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LITERATURE, AMERICAN, IN 1899. 



434 new books sent out in 1899, as compared with 

 356 in 1898, when they occupied the fifth place 

 in point of numbers. The familiar names of au- 

 thors are found. Marguerite Bouvet told Tales 

 of an Old Chateau; Mrs. Adeline Button Train 

 Whitney, notwithstanding her seventy-five years, 

 proved as interesting as ever in her adaptation 

 of Square Pegs to the traditionally unreceptive 

 round holes; Prof. David Starr Jordan entered 

 a new field with The Book of Knight and Bar- 

 bara, a series of stories told to children and cor- 

 rected and illustrated by children. The Queen's 

 Rangers, by Charles Ledyard Norton, was a story 

 of Revolutionary times, as were When Boston 

 braved the King, by W. E. Barton: The Young 

 Minuteman, by William P. Chipman, in the Young 

 Patriot Series; The Minute Boys of Bunker Hill, 

 by Edward Stratemeyer; An Unknown Patriot, 

 by Frank S. Child; A Jersey Boy in the Revolu- 

 tion, by Everett T. Tomlinson; A Revolutionary 

 Maid, by Amy Ella Blanchard; and A Little 

 Daughter of the Revolution, by Agnes Carr Sage. 

 Lucy Foster Madison chronicled A Maid of the 

 First Century; Mary Devereux wrote of the pas- 

 sage From Kingdom to Colony; Mrs. Elizabeth 

 Williams Champney contributed A Daughter of 

 the Mayflower to the series of Dames and Daugh- 

 ters of Colonial Days; Soldier Rigdale, by Beulah 

 Marie Dix, told how he sailed in the same ship 

 and how he served Miles Standish; The Young 

 Puritans in Captivity, by Mary Prudence Wells 

 Smith, appeared in the Young Puritan Series; 

 The Boys of Scrooby came from Ruth Hall, the 

 author of In the Brave Days of Old; Camping 

 on the St. Lawrence, by Everett T. Tomlinson, 

 carried us on the trail of the early discoverers; 

 Fife and Drum at Louisburg, by J. Macdonald 

 Oxley, tells its own story; Ben Comee was a tale 

 of Rogers's Rangers, 1758-'59, by M. J. Canavan; 

 and from Hezekiah Butterworth we had The 

 Treasure Ship, a tale of Sir William Phipps, the 

 regicides, and the intercharter period of Massa- 

 chusetts, and The Story of Magellan and the Dis- 

 covery of the Philippines. F. H. Costello was 

 heard from On Fighting Decks in 1812. James 

 Otis Kaler was more prolific than ever, sending 

 out With Perry on Lake Erie; Captain Tom, the 

 Privateersman of the Armed Brig Chasseur; 

 Christmas at Deacon Hackett's, a sequel to How 

 Tommy saved the Barn; The Life Savers; Messen- 

 ger No. 48; Telegraph Tom's Adventure; Off San- 

 tiago with Sampson and When Dewey came to 

 Manila, both in the Stories of American History 

 Series; At the Siege of Havana (in 1762) ; and 

 The Swamp Fox. William O. Stoddard published 

 Running the Cuban Blockade, The Dispatch Boat 

 of the Whistle (a story of Santiago), and Ulric 

 the Jarl, purporting to be a story of the peni- 

 tent thief. Cadet Standish of the St. Louis came 

 from William Drysdale; When Santiago Fell, by 

 Ralph Bonehill, appeared in the Flag of Freedom 

 Series, and from the same author we had A Sailor 

 Boy with Dewey; Loyal Hearts and True, by 

 Ruth Ogden, recalled our navy in the war with 

 Spain, as did Cleared for Action, by Willis Boyd 

 Allen, a sequel to Navy Blue; Edward Strate- 

 meyer was again heard from with Fighting in 

 Cuban Waters; or, Under Schley on the Brook- 

 lyn, in the Old Glory Series, and Under Otis in 

 the Philippines; he also went To Alaska for Gold, 

 and completed the skeleton left by William Tay- 

 lor Adams (Oliver Optic) of An Undivided Union 

 for the Blue and Gray On Land Series. Forward 

 March, by Kirk Munroe, was yet another story 

 of the Spanish-American War, and from the same 

 pen we had Shine Terrill and Midshipman Stuart. 

