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LITERATURE, AMERICAN, IN 1894. 



" Twenty-five Years of Scientific Progress." Charles 

 II. Clark wrote on " Practical Methods in Microscopy," 

 and Mabel Loouiis Todd gave comprehensive though 

 unprofessional information about " Total Eclipses of 

 the Sun." William M. Davis was the author of an 

 " Elementary Meteorology " ; a popular edition was 

 made of the 12 charts of "Climates of the United 



sonian Contributions to Knowledge." Vol. VI was 

 issued of " The Silva of North America," by Charles 

 Spracme Sargent, who also made u Notes on the Forest 

 Flora of Japan"; John II. Kedfield and E. L. Eand 

 were joint students of u Flora of Mount Desert Island, 

 Maine," of which they made a preliminary catalogue 



S'efaced by a geological introduction by William 

 orris Davis ; Volney M. Spalding offered a " Guide 

 to the Study of Common Plants," Oliver R. Willis 

 " A Practical Flora " for schools and colleges, and 

 Mrs. William Starr Dana talked of the flowers " Ac- 

 cording to Season." " Readings from the Book of 

 Nature," by Simeon Mills, went far to elucidate some 

 of the simple mysteries of every-day life ; John A. 

 Bower prepared " Simple Experiments for Science 

 Teaching " ; and Prof. John F. Woodhull drew up a 

 "First Course in Science" for school use. Vol. I 

 of "Elements of Atom Mechanics," by Gustavus 

 Detlef Hinrichs, M. D., was devoted to " The True 

 Atomic Weights of the Chemical Elements and the 

 Unity of Matter"; Edward L. Nichols edited "A 

 Laboratory Manual of Physics and Applied Elec- 

 tricity," Vol. I of which covered the junior course 

 and was by Ernest Merritt and F. J. Rogers ; while 

 Vol. II, for seniors, was by George S. Moler, Fred- 

 erick Bedell, E. L. Nichols, and others. Joseph 

 Struthers, D. W. Ward, and Charles H. Willmarth 

 contributed " Chemistry and Physics" to the "Stu- 

 dents' Series " : W. H. Perkin and F. S. Kipping wrote 

 an " Organic Chemistry," Paul C. Freer a u Descrip- 

 tive Inorganic General Chemistry," as a college text- 

 book; II. N. Chute a "Physical Laboratory Manual" 

 for use in schools and colleges, and John A. Miller 

 ' An Outline of Qualitative Analysis." u Our Notions 

 of Number and Space" were the theme of Herbert 

 Nichols and William E. Parsons; a new revised and 

 enlarged edition was made of "Matter, Ether, and 

 Motion," by A. E. Dolbear; and in electricity we 

 have " The Inventions, Researches, and Writings of 

 Nikola Tesla," by Thomas Commerford Martin. 

 " The Electric Transformation of Power and its Ap- 

 plication by the Electric Motor," by Philip Atkin- 

 son, which included electric railway construction; 

 " The Practical Application of Dynamo-electric Ma- 

 chinery," by Charles K. MacFadden and William D. 

 Ray; "How to build Dynamo-electric Machinery," 

 by Edward Trevert; " Electricity One Hundred Years 

 Ago and To-day, with Copious Extracts," by Edwin 

 James Houston; "Alternating Current Wiring and 

 Distribution," by William Leroy Emmet ; " How to 

 become a Successful Electrician," by T. O'Connor 

 Sloane ; " Electric Belt Construction " and " Practical 

 Electrical Belt Fitting," by F. C. Allsop; " What an 

 Kngineer should know about Electricity," by Albert 

 L. Clough ; " The Magneto Hand Telephone," by 

 Norman Hughes; and "How to make and use the 

 Telephone," by George H. Gary. The tenth, eleventh, 

 and twelfth annual reports of the Bureau of Ethnol- 

 ogy (Smithsonian Institution) were issued, covering 

 the years 1888-'89, 1889-'90, and 1890-'91. 



History. Among the foremost are a " History of the 

 United States," in 2 volumes, by President E. B. An- 

 drews; "A History of the United States for Schools," 

 by John Fiske, whose study of " The War of Inde- 

 pendence " wasrepubl/ished in the " Riverside Litera- 

 ture Series " ; a " Dictionary of United States History, 

 1492-1894," four centuries of history, written con- 

 cisely and arranged in dictionary form, by J. Frank- 

 lin Jameson ; and a " History of the United States," 

 by Allen C. Thomas. " Cartier to Frontenac," by 

 Justin Winsor, considers geographical discovery in 



the interior of North America in its historical rela- 

 tions, 1534-1700, and is accompanied with full carto- 

 graphical illustrations from contemporary sources ; C. 

