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book of Surgery," edited by William W. Keen, 

 M. D., and J. W.' White, M. D. ; a second edition of 

 A Manual of Modern Surgery, General and Oper- 

 alive," by John Chalmers Da Costa, M. D. ; Vol. 

 II of "A Text-book of General Surgery," by Her- 

 mann Tillmans, covering " Regional Surgery " ; " Or- 

 thopoKlic Surgery," by James E. Moore, M. D. ; and 

 " Brief Essays in Orthopaedic Surgery," by Newton 

 M. Shaffer, M. D. 



Poetry." In Palestine, and Other Poems," by 

 Richard Watson Gilder, and " From Sunset Ridge," 

 bv Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, contained alike poems 

 ofd and new, and from poets of the later generation 

 we had numerous volumes of verse, some excellent 

 and many that were ordinary. "New York Noc- 

 turnes, aiid Other Poems," came from Charles G. D. 

 Roberts ; " Comes One with a Song " was by Frank L. 

 Stanton, the Georgia laureate ; " Weh Down Souf, 

 and Other Poems," by Daniel Webster Davis; 

 " Shapes and Shadows," by Madison Julius Cawein ; 

 "The Birth of Galahad," by Richard Hovey; and 

 " By the Aurelian Wall, a'nd Other Elegies," by 

 Bliss Carman. ''Songs of War and Peace" were 

 sung by Sam Walter Foss, the author of "Back 

 Country Poems" and "Dreams in Homespun"; 

 " Soldier Songs and Love Songs," by A. H. Laidlaw ; 

 and " Songs of Good Fighting," by Eugene R. White. 

 "Ballads and Poems "came from John H. Yates, 

 ' The Ocean of Dreams, and Other Poems," from 

 Carolyn Howard Philip ; " The Seven Voices," from 

 J. Hooker Hammersley; "The Song of Stradella," 

 from Anna Gannon ; " Driftwood," sketches in po- 

 etry and prose, from Minnie Wallace Ketcham ; 

 "Labor and the Angel," from Duncan Campbell 

 Scott; "Prince Ragnal, and Other Holiday Verses," 

 from Eleanor Cecilia Donnelly; and " Poems," from 

 Philip Henry Savage. " The Wayfarers " was the 

 title of poems by Josephine Preston Peabody; 

 " From Me to You " of poems by Lilian Gertrude 

 Shuman ; " Before the Dawn " was a book of poems, 

 songs, and sonnets, by Joseph Leiser; "Voices of 

 the Morning" were heard by J. A. Edgerton ; " De- 

 cember Musings, and Other Poems," of Charles 

 Saiiford Ol instead, were collected into a volume; 

 " The Shrine of Love, and Other Poems," were from 

 the pen of Lucien V. Rule, and " Tents on the 

 Plains" from that of Shannon Birch; "Songs of 

 Flying Hours" were sung by Edward Willard Wat- 

 son, M. D.. and " Songs of Destiny and Others," by 

 Julia P. Dabney. " Elecampane, and Other Poems,'' 

 were by T. J. Moore ; " The Slopes of Helicon, and 

 Other Poems." by Lloyd Mifflin ; " The Carnival of 

 Venice, and Other Poems," by Florence Danforth 

 Newcomb ; " When the Birds Go North Again," 

 by Mrs. Ella Higginson ; "At the Foot of the Moun- 

 tain " was a collection of short poems by Emily R. 

 Logue ; " Songs of Two Peoples," by James Riley, 

 were divided between the American and Irish na- 

 tionalities; "Songs from the Southwest Country" 

 cam? from Freeman K. Miller, and "Some Verses" 

 from Helen Hay. "The Dream Beautiful, and 

 Other Poems," by Charles Hamilton Musgrove; 

 "The Chords of "Life," by Charles H. Crandall; 

 " Immortelles and Asphodels," by Laura G. Collins; 

 " Impressions," by Lilla Cabot Perry, and volumes 

 of " Poems" respectively from Mrs. Florence Earle 

 Coates and Philip Becker Goetz deserve mention; 

 and "Ben Kind's Verse" was edited by Nixon 

 Waterman and had an introduction by John Mc- 

 Govern and a biography by Opie Read of the au- 

 thor, Benjamin F. King, Jr., known as the Michigan 

 bard. Most of them were humorous and in dialect. 

