LITKRA'ITRi:. AMF.Rlc\N. l\ 



M-S open to Women th, Continental, 



Hiul ' -wlrr 



profltatd "Childhood: Its Character and Cu! 



Harriet M. Scott, a> iJrrtrude Buck, pre- 



pared a manual <-f "Organic K<lu A aeo- 



ond edition ap|aivd ,,f Ir. William T. II 

 essay upo ion the True Industrial 



/ i,"; William \V. Murray was tin- author 

 ,,f a ind William II. 



Mao- .-! in II nd 



i ,,f "The 



-h language and "'." and Liny 



American Au- 

 thor- Carr Pearson <i 



ii|**iti<'ii." iiinl Thomas L. Stcdman. 



M D., to "Modern Greek Mastery M offered a .short 



riHid t ancient lireek. " Iatin Manuscript-." by 



.1 W. Johnston, was an elementary Introduo- 



to the use of or: ; -n- for high schools 



and college classes. Fro-n Charl. 'i we 



had a "Three- Year Preparatory Cou r-- in l-'n n -h"; 



Aayland Parker and Nellie Lathrop 



Helm. Vol. II of "fnele Robert'- Q hy " : 



from Henry \V. K -igwi! . i N-ments of *Ge- 



a'nd from .1. F. Smith, a "S, 1,,,,,| (,eome- 



try." inductive in plan. Kmer->n 1-1. White pub- 



Itthed a "Key to 'School Algebra,'" in "White's 



of Mathematics" ; Kmily K. Bentoi. 



Happy Methods in Numbers f,, r Little Peo- 



-hool Gymnastic i A. Sjttea 



of P -raises for ^ -manated" from 



Jesie II. Bancroft; the first of "Nature Study 



Read Home Ken.; ."was 



Harold's First Discoveries,*' by .1. W. Troeger. 

 - Baldwin arranged "School Reading by 

 Grades" for the seventh and eighth years: II. A. 

 (iuerU'r contributed "The St. TV ,f the Chosen 

 People "to the- School Reading*"; Russell 



B. Smith. M. I)., and Kver.-tt C. Willard were the 

 joint authors of a "Standard School Physi 



Anatomy"; and Albert F. Blaisdell. M. h.. 



it "A Practical Physiology," intended as a 



text-book for higher schools. " Physical Experi- 



-." by Alfred P. Gage, was a manual and note 

 book adapted to accompany any text-book of phys- 

 ics. "Asia," by Frank G. Carpenter, came out fa 

 " Carpenter's Geographic Readers." To L-.j, i 

 we were indebted for a " Kindergarten Guide." An 

 American view of "Schoolboy Life in Kn^land" 

 was given by John Corbin; and "On a \\Y-t, -rn 

 Campus n was a collection of stories and sketches 



il of life in a coeducational college in the 

 West, written bv undergraduates, and with draw- 

 ings bv Prank Wing. 



J ion. Only 869 novels were recorded as 

 printed or iapOfttd into this country durini: 

 a falling off of 2-i:> from the 1.1 14 of 1S!KJ. Of this 

 riumU-r :t5S were by American authors, while the 

 Kngli-h and Cotitine'ntal works of fiction manufac- 

 tunil in the I'm!.-.! States numlx-re*! but 

 against 890 the y.-ar jn -.\inga growing 



iu-e for native talent in this <lepartment of 

 literature. Of the total numU-r of novels issued 



publishing houses during the year. 71 :: 

 new books, as compared with 1.012 "in 1896, while 

 an increase, there being 156 as 



against 102. The most marked feature iti the 

 character of the novel* was the return in many to 



lutionarydaysand i p i-'nap- the 



successful novel .f the year wa- " The Choir Invis- 

 br Janes I^atie Allen, the autlior of "A Ken- 

 tucky Cardinal." th- M-.W. of which i^ a No lairl in 

 Kentucky in 1?!>5. From F. Marion Crawford we 

 had two novels. "Corle.,ne: A Tale ,,f Sicily." in 

 two volumes, and M A ]{. of Y-Menlav." the char- 

 acters in which last are American, althou-h the 

 scene is laid in Lucerne. " Jlis Grace of O#m 



by 31: ii Burnett, embraced the 



portions of that nobleman's life omitted fro: 

 1 .ality." and from Rudyard Kiplin- 



.avM-d aim -n- Aniei-i.-aii no\el- 

 .11 Coiirni: ! the 



.iiks. William I>ean IlowelN 



Rented by -The Landl-. rd at Lion's Head " and - An 

 ." and he aNo wrote M A 

 -it :' Coincd\." Id 



told ..f "Tlie 



SpoiN of pnyntoii " . 