 Henry in the War, by Gen. Oliver Otis Howard 



and Uncle Sam's Soldiers, by Oscar Phelps Aus- 

 tin, found favor with young readers. G. Waldo 

 Browne described the doings of Two American 

 Boys in Hawaii, as did Egerton Ryerson Young 

 The Winter Adventures of Three Boys in the 

 Great Lone Land ; George Bird Grinnell followed 

 Jack, the Young Ranchman; and Russell Double- 

 day in Cattle Ranch to College recited the true 

 tale of a boy's adventures in the far West. The 

 Delahoydes, a story of boy life on the old Santa 

 Fe trail, was, of course, by Henry Inman, and 

 from the same pen we had also A Pioneer from 

 Kentucky. The Making of Zimri Bunker, by 

 William J. Long, appeared in the Cosy Corner 

 Series; Osceola, Chief of the Seminoles, by H. 

 R. Gordon, presented accurately the Seminole war 

 of 1835-'42; and from Edward S. Ellis we had 

 Iron Heart, War Chief of the Iroquois, in the 

 War Chief Series, in addition to The Young Gold 

 Seekers of the Klondike, The Secret of Coffin 

 Island, The Land of Wonders, Dorsey, the Young 

 Inventor, Lost in the Rockies, and Through Jun- 

 gle and Wilderness. Frank R. Stockton repub- 

 lished in book form, and under the title of The 

 Young Master of Hyson Hall, a story contributed 

 to a paper for boys several years ago; Eliza- 

 beth Harrison illustrated in TW T O Children of the 

 Foothills the principles set forth in A Study of 

 Child Nature; Hamlin Garland's account of Boy 

 Life on the Prairie was illustrated by E. W. 

 Deming; Walter S. Phillips (El Comancho) told 

 Just about a. Boy; Gertrude Smith gave her at- 

 tention to The Boys at Marmiton Prairie; Harry 

 Castlemon (C. Austin Fosdick) wrote The White 

 Beaver; Horatio Alger, Rupert's Ambition; Her- 

 bert Elliott Hamblen (F. Benton Williams), We 

 Win: The Life and Adventures of a Young Rail- 

 roader; and Albert Bigelow Paine, The Beacon 

 Prize Medals, and Other Stories. For boys we 

 had Jack Chumleigh at Boarding School, by 

 Maurice Francis Egan; Character Chiseling; or, 

 Some Hours with the Oregon Quartette, by Mrs. 

 Mary Anderson Hawkins; Professor Pin, by Mrs. 

 Frank Lee; Across the Campus, by Caroline M. 

 Fuller ; A College Boy, by Anthony Yorke ; Grant 

 Burton, the Runaway, written and illustrated 

 by W. Gordon Parker; Ward Hill at College, by 

 Everett T. Tomlinson, a sequel to Ward Hill at 

 Weston and Ward Hill, Senior; and The Half 

 Back, a story of school, football, and golf, by 

 Ralph Henry Barbour, illustrated by B. West 

 Clinedinst. Two Chums, by Minerva Thorpe, was- 

 the story of a boy and his dog ; Mrs. I. T. Thurs- 

 ton published three books, The Captain of the 

 Cadets, A Village Contest; or, No Surrender, a, 

 sequel to A Bachelor Maid and her Brother, and 

 The Bishop's Shadow, the bishop in the case 

 being the late Rev. Phillips Brooks. Indian Child 

 Life was the subject of a handsome color book 

 by the artist Edwin Willard Deming, with black- 

 and-white designs included in the text, and new 

 stories by Therese O. Deming. Tatong, the Little 

 Slave, was a story of Korea by Annie Maria 

 Barnes; Lobo, Rag, and Vixen, by Ernest Seton' 

 Thompson, contained the personal histories of 

 his animal favorites; Wabeno the Magician, by 

 Mabel Osgood Wright, was intended as a sequel 

 to Tommy Anne and the Three Hearts; Among 

 the Farmyard People, by Clara Dillingham Pier- 

 son, was in line with her previous work, Among 

 the Forest People and Among the Meadow Peo- 

 ple; Captain Kodak, by Alexander Black, was a. 

 camera story; Ray Stannard Baker in The Boy's 

 Book of Inventions told stories of the wonders 

 of modern science; William Drysdale supplied 

 Helps for Ambitious Boys; The Iron Star and 

 what it saw on its Journey through the Ages 



