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LITERATURE AND LITERARY PROGRESS IN 1877. 



tinguished subject, is the " Reminiscences and 

 Anecdotes of Daniel Webster," by Peter Har- 

 vey (Little & Brown). The "Biography of 

 Gerrit Smith," by O. B. Frothingham (Put- 

 nams), exhibits a singular career with candor 

 and justice, and with no small measure of 

 ethical discrimination and literary skill. " The 

 Life of Edwin Forrest," by the Rev. William R. 

 Alger (Lippincott), does for the memory of 

 " the American Tragedian " what could be done 

 by an able man, working with command of 

 ample materials ; but its literary effectiveness 

 is diminished by a too ambitious style. " The 

 Life of Edward Norris Kirk, D. D.," by the 

 Rev. D. O. Hears (Lockwood, Brooks & Co.), 

 depicts a remarkable character and an influen- 

 tial career, and does it in excellent taste and 

 judgment. A less distinguished career, but a 

 marked character and a good type of a class of 

 divines no longer common, is exhibited in the 

 " Memoir of John Woodbridge, D. D.," by the 

 Rev. Sereno D. Clark (Lee & Shepard). Mr. 

 William D. Howells has introduced to the pub- 

 lic a number " Choice Autobiographies" (Os- 

 good). Those of the Margravine of Baireuth, 

 Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Thomas Elwood, 

 Alfieri, Goldoni, and Edward Gibbon, have ap- 

 peared, with introductions that are fine ex- 

 amples of essay-writing. Other works, of vari- 

 ous merit as biographies, are the following: 



The Life, Speeches, and Memorials of Daniel 

 Webster : containing his most Celebrated Orations, 

 a Selection from the Eulogies delivered on the Oc- 

 casion of his Death, and nis Life and Times. By 

 Samuel M. Smucker, LL. D. (Lippincott, Phila- 

 delphia.) 



The Life and Times of Sir Wiilter Raleigh. By 

 Charles K. True. (Hitchcock & Walden, Cincin? 

 nati.) 



A Popular Life of Pope Pius the Ninth. By Eev. 

 Richard Brennan. (Benziger Brothers.) 



Reminiscences of Friedrich Froebel. By B. von 

 Mahrenholz-Bulow. Translated by Mrs. Horace 

 Mann. With a Sketch of the Life of Froebel. By 

 Emily Sherret't. (Lee & Shepard.) 



Memoir and Official Correspondence of General 

 John Stark. By his Grandson, Caleb Stark. (E. C. 

 Eastman, Concord, N. H.) 



Biographical Sketches of Living Old Men of the 

 Cumberland Presbyterian Church. By E. B. Criss- 

 man, D. D. Vol. i. 



Harriet Marti neau's Autobiography, with Me- 

 morials. By Mrs. Maria Weston Chapman. (Os- 

 good.) 



Worthy "Women of our First Century. Edited by 

 Mrs. O. J. Wister and Miss Agnes Irwin. (Lippin- 

 cott, Philadelphia.) 



Letters and Essays of Mrs. E. B. Browning. 

 Edited, with Memoir, by R. H. Stoddard. (Miller.) 



"Warrington" Pen-Portraits. A Collection of 

 Political and Personal Reminiscences from 1848 to 

 1876. By William S. Robinson. Edited, with Me- 

 moir, by Mrs. Robinson. (By subscription.) 



Camp, Court, and Siege. A Narrative of Personal 

 Adventure and Observation during Two Wars : 

 1861-'65 '70-'71. By Wickham Hoffmann. (Har- 

 pers.) 



The Washington-Crawford tetters from 1767 to 

 1781. With an Appendix containing Later Letters 

 from Washington. By C. W. Butterfield. (Robert 

 Clarke & Co., Cincinnati.) 



Reminiscences and Incidents in the Life of a 

 Pioneer Preacher of the Ancient Gospel. To which 



are appended a few Characteristic Discourses. By 

 Nathan J. Mitchell. (Chase & Hall, Cincinnati.) 



The Biography of Alfred de Musset. Translated 

 from the French, by Harriet W. Preston. (Roberts 

 Brothers.) 



Charlotte von Stein. A Memoir. By George H. 

 Calvert. (Lee & Shepard.) 



The Narrative of a Blockade Runner. By Captain 

 J. C. Wilkinson, of the C. S. N. (Sheldon.) 



Memoir of Rev. Thomas Whittemore, D. D. By 

 Rev. John G. Adams, D. D. (Universalist Pub- 

 lishing House.) 



Scenes in my Life, occurring during a Ministry 

 of nearly Haifa Century in the Methodist Episcopal 

 Church. By Mark Trafton, D. D. (Nelson & 

 Phillips.) 



Sermons in Memorial of Rev. William A. Muhlen- 

 be,-g, D. D. By Rev. E. A. Washburn, D. D. 

 (Whittaker.) 



The Supreme Court of the United States : A Series 

 of Biographies, with Portraits engraved on Steel. 

 With an Introduction, by Samuel F. Miller, LL. D., 

 Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. (F. N. 

 Robinson, Philadelphia.) 



All for Christ: A Sketch of the Life and Labors 

 of Rev. Charles H. Payson. Edited by his Brother. 

 (Tract Society.) 



Personal Relations with the President and Secre- 

 tary of State. By Charles Sumner. (Lee & Shep- 



SCIENOE AND PHILOSOPHY. For reasons ob- 

 vious to any eye that took in the state of the 

 nation, financially and economically considered, 

 that department of science which is concerned 

 with questions of material prosperity has re- 

 ceived special attention. The newspaper and 

 magazine press furnish the principal media of 

 popular discussion, but there have not been 

 wanting the fruits of more deliberate study and 

 more finished literary exposition. " An Intro- 

 duction to Political Economy," by Prof. A. L. 

 Perry, of Williams College (Scribner), treats in 

 an elementary and popular style the principles 

 of the science which in his larger and well- 

 known work have for some years, and in suc- 

 cessive editions, been made familiar to many 

 students. Bastiat's "Political Economy," edit- 

 ed, with an introduction, by D. A. Wells (Put- 

 nams), serves to make that important work 

 accessible to readers only of English. " Lect- 

 ures on the History of Protection in the United 

 States," by Prof. W. G. Sumner, of Yale Col- 

 lege (Putnatns), is a valuable aid to a knowl- 

 edge of the lessons of experience on a question 

 that must soon have direct practical impor- 

 tance. " Money and Legal Tender in the United 

 States," by H. R. Lindermann, Director of the 

 United States Mint (Putnams), supplies similar 

 data for the discussion of an urgent question of 

 policy. The subject is looked at from an 

 original (whether or not tenable) ground in 

 "Money and its Laws," by Henry V. Poor 

 (H. V. & H. W. Poor). Coming to more com- 

 prehensive and profound treatises, Dr. Theodore 

 D. Woolsey's " Political Science ; or, The State, 

 Theoretically and Practically Considered " 

 (Scribner), asserts for itself, and will be as- 

 signed by the public judgment, a very high 

 place among works on the science of govern- 

 ment. Dr. Woolsey is recognized as a publi- 

 cist of high authority, and his reputation will 



