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ume of short stories. Henry James publish*.! 



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-The Front Yard. and Other lu * and 



- Dorothy, m Uharlealf- 



bert Craaiock (Mary N. Murftee) published 18 vol- 

 umes, " The Phantoms of th. 



Stories " and - The Mystery of Witchface Mountain, 

 and Other Stone* 



Village Watch 1 tales. 



Maria Ixwiac Pool contrasted the opposing tempera- 

 moots of our widely separated section* <>t country 

 la her novel, " Against Human Nature," and 

 Orne While produced a atro.. -The Com 



ing of Theodora." ." as told by 



Sarah Orne Jewell, was at once pathetic and hope- 

 ful, while from Mr*. ron*tance Cai 

 Burton Harrison) I kfl Errant Wooin. 



der varied skies. "With the Procession" wax an- 



., . r . ftf ..!, bg llei.n P.. l-'uller stan- 

 loo Pace), who apparently succeeds as well in hi* 

 -. .., .. - >deal and romantic one, Prom 

 BrHellarte came " Clarence " and -In a Hollow of 

 U," and Capt Charles King told "The Story 

 of Fort Frayne," publishing also 4 - Captain 

 and Sergeant Crasua," 8 stories in 1 volume, and 

 -Trooper Rote" with which was also bound "Sig- 

 nal Buttc," He also edited "Captain Dreams, and 

 Other Stories." "A Madeira Party," by I " 

 Mitchell, was the title given to a volume of 2 short 

 i which show he has lost none of his \ 



Philip Vernon," also from bin pen, proved to 

 be a tale in prose and verse of the days of Elizabeth 

 and the Spanish Armada. "Mr. Rabbit at Home" 

 was intended aa a sequel to -Little Mr. Thimble- 

 Infer and his Queer Country," by Joel Chandler 

 Harris, whose " Uncle Remus" went through a now 



vised edition during the year. "A Singular 



was outlined by Elizabeth Stuart Phelpa (Mrs. 

 Herbert I). Ward), and "A Dash to the Pole" was 

 made by her hunband in a wildly imaginative flight 

 in an air shin. u The Wise Woman " was the 

 Mrs. Clara Louise Burn ham's helpful novel, and 

 Rose Porter made a charming picture of" My Son's 

 Wife," "Bernicia," the only contribution of Mrs. 

 Amelia E. Barr, was an English story of the close of 

 the eighteenth centurv. < >n the point " was a sum- 

 mer idyl by Nathan Ilaskell Dole: Hczekiah Butter- 

 worth related the romance of a colonial lire-Lie "In 

 w England"; and Dr. Charles Conrad Abbott 

 described "A Colonial Wooing." Mary Catherine 

 Lee, the author of "A Quaker Girl of Nant 

 was eoually successful with "A Soulless Singer"; 

 Mary 1 1 a) lock Foote was welcomed once more with 



Mary 



- The Cup of Trembling, and Other Stories " : The 

 Water of a Saint, i,- Dories," by Grace Ell. ry 



Channing, appeared in the " Carnation Series 

 Julirn GordobTMrs, Julia Van Renaselaer < 

 told of " A Wedding, and Other Stories." Aim 

 Doojrlas sent out 9 books, " Shcrburne Cousins," " A 

 tiherimroe Romance," and " In Wild Rose Tin., 

 vend problem of capital and labor th-me 



of an entirely new writer, Helen nee, a 



granddaughter of Rnfus Choate, in "The Story of 

 ChrUinelCochaforl," the scene of which is laid in 

 Blots IB ov own times. The book preserves through - 

 ovlooi alone its interest, but the elevated tone which 

 b ite most attractive characteristic. "The Doctor, 

 his Wife, and the Clock" and "Doctor Izard" be- 

 * to Anna Katharine Green (Mrs. Charles 

 A local flavor attaches to "Miss Cherry- 

 by John Luther Long, and " The 

 Moda," a romance of MaUyaTby Rounsc- 

 iman. "The Princess SonU," by Julia 

 -1 WI V T 1 ^ ronMneeof the Latin quarter, 

 of a Professional Exile," by E. 8. Nadal, 

 the character and foibles of the American 

 abroad. - In the Land of the Sunrise " was 

 ha story of a Japanese family and the wonderful 



land they live in, written by Robert N. Barret 

 the object of awaken in.' interest ii 



labor, whil. :he Sun < \ 



canaM. 



