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LITERATURE, AMERICAN, IN 1899. 



Dunne), followed Mr. Dooley in Peace and in 

 War of last year; George S. Hilton also saw 

 The Funny Side of Politics; He, She, and They, 

 by Albert *Lee, contained a faithful record of the 

 woeful enjoyments and joyful woes of him and 

 her; Elizabeth Strong Worthington told How to 

 Cook Husbands: Lizzie P. Evans Hansell was 

 responsible for Aunt Nabby: Her Rambles, her 

 Adventures, and her Notions; as was Edwin 

 Emerson, Jr.. for Pepys's Ghost and his wander- 

 ings in Greater Gotham: Oliver Herford for An 

 Alphabet of Celebrities; and Ralph Bergengren for 

 In Case of Need. These may Come Handy, a book 

 of pictorial and versified admonition. The Pub- 

 lishers' Trade List Annual, 1891), completed its 

 twenty-seventh year of issue, and, in conclusion, 

 we had Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia, 1898. 



Voyages and Travels. There was an increase 

 of f>0 new books in this department over those 

 of 1898. arising in great part from the interest 

 excited by the Spanish war. The Newborn Cuba, 

 by Franklin Matthews; Industrial Cuba, by Hon. 

 Robert P. Porter: Cuba: Its Past. Present, and 

 Future, by Arthur D. Hall; The Little I saw of 

 Cuba, by 'Burr W. Mclntosh; The Puerto Rico 

 of To-day, by Albert Gardner Robinson; Puerto 

 Rico and its Resources, by Frederick Albion Ober; 

 Puerto Rico: Its Conditions and its Possibilities, 

 by William Dinwiddie, illustrated from photo- 

 graphs by himself; Porto Rico and the West 

 Indies, by Margherita Arlina Hamm; and The 

 Cruise of the Scythian in the West Indies, by 

 Susan De Forest Day, met all conceivable require- 

 ments for information concerning these islands, 

 which were again referred to, however, in Our 

 Island Empire, by Charles Morris, claiming to 

 be a handbook of Cuba, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, 

 and the Philippine Islands. Everything about 

 our New Possessions was vouchsafed in a similar 

 though smaller book by Thomas J. Vivian and 

 Ruel P. Smith. The Philippine Islands, by Ramon 

 Reyes Lala, had a novel interest in that the au- 

 thor, while a native of Manila, is a citizen of the 

 United States. The Philippines, (also) Hawaii 

 was the second contribution of Arthur D. Hall 

 to the literature of the year; Hawaiian America 

 came from Caspar Whitney; Hawaii and its Peo- 

 ple: The Land of the Rainbow and Palm, from 

 Alexander Stevenson Twombly; The Real Hawaii, 

 from Lieut. Lucien Young, a revised and enlarged 

 edition of The Boston at Hawaii; and Hawaii 

 Nei, from Mabel Clare Craft. The New Pacific 

 was the subject of a volume by Hubert Howe 

 Bancroft; Alaska and the Klondike, by Angelo 

 Heilprin, recorded a journey to the new Eldorado, 

 with hints to the traveler and observations on the 

 physical history and geology of the gold regions ; 

 Frederick Palmer's In the Klondike included an 

 account of a winter's journey to Dawson; De 

 B. Randolph Keim contributed Our Alaskan Won- 

 derland and Klondike Neighborhood to the Ameri- 

 can Destiny Series; Robert C. Kirk described 

 Twelve Months in Klondike; and Two Women 

 in the Klondike was the story of a journey to 

 the gold fields of Alaska by Mary E. Hitchcock 

 (Mrs. Roswell D. Hitchcock). A second, revised 

 and enlarged, edition was sent out of Miner W. 

 Bruce'a Alaska, presenting its history and re- 

 sources, gold fields, routes, and scenery. Cross- 

 ing the water, we find Mary H. Krout A Looker- 

 on in London; Charles M. Taylor, Jr., saw The 

 British Isles through an Opera Glass; Howard 

 Crosby Butler's work on Scotland's Ruined Ab- 

 beys was illustrated by himself; as were Clifton 

 Johnson's wanderings Among English Hedgerows, 

 to which Hamilton Wright Mabie contributed an 

 introduction. The American in Holland was Dr. 



William Elliot Griffis, who recorded sentimental 

 rambles in the eleven provinces of the Nether- 

 lands; Mrs. Grace Carew Sheldon went From 

 Pluckemin to Paris by the way of Touraine, the 

 Midi, Provence, the Rhone, and eastern France; 

 Bohemian Paris of To-day was written by W. C. 

 Morrow from notes by Edward Cucuel, and illus- 

 trated by that artist; Benjamin E. and Charlotte 

 M. Martin devoted two volumes to The Stones of 

 Paris, in History and Letters; Plains and Up- 

 lands of Old France was a book of verse and prose 

 by Henry Copley Greene; Mrs. Elizabeth W. 

 Champney recalled the Romance of the Feudal 

 Chateaux; Impressions of Spain were compiled 

 from James Russell Lowell by Joseph B. Gilder, 

 and had an introduction by A. A. Adee; Cities 

 and Sights of Spain, by E. Main, was a hand- 

 book for tourists, illustrated from photographs 

 by the author; and a new issue was made of 

 With a Pessimist in Spain, by Mary F. Nixon. 

 From Plotzk (Poland) to Boston, by a young 

 immigrant, Mary Antin, had a foreword by Israel 

 Zangwill. Charles Dana Gibson's Sketches in 

 Egypt with pen and pencil found numerous ad- 

 mirers; Present-day Egypt was the theme of 

 Frederick Courtland Penfield, for four years 

 United States consul at Cairo; William Bement 

 Lent saw The Holy Land from Landau, Saddle, 

 and Palanquin; Quaint Corners of Ancient Em- 

 pires, according to Michael Meyers Shoemaker, 

 are to be found in southern India, Burmah, and 

 Manila; John L. Stoddard in Sunny Lands of 

 the Eastern Continent made a pictorial jour- 

 ney through the tropical countries contained 

 therein; In Ghostly Japan came from Lafcadio 

 Hearn; and John W. Bookwalter illustrated his 

 account of a journey through Siberia and Central 

 Asia from photographs taken by himself. Of spe- 

 cial interest at the present time was William 

 Harvey Brown's account of his adventures and 

 observations On the South African Frontier, first 

 as a naturalist sent out by the United States 

 National Museum, and later as a settler in Rho- 

 desia. A Green Mariner, by Howard Ireland, 

 gave a landsman's account of a deep-sea voyage, 

 and from Paul Belloni du Chaillu came a book 

 for young people, The Land of the Long Night. 

 A Thousand Days in the Arctic, by Frederick G. 

 Jackson, related the adventures of the Jackson- 

 Harmsworth expedition sent out in 1894 to ascer- 

 tain the importance of Franz Joseph Land as a 



