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Thomas Ryan, of the Mendelssohn Quintette Club, 

 Boston. Prof. Daniel Coit Gilman wrote The 

 Life of James Dwight Dana; E. P. Roe: Reminis- 

 cences of his Life, by his sister, Mary A. Roe, 

 found favor with the many admirers of that popu- 

 lar writer of fiction; Novelists in the Warner 

 Classics were sympathetically treated by Henry 

 James, W. T. Trent, and others; Kate Field: A 

 Record, was from Lilian Whiting; and from 

 Thomas Wentworth Higginson we had a collec- 

 tion of portraits of his Contemporaries, including 

 many well-known names. Mrs. Mary Virginia 

 Hawes Terhune (Marion Harland) gave a glimpse 

 of Charlotte Bronte at Home in the series of Lit- 

 erary Hearthstones, following her volume on Wil- 

 liam Cowper, which initiated the series. Anton 

 Seidl was a costly memorial by his friends, in an 

 edition limited to 1,000 copies; an Autobiograph- 

 ical Sketch of Mrs. John Drew, covering nearly 

 seventy years of American dramatic history, had 

 an introduction by her son, John Drew, with bio- 

 graphical notes by Douglas Taylor; and in the 

 Sock and Buskin Biographies we had Julia Mar- 

 lowe, by John D. Barry. Little Journeys to the 

 Homes of Eminent Painters were, of course, con- 

 ducted by Elbert Hubbard. Lights and Shadows 

 of a Long Episcopate was the title of reminis- 

 cences and recollections by Bishop Henry B. 

 Whipple, the venerable missionary to the Indians 

 of Minnesota, and from John B. Adger we had 

 the record of My Life and Times, 1810-1899, while 

 Under Three Flags, by Rev. George Wharton 

 Pepper, told the story of his life as preacher, 

 captain in the army, chaplain, and consul. Hor- 

 ace Bushnell, Preacher and Theologian, by Theo- 

 dore Thornton Munger, was the first full and 

 connected account of the work of the eminent 

 Congregational clergyman of Connecticut. A 

 Discourse in Memory of H. Leavitt Goodwin, pro- 

 nounced in parish church of East Hartford, April 

 16, 1899, by Dr. Leonard Woolsey Bacon, was 

 published in pamphlet form; The Apostle of the 

 North, Rev. James Evans, with his work among 

 the red men of the Hudson Bay territories, was 

 sympathetically treated by Egerton Ryerson 

 Young; and a Life of Father Hecker, Founder of 

 the Paulists, by Rev. Walter Elliott, had an in- 

 troduction by Rev. John Ireland. C. F. B. Miel, 

 D. D., in A Soul's Pilgrimage confided his personal 

 and religious experiences. Desiderius Erasmus of 

 Rotterdam was contributed by Prof. Ephraim 

 Emerton to the Heroes of the Reformation Series ; 

 A Life of the Pope (Leo the Thirteenth) was com- 

 piled and translated from the most authentic 

 sources by Arthur D. Hall ; The College Warden, 

 by Henry A. Fairbairn, M. D., was a biography 

 of his father, Robert Brinckerhoff Fairbairn, 

 warden of St. Stephen's College, Annandale, 

 N. Y.; and Henry D.. Stevens sketched A Boy's 

 Life in its spiritual ministry that of his son. 

 Ingersollia was the title of gems of thought from 

 the lectures, speeches, and conversation of the 

 late Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, which contained 

 a biographical sketch by Thomas W. Handford, 

 and A Vision of War, a patriotic address by Col. 

 Ingersoll, was published with illustrations by H. 