 "Three Partner-; or. Ti 

 Tree Hill"; and from Richard llanlin 

 had ' n I n- 



told I i "The (, 



the latter considerably lighter in Hi 

 Paul Leicester Ford. \vho. r "ll..n. P.-ter Mirlini:" 

 has g> lantly and dcer\edly in popn 



siiK-c it was published in 1*!M. and ent it les it- au- 

 thor to a place in the front rank of American nov- 

 . Full of the feelini: and tire ,,f Hie olden 

 time was " Iluijh Wynn> . lime 



uteiiant Colonel 'ii the StalT of H; 

 cellencv (ieiieral Wash i n-;t >n." in twovolun.' 

 I>r. Silas W.-ir Mitchell, and to the same period b". 

 l<>nu r "A Colonial l-'rce- Lance." by ('haiin-' 

 Hotrhki-s; \ h ni-hter ..f Two Nations." bv 

 F.llen (Jale McClelland: "The Sun of Sar.v 

 by .los,.j,i, A. Alt-heler. who wrote "\ Sold 

 Manhattan"; "Kini: Wa-hington," by Ad- 

 Sk.-el and William H. Brearley : M An Unwilling 

 Maid." by Mrs. Jennie < J<>uld Lincoln; an, ; 

 tin-old Dominion," by Mrs. Burton Han i 



ii'ayner. and M r \ "lid 



theCityC,: >lniiial. "\"i\ianof Virginia,* 1 



by llurlbert Fuller, a story of Bacon's Rebellion of 

 1676. "Captain Shays .'i Populi-t of 1 TMJ." was 

 by George R. R. RIV.T-. the author of "The 

 enior's (Jarden." "The Latimei-" was by Henry 

 Christopher M<-Cook. D. I).; " A Loya! 

 came from Jam*- Barnes; !U ,,l Chalmette" Inun 

 Clinton Ross (R.), who published aNo "Xu! 

 Other historical m.vcN \\civ "TI,.- F..ru r c in tli' 1 

 Forest." bv Charh-s C. I). Roberts which relate- to 

 the period anticipating the expuNimi of th 

 dians from Nova Scotia; "Pontiac. Chief .,f the 

 ottaw.W by H. R. (iordon; "A Colonial Witch." 

 ink S. 'child; "The Romance of a Jesui! Mi- 

 sion." by M. P.ourchier Sanford ; "Sweet I 



A'. Mitchell; "A Hen. in Homespun." a tale 

 f the loyal South, by William K. Barton: and 

 " Brokenbiirne : A Southern Auntie's War Tal- 

 Virginiii Frazer Boyle. "An Knemy to the K 



-pheiis ih-alt with France in the time of 

 H-nrvlII; and " The Falcon of Langeac," b) I 

 White-ley, with the early part of the ivi-n of |-'ran- 

 cis I. "On the Red Staircase" and An Ii-iperial 

 Lover" were tales of Ru ia by M. Imlay Tavlor. 

 while " Primmer- of the Sea." by Flop ; 

 KiiiLT-l-'V. c.-.itered around the Man in the Iron 

 Ma-k. Two novels which aroused considerable com- 

 ment were " The (Jadflv," a strong but b 

 of Italy in the first half of the pn-ent r-i-ntm- 

 Mr-. I'.. L. Voynieh. who was for -ome time lie! 

 to be a man.aiid " The Descendant." written to dem- 

 it c the impossibility of living contrary : 

 Nt ing social laws, published anonymou-l\. by Kllen 

 ..w. " In the Crucible" was i i icnio 



Litchfield. and Anna Katharine . B full 



particulars r,f "That AtTair Next I).,or." ".lerome. 

 i." was one of Marv K. Wilkins's s\ 

 irlaii'l life. "The Third Violet " figured 

 in a romance by Stephen Crane, and "The Gen- 

 eral's Double," a story of the Army of the Poto- 

 : t. Charles King, who published aNo 



ry of the Sioux outbreak 

 "The Missionary Sheriff" was by All 



