

ractice of natural suggestion as distinct from the 

 and Julia and Annie 



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ville, Kentucky, 1786-1790 " was described in the pub- 

 lications of the Filson Club. Excellent humor is to 

 be found in " Bill Nye's History of the United States " 

 and "The Women's Conquest of New York," by 

 Thomas A. Janvier ; and James Barr edited " The 

 Humor of America " for the " International Humor 

 Series." Louis Arthur Coolidge and James Burton 

 Reynolds jointly described " The Show at Washing- 

 ton." Amos R. Wells held a plain talk with men and 

 women who work on " Business " ; Manson Seavy 

 wrote on " Practical Business Bookkeeping by Double 

 Entry " ; David II. Bowen described " Twenty Years 

 in the Counting Room " ; " Elements of Life Insur- 

 ance " were gone into by M. M. Dawson ; Samuel C. 

 Dunham supplied " The Missing Link in Shorthand " : 

 and F. J. Britten dwelt upon " Former Clock and. 

 Watch Makers and their Work." " Coffee : Its History, 

 Classification, and Description " was by Joseph M. 

 Walsh, whose " Tea : Its History and Mystery " went 

 through a third edition. " The Philosophy of Mental 

 Healing " was expounded by Leander E. Whipple ; 

 u 1 am Well," by C. W. Post, set forth the modern 

 practice of natural suggestion a 

 hypnotic or unnatural influence ; 

 Thomas advocated " Psycho-physical Culture." 

 Claude Falls Wright gave "An Outline of the Prin- 

 ciples of Modern Theosophy," to which W. Q. Judge 

 supplied an introduction ; and Albert Ross Parsons 

 derived " New Light from the Great Pyramid." 



Useful works of a general character were " The 

 Gast-Paul Directory of Bankers and Attorneys"; the 

 "Publishers' Trade'List Annual, 1894, completing its 

 twenty-second year of issue ; " Five Hundred Places 

 to sell Manuscripts," compiled by James Knapp 

 Reeve ; " Geyer's Reference Directory of the Book- 

 sellers and Stationers of the United States and 

 Canada"; "Johnson's Universal Cyclopaedia" in a 

 new revised edition, edited by Charles Kendall 

 Adams, with a corps of 36 editors of departments, 5 

 of the 8 volumes of which were published during the 

 }-ear; and "Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Regis- 

 ter of Important Events of the Year 1893," making 

 Vol. XVIII of the new series, and Vol. XXXIII of 

 the whole. 



The following are the figures of book-pro- 

 duction in the United States in 1894, com- 

 pared with those for 1893, according to the 

 Annual Summary number of the "Publishers' 

 Weekly " : 



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LITERATURE, BRITISH, IN 1894. Not- 

 withstanding the financial and commercial de- 

 pression that was felt throughout Great Britain 

 as in our own country during the year, the world 

 of letters appeared untouched, and indeed an 

 exceptional activity was shown in the produc- 

 tion of books, 5,300 new ones having been re- 

 corded, compared with 5,129 of the preceding 

 year. This increase was distributed through all 

 the departments, with but one exception, that of 

 fiction. In fiction are included both novels and 

 juvenile books, the dividing line between the two 

 becoming fainter year by year, and while the de- 

 crease is slight (but 10 books in all), it is never- 

 theless noteworthy, in consideration of the here- 

 tofore great excess in works of the imagination 

 over all others. A slight increase was shown in 

 books on theology, a greater in educational works 

 (nearly 15 per cent.), while 126 new works on law 

 are shown, against 27 in 1893, and those on polit- 

 ical and social science were about doubled. The 

 by far most striking increase was in the depart- 

 ment of belles-lettres, where there were 370 new 

 books, against 96 in the preceding year. Biog- 

 raphy, history, and voyages and travels presented 

 nearly similar figures for the two years, and there 

 was a slight decline in poetry, as well as in year- 

 books. The character of the literature was also 

 of a higher order than that of 1893, " more bal- 

 anced and equable " in the opinion of the best 

 judges. The death of many eminent men of 

 letters, and one woman poet, made the year 

 memorable ; these include the historian Froude, 

 Philip Gilbert Hamerton, Sir Austin Henry Lay- 

 ard, Walter Pater, Henry Morley, Edmund Yates, 

 and Christina Rossetti of all of whom sketches 

 will be found in this volume. 



Biography. Among the numerous works in this de- 

 partment, which possesses always a solidity and charm 

 of its own, are to be mentioned a second series of" The 

 Diplomatic Reminiscences of Lord Augustus Loftus, 

 P. C., G. C. B., 1862-1879," in 2 volumes, covering a 

 period of extreme importance in the history of Europe ; 

 and 2 volumes also contain " Things 1 have seen and 

 People I have known," by George Augustus Sala. 

 Dean Hole gave us " More Memories " in the shape of 

 things about England spoken in America, and we have 

 also to record a volume of his " Addresses spoken to 

 Workingmen from Pulpit and Platform." James 

 Payn, whose u Literary Recollections " were so warmly 

 welcomed heretofore, was as delightfully entertaining 

 in " Gleams of Memory, with Some Reflections " ; and 

 vet another charming autobiography is that of " Sir 

 William Gregory, K. C. M. G., formerly M. P. and 

 Some Time Governor of Ceylon," written for his son, 

 but given to the public by his widow, Lady Gregory. 

 " Fifty Years of My Life " were told over by Sir John 

 Astley. " Letters of Harriet, Countess 'Granville, 

 1810-1845," edited by her son, Hon. F. Leveson- 

 Gpwer, in 2 volumes, give us interesting pictures of 

 the society and distinguished men and women of the 

 period, besides revealing an attractive personality, and 

 the " Correspondence of Mr. Joseph Jekyll," edited 

 with a brief memoir by the Hon. Algernon Bourke, 

 covers nearly the same ground, though with less strik- 

 ing^ effect. " Caroline Mutton and her Friends; " we owe 

 to Mrs. C. H. Beale, who three years ago edited " Rem- 

 iniscences " of this gentlewoman of the last century. 

 Mrs. Esther Wood wrote a history of "Dante Rossetti 

 and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement," and "Dante 

 Gabriel Rossetti" was the subject of one of the "Port- 

 folio Monographs," F. G. Stephens, himself a member 

 of the " Brotherhood," furnishing the text, which was 

 accompanied by page plates and numerous illustra- 

 tions. The full text of Rossetti's " House of Life," it 