 A. Ogden. A Life for Liberty, a collection of 

 antislavery and other letters of Sallie Holley, 

 edited with introductory chapters by John White 

 Chad wick, was far enough removed in spirit from 

 White and Black under the Old Regime largely 

 biographical, by Mrs. Victoria V. Clayton, widow 

 of Major-Gen. Henry D. Clayton, C. S. A., late 

 President of the University of Alabama. Henry 

 Harisse was the subject of a biographical and 

 bibliographical sketch by Adolf Growoll, in a lim- 

 ited edition. The Last of the Great Scouts con- 

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tained the life story of Col. William F. Cody 

 (Buffalo Bill) as told by his sister, Mrs. Helen 

 Cody Wetmore, in line with which was Buffalo 

 Jones' Forty Years of Adventure, a volume of 

 facts gathered from the experience of C. J. Jones, 

 compiled by Henry Inman. Throne Makers was 

 the suggestive title of a volume by William Ros- 

 coe Thayer, the author of The Dawn of Italian 

 Independence, and True Stories of Heroic Lives 

 were told of courageous men and women of the 

 nineteenth century by personal acquaintances and 

 eyewitnesses. Vols. VI, VII, and VIII were is- 

 sued of the National Cyclopaedia of American 

 Biography, and Who's Who in America, a bio- 

 graphical dictionary of living men and women of 

 the United States in 1899-1900, was edited by 

 John W. Leonard, proving an exceedingly useful 

 handbook. 



Criticism and General Literature. The first 

 of two volumes which will contain An Introduc- 

 tion to the Methods and Materials of Literary 

 Criticism, by Prof. Charles Mills Gayley and Fred- 

 erick Newton Scott, was issued during the year 

 and was devoted to The Bases in ^Esthetics and 

 Poetics; The Authority of Criticism, and Other 

 Essays, came from Prof. William P. Trent; and 

 Some Principles of Literary Criticism were set 

 forth by C. T. Winchester. A General Survey of 

 American Literature was made by Mary Fisher, 

 author of A Group of French Critics, and Blanche 

 Wilder Bellamy reprinted in book form her 

 sketches of Twelve English Poets, with selections 

 from their works, taken as representatives from 

 Chaucer to Tennyson. Wilbur Lucius Cross 

 traced The Development of the English Novel. 

 The Treatment of Nature in the Poetry of the 

 Roman Republic (exclusive of Comedy) was the 

 subject of a thesis submitted by Katharine Allen 

 for the degree of doctor of philosophy in the 

 University of Wisconsin, and published as a Bul- 

 letin of that university; Joel Elias Spingarn con- 

 tributed A History of Literary Criticism in the 

 Renaissance, with special reference to the influ- 

 ence of Italy in the formation and development 

 of modern classicism, to the Columbia University 

 Studies in Literature; while Prof. Albert Elmer 

 Hancock was responsible for an excellent study 

 in historical criticism entitled The French Revo- 

 lution and the English Poets. A History of Eng- 

 lish Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century was 

 delivered in the form of lectures by Prof. Henry 

 A. Beers before Yale University, while The Trou- 

 badours at Home: Their Lives and Personalities, 

 their Songs and their World, were the theme of 

 two volumes by Justin H. Smith, containing 178 

 illustrations. French Portraits, by Vance Thomp- 

 son, bore as subtitle Appreciations of the Writ- 

 ers of Young France. Part I of Romances of 

 Roguery: An Episode in the History .of the Novel, 

 by Frank Wadleigh Chandler, was devoted to 

 The Picaresque Novel in Spain, and Contemporary 

 Spain as shown by her Novelists, compiled by 

 Mary Wright Plummer, had an introduction by 

 Edward Everett Hale. Henry Budd published 

 St. Mary's Hall Lectures, and Other Papers. Leo 

 Wiener wrote The History of Yiddish Literature 

 in the Nineteenth .Century, and from Israel 

 Abrahams we had Chapters on Jewish Litera- 

 ture, extending over more than seventeen cen- 

 turies. Richard Burton proffered his Literary 

 Likings. An exceptionally artistic work, both 

 in its subject-matter and manner of presentation, 

 was Fisherman's Luck and some Other Uncer- 

 tain Things, by Henry Jackson Van Dyke, Jr.; 

 Stories of Lake. Field, and Forest, by Frank A. 

 Bates, recorded the rambles of a sportsman-natu- 

 ralist; Robert R. McLeod commemorated Nature 



