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LITERATURE, AMERICAN, IN 1883. (TKAVEL.) 



"Mosaics of Bible History," and "Mosaics of 

 Grecian History," by Marcius and Robert P. 

 Willson (Harper & Brothers); "Pioneers of 

 the Western Reserve," by Harvey Rice (Lee & 

 Shepard) ; " Quaker Invasion of Massachu- 

 setts," by R. P. Hallo well (Houghton, Mifflin, 

 & Go.) ; " Short History of Rhode Island," by 

 George Washington Greene, LL. D. (J. A. & 

 R. A. Reid) ; " Stories of American History," 

 by 0. M. Yonge and H. H. Weld (D. Appleton 

 & Co.) ; and Stephens's " History of the United 

 States," revised to 1883 (E. J. Hale & Son). 

 An important series was begun under the gene- 

 ral name of " Minor Wars of the United States " 

 (Dodd, Mead, & Co.), and thus far includes 

 Richard Markham's " King Philip's War," 

 Rossiter Johnson's "War of 1812" and "Old 

 French War," and Horatio O. Ladd's " War 

 with Mexico." 



Among the notable historical works by for- 

 eign authors published under an American 

 imprint were Count de Paris's " History of 

 the American Civil War," 3d volume (Porter 

 & Ooates); Sir Gavan Duffy's "Four Years 

 of Irish History " (Cassell & Co.) ; " The Ex- 

 pansion of England," by J. R. Seeley (Rob- 

 erts Brothers); Froude's "Short Studies on 

 Great Subjects," 4th series (Charles Scribner's 

 Sons) ; Freeman's " Impressions of the Uni- 

 ted States " (Flenry Holt & Co.) ; Lacombe's 

 "Growth of a People" (Henry Holt & Co.) ; 

 "Frederick II and Maria Theresa," by Due de 

 Broglie (Harper & Brothers); "A History of 

 Latin Literature," by George Augustus Sim- 

 cox (Harper & Brothers) ; " Literary History 

 of England " by Mrs. Oliphant (Macmillan & 

 Co.); and "Huguenots of France," by H. M. 

 Baird, and " Underground Russia, by Stepniak 

 (Charles Scribner's Sons). The latter work 

 gave a revelation of the interior character and 

 workings of Nihilism from the stand-point of 

 one of its most noted chiefs, Pierre Lavroff. 



Travel. In travel and description Ameri- 

 can authorship was quite fruitful. " Old 

 Mexico and the Lost Provinces," by W. H. 

 Bishop (Harper & Brothers), appears to have 

 been careful in its facts as well as picturesque 

 in its treatment. - A similar volume devoted 

 to old Spain, "Spanish Vistas," by G. P. 

 Lathrop, was issued by the same house, and 

 was notable both in its literary matter and 

 illustrations. The popularity of the Spanish 

 Peninsula as a field for the literary traveler is 

 also sho'wn in several other books by well- 

 known authors. " A Family Flight through 

 Spain," by Edward Everett Hale and Miss Susan 

 Hale (D. Lothrop & Co.), professed to give the 

 adventures of a traveling party consisting of 

 father, mother, children, and one or two friends. 

 Mr. Hale was also the author of " Seven Span- 

 ish Cities " (Roberts Brothers), which gave a 

 graphic account of the principal centers of 

 Spanish civilization. Henry Day's " From the 

 Pyrenees to the Pillara of Hercules" (G. P. 

 Putnam's Sons) was a cursory but readable 

 sketch ; and " In the Shadow of the Pyrenees," 



by Henry Vincent, conveyed much curious 

 information concerning the hardy and half- 

 savage race known as the Basques, who differ 

 so widely from all the peoples of Western Eu- 

 rope. " Spanish Ways and By- Ways," by Will- 

 iam Howe Downes (Cupples, Upham, & Co.), 

 was attractive alike in its descriptions and il- 

 lustrations; and "Through Spain on Donkey- 

 Back," by Robert Louts Stevenson (D. Lothrop 

 & Co.), recommended itself by freshness of 

 observation. Howard Conkling's " Mexico and 

 the Mexicans" (Taintor Brothers, Morrill, & 

 Co.) was a work full of facts concerning the 

 people, their institutions and resources, by an 

 old resident. Among works of literary and 

 philosophical travel, "A Walk in Hellas," by 

 Denton J. Snider (James R. Osgood & Co.), pos- 

 sessed unquestionable merit. It treated Greece 

 of to-day in the light of Greece of the past, and 

 all those classic memories which make Hellenic 

 soil memorable. Rev. H. M. Field, who has 

 repute as an extensive traveler and a spirited 

 writer, was represented in two new works, 

 " Among the Holy Hills," and " On the Des- 

 ert" (Charles Scribner's Sons). The latter- 

 named work also contained a judicious study 

 of the recent imbroglio in Egypt, which led to 

 its possession by England. Mrs. A. K. Dun- 

 ning's "Through the Desert" (Presbyterian 

 Board of Publication) deserves passing men- 

 tion; and "Among the Mongols," by Rev. J. 

 Gilmour (American Tract Society), was a read- 

 able record of missionary experiences amid 

 barbarian races. " From the Hudson to the 

 Neva," by David Ker (D. Lothrop & Co.), em- 

 bodied the experiences of a traveler in a ro- 

 mantic guise. " An American Four-in-Hand 

 in Great Britain," by Andrew Carnegie (Charles 

 Scribner's Sons), was a graphic and breezy rec- 

 ord of a drive through Great Britain, from 

 Windsor Castle to Inverness, Scotland, by a 

 party of ladies and gentlemen. Adventures 

 of a different sort, but hardly less interesting, 

 were described in " Across the Continent with 

 the Fifth U. S. Cavalry," by Captain George 

 F. Price, U. S. A. (D. Van Nostrand & Co.). 

 William Winter's "English Rambles" (James 

 R. Osgood & Co.) recalled interesting literary 

 and historic memories gracefully. One of the 

 best books of the year was " Germany seen 

 without Spectacles," by Harry Ruggles (Lee & 

 Shepard), which was caustic and incisive, but 

 apparently judicial. T. B. Aldrich, the poet, 

 embodied his experiences during a vacation in 

 "Ponkapog to Pesth" (Houghton, Mifflin, & 

 Co.), the first name in the title being the loca- 

 tion of the author's American country home, 

 the latter the goal of his journey. " Round 

 about Rio : A Picture of Life and Scenes in 

 and about the Great Metropolis of the South- 

 ern Hemisphere, Rio Janeiro," by Frank D. Y. 

 Carpenter (Jansen, McClurg, & Co.), indicated 

 lively descriptive talent on the part of the 

 young traveling naturalist. A book by Charles 

 Dudley Warner, entitled "A Round-about 

 Journey" (Houghton, Mifflin, & Co.), gath- 



