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LITERATURE, AMERICAN, IN 1899. 



by Marian M. George, Lydia A very Coonley, Mary 

 S. Conrade, and others. Harold's Quests were 

 recorded for Appletons' Home Reading Books by 

 John W. Troeger. In the little What is Worth 

 While Series we had two practical papers on 

 Rational Education for Girls, by Elizabeth Hutch- 

 inson Murdock, and The Choice of a College for 

 a Boy, by Charles Franklin Thwing, D. D. 



Fiction. Twenty-five more new novels were 

 published in 1899 than in 1898, the total being 

 749 as against 724 the preceding year, while the 

 new editions were about the same. Of the total 

 number' of works of fiction recorded during the 

 year, inclusive of new editions, 457 were by Amer- 

 ican authors, as compared with 358 last year and 

 the vear previous. Two books sprang into spe- 

 cial prominence. Janice Meredith, by Paul Leices- 

 ter Ford, the author of The Honorable Peter 

 Stirling, and many other notable works of his- 

 tory, biography, and fiction, and Richard Carvel, 

 bv Winston Churchill, who was last year heard 

 from for the first time as the author of The 

 Celebrity. Both were stories of the Revolution. 

 The book which had the greatest sale during 

 the year, however, and which went through the 

 greatest number of editions, was Westcott's 

 David Harum, published the year previous, which 

 reached its three hundred and thirtieth thousand. 

 William Dean Howells published Ragged Lady 

 and Their Silver W 7 edding Journey, the last in 

 two volumes; Henry James satirized The Awk- 

 ward Age of a young English girl in social life; 

 Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett gave to the world 

 information In Connection with the De Willough- 

 by Claim before Congress; That Fortune, by 

 Charles Dudley Warner, completes the trilogy of 

 which the preceding numbers were A Little Jour- 

 ney in the World and The Golden House; The 

 Jamesons was the sole contribution by Mary 

 Eleanor Wilkins; Francis Hopkinson Smith pub- 

 lished 11 short stories under the title of The 

 Other Fellow; Via Crucis, by Francis Marion 

 Crawford, was a romance of the second crusade; 

 Active Service came, of course, from Stephen 

 Crane; Richard Harding Davis collected short 

 stories under the title of The Lion and the Uni- 

 corn; A Confident To-morrow, by James Brander 

 Matthews, purported to be a novel of New York ; 

 Henry Worthington, Idealist, was the second ef- 

 fort of Margaret Sherwood (Elizabeth Hastings), 

 who gave us in 1896 An Experiment in Altruism; 

 The Lively Adventures of Gavin Hamilton, de- 

 tailed by Molly Elliot Seawell, were illustrated 

 by H. C. Edwards; Sarah Barnwell Elliott de- 

 scribed An Incident, and Other Happenings; 

 Dionysius, the Weaver's Heart's Dearest, by 

 Blanche Willis Howard (Mrs. Teuffel), was pub- 

 lished posthumously, as was Maria Louise Pool's 

 Sand 'n' Bushes and a collection of short stories, 

 entitled A Widower and Some Spinsters. Julia 

 Magruder wrote A Beautiful Alien and A Heaven- 

 kissing Hill; Sarah Orne Jewett, The Queen's 

 Twins, and Other Stories; Capt. Charles King, 

 A Trooper Galahad; and Mrs. Mary Hartwell 

 Catherwood, Spanish Peggy: A Story of Young 

 Illinois, The Queen of the Swamp, and Other 

 Plain Americans, and Mackinac and Lake Stories. 

