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LITERATURE, AMERICAN, IN 1894. 



Training of Children," collected into a volume with an 

 appendix upon " The Home School," by Kev. I. L. 

 Bookwalter, which belong to educational literature in 

 its higher sense. Charles Franklin Thwing published 

 a companion volume to " Within College Walls," de- 

 scribing u The College Woman " ; Thomas Davidson 

 wrote upon u TheEducation of the Greek People and its 

 Influence on Civilization," in the " International Edu- 

 cation Series," other volumes of which were " How 

 to Study and Teach History," by Dr. B. A. Hinsdale, 

 and Edward Gardnier Howe's " Systematic Science 

 Teaching," a manual of inductive elementary work 

 for all instructors. " Methods of Education in the 

 United States " were investigated by Alice Zimmern. 

 Francis W. Parker, in " Talks in Pedagogics," gave 

 an outline of the theory of concentration ; Sarali L. 

 Arnold's " Waymarks for Teachers " showed aims, 

 principles, and plans of every-day teaching, with illus- 

 trative lessons. Amy Blanche Bramwell and H. Mil- 

 licent Hughes wrote on u The Training of Teachers in 

 the United States of America"; S. B. Sinclair, on 

 " First Years at School," a manual of principles and 

 methods for primary teachers ; while u The Teacher's 

 Mentor," by Henry B.Buckingham, Rev. F. D. Hunt- 

 ington, and Joshua G. Fitch, formed No. 9 of the 

 "Standard Teacher's Library " ; and C. W. Bardeen pre- 

 pared a " Handbook for School Trustees of the State 

 of New York." " King's Normal Series," by W. J. 

 King, consists of 9 small handbooks on as many 

 subjects, published singly or in 1 volume. " Object 

 Teaching," by T. G. Roper, " Outlines of Herbart's 

 Pedagogics," by Ossian H. Lang, and "Industrial 

 Training in Reformatory Institutions," by Franklin H. 

 Briggs, are brief but to the point. " Elementary Com- 

 position and Rhetoric," by William E. Mead, " School 

 English," by George P. Butler, a " First Book in 

 English," by William H. Maxwell, and an " English 

 Grammar for Common Schools," by Robert C. and 

 Thomas Metcalf, meet special wants. John Kennedy 

 asks, " Must Greek go ? " Frances E. Lord explains 

 the use of " The Roman Pronunciation of Latin," and 

 Edwin Post offers suggestions for " Latin at Sight." 

 Prof. Charles F. Kroeh set forth " The Living Method 

 of Learning how to think in Spanish." A new edi- 

 tion was issued of " The Theory and Practice of 

 Handwriting," by John Jackson ; Dr. Javal published 

 an " Essay on the Physiology of Writing " ; " The 

 Writer," by George L. Raymond and George P. 

 Wheeler, is intended as one of a series of handbooks 

 upon practical expression ; E. S. Ellis dwelt upon 

 " Common Errors in Writing and Speaking," and 

 told how to avoid them; John N. Tilden, M. D., 

 prepared " A Grammar School Geography : Descrip- 

 tive, Industrial, and Commercial " : Felix Klein's 

 lectures on mathematics, delivered before members of 

 the Congress of Mathematics held in Chicago, at 

 Northwestern University, Evanston, 111., were pub- 

 lished under the title of" The Evanston Colloquium " ; 

 John H. Walsh completed his " Mathematics for Com- 

 mon Schools " with Part III ; and a revised edition 

 appeared of" The Elements of Geometry," by Web- 

 ster Wells. "Symbolic Education," by Susan E. 

 Blow, in the " International Education Series," is a 

 commentary on Froebel's " Mother Play," and among 

 useful little treatises on the subject may be mentioned 

 " Paper and Scissors in the Schoolroom," by Emily 

 A. Weaver ; " Color in the Kindergarten," by Milton 

 Bradley ; " The Principles of the Kindergarten the 

 Foundation for Art Education in the Public Schools," 

 by Mary Dana Hicks; and "Art in the Schoolroom," 

 by Ross Turner, Edward B. Morse, John Tetlow, and 

 others. Henry T. Bailey arranged " A First Book in 

 Drawing." " Our Wonderful Bodies and how to take 

 care of them " was the title of two books for primary 

 and intermediate and grammar grades, by Joseph C. 

