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LITERATURE, AMERICAN, IN 1893. 



and " A Curious Aino Toy" was the subject of a bul- 

 letin of the Essex Institute by E. S. Morse. Part 1 of 

 the " Eleventh Annual Keport of the United States 

 Geological Survey " (1889-'90) was given to geology 

 and Part II to irrigation ; L. S. Foster compiled No. 4 of 



yoted to 

 vrence, 

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National Museum, and the Smithsonian Institution 

 published " A Select Bibliography of Chemistry, 

 1492-1892," by Henry Carrington Bolton ; " The 

 Mechanics of 'the Earth's Atmosphere," a collection 

 of translations compiled by Prof. Cleveland Abbe ; and 

 Albert A. Michelson's work " On the Application of 

 Interference Methods to Spectroscopic Measurements." 

 Volumes of applied science were " Continuous-Cur- 

 rent Dynamos and Motors," by Frank P. Cox, an 

 elementary treatise for students ; " How to manage 

 the Dynamo," byS. R. Bottone ; "Electric Lighting 

 for Marine Engineers," by Sydney F. Walker; Vol. 

 I of " Theoretical Elements of Electro-Dynamic 

 Machinery," by A. E. Kennelly : an " Arithmetic of 

 Magnetism and Electricity," by John T. Morrow and 

 Thorburn Reid ; " Comparisons between the different 

 Systems of Distributing Electricity," by Henry Rob- 

 inson ; and " High School Laboratory Manual of 

 Physics," by Dudley G. Hays, Charles D. Lowry, and 

 Austin C. Rishel. Two papers by James Swinburne 

 and C. H. Wordingham upon u The Measurement of 

 Electric Currents" and "Electrical Measuring Instru- 

 ments and Meters for Electrical Energy " appeared in 

 one volume. Daniel Carhart prepared " A Field Book 

 for Civil Engineers"; Sidney H. Wells, a practical 

 manual of " Engineering, Drawing, and Design," in 

 two volumes ; " Arthur Latham Bakerset forth " The 

 Elements of Solid Geometry"; Silas W. Holinan 

 proffered a " Discussion of the Precision of Measure- 

 ments" ; and Augustus Knudsen wrote on " Triangu- 

 lar Surveys from Single Stations." An " Index to 

 'The Popular Science Monthly 'from 1872-'92"was 

 compiled by F. A. Fernald, the value of which can 

 readily be appreciated. 



For juvenile readers we have "Talks by Queer 

 Folks: More Land and Water Friends," by Mary E. 

 Bamford, and Vols. II and III of "Leaves from Na- 

 ture's Story-Book," by Mrs. M. A. B. Kelly. 



To intellectual science belong " Genetic Philos- 

 ophy," by David Jayne Hill ; " The Interpretation 

 of Nature," by Prof. N. S. Shaler; "An Historical 

 Interpretation of Philosophy," by John Bascom ; 

 " Elements of Psychology," by James Mark Baldwin, 

 a simplification of the author's larger " Handbook of 

 Psychology": "The Ethics of Hegel," translated in 

 the " Ethical Series," with an introduction by J. Mac- 

 bride Sterrett ; " First Steps in Philosophy," by 

 William Mackintire Salter; a "Primer of Philos- 

 ophy," by Paul Cams ; " The Philosophy of Individ- 

 uality," by Antoinette Brown Blackwell; and "Ele- 

 ments of Deductive Logic," by Noah K. Davis. 

 Thomson Jay Hudson endeavored to find " The Law 

 of Psychic Phenomena," and James B. Alexander to 

 explain " The Dynamic Theory of Life and Mind." 

 Henry Wood, the author of "Natural Law in the 

 Business World," offered in " Ideal Suggestion 

 through Mental Photography " a restorative system 

 for home and private use. 



History. No important contributions to history 

 were made during the year. " The French War and 

 the Revolution," by Prof. William Milligan Sloane, 

 appeared in the " American History Series," and the 

 " Causes of the American Revolutidn " were set forth 

 by James A. Woodburn in the "John Hopkins Uni- 

 versity Studies." A special edition was reprinted of 

 James Madison's " Journal of the Federal Conven- 

 tion," published under the direction of the United 

 States Government in 1840, and a new popular edi- 

 tion was issued of " A Half Century of Conflict," by 

 Francis Parkman, in two volumes. ' " Massachusetts : 

 Its Historians and its History " was the theme of 

 Charles Francis Adams, as was " The Making of Vir- 

 ginia and the Middle Colonies, 1578-1701," that of 



Samuel Adams Drake, while a cheaper edition was 

 also issued of the latter's " The Making of the Great 

 West." Theodore C. Gambrall, D.D., published 

 " Studies in the Civil, Social, and Ecclesiastical His- 

 tory of Early Maryland " ; Bernard C. Steincr, a 

 "History of Slavery in Connecticut"; and Laura 

 Bride Powers, " The Story of the Old Missions of 

 California." " Division and Reunion, 1829-'89," by 

 Woodrow Wilson, belonged to "Epochs of American 

 History," and " Nullification, Secession," by Caleb W. 

