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LITERATURE, AMERICAN, IN 1899. 



garet Augusta Kellogg; E. H. Cooper traced the 

 successive steps of a man Resolved to be Rich; 

 Hervey White entered into the Differences of life 

 and station; Ella Napier Lefroy proposed one 

 standard of morality for men and women in The 

 Man's Cause: The Decadents was a story of 

 Blackwell's island and Newport, by Charles W. 

 De Lyon Nichols (Shelton Chauncey) ; Mormon- 

 ism was proclaimed The False Star by A. D. 

 Gash ; temperance was advocated in The Whistle 

 in the Alley, by E. A. Rand; and miscegenation 

 was discussed in Stephen the Black, by Caroline 

 H. Pemberton. The Bondwoman, by Mrs. Marah 

 Ellis Ryan, related to the days of slavery, as did 

 The Fugitive, a tale of adventure in^ the days 

 of clipper ships and slavers. The Yarn of a 

 Bucko Mate, by Herbert E. Hamblen (F. Benton 

 Williams), recounted his adventures in two 

 oceans: The Voyage of the Pulo Way, by W. 

 Carl ton Dawe. contained a record of some strange 

 doings at sea : from Cy Warman we had Snow 

 on the Headlight, a story of the great Burling- 

 ton strike, and The White Mail; and Mrs. Mollie 

 E. Moore Davis, the author of Under the Man- 

 Fig, sent out a new Texas story, The Wire Cut- 

 ters. Oliver Iverson. by Ann Devoore, dealt 

 largely in the mysterious and exciting; Charlotte 

 Perkins Stetson was grewsome and uncanny in 

 detailing the baneful effect of The Yellow Wall 

 Paper: Heloise Durant Rose unveiled A Ducal 

 Skeleton : Miss Carmichael's Conscience, accord- 

 ing to Baroness Von Hutten, was a study in 

 fluctuations; Morton Grinnell, M. D., described 

 An Eclipse of Memory; Teresa Dean confided the 

 Reveries of a Widow to the public; Alfred J. 

 Cohen (Alan Dale) published His Own Image; 

 Mrs. Mary J. Holmes, The Tracy Diamonds; 

 Charles L. Marsh, A Gentleman Juror; Edgar 

 Morette, The Sturgis Wager, a detective story; 

 Josephine Bontecue Steffens, Letitia Berkeley, 

 A. M. ; H. S. Irwin, Helena ; Hanson Penn Diltz, 

 Hollow Bracken; N. B. Winston, Waters that 

 Pass Away; and Linn Boyd Porter (Albert Ross) 

 two novels, The Naked Truth and That Gay De- 

 ceiver. Roy L. McCardell gave his attention to 

 The Wage Slaves of New York ; Herbert G. Wells 

 ransacked the realm of the improbable for the 

 adventures contained in his story of the future, 

 When the Sleeper Wakes and his Tales of Space 

 and Time: H. E. Orcutt invaded The Empire of 

 the Invisibles; Matthew Phipps Shiel alarmed 

 us with The Yellow Danger; or, What might hap- 

 pen if the Division of the Chinese Empire should 

 estrange all European Countries; The Trembling 

 of Borealis occurred in the year 5000 (Anno 

 Mundi) according to Paul d'Argenteuil ; Leon 

 Lewis gave details of Andree at the North Pole; 

 Matthew J. Royal invaded The Isle of the Vir- 

 gins, as Edgar C. Blum did Satan's Realm;- Rich- 

 ard Slee and Cornelia Atwood Pratt chronicled 

 Dr. Berkeley's Discovery; In Quest of Life, by 

 Thad W. Williams, M. D., contained the revela- 

 tions of the Wiyatatao of Xipantl, the last high 

 priest of the Aztecs ; The Bronze Buddha, by Cora 

 Linn Daniels, was professedly a mystery; A 

 <}ueen of Atlantis, by Frank Aubrey, carried on 

 the romance begun in The Devil Tree of Eldora- 

 do; A Married Man, by Frances Aymar Mathews, 

 recorded serious improbabilities. To spiritualistic 

 influence were to be attributed The Grail Broth- 

 ers, by Sarah Helen Gale, and Behind the Veil, 

 anonymous, while Fate or Law? chronicled the 

 results of mental healing. 



