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LITERATURE, AMERICAN, IN 1893. 



follow the Colorado Procedure." by John C. Fitnan ; 

 " The Law of Assignment for the Benefit of Creditors 

 in the State of Illinois," by Sydney K. Taber ; " The 

 Powers, Duties, and Liabilities of Clowns and Town 

 Officers in Massachusetts," by William M. Seavey ; 



and "The Statutes of 1893" for Oklahoma. "A 

 Treatise on the Law of Water Rights" as formulated 

 and applied in the Pacific States, was a revised and 

 enlarged edition of " Pomeroy on Riparian Eights," 

 and a third edition also appeared of " .Remedies and 

 Eemedial Rights by Civil Action," by the same au- 

 thor (John Norton Pomeroy). 



Medicine and Surgery Under the first head we have 

 " Principles and Practice of Medicine,''' by Henry M. 

 Lyman, M. D. ; a " Handbook of Local Therapeutics," 

 edited by Harrison Allen, M. D., who collaborated 

 also with Richard H. Harte, Arthur Van Harlingen, 

 M. D., and G. C. Harlan in its composition. The lirst 

 of two volumes on the " Theory and Practice according 

 to American Teachers," edited by William Pepper, 

 M. D., appeared, as did a " Manual of the Practice of 

 Medicine," designed especially for students ; by A. A. 

 Stevens, M. D. ; " Essentials of Homoeopathic Materia 

 Medica," compiled by W. A. Dewey, M. D., was a 

 quiz coinpend arranged for students, and to the same 

 school belongs " Verdi's Special Diagnosis and Ho- 

 moeopathic Treatment of Disease, for Popular Use." R. 

 S. Aitchison issued " A Medical Handbook for the 

 Use of Practitioners and Students " ; George D. Black 

 edited " The Doctor at Home and Nurse's Guide- 

 Book " ; Orestes M. Brands and Henry C. Van Gieson 

 prepared " An Academic Physiology and Hygiene " ; 

 Emmet Densmore, M. D., explained "How Nature 

 cures " ; and Frederick A. A. Smith, M. D., advised 

 " Keep your Mouth shut," to which popular treatise 

 on mouth-breathing was added an appendix on oph- 

 thalmia in newborn children by Dr. bmith and Dr. 

 Swan M. Burnett. " A Compendium of Materia 

 Medica. Therapeutics, and Repertory of the Digestive 

 System " was by Arkell Roger McMichael, M. D. ; 

 \V. W. Van Valzan gave his attention to " The Chron- 

 ic Disorders of the Digestive Tube"; as W. F. Mc- 

 Nutt, M. D., did to " Diseases of the Kidneys and 

 Bladder " ; and G. Frank Lydston, M. D., to " Stric- 

 ture of the Urethra" and " Varicocele and its Treat- 

 ment." A second edition was made of "A Clinical 

 Study of Diseases of the Kidneys," by Clifford Mitch- 

 ell, M. D. ; Charles H. Burnett, M. D., edited ' Di- 

 agnosis and Treatment of Diseases of the Ear, Nose, 

 and Throat," by eminent American, British, Cana- 

 dian, and Spanish authors, in two volumes ; " Diseases 

 of the Eye, Ear, Throat, and Nose " was a manual for 

 students and practitioners prepared by Frank E. Mil- 

 ler, M. D., James P. McEvoy, M. D., and John E. 

 Weeks, M. D. Horace F. Ivins, M. D., published a 

 " Text-Book on Diseases of the Nose and Throat," 

 and Howard F. Hansel], M. D.. and James II. Bell, 

 M. D.,"A Manual of Clinical Ophthalmology." Ward 

 A. Holden illustrated " An Outline of the Embry- 

 ology of the Eye " from original pen drawings. George 

 T. Jackson, M. D., issued a " Handbook of Diseases of 

 the Skin " ; W. A. Hardaway, a " Manual of Skin Dis- 

 eases " ; and H. R. Crocker, M. D., " Diseases of the 

 Skin," with special reference to the skin eruptions of 

 children. The results of the latest investigation were 

 summed up in " Modern Gynaecology," by Charles H. 

 Bushong, M. D. ; Thomas More Madden made a spe- 

 cialty of " Clinical Gynaecology," and J. Bland Sutton 

 of " Surgical Diseases of the Ovaries and Fallopian 

 Tubes." " Electricity : Diseases of Women, and Ob- 

 stetrics," by Franklin H. Martin, M. D., deals with 

 the practical application of electricity in cases of the 

 kind ; and G. W. Bratenahl, M. D., and Sinclair Tou- 

 sey, M. D., collaborated on " Gynaecology " for the 

 Students' Quiz Series." P. A. Morrow, M. D., edited 

 " A System of Genito- Urinary Diseases " ; " Fermen- 

 tation, Infection, and Immunity " was a new theory 

 advanced by J. W. McLaughlin, M. D.; Walter V ought, 



M. D., offered " A Chapter on Cholera for Lay Read- 

 ers " ; and two volumes in the " Students' Quiz Series," 

 were " Histology, Pathology, and Bacteriology " by 

 Bennett S. Beach, M. D., and a manual of the " Prac- 

 tice of Medicine, including Nervous Diseases," by 

 Edwin T. Doubleday, M. D., and J. D. Nagle, M. D. 

