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LITERATURE, AMERICAN, IN 1898. 



North America"; William E. D. Scott illustrated 

 from original photographs his " Bird Studies," 

 which gave an account of the land birds of East- 

 ern North America; "Birds of Village and Field " 

 \VKS a bird book for beginners, by Florence A. Mer- 

 rium : Neltje Blanchan (Mrs. Nellie Blanchan (De 

 ( i ruff) Doubleday) in "Birds that Hunt and are 

 Hunted" gave life histories of 170 birds of prey, 

 game birds, and waterfowls, which had an intro- 

 duction by Coquina (G. 0. Shields). P. M. Silloway 

 published'" Sketches of some Common Birds"; 11. E. 

 Parkhurst told " How to Name the Birds"; Leander 

 S. Ke\ser added " News from the Birds" to the" Nat- 

 ural History Scries" of "Appletons' Home Read- 

 ing Books"'; "Crusoe's Island" was a bird-hunter's 

 story, told by F. A. Ober, for the same; and " Bird 

 World" was a bird book for children, by J. II. 

 Slickncy and Ralph Hoffman. The first of eight 

 sections to contain "Moths and Butterflies of the 

 United States East of the Rocky Mountains." by 

 Sherman F. Denton, was issued, and from W. J. 

 Holland. D.D., we had "The Butterfly Book." a 

 popular guide to the butterflies of North America, 

 with 48 plates in color photography, and many text 

 illustrations. George W. and Elizabeth G. Peck- 

 ham investigated " The Instincts and Habits of 

 Solitary Wasps." Vol. XI of the 12 which will 

 contain "The Silva of North America," by Charles 

 Sprague Sargent, was issued ; Liberty Hyde Bailey 

 published " Lessons With Plants " and also a " Sketch 

 of the Evolution of our Native Fruits." A collec- 

 tion of essays on " Living Plants and their Proper- 

 ties," by Joseph C. Arthur and Daniel Trembly 

 MucDougal, made a volume full of interest, and 

 from Charles Reid Barnes we had " Plant Life 

 considered with Special Reference to Form and 

 Function." " First Lessons with Plants " were an 

 abridgment from Liberty Hyde Bailey's " Lessons 

 with Plants"; George Francis Atkinson wrote an 

 " Elementary Botany "; Mrs. Julia MacNair Wright, 

 "Botany: The Story of Plant Life"; Clarence 

 Moorcs Weed, "Seed Travellers," studies of the 

 methods of dispersal of various common seeds ; 

 Volney Rattan, " Exercises in Botany for the Pa- 

 cific States " and a " West Coast Botany " ; and 

 Mary Eli/.abeth Parsons, "The Wild Flowers of 

 California," intended to complement Mrs. Dana's 

 instructions " How to Know the Wild Flowers." 

 Thomas Taylor, M. D., published a " Student's Hand- 

 book of Mushrooms of America," showing those edi- 

 ble and poisonous. " The Discharge of Electricity 

 through Gases" was the theme of lectures deliv- 

 ered by Joseph J.Thomson on the occasion of the 

 sesqui-centeiinial of Princeton University. "The 

 Telephone," by William J. Hopkins, traced outlines 

 of the development of transmitters and receivers; 

 "Magnets and Electric Currents" was an elemen- 

 tary treatise for the use of electrical artisans and 

 science teachers, by John Ambrose Fleming; and 

 James Edwin Houston was the author of " A Pocket 

 Dictionary of Elect rical Words, Terms, and Phrases." 

 A -Text-book of Physical Chemistry" was written 

 by Prof. Clarence L. Speyers for self-instruction as 

 well as class-room use ; a new edit ion of " A Manual 

 of Inorganic Chemistry/' by Thomas E. Thorpe, in 

 two volumes, was practically a new work, the origi- 

 nal being wholly recast and for the most part re- 

 written. Ernest A. Congdon offered "A Brief 

 Course in Qualitative Analysis"; E. T. Ladd, "A 

 Manual of Quantitative Chemical Analysis"; and 

 "Outlines of Industrial Chemistry" was a text- 

 book for students, by Frank Hall Thorp. "The 

 Story of Photography " was told briefly for" Apple- 

 tons' Library of Useful Stories." by Alfred T. 

