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UA'ITRK. AMERICAN, IN' 1897. 



phens. Toombs, and Jefferson Davis, by William 

 Peterfield Trent, collected in a volume <>f ( 

 - and Politic-." an-: 



shall de I*ancey II ay wood gave Ml account ..f t In- 

 official adiuinUtrationi l -u. . \.-n.-.r <i.-..rtft- Bur- 



twioe Govern* >r "f the colony of North 

 Carolina, In the series of -Women of Colonial 

 and ((evolutionary Tiroes** we hare "Martha 

 Washington," by Anne II oil ings worth Wlmrt..n. 

 and "Catherine Schuyler." by Mary Gay Hum - 



I last an historic daughter of New York. 

 . Stories of New Kngland Capl ! to 



QMMdA during the Old l-Yem-h and Indian Wars" 

 were told by Charlotte Alice Baker, an-! Henry 

 -orison) recounted "The 

 I.." "The Life and Ad- 

 ventures of Nat Foster. Trapper an. I Hunter <>f the 

 Adirondack*.** br A n Curtiss, introduce 



ns to the original of .'n|>|><>. while still to 



the earlr period of our history belongs "John 

 Eliot's r-'imt Indian Teacher and In <'ock- 



eooe-de-Long Island. l.y William Wall.. 

 in an edition limited to 215 copies. No less than 

 six volumes were given to Gen. Grant: * Ulysses S. 

 Grant and the Penod of National Preservation and 

 Reconstruction" was written by William Coimnt 

 Church for the Heroes of the "Nations Series," a 

 companion volume in which series was " I i- ->-!: I-!. 

 Lee and the Southern Confederacy, 1807-1870." by 

 Henry Alexander White, D.D. ; "Gen. Grant's 

 Letters to a Friend. 1861-1880" were supplied with 

 an introduction and note- I (Irani \Vilson, 



who also contributed "Gen oral Grant" to the 

 Commanders Series". ( < nversations and Un- 

 published Letters" of Ulysses S. Grant were pub- 

 lishen by M. J. Cramer; Gen. Horace Porter de- 

 scribed "Campaigning with Grant"; and "The 

 True Story of U. S. Grant, the American Soldier," 

 was told lor boys and girl* l>y Klbrid^e Streeter 

 Brooks in the series of "Children's Lives of Great 

 Men." I : \-six Years in the Army," by Gen. 

 John M. Sehotield, was a military autobiography of 

 unusual interest, which came out near the end of 

 the Tear; Richard Meade Bache contril.ut.--l a 

 " Life of General George Gordon Meade," and " Per- 

 sonal Recollections hi NYl-on A. Mile*" 

 were illustrated by Frederic Remington and other 

 artists. " Commodore Bainbridge " was followed by 

 James Barnes from the gunroom to the quarter- 

 deck, and Molly Klliot Seawell's "Twelve N 

 Captains" commemorated certain Americans who 

 made themselves immortal. " 1861 to 1865, by an 

 Old Johnnie," contained the personal recollections 

 and experiences of James Dinkins in the < '- -n feder- 

 ate army, and J. Harvey Mathes gave the title of 

 -The old Guard in Gray" to lives of men who 

 were in the Confederate service. "The Life of 

 Kelson, the Krnbodiment of the Sea Power of 

 Britain." in two volumes, was from the able pen of 

 Capt. Alfred Thayer Mahan : Vols. II and III ap- 

 peared of William Million Sloane's "Life of Na- 

 poleon Bonaparte"; "Bertram! du Guesclin, < on- 

 stable of France,** was the subject of a study bv 

 Enoch Vine Stoddart, M. D. : Mr-. Mary Hart weft 

 Catberwood revived - The Days of .1 \ re : 

 and Anna L. Bieknell, the author ..f " Life in the 

 Tuileries under the Second Kmpire," retold - The 

 Story of Marie Antoiner Life of Philip 



n," bv Rev. Joseph Stump, ha/1 an intro- 

 leker. D. I)., and was prepared 

 in view of the approaching anniversary of t he birth 

 of the great reformer. " The Sacrifi- '.-f a Throne." 

 being an account of the life of An I'.ikeof 



Aosta, sometime King of Spain, was by H. Remsen 

 Whitehouse, - H-- " was the title 



to five addresses of Nathan Sheppard upon th 

 and times of eminent theologians and refer 





M A Chat about Celebrities: or. t!, 



." was bv Curtis (iuild ; " An Kpi-tle to I' 



M.i!\ I -shei-wood; and 



iiian on Two Continents." l.y Mrs. 