 Henry Putnam Stearns, M. D., published " Lectures on 

 Mental Diseases," and Laudon C. Gray a " Practical 

 Treatise on Nervous and Mental Diseases." Theodore 

 M. Kirchoif, M. D., prepared a " Handbook of Insan- 

 ity." " The Disease of Ineb.riety " was arranged 

 and compiled by the American association for the 

 study and cure of the same. Dr. S. A. K. Strahan's 

 " Suicide and Insanity " was a physiological and soci- 

 ological study. The principles and practice of " Nurs- 

 ing " were set forth by Isabel Adams Hampton ; and 

 Martin W. Curran gave " Information for Nurses in 

 Home and Hospital." " Medical Microscopy " was 

 the theme of Frank J. Wethered, M. D., and u An- 

 aesthetics and their Administration " of Frederick 

 Hewitt, M. D. J. S. Cassidy, M. D.,was an authority 

 as regarded " Elements ot Chemistry and Dental 

 Materia Medica." N. Senn, M. D., published a " Syl- 

 labus of Lectures on the Practice of Surgery arranged 

 in Conformity with the American Text-Book of Sur- ' 

 gery " ; F. J. Brookway, M. D., and A.O'Malley, M. D., 



S'oduced a manual of "Anatomy": and Irving S. 

 aynes, M. D., a " Practical Guide for Beginners to 

 the* Dissection of the Human Body." " Brain Sur- 

 gery " was by M. Allen Starr, M. D. ; the " Student's 

 Handbook of Surgical Operations " and a " Manual 

 of Operative Surgery," in two volumes, by Frederick 

 Treves ; and A. Liautard sent out a" Manuel of Opera- 

 tive Veterinary Surgery." "Human Monstrosities," 

 in four parts received the attention of Barton C. Hirst, 

 M. D., and George A. Piersol, M. D. Vol. XIV of 

 the " Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon- 

 General's Office " was issued by the War Department 

 at Washington, D. C. ; Alexander Duane, M. D., pub- 

 lished " The Student's Dictionary of Medicine and 

 the Allied Sciences " ; and the third of four volumes 

 of an " Illustrated Encyclopaedic Medical Dictionary," 

 by Frank P. Foster, M. D., appeared. u An Account 

 of Bellevue Hospital " was edited by Robert J. Car- 

 lyle, M. D., with a catalogue of the medical and sur- 



Murphy issued Vol. I of a " Treatise on Hygiene and 

 Public Health " ; and A. R. Home, D. D., made " Com- 

 mon-Sense Health Notes." F. L. Dibble dealt with 

 " Vagaries of Sanitary Science." 



Poetry t No volume of striking merit appeared dur- 

 ing the year, but many collections of pleasing verse. 

 Richard Watson Gilder published "The Great Re- 

 membrance" and 40 other poems. Verses of Ed- 

 ward Everett Hale, written on occasion, " For Fifty 

 Years," were collected, as were " Phillips Brooks's 

 Poems," and poems of Thomas Wentworth Higgin- 

 son and Mary Thacher Higginson, entitled "Such as 

 they are." Eugene Field gave us a " Second Book 

 of Verse," and from James Whitcomb Riley we had 

 100 short poems on "Green Fields and Running 

 Brooks." " On the Road Home" was the name given 

 by Mrs. Margaret E. Sangster to a number of her 

 poems; three by Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney were en- 

 titled "White Memories"; Mrs. Julia C. R. Dorr's 

 "Periwinkle" was illustrated in charcoal _ by her 

 daughter, Zulma De Lacy Steele, and Louise Imo- 

 gen Guiney touched tunefully "A Roadside Harp." 

 " Where Brooks go 'softly" was the chosen haunt of 

 Charles Eugene Banks, and Madison J. Cawein wrote 

 " Poems of Nature and Love" and " Red Leaves and 

 Roses." Richard Hovey composed an elegy, " Sea- 

 ward," on the death of Thomas William Parsons, 

 whose " Poems " were collected into a volume during 

 the year, and whose translation of " The Divine Com- 

 edy of Dante Alighieri " had a preface by Charles 

 Eliot Norton, and a memorial sketch by Louise Imo- 

 gen Guiney. Charles H. Crandall published " Way- 

 side Music : Lyrics, Songs, and Sonnets " ; Kate Ra- 



