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his Work " ; Louis Albert Banks, D. D., paid a me- 

 morial tribute to " Lucy Stone : A Heroine of the 

 Struggle for Human Eights " ; and Ossian H. Lang 

 published 3 small educational sketches of " Great 

 Teachers of Four Centuries," of " Horace Mann," and 

 " Kousseau and his l Emile.' " Two important con- 

 tributions to dramatic biography were the " Life and 

 Art of Joseph Jefferson," by William Winter, and 

 " Edwin Booth," recollections by his daughter, Ed- 

 wina Booth Grossman. An edition de luxe of this 

 last was also issued, which, as well as the regular 

 edition, was handsomely illustrated. To the "Li- 

 brary of Masks and Faces," W. T. Price contributed 

 "A Life of William Charles Macready " and "A Life 

 of Charlotte Cushman." A " Biography of Eminent 

 American Physicians and Surgeons" was prepared 

 by R. French Stone, M. D., and u The Life of Charles 

 Loring Brace, chiefly told in his Own Letters," was 

 edited bv his daughter, Emma Brace, covering nearly 

 the whole field of philanthropic work in the United 

 States for thirty-five years. Joseph May edited a 

 "Memoir and Letters" of Samuel Longfellow, the 

 brother of the poet, as also a volume of nis "Essays 

 and Sermons"; and "Essays and Addresses: Reli- 

 gious, Literary, and Social,"of the late Phillips Brooks, 

 were edited by Rev. John Cotton Brooks. To reli- 



B'ous biography belong a " Biography of the Rev. 

 aniel Parish Kidder, D. D., LL. D.," by his son-in- 

 law, G. E. Strobridge, D. D. : " The Modern Temple, 

 and Templar : A Sketch of the Life and Work of 

 Russell H. Conwell, Pastor of the Baptist Temple, 

 Philadelphia," by Robert J. Burdett ; " William B. 

 Hayden," a memorial volume of forty-two years' serv- 

 ice as minister of the New Jerusalem Church ; "A 

 Champion of the Cross : The Life of the Rev. John 

 Henry Hopkins," by Rev. C. F. Sweet: "Adoniram 

 Judson," by his son, Edward Judson, D. D., in the 

 series of " Notable Baptists " : " Memoirs of Isaac 

 Errett," in 2 volumes, by J. S. Lamar; "A Sketch of 

 the Life of Rev. Joseph Hardy Neesima," by J. D. 

 Davis, D. D. " Father Eels ; or, The Results of Fifty- 

 five Years or Missionary Labors in Washington and 

 Oregon," by Myron Eels ; and " The Story of Saint 

 Patrick," by Joseph Sanderson, D. D., a popular biog- 

 raphy, which claims the independence of the church 

 established by the saint and its freedom from many 

 of the doctrines of the Romish Church. " Samuel 

 Chapman Armstrong," the founder and for twenty- 

 five years the principal of Hampton Institute, was 

 commemorated by Robert C. Ogden. "A Summer 

 Revival and what brought it about" is an autobio- 

 graphical sketch by Stanton P. Allen, the author of 

 ' Down in Dixie," while " The Blue Ribbon," by 

 Arthur Reed Kimball, tells what Thomas Edward 

 Murphy has done for the promotion of personal tem- 

 perance. Two of the 4 volumes which are to con- 

 tain the " Writings of Thomas Paine," collected and 

 edited by Moncure D. Cpnway, were issued during 

 the year, the first covering the period 1774-'T9, and 

 the second that of 1779-"J2. Martha Walker Freer 

 devoted 2 volumes to " The Life of Marguerite of Na- 

 varre (Marguerite D'Angouleme), Duchesse d'Alen- 

 ^on and de Berry, Sister of Francis I of France, and 

 Author of the Heptameron," from numerous unpub- 

 lished sources. Gen. O. O. Howard published a life 

 of " Isabella of Castile " after a visit to the land of her 

 birth and reign, in which he secured entirely new 

 materials ; and Mrs. C. S. H. Clark traced the fortunes 

 of " The Children of Charles I of England." " Fa- 

 mous Leaders among Men," by Mrs. Sarah Knowles 

 Bolton ; " Beacon Lights of Patriotism," by Henry 

 Beebee Carringtori ; and the seventh volume of" Bea- 

 con Lights of History," the collected lectures of John 

 Lord, may be mentioned together as general in char- 

 acter, while a family interest attaches to the u Gene- 

 alogy of the Blackmans," and the "History of De- 

 scendants of Elisha Blackman," by Henry Blackman 

 Plumb, and to the "Descendants of Joseph Greene, 

 of Westerly, R. I.," by Frank L. Greene. 



