416 



LITERATURE, AMERICAN, IN 1894. 



George Herbert Stockbridge ; " The Prayer Cure in 

 the Pines," by Clarence H. Pearson ; " W ild-fiower 

 Sonnets," by Emily Shaw Forman ; "Memory 

 Bells," by Alice P. Bates ; " Roses and Thistles," by 

 Rufus C. Hopkins ; " A Patch of Pansies," by J. E. V. 

 Cooke ; " Inspirations," by John O. Coit ; the " Chant 

 of a Woodland Spirit," by Robert Burns Wilson ; 

 " From Time to Time," by Mrs. S. W. Weitzel " The 

 Fliarht of the Humming Birds," by Luther Wesley 

 Peck; with "Poems," by John,B. Tabb ; " Old Ace, 

 and Other Poems," by P. E. Brooks ; and u Rhymes 

 of the Centuries," by Frank Mortimer Hawes, call for 

 passing mention only. Bliss Carmen and Richard 

 Hovey collaborated to produce " Songs from Vaga- 

 bondia," designs for which were supplied by Tom B. 

 Metyard ; and " When Hearts are Trumps " was a col- 

 lection of bright vers de societe by Tom Hall. " The 

 Bayadere, and Other Sonnets," by Francis Saltus Sal- 

 tus, appeared in a limited edition ; " The Quest of 

 Heracles, and Other Poems," by Hugh McCulloch, Jr., 

 revived the old Greek myths and hero tales with 

 charming effect ; and warm encomiums were lavished 

 upon " Madonna, and Other Poems " of Harrison 

 S. Morris, collected from the periodicals in which 

 they have appeared. W. A. Croffut published 

 " The Prophecy, and Other Poems," and " Son- 

 nets, and Other Verses" of George Santayana, in 

 an edition limited to 450 copies, found appreciative 

 readers of a thoughtful turn of mind. " Hymns 

 and Verses " of Samuel Longfellow were collected, 

 and Charles K. Bolton contributed a versified nar- 

 rative of the times of the regicides in colonial 

 .New England, entitled " On the Wooing of Martha 

 Pitkin." " Ninette," by John Vance Cheney, was 

 a Redwood idyl ; two rhymed accounts of 'travel 

 were " Penrhyn's Pilgrimage " through China and 

 Japan, by Arthur Peterson; and "The Ackley Pil- 

 grims," who made a nine- weeks' trip through Europe, 

 described by Mrs. G. A. Spink. " Duck Creek Bal- 

 lads " emanated from John Hinton Carter. " When 

 Life is Young" was a collection of verse for boys and 

 girls by Mrs. t Mary Mapes Dodge, and Edith M. 

 Thomas delighted them with " In Sunshine Land." 

 " Father Gander's Melodies for Mother Goose's 

 Grandchildren," by Adelaide F. Samuels, were illus- 

 trated by Lilian Trask Harlow. The drama was but 

 slimly represented. Henry James published two 

 series of " Theatricals," of two comedies each, the 

 first being "Tenants" and "Disengaged," and the 

 second " The Alburn " and " The Reprobate." " This 

 Picture and That " was the title of a comedy by James 

 Brander Matthews, and " Martha," a play by Hutton 

 C. Hamilton, was published in an edition limited to 

 250 copies. Among anthologies are to be numbered 

 "Old English Ballads," compiled and edited by 

 Prof. Francis B. Gummere, with a long introduction ; 

 "American Song," a collection of representative 

 American poems, by Arthur B. Simonds ; " Pipe and 

 Pouch," the smoker's own book of poetry, compiled 

 by Joseph Knight ; and " Because I love you," poems 

 of love selected and arranged by Anna E. Mack. 

 " Favorite Poems from the Best Authors " were di- 

 vided by Amy Neally into 2 volumes, one humor- 

 ous, and the other containing poems for children. 

 The " Complete Poetical Works " of John Greenleaf 

 Whittier were published in a new handy-volume edi- 

 tion of 4 volumes, and Lowell's " Poems'" appeared in 

 the " Vignette Series." 



Political, Social, and Intellectual Science." The United 

 States of America," a study of the American common- 

 wealth, in 2 royal octavo volumes of 700 pages each, 

 with _maps and over 150 illustrations, is the work of 

 2~i distinguished writers in as many different de- 

 partments of literature and science, edited by Prof. 