u ). under \< 

 praaaioti of travels in that repul K. .-,,," 



\Iyrccdes: A Story of N Sarah 



iied strongly ajalnal the n.. i! ti u . 



Catholic Church in that countrv. m, . 

 A Tale 



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pedittoa "f ^'i. 



Twain" and "Ti. Jott 



Mackie, were romances of the Canadiai 

 turning to our own country, we ha 

 Wilson: A Daughter 



Blair, who appear* for the tir>t time ii, 

 world with this sweet and simple 

 lirown we have " Meadow ( i rass," 6 tales 

 land life; from Dane Conyngham, " Hi. 

 a New Enirland romance'; tmm |i . !; .\.. 



,:ned tn>m an old E0JK 

 ; from ( 'hn>toti||fr 

 : from William ^ 

 44 A Market for an Impulse"; fr 

 derwood, "Doctor dr... 



douse Cobwel,." a tai. 

 in Vermont in the war time; tr<>: 



bell Watson. -Oil l.vii!,], , ABB 



Kendrick Hi-m-di.-t. ""An I>land Story": and tr-.m 

 George Wharton Edwai 



." Jo .*h..rt stories of 



Maine, illustrated by himself. "1 ft *9 



-a, also ha> laid in a^H 



England, and deals with current <; refaH 



dirls at Cottug- ''I^B 



narrated by Emma D. Kefley Hawkins, and BB 

 Perry described a Connecticut town as " The PhlaV 

 City." " Doctor Hathern's D was a stqv 



of Virginia by Mrs. Marv J. Hoi.,,, 

 in Virginia before the War," bv Letitiu M I: 

 was illustrated by W. A. McCullough and .lul.-. Tur 

 cas; and "Christ " waa, 



according to Dora E. NV. Spratt, ;. n btftK 



and white .)ame> Lane Allen published u AftA 

 math," Tart 11 of \ K. ntuck.i Cardinu 

 " Young Greer of Kent H O0fl 



by El- ! lie Heart ..f Old HJM 



ory, and < >ther Stories of Tennessee," by Miss WB 

 Allen Dromgoole, had a t>r> 1 lower, 



:i nd"A Little Si>ter to the Wilderness;' byLOH 

 Bell, told of life among the poor whites of West TV 

 nessee. <>pi-- 1'. Read (Arkansas Tra\ i 

 a romance " On the Su wane* tiCaro 



Una was the scene of "Jack () 1 Maria 



Beale, as Texas in the war time u. UnflT 



M..',.no 

 I '! Clelland. 



Bayou Tecne," 1 r mi/jl 



the existcn< .n blood in their respeelM 



heroines, and the race problem of 'the > 

 cussed in " The Son- of Ham," by I.oi, 

 who published also " Corona or the Nantahalas." 

 " The Hand of Fate" was a r 

 Kate Lilly Blue, and rural life in Arkan- 

 background of " Beholding as in 

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rn California, by Mrs. Margaret - 

 ham, were collected into a volume, and the same ui> 

 try is the scene of " Go Forth and Find," by T 

 H. Brainerd. " 'Cension: A SkeU h t- 

 Norte," by Maude Mason Austin, appeared in ** j^R] 

 pert Little Novels," and 1 



readers with interest "Over the Old Trail" to s 

 Colorado mining camp. "The < ' )0 ^^H 



by Henry E. Rood, pointed out the dangers n*ultinjr 

 on unrestricted emigration as exemplified in the coal 



