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LITERATURE, AMERICAN, IN 1894. 



Fayette Stratton Giles we have " Shadows before : or, 

 A Century Onward." Gustavus W. Pope described 

 " A Journey to Mars " ; pure extravagance character- 

 izes " Centuries Apart," by E. T. Bouve ; " The Land 

 of the Changing: Sun," by William N. Harben ; " The 

 Isle of Feminine," by Charles Elliott Niswonger ; 

 "2894- or The Fossil Man," by Walter Browne; 

 "From Earth's Center," by S. Byron Welcome; 

 "Sophos," by Albert Alberg; and "Between Two 

 Forces," by Flora Helm. " The Dissolution : A Pro- 

 jected 'Drama," by Hitter Dandelyon, otters a new 

 theory of marriage exemplified in mythological times. 

 Hypnotism is the leading motif in " The Malachite 

 Cross " a romance of two countries, by Frank H. Nor- 

 ton " A Modern Wizard," by Kodrigues Ottolengui ; 

 and " Margaret Salisbury," by Mary Holland Lee. 

 Scott Campbell was the author of " Union Down"; 

 R. M. Manley of "The Queen of Ecuador"; Seward 

 H. Hopkins of "In the China Sea" and " Two Gen- 

 tlemen of Hawaii." Robert Appleton (Roman I.^Zu- 

 bof) published 3 novels, " Violet, the American Sap- 

 pho," a realistic novel of Bohemia, " Elena," the 

 story of a Russian woman, and " After the Manner of 

 Men." Katharine E. Rand described "The Child- 

 hood of an Affinity " ; Henry Goelet McVickar cast 

 " The Purple Light of Love " with its attendant mis- 

 fortunes upon a worthy hero ; Margaret Sutton Bris- 

 coe, the author of " Perchance to Dream," sent out 

 this year " Links in a Chain"; John Hicks contrib- 

 uted " The Man from Oshkosh " ; " Miss Gwynne, 

 Bachelor" was by Winifred Johnes ; "A Modern 

 Magdalene," by Virna Woods; "A Moral Blot," by 

 Sio-ismund B. Alexander; "David and Abigail," by 

 B."F. Sawyer; and Richard Henry Savage was un- 

 usually prolific, turning out 4 novels, " The Princess 

 of Alaska," " The Anarchist," " The Flying Halcyon," 

 and " Delilah of Harlem." " Six Thousand Tons of 

 Gold," by H. R. Chamberlain, was written as an at- 

 tempted solution of the financial problems of the 

 hour, and politics are the theme of " The Story of 

 Rodman Heath ; or, Mugwumps, by One of them," 

 who gives us no further clew to his identity ; " The 

 Speaker of the House," by Angeline Teal ; and " Shy- 

 lock's Daughter," by Margaret Holmes Bates. " The 

 Documents in Evidence," by Henry M. Blossom, Jr., 

 was more striking in the form of its makeup than in 

 the substance of the story it contained ; and " Two 

 Strings to his Bow" was by Walter Mitchell, a 

 brother of Donald G. Mitchell (Ik Marvel). To the 

 highly sensational belong, in conclusion, " Two Bad 

 Brown Eyes," by Marie St. Felix, and " Miss Der- 

 rick," a Boston society girl's diary, by Evelyn Ches- 

 ter. " Love at Seventy," by Albert Ross (Linn Boyd 

 Porter), was in that author's usual vein, and from 

 Lawrence L. Lynch emanated " A Dead Man's Step" 

 and " Against Odds," a romance of the Midway Plai- 

 sance. " A Sleep Walker" was by Paul H. Gerrard ; 

 u The American Ambassador," anonymous ; " The 

 Duke of Arcanum," by Frank Carleton Long; and 

 " The Dancing Faun," by Florence Farr. 



Volumes of short stories other than those already 

 mentioned were "Norseland Tales," by Hjalmar 

 Hjorth Boyesen ; " The Exiles, and Other Stories," by 

 Richard Harding Davis; "Little Ike Templin, and 

 Other Stories," by Richard Malcolm Johnston ; " The 

 White Crown, and Other Stories," by Herbert D. 

 Ward ; " Marsena, and Other War Stories," by Harold 

 Frederick; " A Scarlet Poppy, and Other Stories," by 

 Harriet Prescott Spotford ; " Break o' Day Tales," by 

 Frank West Rollins ; " Salem Kittredge, and Other 

 Stories," by Bliss Perry ; " A Suburban Pastoral, and 

 Other Tales," by Henry A. Beers; "A Burne-Jones 

 I lend and Other Sketches " of American society life, 

 by Clara Sherwood Rollins; "The Robb's Island 

 Wreck, and Other Stories," by Lynn R. Meekins; 

 " Peak and Prairie, from a Colorado Sketchbook," 

 by Anna Fuller ; " The Rousing of Mrs. Potter, and 

 O'ther Stories," by Gertrude Smith ; " Seven Strange 

 Stories," by J. Wallace Hoff; "Zigzag Tales from 

 the East to"lhe West," by H. L. Wilson ; Nos. 13 and 

 14 of " Tales from Town Topics " ; and " Ten Notable 



Stories from Lippincott's Magazine," by Kate Jordan, 

 Annie Flint, and others. Imaginary conversations 

 between the characters in novels of famous writers of 

 the day were " Overheard in Arcady," by Robert 

 Bridges (Droch) and republished from "Life," in 

 which they appeared. 