 " Phil-o-rum's and Madeleine Vercheres" were two 

 French-Canadian dialect poems by William H. 

 Drummond, M. D. " The Bashful Earthquake, and 

 Other Fables and Verses." contained many pictures 

 by the author, Oliver Herford ; " Where Beauty is, 



and Other Poems," by Henry Johnson, consisted of 

 twelve sonnets and short poerns, and from Tom 

 Hall we had society verses entitled " When Cupid 

 Calls " and " When Love Laughs," the last a new 

 collection of society verse. " The Gotham of Yas- 

 mar" was a satire in verse by N. J. Clodfelter, and 

 "Three Women" were the theme of Mrs. Ella 

 Wheeler Wilcox. " La Santa Yerba," a volume of 

 verse in praise of tobacco, by William L. Shoe- 

 maker, was preluded by a few choice mottoes from 

 lovers of the Indian weed from the time of Sir Wal- 

 ter Raleigh to the. present day. Nature poems en- 

 titled " The Shadows of the Trees, and Other Poems," 

 were by Robert Burns Wilson. " On Christinas 

 Day," by Ellen M. H. Gates, and "Christmas in 

 California," by Rowland Sill, were illustrated sin- 

 gle poems, as was " Monticello : A Picture of the 

 Past," by Arthur C. Butts. "Down Durley Lain, 

 and Other Ballads," by Virginia Woodward Cloud, 

 were illustrated by Reginald B. Birch. " Fables 

 for the Frivolous " were offered, with apologies to 

 La Fontaine, by Guy Wetrnore Carryl. One of the 

 most striking books published during the year was 

 a collection of " Songs from the Ghetto," by Morris 

 Rosenfeld, a Russian Jew, who voices the misery of 

 the sweat shops of New York city. His three 

 groups of songs, " Songs of Labor, National Songs, 

 and Miscellaneous," were translated and had a glos- 

 sary and introduction by Leo Weiner. Volumes of 

 selections of verse include "A Treasury of American 

 Verse," edited by Walter Learned ; " Cornell Verse," 

 compiled by H. Adelbert Lyon ; and " The Doctor's 

 Window," poems by the doctor, for the doctor, and 

 about the doctor, edited by Ina Russelle Warren, 

 which had an introduction by William Pepper, 

 M. D. George C. Ferine made selections from the 

 "Poets and Verse-Writers of Maryland"; "Ships 

 and Sailors," a collection of songs of the sea as sung 

 by the men who sail it, was edited and compiled by 

 James Barnes and illustrated in color and black 

 and white by Ruf us F. Zogbaum ; " Songs of Sea 

 and Sail" were also collected by Frederic Fleming 

 Day; "Immortal Songs of Camp and Field" were 

 sent out by Rev. Louis Albert Banks, D. D., with 

 the story of their inspiration and striking anecdotes 

 connected with their history. S. A. Witherbee com- 

 piled and edited " Spanish- American War Songs," a 

 collection of poems written during the recent war 

 with Spain, and " Mother-Song and Child-Song " 

 were put together by Charlotte Brewster Jordan 

 from the writings of many poets. "Aarbert" was 

 the title of a drama without the stage or scenery, 

 wrought out through song in many meters, mostly 

 lyrical, by William Marshall; " Capriccios," a col- 

 lection of dramatic sketches, came from Louis James 

 Block, and " The Reformer of Geneva," an histor- 

 ical drama, from Charles Woodruff Shields. A re- 

 vised edition of the "Complete Poetical Works" of 

 Joaquin Miller was published during the year, and 

 "Selections from the Prose and Poetry *of Walt 

 Whitman " were edited with an introduction by 

 Oscar Lovell Triggs. James Mudge, D. D., made 

 choice of " The Best of Browning," and Rose Porter 

 gave us " Tennyson's Men and Women," arranged 

 for every day in the year. 



Political, Social, and Moral Science. Fore- 

 most among the works falling under this head must 

 be mentioned " The Science of Political Economy." 

 by Henry George, which represents the labor of the 

 last six years of his life upon a subject which he 

 had at least the honor of making popular and widely 

 discussed, if he did not succeed in fathoming all of 

 its problems. A memorial edition of his " Writings " 

 was also inaugurated during the year. " The Phi- 

 losophy of Government " was investigated by George 

 W. Walthew ; Simeon E. Baldwin made a study of 

 ' Modern Political Institutions," and John Jay 