Criticism 'and General Literature Perhaps one of the 

 most delightful books falling under this head is "A 



Shelf of Old Books," the property of the late pub- 

 lisher, James T. Fields, described by his widow with 

 all the associations pertaining to them as the property 

 of distinguished writers, somewhat akin to which is 

 Laurence Hutton's costly volume upon his collection 

 of " Portraits in Plaster." Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen 

 contributed "Literary and Social Silhouettes," as well 

 as " A Commentary on the Writings of Henri k 

 Ibsen," calm and dispassionate in tone. Hamilton 

 Wright Mabie discoursed on literary topics in a sec- 

 ond series of " My Study Fire." A third series " From 

 the Easy Chair "of George William Curtis was is- 

 sued in the series of " Harper's American Essayists," 

 and a collection was also made of his " Literary and 

 Social Essays." "Camp-fire Musings" of William 

 C. Gray, and " Wayside Sketches " of Eben J. Loomis, 

 as their titles indicate, are more or less discursive in 

 tone, as are the " Meditations in Motley " of Walter 

 Blackburne Harte. William Wetmore Story vouch- 

 safed later readings from " A Poet's Portfolio." In 

 " Crumbling Idols " Hamlin Garland gives us twelve 

 essays on art, dealing chiefly with literature, painting, 

 and the drama ; " The Great Refusal : Being Letters 

 of a Dreamer in Gotham," treats also of literature and 

 art, as well as the deeper problems of life. Several 

 volumes of clever essays came to us from the fairer 

 sex ; foremost among them is " A Little English Gal- 

 lery," by Louise Imogen Guiney, in the series of 

 " Harper's American Essayists," which drew forth 

 the highest praise, and Agnes Repplier charmed 

 again with her " In the Dozy Hours, and Other Pa- 

 pers." Various subjects were touched upon by E. V. 

 A. "In Maiden Meditation," and Lilian Whiting 

 presented an optimistic view of " The World Beauti- 

 ful." Emily Oliver Gibbes published a volume of" 

 " Essays." " Goethe reviewed after Sixty Years," 

 by Prof. J. R. Seeley, is an admirable little volume, 

 which sets the great man before us in brief but strik- 

 ing outline, and " Petrarch, and Other Essays " were 

 from the pen of Judge Timothy H. Rearden. Six 

 essays entitled " Studies in Mediaeval Life and Litera- 

 ture," by the late Prof. Edward Tompkins McLaugh- 

 lin, have an introduction by Prof. T. R. Lounsbury ; 

 and from lectures given at Harvard has grown " Wil- 

 liam Shakespeare : A Study in Elizabethan Litera- 

 ture," by Barrett Wendell. "English History in 

 Shakespeare's Plays '* was the subject of lectures by 

 Beverley E. Warner, given at Tulane University, 

 Louisiana. Vols. II and III of "Sir Francis Bacon's 

 Cipher Story," claimed by Orville W. Owen, M. D.,to 

 have been discovered and deciphered by him. " The 

 Inflections and Syntax of the Morte D'Arthur of Sir 

 Thomas Malory," purported to be a study in fifteenth 

 century literature by Charles Sears Baldwin; and 

 Prof. George P. Baker edited, with notes, bibliography, 

 arid a bibliographical introduction, the " Endymion, 

 the Man in the Moon " of John Lyly, to be used by 

 classes in Elizabethan drama. Albert S. Cook pre- 

 pared " A First Book in Old English " ; Prof. Oliver 

 Farrar Emerson traced " The History of the English 

 Language"; while Prof. F. V. N. Painter and H. S. 

 Pancoast were each the author of an " Introduction 

 to English Literature " ; William E. Simonds, of " An 

 Introduction to the Study of English Fiction. 11 

 " From Chaucer to Tennyson," by Henry A. Beers, 

 formed one of the volumes of the " Chautauqua Read- 



to Tennyson." 

 a new enlarged and illustrated edition of "The 

 of Fable," by Thomas Bulfinch, to which nearly 100 

 pages were added, and the scope of the work increased 

 by the connection of sculpture and painting as well 

 as literature with the subject. " Character Sketches 

 of Romance, Fiction, and the Drama" is a revisc'l 

 edition of Rev. E. Cobham Brewer's "Readers' Hand- 

 book," edited by Marion Harland. " Childhood in 

 Literature and Art " was reviewed by Horace E 

 Scudder, and accompanied by some observations on 

 literature for children. "Riverby" is the latest 

 collection of John Burroughs's out-of-door papers. 



