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the Beech Tree; Bliss Carman, by A Winter Holi- 

 day; and Richard Hovey, by Along the Trail, a 

 book of lyrics. Sea Drift: Poems were by Grace 

 Ellery Channing, and Wild Eden by George Ed- 

 ward Woodberry. George Cabot Lodge sang The 

 Song of the Wave, with which other poems were 

 included; Songs of American Destiny came from 

 William Norman Guthrie; War is Kind, by 

 Stephen Crane, had drawings by Will Bradley; 

 and Wartime Echoes of the Spanish-American 

 War were selected and arranged by. James Henry 

 Brownlee. A volume of Poems by Richard Realf 

 were sent out with a memoir of the poet by Rich- 

 ard J. Hinton, and Poems of Nature and Life, 

 by John Witt Randall, were edited by Francis 

 Ellingwood Abbot, with an introduction on the 

 Randall family. Thomas Bailey Aldrich contrib- 

 uted an introductory note to the reprint of Wil- 

 liam Young's Wishmaker's Town; Wallace Riee 

 edited the Poems of Francis Brooks, with a 

 prefatory memoir; and William B. Dyer accom- 

 panied Riley Love Lyrics of James Whitcomb 

 Riley with life pictures. Paul Laurence Dunbar 

 published Lyrics of the Hearthside and Poems of 

 Cabin and Field; Little Leather Breeches, and 

 Other Southern Rhymes of Francis P. Wightman 

 were illustrated by the author ; and Joel Chandler 

 Harris contributed an introduction to Howard 

 Weeden's Bandanna Ballads, with which were in- 

 cluded his Shadows on the Wall. Uncle Isaac, 

 by William Dudley Powers, was intended as a 

 remembrance of old. days in the South; Howard 

 S. England contributed Shots at Random; Mrs. 

 Katharine Parkman Coolidge, a daughter of the 

 historian Francis Parkman, Voices; Ridley 

 Hiisted Bell, Ada Deene, and Other Poems; and 

 Gertrude Hall, Age of Fairygold. Mary McNeil 

 Fenellosa sent a flight of verses Out of the Nest ; 

 Will T. Hale published An Autumn Lane, and 

 Other Poems; Alice Archer Sewall accompanied 

 An Ode to Girlhood, with other poems also; and 

 John Myers O'Hara worshiped At Erato's Fane. 

 Beneath Blue Skies and Gray was the title of 

 poems by Ingram Crockett ; The Dust of Dreams 

 of others by J. A. Coll; Clara Pearce Boss was 

 the author of After Life, and Other Poems; S. 

 M. Herrick, of Thoughtful Hours; Sparks and 

 Flames, by Henry Wilson Stratton, had a preface 

 by Hezekiah Butterworth; A Season's Sowing 

 was written by Charles Keeler and decorated by 

 Louise Keeler; Richard Burton published Lyrics 

 of Brotherhood; Martha Gilbert Dickinson, With- 

 in the Hedge; W. Wilfred Campbell, Beyond the 

 Hills of Dream ; and Elva Irene McMillan, Lyrics 

 of the West. Herbert Bashford was heard from 

 in Songs from Puget Sound; Hell's Canyon pur- 

 ported to be a poem of the camps by N. K. Griggs ; 

 Coates Kinney entitled " a trilogy and some 

 eclogs" Mists of Fire; Sense and Satire, based 

 upon nineteenth-century philosophy by William 

 L. Breyfogle, consisted of 700 quatrains, mostly 

 pessimistic in tone, illustrated by John W. Brey- 

 fogle; while hopefulness was the keynote of 

 The Loom of Life, by William Harper Rider, 

 D. D. Poems of a religious cast included an 

 anonymous Epic of the Soul; Christus Victor, a 

 student's reverie, by Henry Nehemiah Dodge; 

 Omega et Alpha, and Other Poems, by Greville 

 d'Arville; and The Apistophilon, subtitled A 

 Nemesis of Faith, by Frank D. Bullard, M. D. 