 Loring, was an argument for our Government as an 

 indissoluble nation. " From Chattanooga to Peters- 

 burg under Generals Grant and Butler" was at 

 once a contribution to the history or the war and a 

 personal vindication by Gen. William Farrar Smith; 

 Rev. David Bit-tie Floyd wrote a " History of the 

 Seventy-fifth Regiment of Indiana Infantry Volun- 

 teers " ; William Forse Scott, " The Story of a Cav- 

 alry Regiment," that of the Fourth Iowa Veteran 

 Volunteers; and N. D. Preston, a "History of the 

 Tenth Regiment New York Volunteer Cavalry." 

 J. C. Bancroft Davis supplied a chapter in diplomatic 

 history in " Mr. Fish and the Alabama Claims." 

 " The Gilded Man (El Dorado), and other Pictures of 

 the Spanish Occupancy of America" were drawn by 

 A. F. Bandolier, and from Joseph Wallace we have a 

 ''History of Illinois and Louisiana under the French 

 Rule." " Illinois, Historical and Statistical," by John 

 Moses, filled two volumes. A new and revised edi- 

 tion of " The Discovery of the Yosemite and the In- 

 dian War of 1851," by L. II. Bunnell, was issued, and 

 " The Settlement of the Jews in North America," by 

 Charles P. Daly, which had been twenty years out 

 of print, was edited with notes and appendices by 

 Max J. Kohler. " English History for American 

 Readers " was the joint work of Thomas Wentworth 

 Higginson and Edward Channing, and Mary Abigail 

 Dodge (Gail Hamilton) supplied "English Kings in 

 a Nutshell," as an aid to memory in a different form 

 from that in which it first appeared in 1885. John 

 Codman Ropes selected " The Campaign of Water- 

 lop" for a military history, which he supplemented 

 with an atlas of the same. " The Dawn of Italian 

 Independence," in two volumes, by William Roscoe 

 Thayer, traced the story of Italy from the Congress 

 of Vienna, 1814, to the fall of Venice, 1849, and 

 " Florentine Life during the Renaissance " was the 

 theme of Walter B. Scaife in " Johns Hopkins Univer- 

 sity Studies." Two volumes also contained " The In- 

 fluence of Sea Power upon the French Revolution and 

 Empire, 1793-1812," by Capt. A. T. Mahan, U. S. N.. 

 which creditably succeeded his former work, and 

 Mrs. Laura E. Richards gave us " Glimpses of the 

 French Court." A limited edition of " Old Court 

 Life in France," by Frances Elliott, first published in 

 this country twenty years ago, was issued, and John 

 Bonner wrote " A Child's History of France." " The 

 Evolution of an Empire," by Mrs. Mary Parmele, was 

 a brief historical sketch of Germany; Sidney Whit- 

 man described "The Realm of the Habsburgs"; 

 while " Russia and Turkey in the Nineteenth Cen- 

 tury " were the theme of Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer. 

 Horatio F. Brown gave an historical sketch of the 

 republic of " Venice," and " The Story of Poland," 

 in " The Story of the Nations " series, was by Prof. 

 W. R. Morfill. J. B. Bury wrote the " History of the 

 Roman Empire from the Foundation to the Death of 

 Marcus Aurelius " for " Harper's Students' Series." 

 Vols. Ill and IV completed " The Memorial History 

 of the City of New York," edited by James Grant 

 Wilson, and William Loring Andrews compiled a 

 limited edition of "The Bradford Map "of the city, 

 published in 1731.. A " Centennial History of the 

 City of Washington, D. C.," was written, and Erastus 

 Thatcher compiled a book upon " The Founding of 

 Washington City." G. H. McMasters published a 

 " History of the Settlement of Steuben County," and 

 Don Gleason Hill, the town clerk, edited " The Early 

 Records of the Town of Dedham, Mass., 1636-1659." 

 " Ontario's Parliament Buildings," by Frank Yeigh, 

 chronicled a century of legislation from 1792. 