 Hutchison, M. D. ; John B. Giffprd supplied " Elemen- 

 tary Lessons in Physics " ; Louise Preece prepared ex- 

 pressly for public-school work "A System of Phys- 

 cal Culture " ; and Baron Nils Posse entitled a th'ird 

 edition of his work on " The Swedish System of Edu- 

 cational Gymnastics " " The Special Kinesiology of 



Educational Gymnastics," accompanying it with illus- 

 trations and an analytical chart. A " General Cata- 

 logue of Bowdoin College and the Medical School of 

 Maine, 1794-1894," by George T. Little, includes an 

 historical sketch of the institution during its first cen- 

 tury ; and from the United States Bureau of Educa- 

 tion we had a " History of Education in Connecticut," 

 by Bernard C. Steiner, and a similar volume for Dela- 

 ware, by Lyman P. Powell, while " Higher Education 

 in Iowa " was reviewed by Leonard F. Parker, and 

 that of Tennessee by Lucius S. Merriam. 



Fiction. As has been said, more manuscripts of 

 American authors of fiction were accepted by pub- 

 lishers in 1894 than ever before, and though the 

 greatest sensations of the year were created by Eng- 

 lish writers, the standard of the American novel was 

 maintained at a high average. F. Marion Crawford 

 gave 2 volumes to the fortunes of " Katharine Lauder- 

 dale," proposing to pursue the same hereafter in a 

 series, like that he devoted to the Saracinesca family. 

 He also abandoned sunnier snores for " Love in Idle- 

 ness, a Tale of Bar Harbor," which was illustrated 

 with reproductions from drawings and photographs ; 

 and 2 of his short stories, " The Upper Berth " and 

 "By the Waters of Paradise," in 1 volume, initiated 

 the series known as the " Autonym Library." Hard- 

 ly a novel, and yet belonging altogether to the 

 world of romance, is William Dean Howells's "A 

 Traveler from Altruria," while a melancholy interest 

 attaches to " The Ebb Tide" and " Will o'the Mill," 

 the last work of Robert Louis Stevenson, with whom 

 Lloyd Osborne collaborated in writing the first. 

 Other posthumous volumes which increased regret 

 for the early death of their authors were " Benefits 

 Forgot," by Wolcott Balestier, and " Horace Chase," 

 by Constance Fenimore Woolson. Mrs. Margaret 

 Deland's "Philip and his Wife" received recogni- 

 tion abroad as well as at home, and Ellen Olney 

 Kirk (Henry Hayes) told "The Story of Lawrence 

 Garth e " with the purpose of deciding the vexed ques- 

 tion of remarriage after divorce. " The Golden 

 House," by Charles Dudley Warner, discussed the 

 conditions of extreme wealth and poverty in New 

 York, with all the delicate yet searching keenness 

 which characterized " A Little Journey in the World." 

 George W. Cable made but a single contribution in 

 " John March, Southerner," and from Thomas Nelson 

 Page we had " Polly," a Christmas recollection, 

 daintily illustrated by A. Castaigne, "Pastime 

 Stories," and " The Burial of the Guns," all tales of 

 Southern life. " The Royal Marine " was an idyl of 

 Narragansett Pier, told by James Brander Matthews ; 

 Dr. S. Weir Mitchell laid the scene of his latest ro- 

 mance, " When all the Woods are Green," in Canada, 

 while mining life was, of course, depicted in " Coeur 

 d'Alene " and " In Exile, and Other Stories," by Mary 

 Hallock Foote. Bret Harte published "The Bell- 

 Ringer of Angel's, and Other Stories " and " A Protege 

 of Jack Hamlin's," with which other short stories are 

 included ; from Mrs. Mary Hartwell Catherwood we 

 had " The Chase of Saint Castin, and Other Stories 

 of the French in the New World"; Mrs. Amelia E. 

 Barr wrote but 1 novel, " The Lone House," which 

 she located at Galloway, in the west of Scotland ; 

 while Capt. Charles King wrote "Cadet Days," a 

 story of West Point, " Waring's Peril," and " Under 

 Fire," in addition to editing " Rancho del Muerto, 

 and Other Stories of Adventure " and " An Initial 

 Experience, and Other Stories." " Pembroke," by_ 

 Miss Mary E. Wilkins, was a powerfully written if 

 somewhat repulsive portrayal of New England life; 

 Gilbert Parker's 2 novels, "The Trespasser" and 

 "The Trail of the Sword," are full of the freedom of 

 Canadian forests, the latter dating back two hundred 

 years ; " Poppsea," by Mrs. Van Rensselaer Cruger 

 (Julien Gordon), does not depict the Empress of 

 Rome, but a New York girl with similar traits ot 

 character; and " Out of Step," by Maria Louise Pool, 

 was intended as a sequel to " The Two Salomes." 

 From Ruth McEnery Stuart we had " Carlotta's In- 

 tended, and Other Tales " and " The Story of Babette, 