James Mackin. " A Correspondence between .l,,lm 



. |.h Waldo Lmcrson" was published 



;ward Waldo Kmerson. with a sketch of Ster- 



Hawthorne l.atlirop gave ttT 

 ITOrld delightful "Memories of llawlh. ; 

 and "Ha\ ^a\v the 



through the in-trumrnia kardj 



Life an. I Letters of Harriet Beeeher Si 

 were fortunate in their e<Iitor. Mr-. Air 

 and from M .illipswe have Rcmini- 



..f William wetmon 



Main ret letter- of Walt Whit- 



maii. The " Life (.! Ai i \ ll--pper (Jil 



edited by Sarah Hopper Kmerson and " K mi- 



niscenoes and Letters of Caroline C. Brigg-. 



George S. Merriam. " Oberlin Thursday ! 



were by James Monroe, -on Two Continent 



kiah Brake, describes pioneer and wartimes m 

 Kansas, while from I>r. Loin- Albert I'ank- we have 

 the story of " An Oregon Hoyhood." ".lournals of 

 John Lincklaen," the reconls of travels in the 

 1791 and 1792 in Pennsylvania. New York, and 

 Vermont, were published with a biographical sketch 

 and notes by Helen Lincklaen Fair-child. "Thirty 

 Years a Slave," was by Louis Hu-hes. To educa- 

 tional biography belong the "Life and Lett. 

 William BMftOD Kogers," edited by his wife, and 

 "Memorials of William ('ranch Bond and (. 

 Phillips I'.ond." by Kdward Singleton Holden. V..1. 

 II of "Biographical Sketches of the Gradua 

 YaleCollep. bv I'ranklin Bowditch Dexter. 

 ered the period from 1745 to 1763. " The Life of 

 Philin Schaff" was written by his son, I>r. David 



liaff, and from Ir. Charles Force D..I: 

 have an" Autobiography," with memoir by hi 

 "Life Reminiscences of an Old Lutheran Min 

 were by Dr. John G. Morris, and "The Life 

 of Dr." Franklin Wilson, as written by himself iii 

 hi- .Journals" appeared in small compass. The 

 " Life and Times of Edward Bass, Kir-i Bishop of 

 Massachusetts (1726-1808)," came from Daniel Du- 

 lany Addison. " From Different Point- <,f \ 

 was the title of a study of Benjamin l'i-k. I'.arrett. 

 by t he author of " The Republic," John Robert In- 

 lan ; " Brother Azarias " was written by Hev. John 

 Talbot Smith, and "A Life for Africa: Rev. Adol- 

 phus Clemens Good " was commemorate<l !> Kllcn 

 C. Parsons. "In .lourneyin^s Oft" was a sketch 

 of the life and travels of Mary C. Nind. i 

 ana I'.au.'ii-. and " A ( Jn.up of r'rcm-li < 'rit i< 

 Mr-. Mary Fi-her. and "Hours with Famoi, 

 ri-ian-." by Stuart Henry. ' Marchoj and M 

 was by Mathilde Man h.-i. Christopher W. Knauff 

 lev(.ted a volume to " Doctor Tucker. Prie-t-Mu- 

 sician," about the rise and progressof church n 

 in America. Lippincott's " Pronouncing Dictionary 

 of Biography and Mythology" went through a new 



1 and enlarged edition, and Vol. II app 

 of "Ameri -ful M-n of Affairs." an en-y- 



clopaflia of contemporaneous biographv. edi; 

 Henry Hall. 



( riticism and (.encral Literature. i 



f the American Revolution, 1763- 

 : Tyler, in two \<, 



exhioito the condition oi mind alike of Whig and 



Tory during that trying period, and is a companion 

 work to the same author'- M History of American 

 Literal ure during t he Colonial Time." " Varia." l.y 



- Hepplier. and " I'atrins" by Lou 



(iuin. nt some of the work of the feiual: 



ho have come so markedly to the front 



of late, years, while from Arlo Bates we had "Talks 



on the Study of Literature," and from Thomas 