 Living in the World, with Other Ballads and 

 Lyrics, came from Frank Putnam. Songs of the 

 Child World for the Kindergarten were put to- 

 gether by Mrs. Jessie L. Gaynor, and from John 

 B. Tabb we had Child Verse: Poems Grave and 

 Gay. Charles Edmund Merrill compiled Yale 

 Verse, and Harvard Lyrics and Other Verses were 



selected from the best verse written by Harvard 

 undergraduates within the last ten years. Annie 

 Russell Marble selected and edited Nature Pic- 

 tures by American Poets; Birds of the Poets we 

 owe to Lucy F. Sanderson; For Thee Alone was 

 the title of a selection of poems on love by Grace 

 Hartshorne; poems on The Memory of Lincoln 

 were compiled and accompanied with an introduc- 

 tion by Mark Anthony De Wolfe Howe; North- 

 land Lyrics were selected and arranged by Wil- 

 liam C. and Theodore Roberts, with the assist- 

 ance of Elizabeth Roberts Macdonald, and ac- 

 companied by a prologue by C. G. D. Roberts and 

 an epilogue by Bliss Carman. Lloyd Mifflin, the 

 author of The Slopes of Helicon and At the Gates 

 of Song, contributed Echoes of Greek Idyls, ren- 

 derings into English of selections from Bion, 

 Moschus, and Bacchylides. R. L. Paget compiled 

 The Poetry of American Wit and Humor, and 

 from Charles Battell Loomis we had Just Rhymes. 

 The King's Jester, and Other Short Plays for 

 Small Stages were from the pen of Caroline 

 Atherton Dugan, and from George Stanislaus 

 Connell we had The Old Patroon, and Other 

 Plays. 



Political, Social, and Moral Science. The 

 abstract questions of government were discussed 

 in a Review of the Constitution of the United 

 States, including Changes by Interpretation and 

 Amendment for lawyers and those not learned in 

 the law, by W. G. Bullitt; The Magna Chart'a 

 and other Great Charters of England, by Boyd C. 

 Barrington, accompanied with an historical trea- 

 tise and copious explanatory notes; Democracy: 

 A Study in Government, by Prof. James Hervey 

 Hyslop; The Lessons of Popular Government, in 

 two volumes, by Gamaliel Bradford: and The 

 Philosophy of History: An Introduction to the 

 Philosophical Study of Politics, by Alfred H. 

 Lloyd. Liberty in the Nineteenth Century was 

 reviewed from 1776 to 1899 by Frederick May 

 Holland. The literature bearing upon questions 

 of the present day, when we stand, as is claimed, 

 at the parting of the ways politically, was char- 

 acterized by an intense earnestness and vehe- 

 mence similar to that called forth by the opposi- 

 tion to the institution of slavery. Imperial De- 

 mocracy, by Prof. David Starr Jordan, was a 

 study of the relation of government by the peo- 

 ple, equality before the law, and other tenets of 

 democracy to the demands of a vigorous foreign 

 policy and other demands of imperial dominion. 

 On the other hand, we have The Romance of 

 Conquest, the story of American expansion 

 through arms and diplomacy, by William Elliot 

 Griffis, D. D., from whom came also America in 

 the East, a glance at our history, prospects, prob- 

 lems, and duties in the Pacific Ocean; C. Wald- 

 stein dwelt upon The Expansion of Western Ideals 

 and the World's Peace; Murat Halstead wrote 

 The History of American Expansion and our Four 

 New Possessions; James C. Fernald exalted The 

 Imperial Republic; and Alleyne Ireland volun- 

 teered suggestions for Tropical Colonization. Ed- 

 ward Bicknell gave a historical review of The 

 Territorial Acquisitions of the United States, and 

 Charles A. Gardiner discussed Our Right to Ac- 

 quire and Hold Foreign Territory in an address 

 delivered before the New York State Bar Asso- 

 ciation, republished in the Questions of the Day 

 Series; James M. King pictured us Facing the 

 Twentieth Century, and T. Bruce edited Views 

 of the American Press on the Philippines. Lewis 

 G. Janes proclaimed Our Nation's Peril; Im- 

 perialism and the Tracks of our Fathers was the 

 title of a paper read before the Lexington (Mass.) 

 Historical Society by Charles Francis Adams, 