 N. S. Shaler. The vexed financial questions of the 

 year were treated at many hands. William Brough, 

 in " The Natural Law of Money," gave an admirable 

 sketch of the origin and history of metallic and paper 

 money ; John Phin's ideas on " Common Sense Cur- 

 rency" were given to the public ; E. B. Andrews 

 made a plea for bimetallism in " An Honest Dollar" ; 



Anson Phelps Stokes collected letters written by him 

 for newspapers on "Joint Metallism" into a volume 

 of the " Questions of the Day Series " ; Samuel Leavitt 

 reviewed " Our Money Wars " ; Elijah Helm, in " The 

 Joint Standard," gave a plain exposition of monetary 

 principles and of the monetary controversy ; and 1). \V. 

 McClung asserts " Money talks," interpreting some 

 of the things it says when it speaks. Edwin R. A. 

 Seligman treated of " Progressive Taxation in Theory 

 and Practice " John M. Gould and George F. Tucker 

 considered " The Federal Income Tax" ; William Hill 



examined "The First Stages of the Tariff Policy < 

 United States " ; F. B. Vandergrift & Co.'s " Ham 



the 



book of the United States Tariff" contained the cus 

 toms tariff act of 1894, as did R. F. Downing & Co.'i 

 " New Tariff of United States Customs Duties " ; " Th 

 Sphere of the State," by Prof. Frank Sargent Hoff- 

 man, considered the body politic with special c< 

 sideration of certain present problems; Daniel 

 Remsen made a study of methods for improving 

 basis of party organization in " Primary Elections " ; 

 C. Ellis Stevens traced in an important essay the 

 " Sources of the Constitution of the United States "; 

 J. L. M. Curry made a study of " The Southern Sta 

 of the American Union considered in their Relatic 

 to the Constitution of the United States and to 

 Resulting Union " ; Charles H. Otken gave his opir 

 ions upon " The Ills of the South," or related caust 

 hostile to the general prosperity of the Southern __ 

 pie; "City Government in the United States " Vi 

 offered by Alfred Conkling as a primer of the scienc 

 of the same; S. E. Moffett volunteered "Suggestion 

 on Government"; Jesse Macy, "First Lessons " 

 Civil Government" ; Edward C. Mann, M. D., treat 

 of" The Rights and Duties of Citizens of the Unit 

 States," and Julius H. Seelye, D. D., prepared a little 

 book upon "Citizenship" for classes in government 

 and law. " The Boss " was a Machiavellian essay 

 upon the art of governing American cities, by Henry 

 Champernowne ; Andre Matteson was the author of 

 " The Principles of Sell-government applied to 

 Townships, Cities, and Villages," and the " Proceed- 

 ings of the National Conference for Good City Gov- 

 ernment held at Philadelphia, Jan. 25 and 26, 1894," 

 were published. Edward McPherson was responsi- 

 ble, with customary regularity, for " A Handbook of 

 Politics for 1894." Richard T. Ely made an exami- 

 nation into the nature, strength, and weakness of 

 " Socialism " ; Henry Wood, the author of " Natural 

 Law in the Business World," offers now " The Political 

 Economy of Natural Law," and Simon Newcornb dis- 

 cussed in small compass " The Problem of Economic 

 Education." Henry Demarest Lloyd, in " Wealth 

 against Commonwealth," arraigned monopoly in 

 general and the Standard Oil Company in particu- 

 lar; John Swinton presented labor's side of the labor 

 question in " Striking for Life," and W. J. defined 

 "The Rights of Labor" before the law. Walter T. 

 Mills gave a picture of " The Product-sharing Vil- 

 lage, Oak Park." Albion W. Small and George K. 

 Vincent offered "An Introduction to the Study of 

 Society," as Prof. C. R. Henderson did to that of " The 

 Dependent, Defective, and Delinquent Classes." ('. 

 Osborne Ward wrote upon " The Equilibration of 

 Human Aptitudes and Powers of Adaptation," and 

 B. O. Flower, in " The New Time," made a plea for 

 the union of moral forces for practical progress. In 

 the " Publications of the American Economic A 

 ciation " Charles H. Cooley gave his attention to " Tin 

 Theory of Transportation." and J. H. Hollander con- 

 tributed " The Cincinnati Southern Railway " to the 

 " Johns Hopkins University Studies," as a study in 

 municipal activity. John 1'. Davis gave his atten- 

 tion to "The Union Pacific Railway" as a study in 

 railway politics, history, and economics. " Represen- 

 tation and Suffrage in Massachusetts, 1620-1691," was 

 another of the "Johns Hopkins University Studies," 

 by George II. Haynes; and yet another was that of 

 " English Institutions and the American Indian," by 

 Prof James Alton James. " Mr. Picket-Pin and his 

 Friends," by Price Collier, was a serious review of 



