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"A Fashionable Sufferer" (Houghton, Mifflin, 

 & Co.) by Augustus Hoppin ; " Mr. and Mrs. 

 Morton," by a Bostonian (Cupples, Upham & 

 Co.) ; " A Righteous Apostate," by Marchioness 

 Lanza (G. P. Putnam's Sons) ; " A Woman of 

 Honor,'' by H. 0. Bunner (James R. Osgood & 

 Co.); Edward King's " The Gentle Savage" 

 (James R. Osgood & Co.) ; " Beyond the 

 Gates," by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (Houghton, 

 Mifflin & Co.); and "The Diothas," anony- 

 mous (G. P. Putnam's Sons). Other anony- 

 mous novels worth mention are "His Second 

 Campaign " and " Fanchette," added to the 

 " Round Robin Series " (James R. Osgood & 

 Co.); and "A Daughter of the Philistines" 

 and " Princess Amelie," added to the " No 

 Name Series " (Roberts Brothers). To Amer- 

 ican fiction for 1883 must also be added sev- 

 eral collections of short tales of unusual ex- 

 cellence. These are " Dialect Tales," by Sher- 

 wood Bonner (Harper & Brothers) ; Henry 

 James's " Siege of London and other Sto- 

 ries " (Houghton, Mifflin, & Co.) ; and " Nights 

 with Uncle Remus," a continuation of Joel 

 Chandler Harris's striking studies of South- 

 ern negro folk-lore (James R. Osgood & Co.). 

 Among more prominent novels by English 

 authors, reprinted by American publishers, 

 were Rhoda Broughton's " Belinda " (D. Ap- 

 pleton & Co.) ; " Frescoes " and " Wanda," by 

 Ouida (J. B. Lippincott & Co.) ; " Portia " and 

 "Rossmoyne," by "The Duchess" (J. B. Lip- 

 pincott & Co.); "Yolande" and "Shandon 

 Bells," by William Black (Harper & Brothers) ; 

 King Capital," by William Sime (G. P. Put- 

 nam's Sons); Lucas Malet's "Mrs. Lorimer" 

 (D. Appleton & Co.); "Donal Grant," by 

 George MacDonald (D. Lothrop & Co.). To 

 the " Leisure-Hour Series " (Henry Holt & Co.) 

 have been added " A Great Treason " and " A 

 Story of Carnival," by Mary A. M. Hoppus; 

 " Gideon Fleyce," by H. W. Lucy ; " Geraldine 

 Hawthorne," by Beatrice M. Butt; "The Ad- 

 miral's Ward " and " The Executor," by Mrs. 

 Alexander; "No New Thing," by W. E. Nor- 

 ris; "In the Olden Time," by Miss Roberts; 

 "Beyond Recall," by Adeline Sargent; and an 

 anonymous novel, " A Chelsea Householder." 

 "Homespun Stories," by Ascot R. Hope (D. 

 Appleton & Co.), was a volume of striking 

 short tales. Other noticeable English novels, 

 which have been reprinted in the cheap libra- 

 ries, such as the " Franklin Square," " Seaside," 

 "Lovell's," etc., are Mrs. Forrester's "Jane," 

 Mrs. Oliphant's "Sir Tom," "The Ladies Lin- 

 dores," and "It was a Lover and his Lass," 

 Hardy's "Romantic Adventures of a Milk- 

 maid," Robert Buchanan's "Annan Water" 

 and "Love Me Forever," Anthony Trollope's 

 "Mr. Scarborough's Family" and "The Land- 

 Leaguers," Frances E. Trollope's "Like Ships 

 upon the Sea," Payn's " Thicker than Water," 

 Mrs. Lynn Linton's "lone Stewart," Besant's 

 " All in a Garden Fair," Saunders's " A Noble 

 Wife," Wilkie Collins's "Heart and Science," 

 Shorthouse's " The Little Schoolmaster Mark," 



McCarthy's " The Maid of Athens," " My Triv- 

 ial Life and Misfortunes" (anonymous), Mrs. 

 Riddle's " A Struggle for Fame," Annie 

 Thomas's (Mrs. Cudlip) "Jenifer," William 

 Clark Russell's "A Sea Queen," Miss Macqnoid's 

 "Her Sailor Love," Miss Yonge's "Stray 

 Pearls," Countess von Bothmer's " Aut Csesar 

 aut Nihil," Miss Taylor's " Senior Songman," 

 Miss Betham Edwards's "Disarmed" and 

 "Pearla," Laurence Oliphant's "Altiora Peto," 

 Mary Cecil Hay's "Bid Me Discourse," and 

 Miss Braddon's "Golden Calf" and "Phantom 

 Fortune." To the above record may be added 

 several translations from Continental authors, 

 such as Daudet's "L'Evangeliste" (T. B. Pe- 

 terson & Brothers) ; Mrs. Werner's " Banned 

 and Blessed " (J. B. Lippincott & Co.) ; Mrs. 

 Greville's "Guy's Marriage," and Zola's "In 

 the Whirlpool" and the "Bonheur des Dames" 

 (T. B. Peterson & Co.) ; Enault's " Christine," 

 Richter's " Invisible Lodge," and Auerbach's 

 " Master Bieland " (Henry Holt & Co.) ; Gal- 

 do's " Marienella," Dahn's " Felicitas," and 

 Ebers's "A Word, only a Word" (W. S. 

 Gottsberger) ; and a striking series, entitled 

 " The Surgeon's Stories," from the Swedish of 

 Topelius, including " Times of Gustaf Adolf," 

 "Times of Battle and Rest," and "Times of 

 Charles XII " (Jansen, McClurg, & Co.). 



Biography. The work of American writers in 

 Biography was striking in extent and quality. 

 " The Biography of William Cullen Bryant," 

 by Parke Godwin (D. Appleton & Co.), was a 

 judicious and elaborate study of a poet who 

 made a foremost mark on American letters, 

 and who was also one of the prominent jour- 

 nalists of the country. "The Autobiography 

 of Thurlow Weed," edited by his grandson, 

 Thurlow Weed Barnes (Houghton, Mifflin, & 

 Co.), was an interesting revelation of a remark- 

 able man; and Dr. Morgan Dix's " Memoirs of 

 John Adams Dix " (Harper & Brothers) at- 

 tracted deserved notice. Several valuable ad- 

 ditions were made to the " American Statesman 

 Series " (Houghton, Mifflin, & Co.). These were 

 "Thomas Jefferson," by John T. Morse, Jr., 

 " James Monroe," by D. C. Gilman, " Albert 

 Gallatin," by John Austin Stevens, and "Dan- 

 iel Webster," by Henry Cabot Lodge. "The 

 Life of James Buchanan," by George Tick- 

 nor Curtis (Harper & Brothers), was an able 

 if a somewhat one-sided study. Lyman Ab- 

 bot's " Henry Ward Beecher" (Funk & Wag- 

 nails) aimed to depict the aspect of the age 

 which produced him as well as the man him- 

 self, a feature also noticeable in the " Autobi- 

 ography of Charles Biddle " (E, Claxton & Co.), 

 which was a vivid account of an interesting 

 period of history. To the same period as the 

 latter belongs Muzzey's "Reminiscences and 

 Memorials of the Men of the Revolution." 

 " Political Recollections," by Hon. George W. 

 Julian (Jansen, McClurg, & Co.), gave an inter- 

 esting sketch of public affairs and men from 

 1840 to 1872; and "Reminiscences of Public 

 Men," by W. W. Perry, was a work of similar 