Volumes of short stories not heretofore included 



K-ere: A West Point Wooing, and Other Stories, 



Clara Louise Root Burnham : Short Ra- 



sketches of army life, by G. Williston Fish, 



and Trooper Tales, by Will Levington Comfort; 

 Holly and Pizen, suggestive of Ruth McEnery 

 Stuart; The Backward Trail, stories of the In- 

 dians and pioneers, by Will L. Hale; The Arch- 

 bishop's Unguarded Moment, and Other Stories, 

 by Oscar Fay Adams; The Powers at Play, by 

 Bliss Perry; Sundown Leflare, by Frederick Rem- 

 ington; Tales of the Malayan Coast, from Penang 

 to the Philippines, by Rounseville Wildman; 

 Colonial Massachusetts Stories of the Old Bay 

 State, by Mrs. S. E. Dawes; Pennsylvania Stories, 

 by Arthur Hobson Quinn; In Old France and 

 New, by William McLennan; The Goodness of 

 St. Rocque, and Other Stories, by Mrs. Alice 

 Dunbar (Mrs. Paul Laurence Dunbar) ; The Con- 

 jure Woman and The Wife of his Youth, and 

 Other Stories of the Color Line, by Charles W. 

 Qhestnutt; The Four-masted Catboat, and Other 

 Truthful Tales, by Charles Battell Loomis; A 

 Daughter of Neptune, by W 7 illiam Winslow; The 

 Loom of Destiny, by Arthur J. Stringer; Monte- 

 zuma's Castle, and Other Weird Tales, by Charles 

 D. Cory; Fur and Feather Tales of sporting Irfe, 

 by Hamblen Sears; Doc Home, a story of the 

 streets and town, by George Ade; Mr., Miss, and 

 Mrs., by Charles Bloomingdale, Jr. (Karl) ; The 

 Greater Inclination, by Edith Wharton; The Eye 

 of a God, and Other Tales of East and West, by 

 W. A. Fraser; Adobeland Stories, by Verner Z. 

 Reed, the author of Tales of the Sun Land; A 

 Silent Singer, by Clara Morris (Mrs. Clara Morris 

 Harriott); Men's Tragedies, by R. V. Risley; 

 Transatlantics, by Frederick W. Wendt; Where 

 Angels Fear to Tread, and Other Tales of the 

 Sea, by Morgan A. Robertson; Sand and Cactus, 

 by Wolcott Le Clear Beard; A Matter of Busi- 

 ness, and Other Stories, by William Curtis Stiles; 

 The Gam, by C. H. Robbins, a group of whaling 

 stories; Lasca, and Other Stories, by Mary F. 

 Nixon; Tiverton Tales, by Alice Brown; She of 

 the West, by Bailey Millard; Mr. Jack Hamlin's 

 Meditation, and Other Stories, by Francis Bret 

 Harte; The Sixth Sense, and Other Stories, by 

 Margaret Sutton Briscoe; The River Syndicate, 

 and Other Stories, by Charles E. Carryl; A Vil- 

 lage Ophelia, by Anne Reeve Aldrich; Of Neces- 

 sity, by H. M. Gilbert ; Ridan the Devil, and Other 

 Stories, by Louis Becke; Tales of the Telegraph, 

 by Jasper Ewing Brady ; Vassar Studies, by Julia 

 Augusta Schwartz; Vacation Incidents, by A. 

 Paul Gardiner; The Adventures of a Freshman 

 and The Stolen Story, and Other Newspaper 

 Stories, by Jesse Lynch Williams; His Defense, 

 and Other Stories, by Harry Stillwell Edwards; 

 Tales told in a Country Store, and Accompanying 

 Verse, by Rev. Alvin Lincoln Snow; Autumn 

 Leaves, verse and story, by Mary Agnes Tincker; 

 One of those Coincidences, and Ten Other Stories, 

 by Julian Hawthorne, Count Lyof Nikolaievich 

 Tolstoi, Charles George Douglas Roberts, and 

 others; Annancy Stories, of Jamaica folklore, by 

 Pamela Colman Smith, to which Thomas Nelson 

 Page contributed an introduction; Fables in 

 Slang, by George Ade, illustrated by Qlaude J. 

 Newman; Mr. Milo Bush and Other Worthies: 

 Their Recollections, by Hayden Carruth: and 

 Ernest Jarrold's Mickey Finn Idylls, with an in- 

 troduction by Charles A. Dana. A new edition 

 of George F. Pardon's Tales from the Operas was 

 issued, and Nos. 30, 31, and 32 of Tales from 

 Town Topics. The Library Edition of the Works 

 of Edward Everett Hale, in ten volumes, of which 

 the first was issued last year, was continued, 

 Vols. II-VI being sent out. 



Fine Arts. George Lansing Raymond entitled 

 his work upon Proportion and Harmony of Line 

 and Color in Painting, Sculpture, and Architec- 



