by Omer T. Gillett, M. D. ; 

 " Tending Upward," by Mary B. Willey ; " Endeavor 

 Doin's Down to the Corners," by Eev. J. F. Cowan ; 

 "The Endeavorers of Maple Grove," by Hattie S. 

 Gardner ; " Annie Cooper's Friends " (who belonged 

 to the Epworth League), by Mrs. C. B. Howard ; and 

 " Silver Bowls," a story for the King's Daughters, by 

 Minnie E. Kenney. " Joy, the Deaconess," by Eliza- 

 beth E. Holding ; " Camerton Slope," by Eev. E. F. 

 Bis-hop; "Pattys Granduncle," by Mrs. Helen Pear- 

 son Barnard ; " Sweet Millie," by Ernest Gilmore ; 

 "Consecrated Anew," by Belle V. Chisholm; and 

 " Light on a Dark Path," by Alida W. Graves. " Jo- 

 siah Allen's Wife" (Marietta Holley) gave us "Sa- 

 mantha at the World's Fair." " The Doomswoman," 

 by Gertrude Franklin Atherton ; " Gold," by Laura 

 Daintrey ; " Dr. Perdue," by Stinson Jarvis : " One 

 of Earth's Daughters," by Ellen Eoberts, " Was it 

 Suicide ? " by Ella Wheeler Wilcox ; and " A Conflict 

 of Evidence," by Bodrigues Ottolengui, are specimens 

 of a numerous class, to which belong " Two Soldiers 

 and a Politician," by Clinton Boss ; " The Masked 

 Venus," by Eichard II. Savage ; " Broken Chords 

 crossed by the Echo of a False Note," by Mrs. G. 

 McClellan; "Both were mistaken," by Arline Dare; 

 " The Shadow of Desire," by Irene Osgood ; and " The 

 Third Man," by J. G. Bethune. " The Fallen Eace," 

 by Austyn Granville, recalls the author of "She"; 

 while " Zenia, the Vestal," by Mrs. Margaret B. 



Peeke, "Life," by William W. Wheeler, "The 

 Dream Child," by Florence Huntley, and " Arsareth : 

 A Tale of the Luray Caverns," by B. C. Warren, deal 

 with theosophy, hypnotism, and spiritualism. 



Volumes of short stories not included above are : 

 " The Story of a Story, and Other Stories," by J. 

 Brander Matthews; "Nowadays, and Other Stories," 

 by George A. Hibbard ; " In the Three Zones," by F. 

 J. Stimson (" J. S. of Dale ") ; a second series of " Day 

 and Night Stories," by T. E. Sullivan ; " The Woman 

 who failed, and Others," by Bessie Chandler; "The 

 First Supper, and Other Episodes," by Jonathan 

 Sturges ; "Balcony Stories," by Grace King ; " Mon- 

 sieur Nasson and Others," by Grace Howard Pierce; 



A Daughter of This " A Catastrophe in Bohemia," by Henry S. Brooks ; 

 " A Daring Experiment, and Other Stones," by Mrs. 

 Lillie Devereux Blake ; " My Three-Legged Story 

 Teller," by Adelaide Skeel ; " Made in France : French 

 Tales retold with a United States Twist," by II. C. 

 Bunner; "Three Greek Tales," by Walter Phelps 

 Dodge ; four volumes of " Historical Tales," Ameri- 

 can, English, French, and German, by Charles Mor- 

 ris ; " Stories from the Eabbis," by Abram S. Isaacs ; 

 the " Chinese Nights' Entertainment," by Adele M. 

 Fields ; " Voodoo Tales," compiled by Mary Alicia 

 Owen ; " My Dark Companions and their Strange 

 Stories," by Henry M. Stanley ; " Blackfoot Lodge 

 Tales," containing the story of" a prairie people, by 

 George Bird Grinnell ; and the " Stories from Scrib- 

 ner's" series, six volumes, entitled respectively 

 " Stories of Italy," " Stories of the South," " Stories 

 of New York," " Stories of the Eailway," " Stories of 

 the Sea," and " Stories of the Army." 



Juvenilei Of prime interest to the readers for whom 

 they are destined will be the *' Comic Tragedies writ- 

 ten by Jo and Meg and acted by the ' Little Wom- 

 en'" of Louisa M. Alcott, now published by her 

 sister Anne, the joint author. Kate Douglas Wiggin 

 contributed " Polly Oliver's Problem," and a new 

 writer for young folks made his appearance in Dr. S. 

 Weir Mitchell, who gave "Mr. Kris Kringle: A 

 Christmas Tale." Mrs. H. M. Lothrop (Margaret 

 Sidney) published "Little Paul and the Frisbie 

 School"; J. T. Trowbridge, " Woodie Thorpe's Pil- 

 grimage, and Other Stories"; Kirk Munroe, "The 

 Coral Ship," " Eaftmates," and "The White Con- 

 querors," the last a tale of Toltec and Aztec ; W. T. 

 Adams (Oliver Optic), " A Victorious Union," " The 

 Young Navigators," and "American Boys afloat''; 

 W. O. Stoddard, " The White Cave," "Tom and the 

 Money King," and "On the Old Frontier"; A. G. 

 Plympton, the author of "Dear Daughter Dorothy," 

 " Eobin's Eecruit"; Harry Castlernon (C. A. Fos- 

 dick), "The Camp in the Foothills," " Eodney, the 

 Overseer," and " Two Ways of becoming a Hunter"; 

 E. S. Ellis, " The Campers Out" and "Across Tex- 

 as" ; while John Kendrick Bangs spent " Half Hours 

 with Jiinmieboy." Charles E. Brirnblecom nar- 

 rated the adventures of" An Archer with Columbus," 

 and " The Boys of Greenway Court," by Hezekiah 

 Butterworth, was a tale of the early days of Wash- 

 ington. Horatio Alger, Jr., wrote two books, " Fac- 

 ing the World "and"In a New World; or, Among 

 the Gold Fields of Australia," while Mrs. I. M. Alden 

 (Pansy) had no less than three, " Worth Having," 

 "Stephen Mitchell's Journey," and "Twenty Min- 

 utes late," in addition to " The Pansy " for 1893, 

 which she edited with George E. Alden. Mrs. Eliza- 

 beth W. Champney told of "Six Boys" and " Witch 

 Winnie in Paris." " Archie of Athabasca," by J. 

 Macdonald Oxley, and " Lost in the Wilds of Cana- 

 da," by Eleanor Stredder, belong across the border, 

 while " Through Apache Land," by E. H. Jayne, ap- 

 peared fitly in the " Warwhoop Series." " The Mill 

 at Sandy Creek" was by the Rev. E. A. Band; "The 

 Barberry Bush " and eight other stories by Sarah C. 

 Woolsey (Susan Coolidge), " John Boyd's Adven- 

 tures," by Thomas W. Knox, and " Josiah in New 

 York ; or, A Coupon from the Fresh- Air Fund " and 

 " Jenny Wren's Boarding House," by James Otis 

 Kaler. " Inglesidc," by Barbara Yechton, was illus- 