 Story. An "Introduction to the Study of North 

 American Archeology" was an instructive and ex- 

 haustive work by Cyrus Thomas; " Creation Myths 



of Primitive America," in relation to the religious 

 history and mental development of mankind, were 

 examined by Jeremiah Curtin ; and " Traditions of 

 the Thompson River Indians of British Columbia " 

 were collected by James Teit and published as Vol. 

 VI of the "Memoirs of the American Folk-Lore 

 Society," with an introduction and notes by Frank 

 Boas. " Folk-Stories of the Northern Border " were 

 collected by Frank D. Rogers, and " The Magic of 

 the Horseshoe," with other folklore notes, came from 

 the pen of Dr. Robert Means Lawrence. " Bird- 

 Gods of Ancient Europe," by Charles de Kay, late 

 consul-general of Berlin, contained much curious 

 and unusual information, and was illustrated by 

 George Wharton Edwards. "The Smithsonian In- 

 stitution, 1846-1896," edited by Prof. George Brown 

 Goode, covered the history of its first, half century 

 of existence, and here may be mentioned a second 

 edition of "A Catalogue of Scientific and Technic- 

 al Periodicals, 1665-1895," by Henry Carrington 

 Bolton, published by the Smithsonian. 



To intellectual science belong " Outlines of De- 

 scriptive Psychology," a text-book of mental science 

 for colleges and normal schools, by Prof. George 

 Trumbull Ladd; "Essentials of Psychology," by 

 Colin S. Buell ; "The Psychology of Suggestion," 

 a research into the subconscious nature of man and 

 society, by Boris Sidis, which had an introduction 

 by William James ; " A Primer of Psychology," by 

 Edward Bradford Titchener ; " Truth and Error ; 

 or, The Science of Intellection," by Major John W. 

 Powell; and "The Story of the Mind," told by 

 James Mark Baldwin for " Appletons' Library of 

 Useful Stories." " The Problems of Philosophy " 

 were rehearsed by John Grier Ilibben in an intro- 

 duction to the study of philosophy ; " Theories of 

 the Will in the History of Philosophy " were gone 

 over by Archibald Alexander; Alexander Suther- 

 land traced " The Origin and Growth of the Moral 

 Instinct": "Studies of Good and Evil" was the 

 title of a series of essays upon problems of philoso- 

 phy and of life by Josiah Roycc ; and from D. P. 

 Hatch we had two volumes, "Some Philosophy of 

 the Hermetics " and " Some More Philosophy of 

 the Hermetics." " The Metaphysics of Balzac, as 

 Found in ' The Magic Skin,' Louis Lambert,' and 

 ' Seraphita,' " were discussed by Ursula N. Ges- 

 tefeld. 



History. Although, as a nation. we were engaged 

 in making history during the year 1898, we yet 

 found time to produce many historical books of 

 value. " A Constitutional History of the American 

 People, 1776-1850," by Francis Newton Thorpe, in 

 two volumes, traced the evolution of our Govern- 

 ment during the period named, and from Albert 

 Bushnell Hart we had the second volume of " Amer- 

 ican History told by Contemporaries," covering 

 the " Building of the" Republic, 1689-1783." " Se- 

 lect Documents illustrative of the History of the 

 United States, 177<i-1861," were edited with notes 

 by William Macdonald. and "The First Republic 

 in America " was an account of the origin of this 

 nation written from the records then (1624) con- 

 cealed by the council, rather than from the histories 

 then licensed by the crown, for which we were in- 

 debted to Alexander Brown. The latest phases of 

 the controversy over " The Voyages of the < 'abots " 

 were published in book form by the author. Samuel 

 E. Dawson, from the "Transactions of the Royal 

 Society of Canada for 1897"; Henry Harrisse con- 

 tributed a "Diplomatic History of America. 14.V2- 

 1494"; William Elliot Grillis wrote of "The Pil- 

 grims in their Three Homes England. Holland. 

 America," for the " Ifiverside Library for Young 

 People," and also added to " The Romance of Ameri- 

 can Colonization : How the Foundation St ones of our 

 History were Laid "; " Heroes of the Middle West : 