 Mrs. Constance Gary Harrison (Mrs. Burton Har- 

 rison) was no less prolific, sending out A Triple 

 Entanglement, The Circle of a Century, and The 

 Carcellini Emerald, with which last other tales 

 were included. Loveliness : A Story, by Elizabeth 

 Stuart Phelps Ward (Mrs. Herbert Dickinson 

 Ward), was put forward as a plea against vivi- 

 section; from Mrs. Harriet Elizabeth Prescott 

 Spofford we had Old Madame, and Other Trage- 

 dies, and The Maid he Married ; Mrs. Amelia Edith 



Barr propounded a difficult question in Was it 

 Right to Forgive? a domestic romance, and from 

 the same author we had Trinity Bells, a tale of 

 old New York, and I, Thou, and the Other One, 

 a love story pure and simple. The Price of Blood 

 was an extravaganza of New York life in 1807, 

 written in five chapters and also illustrated by 

 Howard Pyle; Frank R. Stockton proved amus- 

 ing as ever in The Vizier of the Two-horned 

 Alexander; A Prince of Georgia, and Other Tales, 

 were from the pen of Julian Ralph; The Bush- 

 whackers, and Other Stories, from that of Charles 

 Egbert Craddock (Mary Noailles Murfree), who 

 also told The Story of Old Fort Louden; three 

 stories of strong local flavor by George W 7 ashing- 

 ton Cable bore the title of Strong Hearts, while 

 from Joel Chandler Harris (Uncle Remus) we 

 had Plantation Pageants, illustrated by E. Boyd 

 Smith, and The Chronicles of Aunt Minervy Ann, 

 with illustrations by A. B. Frost. Santa Glaus' s 

 Partner was a Christmas story by Thomas Nelson 

 Page; Averages, a story of New York, by Eleanor 

 Stuart, the author of Stonepastures ; John Ken- 

 drick Bangs recounted the antics of The En- 

 chanted Typewriter, and also reported the liter- 

 ary exercises of the first regular meeting of The 

 Dreamers: A Club; James L. Ford's Cupid and 

 the Footlights was illustrated by Archie Gunn; 

 Mistress Content Craddock was the heroine of 

 Annie Eliot Trumbull; and yet another posthu- 

 mous novel of Harold Frederic saw the light, en- 

 titled The Market Place. The Gentleman from 

 Indiana, by Booth Tarkington, created an excel- 

 lent impression as the first attempt of its author, 

 and Arthur Stanwood Pier also made a hit with 

 The Pedagogues, a story of the Harvard Summer 

 School. The Confounding of Camelia, by Anne 

 Douglas Sedgwick, did not fall behind her novel 

 of last year, The Dull Miss Archinard; The Mor- 

 mon Prophet (Joseph Smith) was chosen for a hero 

 by Lily Dougall; A Daughter of the Vine, by 

 Mrs. Gertrude Franklin Atherton (Frank Lin), 

 was a painful study in heredity; and from Mrs. 

 Anna Katharine Green Rohlfs we had another 

 thrilling detective story, Agatha Webb. To his- 

 torical fiction belong In Castle and Colony, by 

 Emma Rayner, the author of Free to Serve; The 

 Fight for Dominion, a romance of our first war 

 with Spain, by Gay Parker; The Sword of Jus- 

 tice, by Sheppard Stevens, who last year contrib- 

 uted I am the King; Loyal Blue and Royal Scar- 

 let, a story of '76, by Marion Ames Taggart; A 

 Pretty Tory, by Mrs. Jennie Gould Lincoln; The 

 Tory Maid, by Herbert Baird Stimpson; West- 

 chester: A Tale of the Revolution, by Henry 

 Austin Adams; Smith Brunt, a story of the old 

 navy, by Waldron Kintzing Post; For the Free- 

 dom of the Sea, a romance of the W 7 ar of 1812, 

 by Cyrus Townsend Brady; Sons of Strength, 

 dealing with the Kansas border wars, by William 

 R. Lighten; In Hampton Roads, a dramatic ro- 

 mance of the civil war, by Charles Eugene Banks 

 and George Cram Cook; The Rebel's Daughter, 

 by J. G. Werner; The Last Rebel, by Joseph A. 

 Altsheler; The Legionaries, a story of Morgan's 

 raid, by Henry Scott Clark; and, coming to the 

 late war with Spain, A Lost American, a tale of 

 Cuba, by Archibald Clavering Gunter, who also 

 published Jack Curzon, with its scene in the 

 Orient; A Cosmopolitan Comedy, by Anna Robe- 

 son Brown; The High Commission, a romance of 

 the Spanish- American War, by Fredericka Span- 

 gler Cantwell; The Wreck of the Conemaugh, 

 by T. Jenkins Hains, purporting to be a record 

 of some events set down from the notes of an 

 English baronet during the American war with 

 Spain, and Don Fernandez, the Spanish Spy. A 



