1 HI i:\TURE, AMERICAN, IN 1895. 



nj.irit of patriotism. A famine broke out in 

 Quelpaert inland, and the Government scut f.-r 

 wlie/800,000 yen and 5,000 bags of ri.-. -. n I..T 

 famine* broke out in the districts dttolated dur- 

 ing the Tong-Hak disturbances. Prince Yi- 

 < hun-Tong, twentT-three yean* <>1<1. nephew of 

 the King and gnuuuonofT m.eharffed 



onspiracy against the sovereign ami im- 

 plicated in the assassinati n ..f Kim -Ilak-Ou, 

 the leader of the Reform party, was arrested 

 an.i tried on charge of treason bv the special 

 court and banished for ten years in a one-room 

 .to-Dong island. After being five 

 hundred rears under ban, BoddkM priests were 

 permitted to enter the capital ami \\nll.-.l < it ies. 

 In July the Tong- Halts made uprisings in the 

 southern provinces. Queen Min. apparently re- 

 gaining lull power, crowded the palace with 

 women, servants, and underlings, as in the old 

 days, and so managed affairs that the H>me 

 Minister, Prince Pak (Boku), was compelled to 

 leave the capital, escorted by Japanese trooos. 

 The national costume of white was chain:"! !> 

 decree t Mark, and the universnl yard-long 

 tobacco pipe was shortened by 2 feet. A con- 

 spiracy, plotted by native soldiers whom the 

 Queen* had discharged, by irresponsible Japanese 

 and various bad characters, headed by the Tai- 



\\ en-Kun. ' kst *. in 1111 attack mi th. 



palace, in which the pv 



D was murdered, the vmlin of the 

 i-..urt was reversed, and several reinsirKal-:. 

 lamations, one of which degrud. d the ., 

 the level of a servant, were issued. Later n,\ a 

 proclamations heaped nostliuin<>u h : , : ' 

 Queen Min. appmn 

 and ordered a funeral, to cost , 

 J5 the lunar calendar was abolished'. II 



teclith day of tlie elevelilh liio,.n "f t 

 liundred and liftli year .f the i| 

 1 . 1 *!';. Sunday has been made a day of NlK 

 the Government offices. Nov. -JT ti 

 other attack on the palace by Korea 

 opposed i" t be nen tpiril and policy ! t he TH, 

 Kim. The chief participants 



>X ,,f Oct. 



trial and executed Dec. 28. In I' 

 officials und many of the people had th< 

 cut, an act of vast significance, which cl 

 the -tyle of coilTure in vo^ur during t r 

 five hundred years. iMirini; I ' 

 the Japanese troops evaluated t 

 The 4 parties in native Korean polit, 

 called, respectively, the pro-.Ia: 

 L'u-iaii. the pro-Chinese, and tin 

 the Koreans. 



I I FERA1TRE. AMERICAN, IN 1895. 



More books were published in our country in 

 1805 than in any previous year, the record snow- 

 ing 885 more than the total number issued in 

 1808. the largest book-producing year hitherto. 

 In all, there were 5,469 books sent from the 

 of which 5,101 were new books and 368 new 

 MS. In 1894 647 out of the total of 4,484 



w editions, showing an increase of pub- 

 n of original work, albeit not of a nigh 



order of merit. Of the total number of boons 

 manufactured in this country 3,396 were by 

 American authors by far the greater number 

 "f reprints made belonging to fiction 847 were 

 by Knglish and other foreign authors, and 1 ..',! 

 were imported into this country, bound or in 

 sheets, hearing an American imprint. By far the 

 greatest increase was shown in fict ion, the total 



-Is standing 1,114 against 729 in 1804 < T 

 this number, however, only 287 were by Amer- 



authors, while 580 were reprints and 

 importations. A marked increase was also 

 noticeable in the department of literary history 

 and miscellany iM new books against 206 in 

 IBM and in poetry, while a falling off was 

 bown only in books of the useful arts and those 

 relating to sports and amusements. Th 

 importations were in theological and juvenile 

 works and in poetry and biography. No book 

 made any decided sensation. 



'. The most important work of the year 

 thb head wan beyond doubt - John 

 -' of Forty Yean in the Hou*?, 

 : An Autobiography," in 8 vol- 

 of which created a great aenaa- 

 !. A new cheaper 

 of -The Sherman Letters* published last 



vi-ar. Marv Abigail Dodge ((Jail II 



lished a " Biogru) - < .. I.laine." and snjBI 



work of intense interest, from an opposing stu: 



Tin- Lite ..f Samuel .1. Tilden." ' 

 friend John Higelow, who watt peculiarly q^^H 

 to give the details rontaim-d in tliet- 

 \Var-l Hill LuiiiMifs " H-f"'.: 

 ei.lli, ls-17 P6 edited \>\ ! 



hi.p-tliy Lamon. iin-i 



nature. L. K. < 'hitteli-len _ 



"Al.raliam Liiu-oln's Speech >." and 



contributed t/i the New York " h 



mempration of the thirtieth anni. -'.<-aai 



ciiuiti'>u nf April 4. Is'l.'i. w:is eiititl. d - Adrahft 



Lincoln : Tribute.-, from hi.- \ 



Of Soldiers. StateMiieii. and <'it./ 



with jui intrKlii<-tion l>v Williain 



The "Political Del.at. - 



Stephen A the < ''-rated Cain 



" tilled a ) mrto VMlB 



anl yet uifuiii we had " Political S|.eeeln-s at.d I 

 bate* of Abraham Lineoln and Step).. 

 185* . 



I >ay" wan the tit:- 

 of the Father of his '.,untry. 1 

 .r..|in-tm. ami Mr. KlipJia 



brary and 



a lecture delivered May 1 

 Chun-li. New York 

 George Washington " wan t 



! bridge 8. 1: 

 ingle isMie in tin 

 author Henry K. : 



1 Sketches of S 

 derate Cointnaii 

 Col. Theodore Ayrault I 1 

 Walker, and others, wan c- t 

 Dwight, and from Lieut. Arthur Sinclair, 

 federate States navy, we have a record full o*^H 

 i ean "t, 'the - A'.; \ \\x-.rt ^H 



Kiddle, who was 

 greaft, proflered u KecollectionH of War Time- 