Juvenile. Still do books continue to be written for 

 children which find older readers, and familiar names 

 are found upon their title pages. " Piccino, ami Other 

 Child Stories," by Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett, 

 were illustrated by Reginald B. Birch, llezekiah 

 Butterworth told of early Christmas in America in 

 his two stories bound in one volume, " Tim Parson's 

 Miracle " and " My Grandmother's Christmas Can- 

 dle," in the " Christmas in Many Lands Series," while 

 his history of" The Patriot Schoolmaster" belongs to 

 the days of the minutemen and the Sons of Liberty. 

 Thomas W. Knox carried two boys through various 

 adventures with "The Lost Army" during the Ar- 

 kansas campaign ; '' The Raid from Beauscjour," and 

 " How the Carter Boys lifted the Mortgage " were two 

 stories of Acadie by Charles G. D. Roberts ; " The 

 Search for Andrew Field," by Everett T. Tomlinson, 

 belongs to the "War of 1812 Series"; "Brother 

 against Brother," by William T. Adams (Oliver Op- 

 tic), to the " Blue and the Gray Army Series " ; and 

 " A Salt- Water Hero," by Rev. E. A. Rand, to the 

 " Fighting the Sea Series." Edward Stratemeyer told 

 of " The Last Cruise of the Spitfire, or Luke Foster's 

 Strange Voyage-" and of" Richard Dare's Venture"; 

 W. J. Henderson, as " an old salt," spun " Sea Yarns 

 for Boys " ; Dr. Eugene Murray- Aaron combined 

 science with entertainment in " The Butterfly Hunt- 

 ers in the Caribbees " ; and " Three Boys on an Elec- 

 trical Boat," by Prof. John Trowbridge, proved as 

 fascinating as his previous story of " The Electrical 

 Boy." The standard writers of books for boys made 

 their customary contributions: W. 0. Stoddard, of 

 " Chris, the Model-Maker," a story of New York, and 

 " The Captain's Boat " ; Horatio Alger, Jr., of u Vic- 

 tor Vane, the Young Secretary " ; Kirk Munroe, of 

 "Big Cypress: The Story of an Everglade Home- 

 stead " and " The Fur Seal's Tooth " ; Harry Castle- 

 mon (Charles A. Fosdick), of " Sailor Jack, the Trad- 

 er " Willis Boyd Allen, of u Snowed In " and " Lost 

 on Umbagog" : Edward S. Ellis, of " The Great Cat- 

 tle Trail," ft Honest Ned," "Righting the Wrong," 

 and " Brave Tom," the last three in the " Brave and 

 Honest Series " ; " James Otis " (James Otis Kaler), of 

 " Chasing a Yacht, or the Theft of the Gem," " The 

 Adventures of a Country Boy at a Country Fair," 

 " Jinny and his Partners," and " The Boys' Revolt," 

 a story of the street Arabs of New York. Nor did the 

 little girls fare less liberally, for A. G. Plympton told 

 of "Penelope Prig, and Other Stories," 'and also of 

 "Rags and Velvet Gowns" ; Mrs. Laura E. Richards, 

 of "Marie " and " Narcissa, or the Road to Rome," 

 with which last is included also " In Verona." Eliza 

 Orne White narrated what befell " When Mollie was 

 Six " ; Minnie E. Kinney (Mrs. George A. Paull) 

 published " More Bedtime Tales " and " Ruby at 

 School" ; " Mollie Miller" was by Mrs. Erne W. Mer- 

 riman ; " Mildred's New Daughter " and " Elsie at 

 the World's Fair," by Martha F. Finley ; " Jessie's 

 Three Resolutions " and " In Editha's Days," a talc 

 of religious liberty, by Mary E. Bamford ; " Wee 

 Lucy: ''Little Prudy's Wee Croodlin' Doo,'" by 

 "Sophie May" (R. S. Clarke) ; "Martha's Mistakes," 

 by Mrs. M. E. Bradley: and "Margaret Arnold's 

 Christmas, and Other Stories," by Mary D. Brine, all 

 found readers, as did " The Pansy" for 1894, edited 

 by Mrs. I. M. Alden, and " The Child Amy," " 

 Julia Magruder. For larger girls there were M II< 

 Benham," by Nora Perry, " Witch Winnie at Shi 

 necock," in which Mrs. Elizabeth W. Champney cU 

 scribed the doings of the King's Daughters in 

 summer art school ; " Not quite Eighteen," sixt 

 short stories by "Susan Coolidge" (Sarah C. We 

 sey) ; " Another Girl's Experience," by Leigh Wei 

 ster; and "Sirs, only Seventeen," by Virginia 

 Town send. Howard Pyle was both author 