 Wyllys Betts's "American Colonial History Illus- 

 trated by Contemporary Medals," was edited, with 

 notes, by W. T. R. Marvin and Lyman Haynes Low. 

 Rev. Morton Dexter told again "The Story of the 

 Pilgrims " ; a fourth edition was made of Samuel G. 

 Arnold's " History of the State of Rhode Island and 

 Providence Plantations, 1636-1790," in 2 volumes. 

 " The Carolina Pirates and Colonial Commerce, 1670- 

 1760 " were the theme of Shirley Carter Hughson i 

 the " Johns Hopkins University Studies," as " Th 

 Struggle of Protestant Dissenters for Religious Tol 

 eration in Virginia" was that of Henry R. Mcllwair- 

 " Documents relating to the French Settlements < 

 the W abash," by Jacob Piatt Dunn, were printed bj 

 the Indiana Historical Society, as well as " Slavei 

 Petitions and Papers " collected by the same authc 

 Vol. HI of " The Winning of the West," by Theodc 

 Roosevelt, was devoted to " The Founding of tht 

 Trans-Alleghany Commonwealths, 1784-1790." " Tl 

 Making of the Ohio Valley States, 1660-1837 " ws 

 traced by Samuel Adams Drake in the " Stories 

 American History for Young Readers." John Spen- 

 cer Bassett published " The Constitutional Begin- 

 nings of North Carolina, 1663-1729," and Clark S. 

 Mattesen wrote a " History of Wisconsin from 

 historic to Present Periods." " A History of 

 United States Navy, from 1775 to 1893," by Edg; 

 Stanton Maclay, in 2 volumes, which won the high- 

 est commendation, was the result of nine years ' 

 labor and research ; and " Our Navy : Its Growt 

 and Achievements," was also the theme of J. D. Jc 

 rold Kelley. John Codman Ropes told " The Story 

 the Civil War" once more ; J.W. Gibson prepared 1 

 Chart History of the Civil War, 1861-1865," for the 

 of schools ; " Following the Greek Cross " was the ti 

 of interesting memoirs of the Sixth Army Corps, bj 

 Gen.ThomasW. Hyde; Charles E.Davis, Jr., traced t 1 " 

 Fifteenth Massachusetts Volunteers through " Thr 

 Years in the Army"; H. L. Hedgood compiled tl 

 a Veterans' Memorial Volume," a series of origin 

 and collected sketches, anecdotes, etc., relative to tl 

 late war and that of Texan independence ; Vol. II wa 

 published of "Military Essays and Recollections,'' 

 read before the Illinois Commandery of the Militai 

 Order of the Loyal Legion, as was also a " History 

 the One Hundred and Twenty -first Regiment, Pern 

 sylvania Volunteers." A history of the reconstruc 

 tion period in Arkansas is contained in John I' 

 Harrell's " Brooks and Baxter War." Rose N. Ya\ 

 ger made a historical study of the Iroquois Li 

 of the Six Nations in " The Indian and the Pioneer." 

 Vol. I of which appeared ; and Charles F. Lurmnis 

 attempted the vindication of " The Spanish Pio- 

 neers." Anson Uriel Hancock contributed "A History 

 of Chile " to the " Latin- American Republics Series " ; 

 and " Maximilian and Carlotta," by John M. Taylor, 

 was a story of imperialism. J. I. Mombert, D. D., wrote 

 "A Short History of the Crusades"; George Burton 

 Adams considered " Civilization during the Middle 

 Ages, especially in Relation to Modern Civilization " : 

 Ephraim Emerton's " Mediaeval Europe (814-1300) " 

 was written as a continuation of his " Introduction to 

 the Study of the Middle Ages"; "Europe in the 

 Nineteenth Century," by Harry Pratt Judson, and 

 " The Growth of the English Nation," by Katharine 

 Coman and Elizabeth Kendall, both belong to " Cliau 

 tauqua Reading Circle Literature." Mrs. Elizabeth 

 Wormeley Latimer enjoyed peculiar advantages in 

 the preparation of "England in the Nineteenth Cen- 

 tury." "Brave Little Holland, and what she taught 

 us " was this year the theme of William Elliot Grif- 

 fis, D. D., and again she was chronicled as " The 

 Land of Pluck," by Mrs. Mary Mapes Dodge. Mary 

 O. Nutting (Mary Barrett) was the historian of" The 

 Days of Prince Maurice." Twelve lectures on ' The 

 French Revolution, Tested by Mirabeau's Career," 

 delivered by Hermann E. von Hoist at the Lowell 

 Institute, Boston, were collected, and filled 2 volumes; 



